Dear friends,
Hello!
My film Jane Avril – The life of a Moulin Rouge Dancer will be screened on two occasions in Sweden this month, in Malmö and in Stockholm.
Jane Avril – The life of a Moulin Rouge dancer is an artistic documentary where I tell all the facts I have found about Jane Avril’s life in detail, starting from her birth in 1868 to her death in 1943.
I reference all the historical facts and plausible stories I had found up until 2022.
I often present info in front of places linked to the presented period in Jane’s life. The documentary was made while on a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts. It was shot in Paris and in Jouy-en-Josas, France.
The documentary is part of the larger body of work about my relation to French dance performer Jane Avril (1868-1943), who was a model and friend of artist Toulouse-Lautrec. I’ve felt connected to her personality and artistic expression ever since the very first time I saw images and photos of her in 2004.
Link to info and trailer (with French subtitles):
https://marianorrman.net/?page_id=1662
Premiere:
Jane Avril – The life of a Moulin Rouge Dancer
19 April - 18:15/6.15 pm
Free entry
Cinema Panora
Friisgatan 19D, Malmö
Arranged by: Malmö Art Museum
https://panora.se/events/jane-avril-the-life-of-a-moulin-rouge-dancer/
Language: English, with Swedish subtitles
Jane Avril – The life of a Moulin Rouge Dancer
26 April 19:00/7 pm
Free entry
Konstakademiens Hörsal/The Royal Academy of Fine Art
Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm
https://konstakademien.se/events/filmvisning-3/
Language: English, with Swedish subtitles
Upcoming in 2023:
29 April - 10 September
Nyförvärv – New Acquisitions
Homografiska Museet, Fengersfors, Sweden
https://homografiska.se/english
5 May – 6 June
ScandiLA, Galleri CC exhibits with Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles
Galleri CC, Malmö
16 June – 24 September
Exhibition at Malmö Art Museum in connection to Barbro and Holger Bäckströms grant
Malmö, Sweden
https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/malmo/images/maria-norrman-2613584
8 July – 14 August
Exchange exhibition with Galleri CC
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, USA
https://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/
October
Residency at Zaratan, Lisbon, Portugal
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If you will be in Berlin on Friday, April 21, 2023, please join me for the opening of An Imagination of Bodily Autonomy at Galerie im Saalbau from 6-10pm, curated by Nina Marlene Krauss and on view from April 22 - June 25, 2023.
This will be the first time I have shown Untitled [Senior Thesis]—a work I made as a student 15 years ago—since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court. For an academic year, I self-inseminated around the time I was ovulating. Two weeks later I took an herbal abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding. This bleeding could have been either a normal period or a very early-stage self-induced miscarriage—the piece was intentionally crafted so that not even I knew which.
The work highlights the histories of how people have self-managed their reproductive capacities, as well as the ways in which the biological experience of our bodies is overwritten with interpretation: our own, but also the far more consequential interpretations of those more powerful than us. Whether a viewer sees something liberatory, monstrous, or mundane in the very long—and often quite boring—footage of me sitting in a bathtub bleeding is determined by their own act of reading, which is no more or less authoritative than my own.
Making this work instilled in me a deep and enduring conviction in the body as both a creative and political tool: one that highlights how we are already vulnerable in the social, legal, and cultural spheres, but can also enact unrealized possibilities. In my case, an imagination of total bodily autonomy—that I can use the capacity of my own body however I want. Now more than ever, I understand this work as something that is at its core utopian: an imagination and brief enacting of a future not yet here.
I'm grateful to be showing this work again. If you are around for the opening, I'd love to see you!
xAliza
