Aug + Sep. Moving Urban Landscapes QUARTO (BR/SE)
A year ago, Moving Landscapes was presented for the first time in Sweden with a performance at Odenplan and installation at Weld. Now QUARTO brings its steel cube to new locations in Stockholm in a continued celebration and dissection of the relationships between bodies and objects, the material and immaterial.
Tensta torg August 25 at 3pm–5pm
Raoul Wallenbergs torg September 1 at 3pm–5pm
Tensta torg September 7 at 3pm–5pm
Rinkeby torg September 14 at 3pm–5pm
Moving Landscapes is an installation, site specific performance and video series raising questions on ecology of habitation explored in a choreography between bodies, the urban landscape and a metal cube. The artist duo moves the permeable space in a ceremonial manner. The purposefully simple structure of pipes becomes an ambiguous skeleton that maintains the void, inside and around of which we can dwell and one we are invited to visit and inhabit ourselves. The performance captures the artists attempts to move various landscapes. Let ourselves move in the landscape and allow the landscape to move us!
Choreography, concept & performance: Anna af Sillén de Mesquita & Leandro Zappala
Co-produced by Weld
Created in residence and in collaboration with Dansens Hus & MDT (Sweden), Breaking Walls Festival Cairo (Egypt), Art Stations Foundation, Susch Museum & Art, Safiental Biennale (Switzerland), Zona & Festival (Romania).
Supported by the Swedish Arts Council.
QUARTO
is an artist duo founded in 2003 by Anna af Sillén de Mesquita and Leandro Zappala. They live and work between two very different cultures – Brazil and Sweden. QUARTO engages in a long-term research with artists and researchers in interdisciplinary art, involving both theory and practice. Engaged in philosophical questions about power relations and the limits of the body, they seek to create thoughts and subjectivity through a radical, visual and physical experience.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm