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Title: Proposal for a performance work at Sergels Torg, Stockholm
Authors: Ström, Annika
Editors: Scotti, Marco
Issue Date: 20-Dec-2016
Document Type: Working Paper
Abstract: Il progetto è stato proposto da Annika Ström nel 2016 come commissione pubblica e avrebbe dovuto tenersi nella piazza Sergels Torg di Stoccolma durante la notte. Avrebbe dovuto consistere in un concerto notturno, della durata di circa 15 minuti, tenuto dal Jönköping Chamber Choir che avrebbe cantato testi e musica della stessa Ström; in particolare, come riportato dall’artista della relazione donata a MoRE Museum, il progetto può essere considerato come una versione in grande scala della performance che l’artista ha realizzato nel 2015 al Jönköping city cafè, in cui il Jönköping Chamber Choir e il conduttore Ove Gotting hanno cantato “le frasi che apparivano sui cartelloni intorno al Jönköping e sulla segnaletica digitale dell’autostrada E4, situata nelle vicinanze”. A Stoccolma il coro avrebbe dovuto essere introdotto da “50 skater rumorosi con lanterne sulle ruote e sui cappucci; lo stesso conduttore sarebbe stato paracadutato giù e, quando gli skater sarebbero arrivati a poca distanza – e una volta rimasti finalmente in silenzio – il coro avrebbe iniziato a cantare le frasi proiettate sulle facciate delle case intorno. La performance si sarebbe conclusa con gli skater, con le loro luci nuovamente accese. Dopo lo spettacolo sarebbero stati prodotti una registrazione audio della performance e un vinile.
Description: This project was proposed by Annika Ström in 2016 as a public art commission, and should have taken place during nighttime at the Sergels Torg square in Stockholm. It consisted in a night concert, lasting approximately 15 minutes, where the Jönköping Chamber Choir would have sung the lyrics and music of Annika Ström: in particular, as the artist reports in the file donated to MoRE museum, it can be considered a larger scale version of the performance the artist did in 2015 at the Jönköping city cafe, with the Jönköping Chamber Choir and the conductor Ove Gotting, where they sang the “phrases that appeared on billboards around the Jonkoping and digital road signs on highway E4 nearby”. Here in Stockholm the choir would have been introduced by “fifty loud skateboards with lanterns on wheels and on hoods”, the same conductor would have parachuted down, and when the skateboards would have moved a short distance away, finally silent, the choir would have sung the phrases projected on house facades around. The performance would have been closed by the skateboarders, with their lights lighted up one more time. Sound recording and a vinyl record would have been produced after the show.
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