Chorus
Commissioned by Inter Arts Center, Malmö 2017
with Kristoffer Akselbo
Chorus is a process-based project that included
elements of performance and installation. The project took its cue
from a reflection on the statue as a phenomenon and explored an idea
of the statue as a social and processual phenomenon determined by
the individuals that relate to it. From this perspective a statue
exists just as much by way of the narratives, rumors and myths that
surround it as through its physical and material properties,
whatever they might be.
Based on this idea the project investigated how a statue could be
produced through a collective awareness of it as well as the nature
of the processes whereby a collective awareness is produced.
The project presented different voices that were oriented toward the
statue as a possibility. Among them was the voice of a chorus
similar to the one found in the antique tragic drama where the
chorus reflects upon the staged events. In an ongoing work at the
Inter Arts Center the project aimed to develop an impersonal voice
of a contemporary chorus and through that a possible statue.
A publication were presented that was as a kind of script for the
events at the IAC. The project concluded with an event and a
lecture. Throughout the project period one encountered elements of
the work at the IAC.