#8 – Krock / Crash
#8 Krock
Medverkande
Pia Hansen
Dancing to Balkan Beats
When you crash your direction is interrupted, “you” are interrupted, and you might never be the same. With experiences of grief there is a similar effect. When losing someone, life reveals itself to you in different ways. With this piece I wanted to explore this in relation to my own experiences of losing loved one.
Pia Hansen is a writer and vocal artist who plays with loops of sound and poetry to create music and art work. She is forever fascinated by what makes us human and has done extensive work in the social care sector. She loves working with people and she offers workshops on collaborative vocal improvisation, traditional laments, and voice work to support well-being. Her family roots are Finnish and Danish and she moved to Finland from London in 2020 with her small family.
Moe Louanjli
Poem Machine: Krock/Crash
Working across poetry, algorithmic systems, sound and visual media, Moe Louanjli approaches language as both a semantic and material structure. His practice uses code, rule-based processes and multilingual writing to examine how language is produced, reorganised and read. Through permutation, repetition and computational processes, his work considers the ways technological systems shape meaning, authorship and poetic form.
Moe Louanjli is a Helsinki-based poet, interdisciplinary artist, designer and educator. His work engages text, typography, sound, code and visual form, with particular attention to algorithmic processes, multilingualism and the material conditions of language. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and a PhD from the Queensland College of Art and Design at Griffith University, with research related to Aesthetic Computing and New Media.
Lina Urtecho Karlsson
Rondklocka
Tre minuter utforskar smärta som redskap, språket som kropp. Att få talet tillbaka innanför linjer som inte passeras. Vad uppstår i kollisionen mellan impuls och disciplin, mellan driv och stiltje? Vad händer när orden sedan stagnerar, kräver andra uttryck?
Lina Urtecho Karlsson är skrivpedagog och före detta boxare, bosatt i Sundsvall. Hon leder ett skrivfrämjande projekt om dagarna, jobbar med egna texter om kvällarna. I sitt skrivande växlar hon mellan magisk realism, bångstyrig lyrik och jordad prosa, ofta med kroppen som utgångspunkt. Hon varvar ned med böcker och BJJ.
Jason Nelson
The Collision Choir
The Collision Choir explores a department store liquidated by capitalism’s slow, decaying end. You crash and collide, discounting products past zero. You roll through twenty impossible departments, smashing jewelry, books, model homes, televisions, medical equipment, cars, cutlery, lamps, fake gardens and stubborn leftovers. The store and its departments are revealed through the store’s history. Clerks chanting prices inside a meat locker, architects burying brass tags beneath concrete columns, executives feeding keys into metal bowls, computers recording purchases nobody made.
The store grew from six aisles into something larger than the city around it, a retail organism. And liquidation now means destroying.
The work is a demolition machine trapped inside a sales catalogue. Collisions splinter objects into scraps, text, receipts, noises and little commercial afterlives. Old-film photographs shake inside department notices. Strange creatures arrive from your collisions. They sing across the screen. The more you break, the more the store tells you about itself, eventually opening ten endings. Architectural memories, employee stories, failed rituals, rooms that should not fit inside other rooms.
None of these endings actually end anything. You close them and keep rolling. Somewhere inside all that broken merchandise is a very simple problem, the store cannot imagine a world where nothing is being purchased. The destructions you create become another kind of sale, receipts are printed, waiting for you to hit something else.
Jason Nelson is a digital poet, artist and creator of strange interactive creatures. His digital works have won 14 international awards and been featured around the world in big and small places. He lives in Norway, where he’s a Professor at the University of Bergen and a PI in the Center for Digital Narrative, an SFF Research Center.