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October 24, 2013 marked the inauguration of Marina Abramović’s project at Ekebergparken, a sculpture and national heritage park in Oslo, Norway. To realize the project, Abramović travelled to Oslo in August of 2013 to collaborate with a cast of 300 of Oslo’s inhabitants to create a special, site-specific performance as an homage to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” (1895). Against the same landscape as seen in the famous painting by Munch, the inhabitants of Oslo released their emotions by screaming. The unveiling of Abramović’s work coincides with the ongoing celebration of Edvard Munch’s 150th anniversary.
On October 24th, Abramović returned to the park’s Munch Point to unveil her artwork for Ekebergparken—a frame that visitors to the park are invited to stand behind and scream as in the Munch painting. The inauguration of the sculpture included a performance, Abramović’s first in Scandinavia, in which members of the public were invited to enact the scream behind the frame, culminating with Abramović herself. Both the sculpture and performance use the same landscape where Munch found inspiration and sketched his first idea for “The Scream.”