TEMPO, immersive performance, 2024
Lilith Performance Studio: November 20 - December 7, 2024

By: Josefina Björk
Sound design: Adde Andreas Huumonen
Curation/Production: Lilith Performance studio
Documentation: Petter Petterson / Lilith performance studio
Trailer: Roxy Farhat

TEMPO is a durational performance installation that takes the form of a bar where the time is out of joint. The bar has room for one guest at the time, and the guest is given headphones where they can hear the bar's jukebox and talk with the bartender. Beside the bar there are four headphones hanging from the roof where other audience members can hear the music and eavesdrop on the conversation between bartender and guest.

The Bar offers snacks and the Finish drink Sima, which the bartender and the guest also make together. Between small talk, karaoke singing, slow dancing and christmas decorating the tempo of the bars soundtrack and the bartenders pace is slowed down. At first the change is barely noticeable, but after a while you are passing raisins, explaining something trivial or singing karaoke in slow motion.