Explorations of Now Podcasts
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Recorded on location at Balingsta Gård in Orlångens nature reserve in Huddinge, Benjamin Pohlig meets with artist Signe Johannessen and Cullberg dancers Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska and Eszter Czédulás for a talk about the video installation Swamp posthumous, the live performance POSTHUMOUS-states, and their shared interest in hybrid bodies, historical paraphrases and the human relationship to animals, both those who walk the earth and the magical.
Signe and the dancers use their own bodies as the point of departure in an investigation of an archaeological find made in 1949 outside Örebro, where a middle-aged female body was found. The finding has puzzled researchers as the body partly consisted of animal parts. She had a cow shoulder, a horseshoe, a pig’s foot and a dog’s jaw. With a swamp as their teacher and companion, they have immersed themselves in more than human perspectives.And, in the time specific performance POSTHUMOUS-states, Agnieszka and Eszter take the work further, into the live performance on this specific location, a glade in the forest of Orlången.
Explorations of Now is a collaborative project between Cullberg, Kultivator and The Institute for Future Studies, funded by The Postcode Foundation. Explorations of Now – Walk in art, with nature in Orlången nature reserve, Huddinge, Stockholm, August 12-15, 19-22, from 10:00. Free admission.
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In the second episode of Cullberg Talks - Small Talks, dancer Benjamin Pohlig talks with Lars Bergström and Mats Bigert, aka the artistic duo Bigert & Bergström, about their work and the interactive sculpture Phylogenetic Tree Mobile that is part of Exploartions of Now, and placed in Ridhuset on Balingsta gård in Orlången.
Lars Bergström and Mats Bigert’s partnership first began in 1986, and have since become internationally recognized for a wide range of conceptually and technically complex art projects. Bigert & Bergström have produced and created art projects ranging from large-scale sculptures and installations to performance and film. Often with a conceptual edge, the core of their work is placed right in the junction between humanity, nature and technology. With energetic curiosity and often using humor as a tool, the duo is known to analyze scientific and social issues discussed in contemporary society, such as climate change or environmental sustainability.
Phylogenetic Tree Mobile is an interactive sculpture that can be activated by humans when climbing on and moving on its various arms. A so-called phylogenetic tree is a graphic model that is usually used to show the relationship between different living organisms. In the sculpture Phylogenetic Tree Mobile, it is the human relationship to the gas carbon dioxide that is shaped. The mobile consists of metal frames that span over 10 meters with step shapes on one side and a counterweight at the other end. The counterweight is a 300 kg heavy CO2 molecule made of cast iron that lies safely on the ground as long as humans can refrain from climbing the evolutionary chart.
Explorations of Now is a collaborative project between Cullberg, Kultivator and The Institute for Future Studies, funded by The Postcode Foundation.
Explorations of Now – Walk in art, with nature in Orlången nature reserve, Huddinge, Stockholm, August 12-15, 19-22, from 10:00. Free admission.
