March 9, 10 + 12. Seems to be / Stina Ehn & Denise Lim
Seems to be is a collage of dances, drawings and music. In the piece images of commodities, technologies and everyday objects are distributed and dispersed. The work juxtaposes the ordinary with the magical in a play between cultural production and domestic life.
Balancing on a thin line, Seems to be disturbs the image of the female body. A commodified body, a revolting body, a body at work. Flat images tune the algorithm and collapse distinction -the radical has been sold. It allows you to rest your gaze but it also looks back.
Seems to be is a collaboration by and with Denise Lim and Stina Ehn. The two have been dancing together and making works since they met in Copenhagen 2017. The piece premiered at the festival Vector#3 by Dance Nucleus in Singapore February 2023.
March 9 at 7pm
March 10 at 7pm
March 12 at 4pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book at: book.weld.se
Dance and choreography: Denise Lim and Stina Ehn
Artistic advice and text: Oda Brekke
Scenography: Alva Roselius
Sound design: Maria Kremeti
Light design: Casper Wijlhuizen
Graphic design: Edith Ekström
Administration: the employment cooperative Interim kultur
Co-production: Weld, Stockholm
Residency support: Dance Nucleus Singapore ARTEFACT creation residency, Tårnby Park Studio Copenhagen, höjden studios Stockholm, Altes Finanzamt e.V. Berlin.
Developed with support from Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation, Palaces and Culture Agency Denmark, Nordic Culture Fund, National Arts Council Singapore and Goethe Institute Singapore.
STINA EHN (SE)
works with dance and choreography, based in Stockholm. Her work departs from experimental methods where action and analysis inform each other, often working in collaboration with others. Her work has been presented at Dance Nucleus Singapore, HAUT and Dance Cooperative in Copenhagen, Köttinspektionen Dans in Uppsala, Klimax Performance Space Sthlm and Dance Nucleus Singapore. As a dancer, she has performed in works by choreographers such as Stina Nyberg, Malin Elgán, Ellen Söderhult, Alix Eynaudi and with Weld Company Extended. Together with Jennie Bergsli and Lisen Pousette, she initiated Kafé Mix, a series of performance evenings at höjden studios in Stockholm. Stina holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from the Danish National School of Performing Arts 2020.
DENISE LIM (SG/DE)
is a Singaporean freelance dance artist, currently based in Berlin. She situates her practice between movement and language – how ideas can inform the dancing and how the dancing can, in turn, transform these ideas. Using methods of scoring and improvising, she works towards intensities that enchant and invite experimental modes of witnessing. Her close collaborators include dance artists Stina Ehn, Antonia Harke and Andreas Haglund, sound artist Maria Kremeti and artist duo graw böckler. Denise holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen. She was also a recipient of the ImPulsTanz danceWEB scholarship in 2019. Since January 2022, she is a member of Altes Finanzamt e.V., a queer feminist collective in Berlin Neukölln
ALVA ROSELIUS (SE/NL)
is a freelancing artist and scenographer educated at Konstfack in Stockholm and UMPRUM in Prague. Her artistic practice revolves around language and spatiality. Informed by architecture and theater and inspired by phenomenology, queer theory and political movements, she works with installation and sculpture. Alva often uses textile as her primary material as a way to embed time into her pieces, but this is also a strategy used to refer to history as well as tactility. Alva has previously been doing set design for music videos for, among others, Molly Nilsson, and scenographic installations for Strindbergs intima teater. 2017 she founded EXIT Konsthall, a deconstructable portable gallery, displayed across Sweden, Denmark and Åland, with support from Kulturbryggan. Besides her artistic practice, Alva occasionally writes for Flamman and Arbetaren.
MARIA KREMETI (GR/DE)
set her way to painting right after her degree in pedagogics. In Thessaloniki, she collaborated with Alexandros Plomaritis who introduced her to performance art. She moved to Berlin to get exposed to the international art community. Meanwhile, Maria started recording experimentations with language and vocalisms and soon got into composition using recordings of live instruments and sampling. Utilizing lo-fi mediums she’s betting on seeing an unbroken shape of human nature. The composition of the sound for „Seems to Be“ is her first long length piece.
ODA BREKKE (NO/SE)
is a dance artist based in Stockholm, working internationally as a choreographer, writer and performer. Her work is characterized by a material approach to perception, favoring detail to total overview. She is curious of dwelling with rooms and the things inhabiting them– tricking the sense of linear time and utilitarian relationships to objects. Her work When there’s only surface left premiered at Weld 2021 and has been presented at the festival IMPROSPEKCIJE at Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, Bergen Kjøtt, Dance Cooperative in Copenhagen and höjden studios. She was part of the editorial team behind the publication Art as Practice|Art as Object published by Skogen in Gothenburg 2020. Oda is a co-founder of the collective studio space höjden in Stockholm, a collegial platform and common resource for autonomous production and artistic exchange since 2019.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm