Working on soft sculptures, as part of a larger project on land ownership. – In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
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Author Archives: Liv Strand
Abstract Partition – performance
A two hour long performance intervention with fifty meter paper, and voice, inserted through the shrubbery in Tantoparken, in Stockholm. Weld held a one day festival named “In the Park”, filled with dance and art performances.
Abstract Partition
2024
Abstract Partition is a two hour long performance work for the festival In the Park, organized by Weld.
– 50 meters of paper, in two sections of 25 meters each, standing 150 cm high—or wide—accompanied by the artist’s voice through a waist-mounted speaker, gloves, wooden sticks, tape, staples.
A paper roll of twenty-five meters. The aim is to stand it upright, supported by the vegetation. In open spaces, additional support sticks are inserted, placed in opposing pairs or passed through holes in the paper. The paper becomes a backdrop to the greenery.
At one point, a horizontal line is drawn with moistened earth and a grass brush, guided by the liquid level in a bottle. The paper’s curvature shifts in the wind, necessitating adjustments to the line. The site as a flow. A blackbird coexists with the paper and its installer in the thicket.
Pipeline video screened twice
The video Pipeline (from 2007) was included in the celebratory exhibition ‘Elektronmusikstudion EMS – Art, Technology and Politics’, at Scenkonstmuseet in Stockholm.
And was also shared in the second edition of KINOBOX, as part of LIAF 2024 – ‘Gnistsambandet (Sparks)’, in Svolvær. In the programme reflecting on the themes of the festival – connections, signals, networks and distribution.
2 or 3 and 5 – turning sculture
Directions of faux leather falling, a soft smooth movement. If someone cranks the crank. A wall based sculpture. Shared with a reading at Bie Biennal 2023.
2 or 3 and 5
2023
Shared at Salon Bie Biennal
Hand-cranked sculpture, with three wall-mounted components. A couple of rotating flat surfaces and a crank. The strips of faux leather fabric will fall over (each other) under the force of gravity, intertwining when the surfaces they are attached to rotate. The person who cranks decide on the speed – the crank’s relative size slows the tempo. As one cranks, the overview is replaced by a proximate intimacy, extending even to the auditory realm. How softly the looped faux leather touch when twisting their planes when turning.
The title alludes to the number of faux-leather elements, as well as the directions they assume.
Constructed from wood, faux leather fabric, linen fabric, a metal crank, drive wheels cut from wood, rubber cords, and more.
Occupies approximately 2.5 x 3.5 meters, with components about 0.8 meters in diameter.
> pås-performance
2023
A performance composed for the opening of Dear swarm-I, a room swarmning of we-me-s performed by Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, Marcus Doverud, Niels Engström and Liv Strand
Duration about 20 minutes
Four folded large scale paper bags get presented as the performance matter. The performers make vocal sounds, mimicking the sounds of the crackling paper as close as a human mouth possible can. Audiable not so near as the constitution of the human mouth and vocal cords differ from smooth strong paper.
After a while the performers enter the paper bags, one by one, and move around. As bags, as the content they form. As content they are disguised, their individual movements compose the purpose. This goes on until they re-appear and leave their quite warn paper bags huddeling behind.
Dear swarm-I, a room swarming of we-me-s
Exhibition at Haninge konsthall. Negotiations of bodies and space through paper and text in an installation that explores paper as a carrier of meaning. The work challenges modes of reading and makes it a spatial task, that encourages and choreographs the gaze of visitors to bend around paperedges and across the space.
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