The performance Dykfynd was created as part of the exhibition Where Does the River Flow and curated by the art association Mareld Västerbotten. In connection with the exhibition, an interview was conducted, and here is an excerpt from it:
What have you chosen to work with in the exhibition Where Does the River Flow and why?
I wanted to work performatively and processually, focusing on collective processes and an interest in the currents and ruptures of language. The idea to create a voice-based piece emerged from an impulse to closely examine dykfynd (diving finds). I wanted to explore these remnants, traces of lives and events that have sunk but remain at the riverbed, on a bodily level.
The work is partly based on improvisation, and those of us participating in the performance work verbally with a method reminiscent of stream of consciousness, where what emerges, emerges. The basic premise of the piece is that we cannot know in advance what will surface, nor the final expression of the work. I chose this approach because I believe it mirrors the river and its nature: it flows, moves in different directions, at varying speeds. It is alive, powerful, and is not meant to be controlled, dammed, or fixed.
DYKFYND
Performance
2022
