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.