Performance by Emily Roysdon 1 Aug 8 – 10 p.m.
"This is an experimental live performance. There is no central text, you will not be entertained, you will be asked to make sounds, and partake in a filming"
Featuring: Malin Arnell, Emma Hedditch, Klara Liden, Chris Riddselius, Dean Spade, Emily Roysdon and surprise guests
This is the second part of a series that investigates the relationship between image and movement(s). The series creates conceptual sites and scenarios that invite participants to respond inside the space of the theatre, creating an improvised public engagement with the ideas of the project. They are "live action non-events", active scenes invested in producing a collaborative present.
In this new work, the action happens inside of four life-size photographs on wheels. The choreography is invested in ideas of risk and relations, renascence and impossibility. In this case, the conventions of the theatre are compromised as the mobile images take the place of language alongside the bodies onstage.
This performance exists simultaneously as a film project, which will be both presented and produced on the night of the event. The accumulated film project addresses the relation of the document to experience, an extension of the image/ movement diad of the performance. The first part of the series, entitled "social movement, will also be screened just prior to the performance.
Social Movement (2004, silent, 7 min) This video images a literal and metaphoric setting of the stage. It is concerned with memory, as well as the associative arts of archiving and social movements. The project attempts to simultaneously create and perform the stage, to frame performance and memory through slow repetitious gestures, constantly(!) preparing the document of our presence, and the monument of our persistence.
Emily Roysdon (1977) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work is invested in language, memory, collectivity and the processes of history and she uses video, photography, text, and performance to that aim. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. Roysdon's work has been shown at Participant, Inc. (NY); Generali Foundation (Vienna); Art in General (NY); Studio Voltaire (London); and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Her videos have been screened at Whitechapel Gallery(London); De Appel (Amsterdamn); The Kitchen (NY); and at theInternational Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Her writings have been published in numerous books and magazines, including Cabinet Magazine, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory, and ANP Quarterly. Roysdon completed the Whitney
Museum Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. She is currently a resident at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS).
The performance is made in conjunction with the exhibition MAKE OUT at Studio 44 read more
Admission free
Weld, Norrtullsgatan 7,(tube-Odenplan) 08-309450