Day 45. After the DWYS workshop. Exchange of links, work, thoughts over the email. Some unexpected scenographic realms open up for further explorations. Here a reconstruction of poems and sound experiments from the Russian avantgarde in the beginning of the 1900: Symphony of the Sirens:...
Day 44. https://www.facebook.com/amiskanberg/videos/10156884150103939/
Day 43. Critical Circle idea for the exhibition was turned down. Arrrg. It would be too difficult for the cleaners with sticky tape, or other, circle on the floor. Ohhh, sometimes I miss the theatre so much. But of course, DIY is still an option. Now the circle is in my office, on the floor. Magic made it...
Day 42. A call for papers arrived on Theatre and Memory Wars. Link: https://tidsskrift.dk/nts/announcement/view/663 . I think it opens for critical scenographic explorations, so will apply. Deadline October 15.
Day 41. Workshop on Sven Lindqvist's Gräv där du står (Dig Where You Stand (DWYS)) in 1978. When published in 1978 Gräv där du står was a critical intervention into the conflict between the competing narratives of workers history and more dominant and pervasive elite histories. It managed to unite a general leftist zeitgeist of democratizing...
Day 40. Not enough sleep, problems to solve re: exhibition. Parcel to pick up at the post office. Rather mysterious - did I order something and totally fotrget about it? Shaking the parcel, very odd, when walking to my office. At my desk, opening it. Still odd, thrilling. And inside a nice, lovely, personal gift from "La tangeuse élégante", ...
Day 39. Meeting at the library. We are making an exhibition. The need to scenograph becomes acute. The place/space/location is essentially a passage, with some walls and glass cabinets. How to make independent free culture come alive in there. A circle on the floor, we think. A stage, who is there, inside, outside, whos history, whos archive, whos...
Day 38. Preparing for a week with Dig Where You Stand (DWYS). Motto, metaphor, book by Sven Lindqvist from 1978, manual for DIY research, and much more. My copy is falling apart. Over the years I have read in many ways, but I cannot get rid of what I believe is key to the DWYS approach: its scenographic...
Day 37. A message arrives from London. Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt and Benedikte Esperi, dancers, choreographers, artists and friends send through some news about their recent work. A project of theirs link of with one of my projects: Dance as Critical Heritage: Archives, Access, Action, initiated together with scholars Marsha Meskimmon and Monica Sand,...
Day 36. Friday, and so tired. Meeting, another report, so in need of dream-space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Ovf-3IJV8. Again and again.