Friday 31 of October 19:00
We shall never be strangers to each other by Mirja Timm
Övning i krympande för 20-40 personer av John Huntington & Sara Granér
Saturday 1 of November 19:00
XENO SARX by Last Oblivion
Object Agency - Are you ever disgusted by human breath? by Lisa Mårtensson
What are the objects we are surrounded with? What are the objects that make up our world? The objects we use, the objects we encounter, the things we know, put value to, the things we don’t know, the things we are unaware of
How do we separate things from other things?
There is a capacity to distinguish objects from one another in an otherwise inseparable entangled world. Conceiving of an object and acknowledging its existence can and actually does change the course of things. Generating space within space, world growing, object making.
It could play a key role in how we behave in the world segmenting its conditions.
The point of object-making is that once you forge or discover the existence of an object, you can potentially interact with it in a more conscious way at than you were already. It opens the possibility for composition.
When an object is defined, entrusted and shared by a larger community it becomes a sort of currency, something that enables trade and communication.
Then, what are the things that keep us together?
This mini festival is presenting four acts where, when collecting the acts, a common theme of objects became apparent.
Artists:
We shall never be strangers to each other by Mirja Timm
Strangers can turn into lovers, but lovers never into strangers again. What does estrangement mean in times of social disconnection, increasing polarization, and detachment from the ‘natural’ world?
“We shall never be strangers to each other” is an immersive performance, and the work part of an exploration around the dilemma of ‘how to stay connected to self, world, and others in a disconnecting container?’
A friend of mine has always ended his letters with the words “We shall never be strangers to each other.”, and I wonder what it means to be a/part.
Mirja Timm (she/her) is an artist who works in the field of performative art, design and community work, with themes related to dis/connection, care and responsibility. The resulting works are often participatory and immersive.
Mirja grew up between peat bogs and the visual expanse of heathlands. She works with scents, stories, artefacts, soil and slowing-down, windows and entry-points, digestion-spaces, permaculture, and dilemmas.
She has a keen interest in examining how to find balance in an out-of-balance society. She also practices gardening, dancing with the plant-people, and somatic research.
We shall never be strangers to each other is performed in English
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Övning i krympande för 20-40 personer av John Huntington & Sara Granér
Tycker du att saker lätt växer sig för stora? Att olika fenomen i ditt liv slukar för mycket tid, energi och resurser? Att expansion och acceleration är koncept som skaver? Då är du hjärtligt välkommen till en praktisk övning i krympande. Som deltagare blir du guidad genom en småskalig ritual som inte kräver några förkunskaper. Drivkraften att hela tiden expandera ligger djupt inbäddad i vår kultur, det är en form av grundläggande påbud om att positiv framåtrörelse alltid hör ihop med en ökning i omfång och storlek. Det är inte bara ekonomier som behöver växa, utan städer och kommuner skall bli större, räckvidd och genomslag skall öka, arbetade timmar och år skall bli fler. Medan dessa större rörelser pågår förväntas vi även att växa som människor.
Bör vi därför öva på krympande?
Med Sara Granér & John Huntington från RITE / ritutvecklingsgruppen (Övriga medlemmar i gruppen är Lars Noväng, Ludvig Lindelöf och Johan Forsman)
Övning i krympande för 20-40 personer framförs på svenska
Sara Granér (f 1980) Serietecknare och konstnär, verksam i Göteborg och Kungsbacka.
John Huntington (f. 1981) är Göteborgsbaserad konstnär verksam i en konceptuell tradition uttryckt genom performance, skulptur, fotografi, text och installationer.
Ritutvecklingsgruppen är en del av RITE (www.rite.agency), en forskningsplattform som i praktik och teori ägnar sig åt omställning och hållbar samhällsbildning. Gruppen fokuserar på riters och ritualers förmåga att beröra och skapa påtaglighet och prövar hur nya riter kan introduceras i olika sammanhang i samhället, på sätt som öppnar upp andra tankerum, avbrott, utvägar och handlingsmöjligheter.
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XENO SARX Last Oblivion
XENO SARX is a connected system, exploring the threshold between dependency and control, the desire to maintain one's outer borders and a longing to transcend them, to disintegrate and be absorbed by an external force. XENO SARX is a choir of voices, luring you into a shimmering trap where control is as seductive as unsettling.
Last Oblivion is an artist duo consisting of Tina Damgaard (SE) and Elena Biner (CH) based in Copenhagen and Gothenburg. In their work Last Oblivion intertwines video, performance, text, sound and sculptural elements to build site-specific immersive performance installations. Through fictional worlds they explore liminal space and the in-between and how these spaces of transition affect our relation to each other and our surroundings. The notions of desire and social structures, and the matter of the incomplete body defined by a polarized society, are recurring themes in their work.
Performer: Tina Damgaard, Elena Biner, Elin Finnsdotter Engström, Billie Lindahl // Soundscape: Elin Finnsdotter Engström // Choirs: Magnus Jäverlind, Julia Bjernelind, Billie Lindahl, Finn Engström // Flute: Finn Engström // Pictures: Anders Nydam // Technical Adviser: Victor Nuno
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Object Agency Are you ever disgusted by human breath? by Lisa Mårtensson
In this performance the artist Lisa Mårtensson attempts to shift agency from herself to everyday objects and back again, collaborating with them as performers. Let the tampong dance, the Harlequin novel stretch and the thermos share memories from the mine.
Striving for a flat ontology in the performance situation and failing.
Lisa Mårtensson is a Malmö based performer, performance maker and leader of artistic collaborative processes.
She has a background in dance and performance art and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre with a Major in Conceptual Performing Arts from Malmö Theatre Academy. She is now in the process of taking her Masters degree in Contemporary Performative Arts at the University of Gothenburg.
She runs the performance duo Absurdum Temporary Art together with sound artist and composer Lotta Fahlén. Since 2019 the duo have created performance pieces and sound art pieces for black boxes, galleries and cityscapes, collaborating with other artists from different practices.
She is also a gallerist and curator and runs FRANK Gallery & Studios and VAAG Gallery in Malmö.
Object Agency - Are you ever disgusted by human breath? is performed in English
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Efter föreställningen serverar vi middag. Stanna gärna och äta med oss och konstnärerna //After the performances, we will serve dinner. Please feel free to stay and dine with us and the artists.
You may also like the following events from Skogen:
- This Sunday, 26th October, 03:00 pm, Söndagsmatiné med Koloni -> Live: THE HANDOVER (EG,BE NO, Sublime Frequencies rec) in Gothenburg
- Next month, 21st November, 05:00 pm, The Omnivore’s Paradox: Critical Mouthfeel of Institutions av Andreas Engman in Gothenburg
- Next month, 26th November, 08:30 am, Technosomatics - Dancing to techno in the dark in Gothenburg
Also check out other
Arts events in Gothenburg,
Entertainment events in Gothenburg,
Performances in Gothenburg.
