2. How does it shape the way we dwell? Sonja Lindgren and Oda Brekke

The second episode of drift dialogues starts in the middle of a practice. Sonja comes from architecture and Oda from dance, they discover they share many interests, but use different words. In this conversation they complicate each other's means of making sense of life, work and art in a society where consumption controls the way we see things. How can ideas and methods alter our perception? What are the limits of the formats we use when we work and how do they form the potential for thinking and memorizing? 

 

During November 2023 they met several times over a pile of papers and books in höjdens studio. Listen to them read, describe and discuss their own work as well as texts and performances by other artists and thinkers.

 

Sonja Lindgren is an architect based in Stockholm, and works in the fields of architecture, design and scenography. She is educated at Umeå School of Architecture. 

 

Oda Brekke is a dance artist based in Stockholm, working internationally as a choreographer, writer and performer. Her choreographic work has been presented at MDT, Weld and Fylkingen in Stockholm, Bergen Kjøtt and Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art and includes ‘When there’s only surface left’ (2021), ‘Cut: a choreo-essay’(2023) and ‘dead dead document’ (2024). Since 2018 she has organised a range of discursive formats and structures for collective spaces and processes.

Works mentioned in the episode:

 

Object Making- Manon Santkin

From the publication Art as Practice| Art as object https://www.skogen.pm/publication/oYXbtdaJbecXi3uxJ

 

Cut: a choreo-essay- Oda Brekke

https://odabrekke.com/Cut-a-choreo-essay 

Performed at 14.01.2023 Kafé Mix, höjden studios

 

the deconstruction of the image of swedish domestic architecture through ‘marginalia’- Sonja Lindgren

https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-196662 

 

The Breast piece- Alice Chauchat & Frédéric Gies 

https://www.alicechauchat.net/text-breastpiece.html

 

           Translating the Essay into Film and Installation- Nora M. Alter 

 

Michael Taussig- Fieldwork Notebooks

 

Sarah Vanhee- Oblivion

 

"Wonderment Domastication", Gabriel A Maher 

https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/wonderment-domastication

 

höjden studios is an artist-run space for work and a shared context for artists and cultural workers to meet. Join us at https://hojden.house

 

drift is a proposal that aims to trace artistic and discursive tendencies moving through höjden studios. It simultaneously constitutes a forum where materials and ideas can transform, resonate or fall apart in the movement of recurring meetings. drift is a record of cacophonies landing slowly over time as artists at höjden studios invite for openings and points of connection.

drift is produced by Oda Brekke and Scott Cazan

Mastering by Foad Arbabi

Graphics by Edith Ekström