Intellectus LIVE is a public format of the artistic research project Intellectus LAB developed during Öbergs 1- year artistic residency at the Södertörn University in 2023. An ongoing research that takes its starting point in Öbergs interest in how artistic ideas can arise and expand in groups - and in encounters with an audience. Through that Intellectus LIVE works as an ongoing platform for encounters and aesthetic discussions between art forms and fields of knowledge that rarely otherwise meet.
The format for the lab is inspired by passing on (Sw tradera) as a relational practice dependent on how a multitude of authorships might bring specific and subjective interpretations into a collective web of understandings.
The name of the project is inspired by Nicolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) descrition of intellectus as standing on the horizon of not knowing.
“I am so grateful to have been part of this! I have especially appreciated how the encounter between different practitioners have been curated so that we could move together into unknown terrain, and how that made me experience new aspects of my own practice.
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“I am fascinated about how my own practice, in encounter with the others, shifted from being a subordinated method in order to reach a specific artistic goal, to become the goal of the art itself.
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“I am always grateful when I am given the opportunity to examine my practice from approaches that I have not proposed myself. As an opportunity to travel and step out of established tracks, to lift the eyes in order to find new ways of communication and to embrace the feeling of getting lost.
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“For several years, I have tried to challenge the possibilities and limitations of my practice. The metods of Intellectus LIVE helped me a lot.
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“For me, it has been incredibly valuable to reflect on my own practice and artistic process through the practices of the others. The encounters made me more conscious about the traditions, norms and conventions that my practice consists of , and also what kind of limitations and possibilities they might carry. ”
Invited artists LAB2022: Johannes Burström (composer/musician), Chrysa Parkinson (dancer/Professor in Dance SKH), Peter Mills (dancer/activtst/choreographer), Roberto N Peyre (artist, performanceartist), Alice McKenzie (dancer/writer), Charlotta Ruth (dancer/choreographer), Marcus Doverud (dancer/musician), Mårten Medbo (artist-craftsman)
Invited artists LIVE2023: Mårten Medbo (artist-craftsman), Sofia Romberg (scenographer/artist), Fia Fredricson Flodin (lecturer in Aesthetic Learning Process @ Södertörn University), Stina Bäckström (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Senior Lecturer @ Södertörn University), Viktor Fröjd (dancer/choreographer), Jon Bugge Mariussen (dancer/choreographer), Elize Arvefjord (sound designer), Ludvig Björklund (PhD Student Practical Studies at Södertörns University)
Premiere Intellectus LIVE: December 18 2023, Svarta Lådan @ Södertörn University, Stockholm.
Upcoming: The choreographic installation Intellectus LIVE Medbo/Arvefjord will be performed at Folk och Kultur, Eskilstuna in February 2025.
COVER PHOTOS Märta Thisner
SUPPORTED BY Södertörn University, Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee