Have you ever seen a bottle ballet or wondered what a cord might tell you if you listened closely?
In Don’t Take a Water Bottle for Granted, artist Lisa Mårtensson collaborates with everyday objects as performers, with the aim of shifting agency from her own body to theirs and back again.
Through gestures of intimacy and failure, the work develops into a more-than-human meeting place. Relationships become fluid and animistic as plastic, wood and flesh negotiate who leads and who follows.
Supervisors: Josefine Wikström and Zafira Vrba Woodski// Dramaturg: Sally O’Neill//With support from: Hedlandet Residens, Inter Arts Center in Malmö and Skogen.
Lisa is a Malmö-based performer, performance artist and leader of artistic collaboration processes. She has a background in dance and performance art and a bachelor’s degree in theatre with a major in conceptual performing arts from Malmö Theatre Academy. She is currently completing her master’s degree in contemporary performing arts at the University of Gothenburg.
She runs the performance duo Absurdum Temporary Art together with sound artist and composer Lotta Fahlén. She is also a gallery owner and curator and runs FRANK Gallery & Studios and VAAG Gallery in Malmö.
The performance is part of Experimentations 2.o, where students on the Master’s programme in Contemporary Performative Arts at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg present their master’s theses at Skogen, Atalante, Lagerhuset Library, the Natural History Museum and Valandkvarteret at Vasagatan 50 between 16 and 27 February.
The students work for two years on an artistic research project and present their processes here through installations and performances.
