Beyond Former Heaven (or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography); Dreamscapes and Other Narratives

 
edited by Sofia Törnblad
HD video 16:9
12 min
2011
 
 

This work is based on a collaboration between eighteen artists, an experiment in communal living resulting in a collectively authored film material. With references to early 1900s Utopian Communities and free school ideology the work approaches not only alternative ways of knowledge production but also issues of collective authorship and forms of collectivity. This particular video emphasises the narrative outcome of our collective endeavours. The group’s dream archive became a source of a surrealistic dreamlike narrative framed by audio-physical improvisation practices.



At first, a blurred shape of a landscape - perhaps unworldly - revealing only fragments of itself as pulsating lines finds their way into a single surrealistic continuum. There, if only for a moment, elaborated sounds of multiple ways and voices embody the silence as the scenery turns into a possible story - one of collaborative exercises narrating the Psychic Commune.

 
 
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Installatiad at the exhibition Site Sensitive Acts at Galleri Mejan, 2011.
 
Installed at the exhibition Site Sensitive Acts at Galleri Mejan, 2011.
 
© Sofia Törnblad and Beyond Former Heaven*
 
* BFH är; Lisa Visser, Richard Ibghy, Marilou Lemmens, Rodrigo Marti, Robin Simpson, Juliane Zelwies, Johan Lundh, Olivia Plender, Aileen Burns, Laurita Siles Ceballos, Roy Caussy, Patrick Staff, Sofia Törnblad, Bronwen Moen, Antoni Wojtyra, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Candice Lin, Denver Lynxleg
 
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