One Day Show is a project by Johan Lundh in collaboration with Dragos Alexandrescu, Eva Forsman, Joakim Hansson and Therese Sunngren. It is a project exploring contemporary art through a speculative study of artistic, curatorial and discursive production. During an all-day workshop, the participants have developed an exhibition together from scratch.
MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
A performance displaying a visual scenario of costume, props and actions, asking - how can we ever really understand one another, when our stories will always be so different?
The work is part of a larger research project, Imploding, about how our personal backgrounds inform the way we interpret situations and people we meet. This project is supported by Scottish Arts Council.
Performance duration: ca 15 min
Gwendoline Robin associates the object with the body in space to create ever more complex installations and performances, in which object responds to space, movement to fire, light to the sound of the explosion, and in which the artist’s body can explore, perform and dance with the danger and the poetry of fire.
There is immediacy in Gwendoline Robin’s work; a relationship with the present moment given by the suddenness of the explosion, the very essence of fire, the evanescence of smoke. It confronts us with surprise, fear, danger, relief, and with wonder, too, and humour.
(extract of Gwendoline Robin in conversation with Tania Nasielski)
website : www.gwendolinerobin.be
Johan Lundh is an artist, curator and writer based in Stockholm and Vancouver, who is the artist in residency at Platform in April. On Sunday 5.4 he will give a talk about his practise and tell us about the project One Day Show that he's going to do during his stay.
Currently my art revolves around two practices; installation and drawing both are different though intersect conceptually and dialectically. The defining elements that are significant and continue through my works are those of space, movement, and material. Most importantly the common notions of understanding that binds them together, for example: An inherent understanding of inside / out, public and private, are simple points of a collective awareness that enables everything to exist in and navigate life. The alteration of such signifiers leads to a new understanding or a reflection on the meaning of space and environment.
In addition to installation my practice has started to envelop drawing, with drawing I am able to add or separate additional elements to or from my foremost practice of installation. Drawing intersects my installation in a more ephemeral way, and generally hidden from public gaze. Drawing aids in a clearer focus towards a more subliminal space, a space that exists only in the media, newspapers or the internet.
Mark Harris works and lives in Bristol (UK).
In collaboration with Plan 9 residency programme in Bristol (UK), Platform arrange an artist talk with Toby Huddlestone and Mark Harris, both artists based in Bristol.
Be a part of Toby Huddlestone's new artwork SPECTACLE, a public intervention and documentation project. This internationally showing artist needs at least 100 volunteers to 'create' a spectacle by coming together and participating - no acting skills required, it'll be very easy.
All participants will each receive a print of the work as a thank you for taking part.
Around the same time as Jörgen Erkius started to teach poetry (if that´s possible, as he says himself) at the Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder, he also made his first longer film, a film about Wolfgang Borchert. Platform is now proud to present his second film, about the poet Josef Julius Wiksell, and that Jörgen Erkius made during his residency in Vaasa.