A performance Evening co–curated by Rut Karin Zettergren, Anna Kinbom and Sonia Hedstrand. Hosted by Kasper Paulig. (2013)
Photo: Anna KinbomFuturePatient – CHOTERINA FREER (UK) Image: Choterina Freer
In healthcare, there is a push towards the ‘patient voice’. The supposed ‘empowerment’ of us as patients means that we can shape our own healthcare through forums, patients groups, and feedback forms. This seems like a positive step; conversations revolve around patients as experts of their own illnesses. We can give advice on what care plan will work best for our lifestyle, will giving feedback on improvements for healthcare services. Of course this is a good thing; while the doctors have the training, medical knowledge and expertise, it’s good for there to be open communication with the patients.
Alongside this is the rebranding of patients; we are no longer patients we are consumers. It is argued that to be a consumer means that we have a choice rather than being dictated to as a ‘patient’. During a time when the European economy is at such a low, and cuts to healthcare are rife, what is the impetus behind this rebranding and so-called empowerment?
In the work FuturePatient (2013) I have mocked up a patient advice webpage where people can take part in self-monitoring. The webpage works as an absurd version of the popular health–monitoring apps. The viewer is put in the position of the patient-consumer as she/he does all the work performing a complicated set of dance moves based on athletics and monitoring their pulse. The viewer will be able to use the webpage regularly throughout the exhibition to self-monitor their fitness levels. GUITAR PERFORMANCE– ANNA KINBOM (SE) Photo: Big: Rut Karin Zettergren/ Small: Nicolas Matzner Weisner
Up tempo, down tempo, slow tempo Guitar. Strings from my head to the ceiling. Drum beat. Wall behind me floor under. Someone is filming, sound is being recorded.
3 (YOUNG MEN FULL OF DULL YOUTH ARE MADE OUT OF FLUID GOLD)- TOM HALLET (BE) Photo: Anna Kinbom
1 triptych. 3 actions in the same time period, divided in 3 images, all 3 of them influencing each other.
It’s about the hunger of wanting to inspire others. To belong to someone without showing the true desire for it, but live it as a secret never told,… ever seen.
They do not touch in the physical, but touch in the metha-physical.
ONE HUNDERD AND SEVENTY KILOMETERS NIGHTMARE- CLAIRE SERRES (FR) Photo: Anna Kinbom
It appears in our field of vision only when the light fades. Just block the sun, drag a blue filter, follow the shadows and please, don’t move ; day of night.
It’s a conscious image, stuck in our blind spot. Musabi Worker by Sonia Hedstrand, Street Performance by Anna Kinbom and The Outlanders by Rut Karin Zettergren screened on TV. Photo: Anna Kinbom
THE OUTLANDERS – On burning objects near the field.- RUT KARIN ZETTERGREN (SE) Photo: Anna Kinbom
The Outlander is a web TV series about a couple living in Rinkeby one of the five suburbs that were built in the late sixties in million program around Järvafältet in western Stockholm. In the series, we follow the couple as they search for aliens at Järvafältet, sends signals from Granholmstoppen and football fields in Rinkeby and work extra work in the local grocery store. Their greatest desire is that the aliens will one day come down to them so that they are no longer Sweden only Outlanders.
In the performance On burning objects near field our Outlander star RK visit Paulig Recidency and give a lecture about what actually happened during the early summer night in 2013 in Husby and the other suburbs around the field. Who was it that lit the fires and what was it that burned?
To see the different episodes: http://www.rutkarinzettergren.se/outlanders.html
YOUR APPLICATION IS PENDING- ANNA SÖRENSON (SE) Photo: Nocolas Matzner Weisner
Based on the piece ‘Genuine Government Issue’ I constitutionalized my feeling of governmental involvement in a performance called ‘Your Application is Pending’. The audience was then able to apply to any of my very own 20 new Departments followed by an interview for approval. I interviewed them one by one. After the questioning I approved or denied their applications. The application forms could be found on set as well as “the wall” of Departments. In ‘Your Application is Pending’ I take on the role as the head of my own departments and I investigated the absurdity of a questioning. I explored the role as the one holding the power but I also invited the audience to play with me and laugh at the sometimes-absurd authority of department power.
SAKURA LOVE HOSTESS CLUB / Free trial Nomihodai /Ukiyo Diary- SONIA HEDSTRAND (SE) Photo: Anna Kinbom
