Dance Armstrong and the Log Sessions
Skogen, Gothenburg (2020)Dance Armstrong engages in an attempt to embody our current times indefatiguable pursuit for the streamlining and optimizing of bodies and the seamless flow of information, capital, goods, services and...trees in the various stages of the infrastructure project Västlänkens becoming and future. By using Skogen's school as an experimental site for the intertwining of objects, performative actions, personal gym instructions and text, the investigations will move through capitalist sweatings, promiscuous criticism, aerodynamic prioritization and rhythmic lactate to enage with the city’s regeneration and development project.
This performance was presented together with works in text, sound and printed matter by Klas Trollius as part of the Kronotopia project.6
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This performance was presented together with works in text, sound and printed matter by Klas Trollius as part of the Kronotopia project.6
6 KRONOTOPIA
The study group Kronotopia consists of eight artists from the art platform Skogen, who participate in the City of Gothenburg's project "Art during the construction of the Western Link". The study group will for two years conduct artistic research of various aspects of the Western Link - social and political, as well as aesthetic. These processes include excursions to construction sites and dialogue with people who are either involved in or affected by the Western Link, such as engineers, archaeologists, city planners, construction workers or residents. Other methods used by the study group are audio and video recording, writing, researching various archives and collegiate conversations
Within the framework of the study group, the participants create works of art based on their individual practices or in smaller collaborative groups. The works of art are presented continuously during 2020-2021, in the form of, for example, printed matter, video works, sound works or performances. During the project, various forms of public and in-depth conversations also take place at Skogen or on the construction sites, based on issues formulated by the study group.
Knowledge and materials created in the process form a collective archive. All the artists in the group are free to continue working with the archive material, which further creates an intertwining of individual and common artistic processes, thinking and learning.
The project "Art during the construction of the Western Link" is a collaboration between the cultural administration and the Traffic Office in the City of Gothenburg.
The study group Kronotopia consists of eight artists from the art platform Skogen, who participate in the City of Gothenburg's project "Art during the construction of the Western Link". The study group will for two years conduct artistic research of various aspects of the Western Link - social and political, as well as aesthetic. These processes include excursions to construction sites and dialogue with people who are either involved in or affected by the Western Link, such as engineers, archaeologists, city planners, construction workers or residents. Other methods used by the study group are audio and video recording, writing, researching various archives and collegiate conversations
Within the framework of the study group, the participants create works of art based on their individual practices or in smaller collaborative groups. The works of art are presented continuously during 2020-2021, in the form of, for example, printed matter, video works, sound works or performances. During the project, various forms of public and in-depth conversations also take place at Skogen or on the construction sites, based on issues formulated by the study group.
Knowledge and materials created in the process form a collective archive. All the artists in the group are free to continue working with the archive material, which further creates an intertwining of individual and common artistic processes, thinking and learning.
The project "Art during the construction of the Western Link" is a collaboration between the cultural administration and the Traffic Office in the City of Gothenburg.
Andreas Engman
Johan Forsman
Benj Gerdes
Annika Lundgren
Rita Nettelstad.
Barrie Sutcliffe
Klas Trollius
Patricia Vane