Sunday May 29 2016
05:30pm–07:30pm
Malin Arnell in collaboration with Linda Arnell, Claude Blüna, Katarina Bonnevier, Åsa Elzén, Sophie Erlandsson, Mario Fjell, Ulrika Gomm, Magdalena Górska, Annica Karlsson Rixon, Leffe Kronlöf, Indra Linderoth, Clara López Menéndez, Tilda Lovell, KOEFF / Johanna Rosenqvist (Sound), Frida Sandström, Wibke Straube, Andrea Svensson, and other materialities.
The two hour action Setting the Scene (2014) came about from an invitation by curators Rebecca Brooks, Daria Faïn, and Shelley Senter to engage broadly with questions of somatics, while they were asking the question “How are we mattering?”
As a response to this invitation, and stemming from a desire for a collective intimacy, I invited fourteen friends and colleagues to come together as a working team, to improvise and help each other with different tasks using a variety of materials (six pieces of 20’ x 50’ clear plastic sheeting; nine pieces of 4’ x 8’ foam insulation; eight large transparent balloons; fifty blue chairs; audience). We engaged in a ritual of uncertainty and trust in which we were both doing and not doing, watching and being watched, touching materials and each other, being touched and moved by objects and each other. Our breathing and the air between us became part of the soundscape made by KOEFF / Johanna Rosenqvist, together with the reading of fragments of texts by Karen Barad.
Setting the Scene (2014) was performed during the Movement Research Festival Fall 2014: M A T T E R I N G at Danspace Project in New York City. With Malin Arnell, Vanessa Anspaugh, Fia Backström, A.K. Burns (Camera), Anna Craycroft, Nicole Eisenman, devynn emory, Rachel Higgins, Alhena Katsof, KOEFF / Johanna Rosenqvist (Sound), Katherine Hubbard, Zoe Leonard, Clara López Menéndez, Lydia Adler Okrent, and Guadalupe Rosales. It was later re-activated together with Vanessa Anspaugh and Magdalena Górska during Final Seminar (2015) at DOCH, School of Dance and Circus, Stockholm.
Setting the Scene (again), part 1, real time documentation as part of the choreographic process, Sugar Rush Productions.
Setting the Scene (again), part 2, real time documentation as part of the choreographic process, Sugar Rush Productions.
Setting the Scene (again), part 3, real time documentation as part of the choreographic process, Sugar Rush Productions.
Setting the Scene (again), part 4, real time documentation as part of the choreographic process, Sugar Rush Productions.
Setting the Scene (again), part 5, real time documentation as part of the choreographic process, Sugar Rush Productions.