A talk about Roles in a Setting (2015)
Archival ink and laser ink on paper in artist’s bookbinding
5.83 x 8.27 inches
Edition of 50 + 1 AP
© Johan Lundin / BUS 2015 Photo: Rasmus Östebro
© Johan Lundin / BUS 2013-2015
About
Johan Lundin, born 1988 in Lund, Sweden, is an artist producing performance, installation and video.
Johan is educated at Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design (SE), Steneby School of Design and Crafts (SE), Bergen Academy of Art and Design (NO), Royal Institute of Art (SE), School of Dance and Circus (SE) and Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (SE).
The moving body and its expression is central in these productions which are shaped by questions of gender identity and its relationship to social structures.
The craft is forming an understanding of a body of material, light and sound constituting a scenic environment of perception and sensation. Scenographic stagings and costumes are visualizing a parody of physical environments and material focusing on the identity and function of a site, indicating the site's geographic location, historical, social and cultural context.
The performativity and audience interactivity could be understood through relating to the notion of conceptual dance as going in to a role, taking on a mission or a character. An approach is communicated of a setting to always be understood through the character enacting the space, living it, putting life and character in to it, dancing in it. Stating that by the act of dancing one can choose to enhance a setting, see the setting as something else, relate to the setting in alternative ways or make the setting disappear completely.
In the live acts A TALK ABOUT ROLES IN A SETTING (2015) and AUDIENCE RELATION (2014) a performative focus is animating room through a time awareness insisting on a corporal consciousness. Through a sensibility connected to corporal awareness a concrete demonstration of the space is evoked that is actualizing every corporal movement. Themes include the functions and limitations of the spoken word versus the body language and the dynamic relationship between perception and interpretation.
In spring 2015 the choreographed presentation A TALK ABOUT ROLES IN A SETTING (2015) was presented at Konstfack Spring Exhibition. 2015 the work DOCUMENTARY DRAG (2015) was premiered at Tempo Documentary Filmfestival. Other works include the staged installation AUDIENCE RELATION (2014).
Bibliography
A talk about Roles in a Setting. Stockholm. 2015