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Dear swarm-I, a room swarming of we-me-s

2022, 2023

Exhibited at Haninge konsthall in the spring 2023, showed at celsius projects, Malmö and another version inaugurated the new art platform CPR² in Brooklyn in 2022

Dear swarm-I, a room swarming of we-me-s is an installed text piece. Large papers form a room to read. How does one read one’s way through a room? How do we read a space?
Paper and documents carry different meanings in our lives, the reading activity becomes a way of tracing and connecting intentions. Large amounts of paper pass through our hands: agreements, letters, instructions, notes, books. The texts in the exhibition Dear swarm-I, a room swarming… are written by the artist and suggest various exchanges between subject and subjects and situations, following Gilbert Simondon’s concept intersubjectivity.

It’s about how one is created in inspiration of and in friction with others – people, phenomena and things. Paper as a material is affected by the handling, if it breaks a fold is imprinted. How the light falls over the surface tells about fibers, roughness and might also create transparency. The papers in Dear swarm-I, a room swarming… have hand-printed text and is the result of a year’s ongoing printing process.

The opening at Haninge konsthall was celebrated with a new performance.

veckad rytm

2020 and ongoing

Veckad rytm premiered under the umbrella project PublikMusik at SITE/Specific festival at Hallen in Farsta, Stockholm 2020, and played again at Weld 2021 and in the exhibition Dear Swarm I… @celsiusprojects, Malmö, 2022.
In 2023 Veckad rytm was shared in several great contexts, as the Abysse festival at Handenterminalen, Haninge, at Hana Erdmann’s music salon and in the festive event of the
90 years celebration of Fylkingen, the prominent experimental stage in Stockholm.

In Veckad rytm, the sound of the paper is inserted into a rhythm-creating practice with Marcus Doverud and Liv Strand. Doing as a way to know.

As to its composition Veckad rytm is spatial, choreographic and material. Brought together by means of improvisation, were different sound worlds and sonic cultures meet, clash and resonates with each other. A sonorous crinkle, meets a rhythmic lick. An aggressive shaking paper body, like rustling leaves, meets the dryness of a drumhead. A suggestive beat, a deflated sound. It is in and through the listening this “music” emerges. Juxtaposing the routinely performed practice of a pattern and the momentous emergence pose questions to the composite of body, space, materials and performance. The composition is the continuous sonorous comparing and juxtaposing, performed through improvisation. Improvisation as the boldness of not knowing what will happen next, and also improvisation as being able to act out of the prior knowledge one has.

The origin of our collaboration veckad rytm was project PublikMusik #1-3, in 2020 curated and choreographed by Marcus Doverud together with Anna Lindal, Roberto N Peyre and Liv Strand.
PublikMusik is a project by Marcus Doverud in care for choreographic and music practices that complicate virtuosity in relation to listening and playing. Studying and mixing competence from different fields we make compositions of sound, movement and materials. A playing-field for thinking with music through choreographic composition. And an attempt to deploy the possible democratic potency of seeing and listening together in a room.
Read more about:
Marcus Doverud
Anna Lindal

Roberto N Peyre

Video of performance at Hana Erdmann’s music salon, summer 2023