Social Democratic Dance or Expanded Field of Contemporary Dance and Choreography
Performative turn
Mårten Spångberg © Mårten Spångberg
How is it possible to treat choreography and contemporary dance in an expanded field, dealing with social sciences, contemporary philosophy and critical thought? What kind of experimental practices and multiplicity of formats and expressions could be used? Mårten Spångberg, Swedish performance artist, choreograph and theoretician, will refer to those questions in his first Warsaw lecture performance.
Operating from within ubiquitous capitalism the position of the artist and artistic production necessarily changes. No longer capacitated by an actual or illusory outside the artist has become a benevolent producer in respect of neo-liberal regime, a provider of experiences void of anything else than the consumption of subjectivity. In a time where it is easier to imagine the end of the world than a way out of capitalism, artistic production must turn towards modes of production that withdraws rather than suggest, that operate vis a vis contingency rather than probability, through speculation rather than relation.
Mårten Spångberg is a performance related artist, choeraographer and theoretic living and working in Stockholm. He has been active on stage as performer and creator since 1994, and has since 1999 created his own choreographies from solos to larger scale works, which has toured internationally. He has collaboratored with among others Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt/Les Ballets C de la B, Jan Ritsema, Krõõt Juurak. With the architect Tor Lindstrand he initiated International Festival, an interdisciplinary practice merging architecture and choreography/performance. From 1996 - 2005 Spångberg organised and curated festivals in Sweden and internationally. He initiated the network organisation INPEX in 2006. He has thorough experience in teaching both theory and practice. He is since 2008 director for the MA programme in choreography at the University of Dance in Stockholm.
