Join us for an exciting public lecture by multidisciplinary choreographer and writer Mårten Spångberg
What is an experiment? Are there different kinds of experiments? What are the relations between experiment and development, experiment and measurement? What happened when experimental became style, a catchphrase in applications and coopted by corporate jargon? What does experiment have to do with care, ecology, visibility and privilege?
In this lecture the Swedish choreographer and writer contemplates the realities of experiment, turns it around, lets it sit, dissects it, traces its different environments and relations to autonomy, but what kind of autonomy? Placing it science, art and politics, skimming over its position in different modalities of research, insisting on that possibilities aren’t enough and the notion that experimental has a complicated relation to imagination.
With one ear to the ground, the other will loosely follow a thread from Aristotle via Wittgenstein, with layovers in the company of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, to Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, the under commons and the necessity of bad ideas.
Mårten Spångberg (b. 1968) is a multidisciplinary choreographer and writer living and working in Berlin and Stockholm. His interest concerns dance and choreography in an expanded field, something he has approached through experimental practice in a multiplicity of formats and expressions.
He has been active on stage as a performer and creator since 1994, and since 1999 has created his own choreographies, from solos to larger scale works, which have toured internationally. Under the label International Festival, Spångberg collaborated with the architect Tor Lindstrand and engaged in social and expanded choreography.
Spångberg has thorough experience in curating as well as teaching, both practice and theory. From 2008 - 2012 he directed the MA program My Choreography at the University of Dance in Stockholm, and he has been guest professor in the university Giessen as well as The National Academy of The Art, Oslo. He has been published extensively and his first book Spangbergianism was published in 2011.
His more recent performances La Substance, but in English, The Internet, Natten and Gerhard Richter, une pièce pour le théâtre has gained extensive international recognition. His current work concerns ecology and post-anthropocene aesthetics.
