This is not a revolution - its an act of groove is a danced and spoken performance based on the reading of The Lexicon.

“Joijk, as well as other traditional forms of folk music, storytelling and dance, could be seen as a bearer of memory through its inherent act of passing down information and knowledge. To joijk dead relatives, forgotten places and dramatic events is a way to keep them alive in the common bank of memory. Joijk is not about something, it is something. Through repetition and sedimentation memories are embodied, transmitted and constantly transformed. 

The format of The Lexicon, as well as the performance of This is not a revolution - it´s an act of groove, are inspired by that phenomena and could be seen as an attempt to recreate the living archive of my practice through fragmented memories and multiple readings. 

This is not a revolution – it’s an act of groove emerges through multilayered, intertextual relations between areas and parameters that I consider central to my practice and that I recurrently return to. I use them alternately as craft, material, methods and concepts depending on what I need from them and how I want them to act. 

Each parameter and area are explained through what I consider being its most common articulation within my practice, and in addition they are connected through a diversity of references that are linked to contexts that I consider my practice being part of. The parameters and areas are all more or less interconnected, constantly changing their significance through the way we are manifesting them in new relations and contexts while reading the lexicon.”  - Anna Öberg 2015

Premiere May 2015 at DOCH/SKH, Sweden

CREDITS

CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY Anna Öberg
MUSICIANS Anders Löfberg
PHOTO Håkan Larsson
PRODUCTION Anna Öberg
DURATION 40 min