Video in the mobile sauna by Stein Henningsen, photographed by Priam Thomas for Art Spin.
Mobile Sweat
Toronto, Ontario
Presented by
Art Spin
Mobile Sweat is a nomadic wood-fired sauna and mobile platform for contemporary art, featuring a unique program of sound and video art to be experienced while you sweat.
Join us at the Geary Art Crawl as Art Spin presents its latest foray into exhibiting art in unique and alternative spaces while celebrating the value of social connection and interaction. Art Spin is also delighted to present, straight from Finland, a new commissioned project by Finnish artist Heidi Lunabba. ‘Sauna Obscura, the tent edition’ is the combination of a camera obscura and a wood fired sauna, where you sweat inside a camera, with the surrounding environment projected onto the walls and the bodies of the sauna goers.
Featured artists: Christina Battle, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Stein Henningsen, Simone Jones, Heidi Lunabba, Wrik Mead, Alex McLeod
Mobile Sweat is open to all on a first come first served basis, participation only requires that you bring a bathing suit and towel.
Sauna Hours:
Saturday, September 24 – 2:00pm to 11:00pm
Sunday, September 25 – 2:00 pm to 8:00pm
Event Supporters
Stein Henningsen has an engineering degree in electronics and a masters degree in international sales and marketing. After working for Norwegian companies for ten years, he wanted to change his life. Stein began working as a photographer in 1997. Four years later he had his first exhibition. Photography soon led him into installations and performance art. His first performance work was with the project “Crosses of Liberty” in 2005 (crossesofliberty.com). Stein still does photography and video, but his major works are within performance.
Stein has a great desire to share his experiences of the Arctic with other artists, and to raise awareness of how rapidly the Arctic is changing. One step has been to invite artists to experience the Arctic, to show the world its uniqueness and beauty. To that end, he created the Arctic Action International Performance Festival, founded in 2015 (www.arcticaction.info). Stein curates one festival each year, inviting international performance artists to create works inspired by its landscape. He believes it is extremely important at this moment in time to eschew isolationism and develop cultural networks in the current climate of international capitalist hegemony.
Heidi Lunabba is an artist working with socially conscious and community art.
In their work they explore questions on identity, gender and communication, in public and private spaces. Heidi holds an MA in Fine Arts from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and is based in Loviisa, Finland.
