Day 63. Attended Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen's doctoral dissertation as a member of the "betygsnämnden": https://www.su.se/english/profiles/kisk0849-1.188535. A lot to read, and worth it. Even if scenography was not the topic and recent theory from that field was not used. I am now even more convinced that expanded scenography is extremely useful for...
Day 62. In Stockholm at Dansens hus with long term friend Henrika Florén. Experiencing Mette Ingvartsen's "To Come (Extended"). I focus on "scenographing" because I am interested in what the dancing in space triggers in us and with us.
Day 63. What about this day, how did it scenograph me and how did I scenograph it? Hectic, oh yes. New reporting system to learn, doing tests, feeling like a robot. Good Girrrl in Green Digital Fog. Evening: Ballet class, "space turns all of you into ballerinas", said the teacher. And it did, and I danced myself into life (or...
Day 62. Scoring scenography, stayling in motion, being critical. "Even if the score is a scholarly construction, it stays in motion, and there will always be spaces open for additional contributions, associations, creations and try outs of for example your (the reader's) choice. A way of conceptualizing the activity of making the score is to think...
Day 61. How to write with and in relation to scenography and scenographics? I try scoring, for the chapter: "I will now move on to make a scenographic score for Götaplatsens trappor. Following performance theorist and performance maker Bojana Cvejić a score is a method for bringing together different parts of an analysis of a durational artistic...
Day 60. Car parks outside my office, legadary dancer and artist brings a fantastic personal archive into my office. We talk, we almost cry. Scenographing dance history. Ongoing bliss.
Day 59. Reading a doctoral thesis that will be defended October 20, 2018. Kim Skjoldager-Nielson, Over the Threshold, Into the World: Experiences of Transcendence in the Context of Staged Events. Page 335: "In Your Blind Passenger the dense fog that I koved into 'acted' against me, instigating an immediate feeling of loss of control, perceptually...
Day 58. Evening sunshine. Brought Eszter the visiting researcher to Arche/Freudian Association for her talk om Strindberg in USA. First, som fuss, then, fresh coffee as a welcoming sign. Very nice, family like athmosphere. She had a alot to say, in that space. Afterwards, when having shrimps as a way of getting to know the Swedish weat coast, we...
Day 57. Sunshine, the bus, and a very mild day. Meeting at Backa theater, inspiering migration project, a performance in the making, a festival to come. Imaginary scenographies. These days: so much maddening grant writing. People are helpful, so no panic yet.
Day 56. At the art museum with the art historians and Eszter Szalczer. Kristoffer Arvidsson kindly showed us the exhibition "The Universal Language: Post War Abstract Art" he had curated: https://goteborgskonstmuseum.se/det-universella-spraket/. Useful catalouge can go into teaching. Still grappling with that past generation and its obsession...