Feb 26, 28 + March 1 . Johan Forsman och Anders Paulin: Three White Soldiers
Three White Soldiers
The Material of the Immaterial
Three White Soldiers is an archive of stories, collected by Anders Paulin and Johan Forsman during a number of pilgrimages following the material as well as virtual landscape of contemporary economy.
The performance departs from high frequency trading, a financial phenomenon where computers are using algorithms to make transactions on the stock market in velocities challenging our concepts of time and space. From this perspective Anders and Johan have studied the relations between material and immaterial values, various ”time-spaces” operating beyond the human perception, and the use of patterns and images to visualize worlds and events impenetrable to the human horizon
Three White Soldiers is neither a critique nor capitulation towards the networking super speed of contemporary economy, rather an attempt to travel along its patterns and linguistic figures: A journey accompanied by the fetishes of the financial market, cowboys, algo-spoofers, astronauts and japanese rice traders.
The program at Weld is divided in two layers, Labor and Display. Parallell to the performances we arrange an informal study-circle in the daytime where we take a look at some key notions from the continuation of our work. We focus on topics of archeology and mining; in relation to mineral mining and cave paintings, but also more virtual perspectives lie Data Mining and Bit Coin Mining.
February 26
7 pm Performance Three White Soldiers
8.30 pm Presentation of the weekend program
February 28
– How Did We Get Here?
1-6 pm Reading-group EARTH/DATA MINING Media Archeology/Earth Inheritance
6 pm Soup
7 pm Performance Three White Soldiers
8.30 pm Screening Automated Futures by Ulysses Pascal
March 1
– Where Do We Go From Here?
1-5 pm Reading-group: EARTH/DATA MINING A Sedimentation of Mind/Writing of Stones
5 pm Soup
6 pm Performance Three White Soldiers
7.30 pm Presentation: "The Interkosmos Revisited – Spacetravelling fueled by russian cosmology and the smell of deodorant". Rasmus Nielsen/Superflex
Three White Soldiers
By and with Johan Forsman och Anders Paulin
Tickets 100 kr (student 80 kr)
Book ticket: book.weld.se
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Automated Futures (Video)
Ulysses Pascal (US)
Automated Futures juxtaposes Wall Street’s high-speed fiber optic cable against the decaying industrial economy of America’s rust belt. The film documents a privately owned high-speed fiber optic cable that runs between Chicago and New York City. This cable is used primarily for the algorithmic high frequency trading practices of hedge funds and investment banks. It runs directly through the rust belt—towns like La Porte, Elkhart, Toledo, Cleveland, Mesopotamia, and Manahoy City. As such, it’s a paradigmatic example of the disjunction between the interests of high finance and the decaying industrial economy.
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The Interkosmos Revisited (Presentation)
Rasmus Nielsen/Superflex (DK)
Spacetravelling fueled by russian cosmology and the smell of deodorant.
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Produced by Skogen in cooperation with Weld.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, Statens Kulturråd and Stockholms läns landsting
JOHAN FORSMAN
Johan Forsman is the artistic director of the platform Skogen in Gothenburg. For the last 15 years he has worked as artist, artistic director and initiator/facilitator of various artistic projects. His work, as artist and programmer/facilitator, is often exploring the relations reproduced in performing arts, both within modes of production as well as presentation. The last years he has produced works like ZOO, Insulinom, Sjömanskyrkan inombords, Grodden, Skogen tar Weld till skogen – all of them together with Johan Rödström. He is currently working with Anders Paulin on a long term research project on material/immaterial aspects of contemporary economy.
ANDERS PAULIN
Since the 90s Anders Paulin has directed 30+ productions at theatres like Nationaltheatret in Oslo, Backateatern in Gothenburg, Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Theater Basel and The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. Lately his work has focused on non-mimetic tools for the theatre, with a special perspective on story and performer as interface in an exploration of the venue as platform for exchange of experience.