- Performance Art
- Installation
slllp slllp wwhhup
Helena Zaïda und Ingerid Frang arbeiten als Duo Zaïda/Frang
4 July 2026 13:00–16:00
5 July 2026 13:00–16:00
When you open your mouth to eat, you let fragments of the outside world in. They enter your body: pieces of the outside becoming part of your insides.
You have a sort of shell that separates you from the rest of the world. You are standing in an exhibition space - or a green house - and are eating an apple. You let the borders between and the definitions of outside and inside blur.
Zaïda/Frang invite you to slllp slllp wwhhup, an installation that focuses on the sense of hearing and taste. Here, the scenography is edible, experiencing is eating, eating is listening, and consequently what is outside becomes inside.
The work considers the act of eating as a transformative process and an interaction between the outside world and the inside of the body as well as the emotions that can be provoked by eating. Food is never neutral: it can be pleasurable or repulsive, tasteful or disgusting. Drawing on Sarah Ahmed’s essay The Performativity of Disgust, the work considers eating as a condition of vulnerability. To survive, the body must remain open to what is “not us,” allowing the outside to enter through its orifices.
Slllp slllp wwhhup forms part of an ongoing artistic research project examining thresholds, permeable membranes, transgressions, and the porous boundary between outside and inside. An earlier iteration was presented as a sound installation in November 2025 at Live Studio, Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen, Norway, part of the festival Meteor.
You have a sort of shell that separates you from the rest of the world. You are standing in an exhibition space - or a green house - and are eating an apple. You let the borders between and the definitions of outside and inside blur.
Zaïda/Frang invite you to slllp slllp wwhhup, an installation that focuses on the sense of hearing and taste. Here, the scenography is edible, experiencing is eating, eating is listening, and consequently what is outside becomes inside.
The work considers the act of eating as a transformative process and an interaction between the outside world and the inside of the body as well as the emotions that can be provoked by eating. Food is never neutral: it can be pleasurable or repulsive, tasteful or disgusting. Drawing on Sarah Ahmed’s essay The Performativity of Disgust, the work considers eating as a condition of vulnerability. To survive, the body must remain open to what is “not us,” allowing the outside to enter through its orifices.
Slllp slllp wwhhup forms part of an ongoing artistic research project examining thresholds, permeable membranes, transgressions, and the porous boundary between outside and inside. An earlier iteration was presented as a sound installation in November 2025 at Live Studio, Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen, Norway, part of the festival Meteor.
Biography
Helena Zaïda und Ingerid Frang arbeiten als Duo Zaïda/Frang
Ingerid Frang is a scenographer with a background in theatre studies and architecture. She lives and works in Oslo. In her work she explores how to situate an audience in immersive or interactive installations.
Helena Zaïda is a scenographer from Austria and lives and works in Berlin and Norway. Her scenographic work has a strong focus on materiality, sensory experiences and multispecies collaboration.
The duo met at the Norwegian Theatre Academy (Akademi for Scenekunst in Fredrikstad) as students in Master of Arts - Scenography. The artistic research project slllp slllp wwhhup is their second collaboration.
Helena Zaïda is a scenographer from Austria and lives and works in Berlin and Norway. Her scenographic work has a strong focus on materiality, sensory experiences and multispecies collaboration.
The duo met at the Norwegian Theatre Academy (Akademi for Scenekunst in Fredrikstad) as students in Master of Arts - Scenography. The artistic research project slllp slllp wwhhup is their second collaboration.
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