Body of distraction
To be here and elsewhere, constantly rearranging between the imaginary and the tangible, questioning the real and the invented.
3pm-5pm
Studio 0.1. Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen NW
The Artistic research
During a two-week IN SEED residency, dancer Alvilda Faber Striim, in close collaboration with artists Elisha Mercelina, Sissel Johanna Bakken and Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir, will unfold their research entitled Body of distraction.
A research project on storytelling, the imaginary and the state of distraction as a choreographic engine of reorganization.
Building on Claire Bishop's Disordered Attention, the project seeks to break down the binary relationship between distraction and attention and instead cultivate distraction as another form of attention, thus promoting a critical alternative to capitalist notions of focus and productivity.
Distraction will be studied as a physical and relational dance practice that proposes a sensory and affective form of attention.
The decorative and the practical intersect in the interaction with objects, bodies, memories and fiction. Alternating between dramatic bursts of action characters and moments of silence, the project ponders the demands of late-stage capitalism, constantly pulling the body in several directions and scattering attention.
You are invited to participate in WORKSHARING, where you will meet the artists in the workspace and get an insight into the material they work with, participate in a conversation about the work at this investigative stage and thus contribute to the artists' further process.
the artists
With diverse backgrounds in dance, music, theatre, pedagogy and performing arts - as well as different generations - this collection of artists creates a rich basis for exchanging new knowledge and strategies on the subject of distraction.
