Clara whwd
Air is a grate transmitter of information The work is a mute, single HD colour video loop of imagery fragments of a re- staging of an online dance course. The two older woman, that are performing, are acting out a routine of movements towards and with each other bodies. An actment which creates a non-verbal dialog between the bodies and which is intensified by the slow motion pace of the footages and its silence.
The choreography for the re-staging was created by a transformation of the moving imagery from the dance course into still imagery and then back in to movements performed by the woman.
The work is an attempt for the artist to start a conversation about physical power structures, exploit of a human body and control. With the mute, tactile, and slow moving imagery the artist wants to emphasise this theme’s complex relation to force, obedience and trust. She also sees an importunity to raise questions about the politics of ownership over one’s own body and too search for where that power actually lies.
The Game
The Game is a single channel colour HD video with sound that views six people whom is playing a game of “The floor is lava” on wood logs. The logs are placed in a circle that the performers are moving clockwise on. The video follows their attempts to find a structure of the game and how to move around on the logs. As the game goes on there is a exploring of the structure of the movements but also in the verbal communication and language.
The game is set up of the easy rule that the performers need to move around the logs simultaneously and if someone falls down the game is lost. The torque in the game is that a way of winning it dose not really exists. This in turn makes the performers reach a point of boredom that develops into an exploration of the game and the language that is used in the communication between the performers.
The work is an attempt to dismantle structures within a collective act and within a group too be able to understand its value. A strive to visualise both the group as such and the individual is embedded in the work and it wants to open up a discussion about a more isolated contemporary living.
Air is a grate transmitter of information
The work is a mute, looped, single HD colour video. Its imagery consists of fragments of a re-staging of a youtube dance course in which a ball room swing is thought. The re-enactment is performed by two older women, which are acting out a routine of movements towards and with each other. A routine that is based on still images from the youtube video and then later transformed in to motion again by the performers. The movements of the two bodies creates a gap between them in which a non- verbal dialog takes place. This is intensified by the slow motion pace of the footage and its silence.
The youtube dance course was something the artist came across in her research of non-verbal communication and movement. Air is a grate transmitter of information is an extension of that research concerning power structures, exploitation of human body and control. With this work the artist wants to raise questions and generate a conversation about the politics of ownership over one’s own body, the complex relation to forces, obedience and trust. The work is a search for where this power of ownership lies, what this consists of and contains.
The Game
This single channel colour HD video with sound, views six people playing a game on wood logs in which the object is not to touch the ground. The logs are placed in a circle with enough space in between to crate a difficulty for the people to move around on them. They performers need to negotiate with each and collaborate with each other to find a way to move around on them in a clockwise turn.
The logs are placed in a circle that the performers are moving clockwise on. The video follows their attempts to find a structure of the game and how to move around on the logs. As the game goes on there is a exploring of the structure of the movements but also in the verbal communication and language.
The game is set up of the easy rule that the performers need to move around the logs simultaneously and if someone falls down the game is lost. The torque in the game is that a way of winning it dose not really exists. This in turn makes the performers reach a point of boredom that develops into an exploration of the game and the language that is used in the communication between the performers.