Xeno Sarx is an immersive installation by the duo Last Oblivion. The work explores the threshold between dependency and control, the desire to maintain one’s outer borders and longing to transcend them, to disintegrate and be absorbed by an external force.

The visitor enters a world overgrown by organic and machine-like forms, where boundaries between body and machine are dissolved. A choir of voices luring the visitor into a shimmering trap where control is as seductive as it is unsettling.

Performance

On two occasions, Last Oblivion will perform together with other artists, ”inhabiting” the installation and working with live sound. Visitors are welcome to come and go as they please and move freely within the installation during the performance.

5 September (Exhibition opening and Epidemifredag)

17.00-20.00

18 september

19.00-22.00

Last Oblivion

Last Oblivion is an artist duo consisting of Tina Damgaard (SE) and Elena Biner (CH) based in Copenhagen and Gothenburg. In their work Last Oblivion intertwines video, performance, text, sound and sculptural elements to build site-specific immersive performance installations. Through fictional worlds they explore liminal space, the in-between and how these spaces of transition affect our relation to each other and our surroundings. The notions of desire and social structures are central aspects of their work and more specifically the matter of the sick and dysfunctional body defined by a polarized society. Since 2019 Last Oblivion has created 5 large scale performance installations, the latest Aural Storm in Prague 2022 and Amniotic Antidote in Vienna 2021.

The exhibition is supported by Göteborg Stad and the Danish Art Foundation

GIBCA Extended

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) is an international contemporary art event taking place every two years in Gothenburg. Each biennial consists of several extensive exhibitions in Gothenburg’s established cultural institutions and in the public space.

GIBCA Extended is both a network and a public program that gathers the contemporary art scenes and venues of Västra Götaland Region. Each edition of GIBCA Extended offers a platform for artists, curators, galleries and art spaces. Their individual programs and exhibitions consolidate and explore new perspectives on the biennal’s theme.