WELL
WELL is a series of solos choreographed and performed by Sara Grotenfelt. The first part was performed at The Danish National School of Performing Arts 2018 and the second part, WELL II, was performed at UrbanApa-festival 2018 in Helsinki, Finland.
WELL imagines a future for landscape, not as a motif of painting but as three-dimensional scenography. Taking advantage of Doreen Masseys ideas around stable and unstable scenery and migrating rocks, WELL plays with activity and passivity of subject and thing. What attention do different agents of a landscape require?
There’s also a female body, a goddess within, taking control over her surroundings. Or are they calling for it? Speculations around the iconic resting female figure and her shaved or non-shaved legs arise. WELL introduces a handmade luxury spa and thereby contributes to the mass-movement of hysterical self-care and wellbeing.
Or does it? The DIY- culture sneaks its way into the ivory tower of our secretly adored performing spaces, breaking with the hegemony of industrialized wants and desires. The theory of relativity makes itself palpable through the possibility of zooming in and out, scaling our very existence, from the cellular to the universal, inside the imaginary world that is being put into question. WELL claims territory in the sensorial landscape, it is a piece to be felt on one's own skin.
WELL imagines a future for landscape, not as a motif of painting but as three-dimensional scenography. Taking advantage of Doreen Masseys ideas around stable and unstable scenery and migrating rocks, WELL plays with activity and passivity of subject and thing. What attention do different agents of a landscape require?
There’s also a female body, a goddess within, taking control over her surroundings. Or are they calling for it? Speculations around the iconic resting female figure and her shaved or non-shaved legs arise. WELL introduces a handmade luxury spa and thereby contributes to the mass-movement of hysterical self-care and wellbeing.
Or does it? The DIY- culture sneaks its way into the ivory tower of our secretly adored performing spaces, breaking with the hegemony of industrialized wants and desires. The theory of relativity makes itself palpable through the possibility of zooming in and out, scaling our very existence, from the cellular to the universal, inside the imaginary world that is being put into question. WELL claims territory in the sensorial landscape, it is a piece to be felt on one's own skin.
Photography: Veera Konsti