- An exhibition about the body as a way to a reconciled tiredness

Today we live in an achievement-oriented society where stress, anxiety and melancholia are normal rather than an exception. Too much positivity in the forms of overproduction, over-achievement and over-communication has created imbalances in us and our societies. The requirement to constantly be available for different kinds of performance lead to depression and burn-out. In Nutidens Epidemi Karolin Kent, together with the visitors, seeks to try out formats and methods for a reconciling tiredness.

The contemporary dancer Karolin Kent explores new aesthetic forms of expression in the intersection between visual art, performance, somatic practice and textile architecture, in close collaboration with the costume designer Linnea Bågander and the filmmaker Donovan Von Martens. With the support of the Arts Council, Västra Götaland region, Region Halland and Gothenburg city.

WORKS

INSIDE/OUTSIDE

Inside / Outside is a large-scale and enclosing textile sculpture created by Linnéa Bågander in close collaboration with Karolin Kent. As an embodiment of internal and external phenomena, the interactive sculpture acts as a second skin that allows the visitor to experience how different functions in their own body are connected. How our bodies are simultaneously unique and intertwined with other bodies.

Inside / Outside offers the body various variations of being; rest, play, contemplation and coexistence.

As a visitor you can choose between being passive viewer or active participant, however, we encourage you to experience the works from within by entering the forms to get the best experience of the works. What you do or do not do inside the forms is entirely up to you.

THE WAR AGAINST ONESELF

The war against oneself is an interactive video installation and tactile experience that seeks to depict chronic fatigue syndrome and the loneliness of apathy. Experiences of what is neither inside nor outside the individual and the trauma that arises from being on this non-site. How the mental as physical pain forms a foreign body in our experience. The war against oneself has been developed in close collaboration between Karolin Kent, Linnéa Bågander and Donovan von Martens

SOMATIC PRACTICE AS A METHODOLOGY

Somatic experience as a methodology is an exploratory practice based on Karolin Kent's somatic work. Through somatic sessions and conversations, the practice aims to create essential conditions for bodily (self) awareness, raise the value of bodily knowledge, and create spaces for various forms of being. The other works of Nutidens epidemi have their basis in the mentioned exploratory somatic work.

It is a collaborative project with

Filmmaker - Donovan von Martens

Costume and setdesigner - Linnea Bågander 

Projectcoordinator - Henrik Sputnes

Artistic director and performance - Karolin Kent.

The project is supported by Konstnärsnämnden, Göteborgs stad, Västra götalands regionen & Region Halland.