MOVING MATTER & SIDE_SITE, Feb 23-26

 MOVING MATTER and SIDE_SITE – a choreography and a sculpture.


The startingpoint for choreographer Marie Fahlin and artist Jenny Berntsson originates from two  individual  questions belonging to their separate artistic practices. A collaboration were the result takes place as one singular form but which exists as two different conceptual works.

In SIDE_SITE Jenny Berntsson is working with the idea of large-scale sculpture. She treats the square as a construction segment, multiplied and forced into cultural or organically conditioned positions. 
Berntsson is working with the concept of the monumental and how the monument creates collective memory (memory politics) but especially the topic of the monument as representation. She examines how the monument can be manifested in an ongoing process that moves into different directions, rather than as one single static form.

Instead of, as she usually does, begin with a clear vision or known symbols, she works from a plan without a clear vision of the ultimate goal and without a known symbolic model.


 

MOVING MATTER is Marie Fahlin´s investigation of the concept of choreography in its original sense, (movement writing), and how it can take spatial and material, rather than textual, form. MOVING MATTER is about the relationship between matter and motion and how they create each other. Why do I want to experience sculpture through movement? Why do I want choreography to be material? What is the interpretation of a choreography that takes place throughout the room rather than as signs on paper? 

 Taking part of MOVING MATTER means interpreting it while reading it. The reading is the movement. The visitor becomes the mover, the one that moves. 


 

Marie Fahlin is educated at the School for New Dance Development (SNDD) in Amsterdam, 1988-1992. Marie has produced approximately 40 choreographies and her work has been shown in all of the major stages in Stockholm as well as in the public space. Together with Rebecca Chentinell she runs the organisation Koreografiska Konstitutet and with the artist Filippa Arrias she’s working with the artistic development project Unheimliche Verbindungen at The Royal Institute of Art. Marie is also participating choreographer in Stefan Östersjös research project Music in Movement.
 http://www.mariefahlin.se

Jenny Berntsson is an artist educated at the Royal Art Institute in Stockholm. Since 2008 she has exhibited for example in Istanbul in cooperation with the European Capital of Culture 2010, the Museum of Architecture and Haninge konsthall. She also runs the Arts organization Local A.  along with Felice Hapetzeder. The project is based on workshops and exhibitions, most recently with Project Clinic Pilot Sweden 2011.
http://www.jennyberntsson.com
http://www.local-a.org