Video in the mobile sauna by Stein Henningsen, photographed by Priam Thomas for Art Spin.

Mobile Sweat

Toronto, Ontario

September 16, 2022 – September 18, 2022

Presented by
Art Spin

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Free Event

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 Small World Music Festival at Fort York Garrison Common as Art Spin presents its latest foray into exhibiting art in unique and alternative spaces while celebrating the value of social connection and interaction. Mobile Sweat is free and open to all on a first come first served basis, participation only requires that you bring a bathing suit and towel.

Schedule:

September 16 – open 6:00pm to 10:00pm
September 17 – open 1:00pm to 10:00pm
September 18 – open 1:00pm to 8:00pm

Artist
Stein Henningsen

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.

steinhenningsen.com