“I move between wanting to know more and wanting to know less, between wanting to feel more but not too much. You probably know this, but a stranger is a lover who decided that it’s safer not to care.”
What does estrangement mean in times of social disconnection, increasing polarization, and detachment from the ‘natural’ world?
Where sandstorms are frequent, but the people are warm is a performance inviting you into the dilemma of “how to stay connected to self, world, and others in a disconnecting container?”
This work is part of the Contemporary Performative Arts exam performances.
Bio
Mirja Timm (she/her) is an artist who works in the field of performative art, design and community work, with themes related to dis/connection, care and responsibility. The resulting works are often participatory and immersive.
Mirja grew up in Northern Germany, between peat bogs and the visual expanse of heathlands. She works with scents and stories, windows and entry-points, digestion-spaces and dilemmas.
She has a keen interest in examining how to find balance in an out-of-balance society, and practices gardening, dancing with the plant-people, and somatic research
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.
