Tja chat, tjena chien, concerning mimetic displacement
2016
Performance work, duration about 30 to 40 minutes
Has been performed at ‘Revolve’ Uppsala performance festival at Uppsala konstmuseum and at Inter Arts Center in Malmö 2016. And in 2017 at My Wild Flag festival in collaboration with Studiekretz @ C.off and ccap, and at Samtidskonstdagarna in Kalmar, invited by Kalmar Konstmuseum and Konstfrämjandet.
‘Tja chat tjena chien, concerning mimetic displacement’ (Tja chat, tjena chien, om härmning som förskjutning) departs from mime as a concept and a form of delivery. How something can be brought to experience and be understood, coexists with what it is to expose something through embodying it. Giving it another body. The displacement that the mimes brings about has to do with an embodiment. Basic to mime as stage performance is that another body, the imitating one, show a facet of what is mimed. In the work ‘Tja chat tjena chien, concerning mimetic displacement’ imitation also happens by stories we tell. What does it mean to do something together, what it is to become a we? In relation to a climate of increasing competition and focus of the individual, choreographer Marcus Doverud and artist Liv Strand, made this works dealing with intrapersonal influences.
Video from Tja Chat, Tjena Chien, Concerning Mimetic Displacement
