Nov 5, 6, 7. The White Chapel / Johan Kärrman
In a world colonised by images, movement and dance may yet attempt to escape them, to turn instead towards the tactile, the sensuous, the fragile and the exact.
November 5 at 7pm
November 6 at 7pm
November 7 at 7pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
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We recommend 100 kr per evening.
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The White Chapel is a work about inhabiting a form and still not feeling at home within it. It begins with a body that history has long known how to read and the present still does: the educated, well-trained male body. The man of the Enlightenment, the productive citizen, the algorithmically legible individual – all have left their marks in the same form.
The White Chapel has its origins in London in the 1990s, as the market pressed ever further into culture. Value increasingly came to reside in the image. Economic expansion altered both the city and the ways in which people presented themselves. Something opened. Something was lost.
The White Chapel is not a return to a strong body or a strong soul. It turns instead towards a lived body and a lived soul: marked by experience, contradiction, failure, desire and memory. Towards what remains when representation is no longer enough.
In The White Chapel, movement becomes a way of testing this again. Of testing whether it is possible to inhabit a body before it is turned into an image.
Johan Kärrman
studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London in the early 1990s. Since then, his work has moved between artistic and commercial contexts. A deliberately wayward search has led him through disparate practices, settings and visual languages.
His recurring concerns include intellectual formation, aesthetics, technology, the body and power and the human need both to distinguish oneself and to belong.
Weld is supported by the City of Stockholm, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm.