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Five Corners – Five performances by Five Artists 

Performance: 18 – 20 & 25 – 27 Nov, 2021

On a long exhalation of happiness and pent-up power, Lilith Performance Studio finally opens wide, with five new performance works at the same time!

Five Corners is inaugurated on November 18!

Five Corners is a generous display of performance art, where you as a visitor can walk freely and experience several works during the same evening.

To Five Corners, we have invited five artists whose performance practice in an exploratory and personal way reflects different approaches to the art form. What binds them together is a tangible courage to move boundaries and a common interest in who you are as an observer. All five works are displayed simultaneously for two hours in the same architectural form, a corner, a room or a stage if you wish.

The invited artists to Five Corners are:
Kasra Alikhani, Farvash, Elin Maria Johansson, Helena Olsson and Cecilia Sterner

Kasra Alikhani – HEARTBURN I RASTPLATS HJÄRTLANDET (HEARTBURN IN REST AREA HEART LAND)
Performer: Finon Alkabawi

Kasra Alikhani creates fictional worlds that alienate the everyday through documentary observations transformed into subjective elevated reflections of social phenomena. In a distinctive three-dimensional layer on layer technique, he has in recent years devoted himself to exploring a kind of expanded idea of ​​scenography and amateur film based on an interest in uniformity, disguise and, by extension, how these expressions relate to our fantasies and pursuit of health and well-being.

In his new performance HEARTBURN I RASTPLATS HJÄRTLANDET, we look at a realistic but playfully pointed event that takes place inside a Swedish roadside restaurant. At the fictional rest area the Heartland, a woman is involuntarily stuck in a limbo, surrounded by encouraging messages about the Swedish nature’s health-promoting positive qualities.

Kasra Alikhani was born in 1987 in Iran, grew up in Sweden and based in Gothenburg, graduated from Valand in 2020
www.kasra.se

Farvash – CASH HYPNOSIS
Performed by Farvash
Sound: Hans Appelqvist

Farvash is a research-based artist who uses performance, fiction and technology to explore denied self-censorship as a survival strategy. Through art, she builds systems to investigate questions around constructed identity, immigration guilt, and trauma of war.

You get a wish. What do you want?

In the performance CASH HYPNOSIS, Farvash rigs a spiritual laboratory composed of memory fragments in the form of objects, scents, candles and events, from a special visit to the Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in central Tehran sometime in 1987 – a wishing well, coins, prayer, rose water, rapeseed oil and saffron.

Here preparations are made for an encounter with the supernatural. A purification process and an ongoing applicant.

Farvash is born 1982 in Tehran, she lives in Stockholm and has studied at Royal College of Art, London, Experience Design, Konstfack, Stockholm and interior architecture and furniture design, Konstfack, Stockholmhttps://www.farvash.com

Elin Maria Johansson – Echoes
Performers: Erik Wall, Louise Zurawski
Sound: Michel Wenzer

In recent years, Elin Maria Johansson’s work has revolved around issues of the herd or the swarm and the collective consciousness, with a perspective based on nature’s smallest organisms to the solar system’s inherent communication. Together, her works form an abstract and metaphorical weave that reflects the place and time we are in.

In the performance Echoes, the place turns back to you by quietly showing that it has paid attention to your existence.

In our society, nature has long been given the task of being a sanctuary for man and it has absorbed a large amount of human worries and longings. Fragments of these beliefs, observations and dreams hide as remnants in our surroundings and back towards us its echoes bounce. – Close now. Just ten steps behind. Trust me.

Elin Maria Johansson was born in 1979 in Västernorrland. Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, lives and works in Skåne since 2010. https://elinmariajohansson.com

Helena Olsson – Time Waste
Dancers: Olivia Klang, Corrado Di Lorenzo, Daniel Jeremiah Persson

Helena Olsson works mainly with moving images based on the idea that the work’s issue and its form should follow each other. In recent years, she has worked with thedocumentary’s aesthetics and language, which often takes on the role of bearer of truth, and then mixes authentic material with stagings to create uncertainty in the viewer.

The performance Time Waste is based on a previous video work by Helena Olsson. Here we see a cleaning choreography with three dancers in a copy of a full-scale model from a research project on how to build more easily cleaned bathrooms. The dancers’ movements are based on the photographs of cleaning from trial subjects that are in the dissertation.

Helena Olsson was born in 1982 in Ängelholm, lives in Yngsjö, and has a MFA at Malmö Academy of the Arts.

https://helenapetronella.se

Cecilia Sterner – Jamais Vu
Performers: Adrian Kautsky, Eira Fröjdh
Sound: Hans Appelqvist

A common thread through Cecilia’s work is man’s various shortcomings and illusions. It is about perception, expectations, misconceptions and lack of understanding due to the inability to see the whole picture. In a surrealistic spirit of disrespectful playfulness she attacks various aspects of our contemporary reality.

The performance Jamais Vu is about memory loss and our inability to see the whole. Jamais vu is an installation in the form of a cave. The cave is populated by creatures from different times who, through a simple game, relate to each other. As a spectator, you can only see fragments of the whole inside the cave as you peek into its cavities.
Jamais vu is the term for a psychological condition that gives an uncanny feeling of being part of something for the first time, even though one rationally knows that it has been experienced before.

Cecilia Sterner was born in 1967 and educated at the San Francisco Art Institute and Malmö Academy of the Arts, lives in Malmö http://www.instagram.com/ceciliasterner/

Five Corners is shown at Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö
18-20 & 25-27 November. Open 19.00-21.00
Tickets are booked at kulturcentralen.nu Optional entrance fee
The audience is booked at different times to avoid queues and congestion. Everyone is free to stay as long as they want until 21.00.

www.instagram.com/ceciliasterner

Five Corners is shown at Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö
18-20 & 25-27 November. Open 19.00-21.00
Tickets are booked at https://www.kulturcentralen.nu/five-corners Optional entrance fee
The audience is booked at different times to avoid queues and congestion. Everyone is free to stay as long as they want until 21.00.

Lilith Performance Studio produce new major exceptional  performances from idea to presentation by inviting international & national visual artists to realize a new performance in close collaboration with the studio at site in Malmo, Sweden.

Lilith Performance Studio is a non-profit arts organization and an independent arena for visual art performance established 2007 by the artists and curators Elin Lundgren & Petter Pettersson.

Since the inception Lilith has produced over 55 unique live performances in collaboration with artist from around the world.