CHARLOTTA RUTH
cotton, plastic, wood, photocopied documents, guest-book, metal, battery-driven speakers and players, six single- board computer’s randomly play five different songs, touch reactive black box.
Since many years, PETER is used as an object for a series of durational performance-installations which are all called PETER. In Living Documents the visitors are invited to engage in a market (place) of movement practices, activities and documentary writing which in 10 minute intervals resolve in a memorial act through a reset. A reset that addresses how we engage with our experience and its absence. PETER´s approach focuses on the relationships and connections between people, antagonizing the ability to consume the loop.
Sound excerpt, Copenhagen Sep 2019
DOCUMENTATION of Living Documents
We apologize! If following the standard procedure of full length video, Living Documents I-V would be 15h (5x3h) footage. Because the project questions the procedure of documenting live acts we have decided against video documentation. The 5 installations are the (living) documents themselves. Beyond the conceptual decision we have also been keen to not disturb the live-situation. The five installations invite to audience participation in sometimes one on one setting. Audience/visitors converse, dance polska, mark their position or what they have seen with tape or try the truth practice. This intimacy in the live-setting would be destroyed in the moment a video camera would enter the situation. We have documented with sound recordings, text and still image (visitors on a distance or from the back or in the case of close-ups asked for consent).
HERE slide shows and sound of Living Documents I-V can be seen.
Concept & Direction: Charlotta Ruth & Dominik Grünbühel
Choreography & Performance: Peter Mills, Anna Öberg, Jenni-Elina von Bagh, Dominik Grünbühel, Charlotta Ruth
Set-Design: Luke Baio, Sofia Romberg
Sound: Johannes Burström
Programmming: Johanna Pfabigan, Johannes Burström
Theory & Text: Vendela Grundell
Graphics: Maiko Sakurai Karner
Production: Ruth&Grünbühel
PETER
photos: J Burström, S Romberg
photos: J Burström, S Romberg
photos: J Burström, L Baio
JENNI-ELINA
von BAGH
plastic, “cameras”, ball, bottles, dog, ice, stones, fake stones, hammer, ball, stick, ice box, wig, string, towel, video projector
Placed in a fictive future von Bagh ́s loop is a mental documentation process of her own bodily archive of theatre and life. As smoke and time goes by the experiment literaly melts and her body is distributing itself through several spectras. With a curiousity towards organic and non-organic life as well as falling between categories von Bagh uses the loop to question and dissolve hierarchies between bodies, words, theatrical props and landscape. As a visitor you are invited to view the site from the sides or enter the territory to explore the world through “the cameras” (home-built octascopes) that through prismas transform the landscape into patterns.
Sound excerpt, Copenhagen Sep 2019
3 padded stools, 3 handembroidered cushions, 3 head phones, coffee, brush, loudspeakers, raspberry pi controlling 4 audio tracks
In her Living Document Öberg is exploring the tool of passing on (Swedish tradera), the multi sensorial transfer of material and knowledge from person to person and context to context. Öbergs loop can be attended through different levels of engagement; sitting / listening / watching from the inside of the circle, dancing in the circle with Öberg or from the outside observing the situation as a moving sculpture. In Öberg’s installation three headphones with different soundtracks re-contextualize the situation between folk dance, contemporary dance and anthropology. A situation that highlights that the process of passing on can never be controlled and that documentation depend on cultural appearance.
ANNA ÖBERG
Sound excerpt, Copenhagen Sep 2019
Sound excerpt headphones
Contemporary
Folk
Anthropology
metal and wood construction, fake leaves, raspberry pi controlling recording and playback, led-screen, keyboard, blue tape
Ruth’s loop deals with time and how perception is being renegotiated through memory. Sticking her head into a leaf helmet, Ruth records 11 words spread over 2.5 minutes. Time... questions... and... renegotiates... space... reality... unfolds... automatically... when... something... repeats... The sentence is played back and expanded through the action inside four
different situations. The recording acts as an echo or premonition of the evolving act creating friction between the live and the recorded. Connotating a crime investigation Ruth recalls with the help of the visitors where the art (the act) took place. Blue tape creates a growing landscape of traces and a (project) report is typed onto a white cube (a led-screen) creating temporary evidence of the vanishing act and determining the position for the recurring 2.5 minute lecture.
CHARLOTTA RUTH
photos: J Burström, L Baio
Sound excerpt "lecture", Copenhagen
Sep 2019
Sound excerpt (Swedish), Stockholm
May 2019
bamboo, cable binders, server computer,
6 raspberry pi computers + mini cameras, bass, ukulele, amplifier, microphone,
video projector, coffee
In Grünbühel ́s loop, his practice of live
film-concerts is negotiated. A simulacrum of popular culture arises between DIY cameras and special effects, catchy tunes, comments on our mediatized society and deconstruction and construction of filmic situations. With help of the programmed raspberry pi network, camera close-ups and wrong angles question the intention of the live situation. At regular intervals the sound indicates that Grünbühel has a break or that he can converse with the audience. Over time Grünbühel layers himself through a waltz played on bass, ukulele and vocals which documents the ever changing situation in a song.
Sound excerpt of song (development during 3 different loops), Copenhagen Sep 2019
DOMINIK GRÜNBÜHEL
photos: J Burström, L Baio