Very nice on Swedish Radio about Lilith’s PLÄSNT DSCHÖRNIE – New Moves the other day!
Here is some brief clips from the interview with the artist Ethan Hayes – Chute and one of Lilith’s Artistic Directors, Petter Pettersson. Reporter David Richter from P4 and P1 Swedish Radio.
” It took over 6 month to build up this moving company, and now on Friday the audience are welcome to step into the fiction, like a living movie. We have gone all in to created this image, this living film, this world of a ”real” moving company. If you feel you are entering a backdrop I do not think you would be devoured by the fiction, says Petter Pettersson one of Lilith Performance Studio’s Artistic Directors.
Ethan Hayes – Chute wants to create an alternative world, filled with soft values instead of thinking of profit and to be effective
” I feel a lot of heart here, says Ethan to the reporter David Richter on Swedish Radio. – The employees are not worried about becoming millionaires, he continues. They are more into their costumers well-being than their own profit”
– PLÄSNT DSCHÖRNIE talks about a criticism of the efficient and profit-oriented society that is gaining more and more space, Petter Pettersson continues.
Very pleasant to be working with this lovely crew again in a totally new setting and a new enterprise – a Moving Company!
PLÄSNT DSCHÖRNIE – NEW MOVES – a new total performance at Lilith by star artist Ethan Hayes -Chute. Opens next week! THRILLED!!!!!
”The headquarters are populated by loading docks, transport trucks and numerous employees fulfilling various important roles backed by solid experience. Pläsnt Dschörnie is no ordinary enterprise, but one that is passionately – almost obsessively – concerned with the satisfaction of its moving customers, their emotions, and needs.”
Bit by bit the studio is now getting closer to the opening of Lilith s new produced work – PLÄSNET DSCHÖRNIE – NEW MOVES – the total performance by Ethan Hayes- Chute.
We are so Excited. Millions of details are put inside this built universe of this special Moving Company.
Don’t miss the dates: 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 Nov 5, 6, 7 Dec.
A headquarters are built up, populated by loading docks, transport trucks and numerous employees fulfilling various important roles backed by solid experience.
Yet we do not know why, where, or when this moving company exists, or how it came to be. The company acts more as a state of mind than a physical space with its geographical location and customers being disconnected from a reality we can access.
Visitors are welcome to go in and view logical processes and absurd happenings that make up a regular day of operations. Feel free to move freely according to certain guidelines and protocols and stay as long as you wish.
Pläsnt Dschörnie – New Moves is the largest activation of a space made by the artist thus far, where traces of past activities are abundant, while new marks and trails are continually laid into place.
Ethan Hayes-Chute (b. 1982, Freeport, Maine) often explores vernacular approaches to everyday life. As a start of a new work, he goes through a role-playing process to determine the facts and figures behind the characters whose spaces he envisions. His main focus revolves around self-sufficiency, do-it-yourself mentality and human problem-solving capacities. He often creates spaces that lean towards the domestic realm that manifest in fragments, sections or fully enclosed variations. These environments are dressed with everyday objects that appear as if only momentarily vacated by their unseen inhabitants, their traces apparent on every surface.
TAKE A LOOK INTO ETHAN’S WAY OF WORKING WHEN HE IS INSTALLING THE SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION at MIT List Visual Arts Center is a ”basement-like space, a kind of workshop slash storage slash rumpus room.” In this video, he creates the rustic and retro-futuristic space using found materials, and talks about his practical usage of near-obsolete computers, his woodworking show The New Domestic Workshop, and his absurdist line of beauty and food products.
All ready 4 years ago for this magic shamanistic ritual-like loop Lilith Commission – that took us all into a mind-blowing ride of the abstract and fragmented.
A beautiful, scary, fleshy memory!
FAKE BONES – a ten day long performance by the Japanese artist collective OLTA & the Swedish artist and poet Leif Holmstrand
Date: 17:e – 26:e September, 2015
In FAKE BONES, magic rituals around eating, physicality, birth and death were faked.
Ritual cooking, cooking shows, oracle activities and dissolution of both time and personality were faked in an ongoing process. Plastic bones, rawhide bones for dogs and boned strollers were present.
For severalweeks,they were on-sitecreated an universe with theircommon interestsrelated tobiology,shamanism,radioactivemutations, fantasies of the body, eating, dissolvethe egoboundaries,bio–politics and an openeye forbeauty andreproduction ofweirdness, whereLeif’simagerywas meltedtogetherwithOLTA’s.
The visitors stepped into to their organism in whichLeif carefullydisassembledseveralprams andcooked them, fried, boiled and baked themwith morepossiblefood. The pram food was servedto the audienceandtoOLTA, that buildedandimprovisedalong withHolmstrandin a longfragmentedcollage like cycle wheresound, voiceand poetrybecamea central element.
Happy to announce, a new major performance – a moving company Pläsnt Dschörnie will move in at Lilith this fall!
In November the whole space will be transformed into a skilled and empathetic moving company. The American artist Ethan Hayes-Chute has moved into the studio and will transform every inch of it!!! ”Pläsnt Dschörnie: New Moves” will come alive in the near future so….
SAVE THE DATES 22 – 23, 28 – 30 Nov, 5 – 7 Dec, 2019
Ethan Hayes- Chute (b. 1982, Freeport, Maine) explores the ideas of self-sufficiency, self-preservation and self -exclusion as a model for living through paintings, sculptures, large-scale installations and artist’s books Read more about Ethan’s art – https://www.ethanhc.com https://www.instagram.com/movingflyer/
Image 1: Mechanical for Moving Flyer PLÄSNT DSCHÖRNIE no 1, 2014 Image 2: Photo by Dan D’Ippolito and Ethan Hayes-Chute. Scene from Camp Solong 2018 (Orr’s Island, USA), Nomadic Mini-Institution & Participatory Project, various locations, 2016 – ongoing (collaboration with Dafna Maimon)
Image 3: Ethan Hayes-Chute – Buildup: wood, found objects, 500 x 45 x 220 cm, as installed at Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany, 2012
Image 4: Moving Flyers 1-7, 2014-2015, Image 5: Scene from Camp Solong 2016 Nomadic Mini-Institution & Participatory Project, various locations, 2016 – ongoing (collaboration with Dafna Maimon), Image 6: Moving Flyer no 1 , 2014 PLÄSNT DSCHÖRNIE
ALREADY INTO THE LAST WEEK OF ANIMAL!!!
IT HAS BEEN SUCH A MAGIC TRIP WITH YOU ALL LOVELY AMAZING PARTICIPANTS AND THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD – Fullmånen från Helvetet – http://www.fullmanen.com/ who stepped out from themselves and created a new fiction of a band!
ANIMAL LIVE!!
LAST CALL for ANIMAL! This Friday 24th of May will be the last chance to step in to this fictional reality. YOU, and the fictional YOU just gets better and better in every loop. The band will for sure play the best gig ever again and again and again.
To quote some lines in the song FUCK THEM ALL by Cecilia Nordlund!
” Fuck everything. Fuck you and me, fuck every asshole that can breathe. Love is all I’m thinking of! Love, Love, LOVE!!!
Lilith blir varm av denna fina recension i Sydsvenskan av performance ANIMAL!
Vi är så stolta och glada att få jobba ihop med er alla 27 underbara rockers och bästa sångerskan ever Cecilia Nordlund i bästa bandet Fullmånen från Helvetet, i denna skeva fiktionsverklighet. Kör igen imorgon! Keep Calm and Rock On!
”Rockklubbens annorlundaskap och extas är i grunden en regisserad revolt, en bubbla där alla vill vara troende…. Men i den vackra gemenskapen blottas plötsligt de som inte passar in.” ”Tillsammans skapar musikerna ett rum som är större än rockklubben. Det blir inte ens platt retorik när Nordlund med sin mest melodramatiska röst vill fucka upp systemet. Några ögonblick förvandlas performancen till en illusion om gemenskap. Klubbrummet öppnas för något mer än musik och livsstil, en uppstudsig önskan om ett nytt samhälle, åtminstone något annat än dagens situation.”
Potty Moths ”I wanna” dånar ur högtalarna. Lilith Performance Studio har blivit rockklubb. Mörker härskar, kroppar dansar. Rummet ekar av begär och lust. Inredningen är surrealistisk med en zebrarandig jättesoffa där en figur i lika zebrarandig kroppsstrumpa sitter och kråmar sig hela kvällen. Den tomma musikscenen väntar på kvällens liveband. Jag hajar till inför en cool kille med lejonmask som står lojt lutad mot en pelare. Men det är ju bara en skulptur. Allt är fejk. Klubbrummet är byggt för att betraktas som ett gammaldags diorama på ett museum.
”Det här är absoluta narcissisters kollektiva utlevelse gestaltad som rockperformance. Konstruktionen av lokalen är övertygande, men de subtilare strukturerna syns inte direkt, hierarkierna och de exkluderande kotterierna drunknar i hetsig danslust. Men Lilith låter stämningen brytas av personer som passar illa in i allt det vackra och glammiga. Platsens sociala rangordning blottas, och inte minst framstår den upphetsade publiken som ett självupptaget gäng i en bubbla av sköna drömmar. Fast i ärlighetens namn är de nog litet kaxigare än till vardags, grundämnet i rock’n’roll heter ju revolt.
Visst är det ett spel, en lek, men musik och konst har inte med verklighet att göra. Rockklubbens annorlundaskap och extas är i grunden en regisserad revolt, en bubbla där alla vill vara troende. Den konstruerade intensiteten ska övertyga som sanning, vilket påminner mig om politiska kampmöten med lika enkla slagord som rockens texter om känslor och uppror. Fuck the system. Det handlar i båda fallen om politiska känslolandskap. Och den upplevelsen har Lilith tagit på kornet med bländande ljus och dånande musik.
”Tillsammans skapar musikerna ett rum som är större än rockklubben. Det blir inte ens platt retorik när Nordlund med sin mest melodramatiska röst vill fucka upp systemet. Några ögonblick förvandlas performancen till en illusion om gemenskap. Klubbrummet öppnas för något mer än musik och livsstil, en uppstudsig önskan om ett nytt samhälle, åtminstone något annat än dagens situation. Frågan hänger i luften: är det möjligt? Det känns nästan symboliskt när strömmen plötsligt bryts, allt blir svart och föreställningen är slut.”
