Leaking into para-time
Leaking: like a drop that forms over time until it gathers enough weight to leave the surface, while another drop is forming, defining its own parameters of gathering and falling.
A leak depends on a leaning against, an insistence on leaning against a little gap, a space in between the river flows, it might echo as a call for action, or else leaks too slowly to be noticed. The time it takes for the drop to fall, is holding a term, is making the leak more or less apparent, is marking a territory of control, in an effort to contain what will always remain dropping and pouring somewhere.
Leaking into para-time is a performative installation that explores the forming of a landscape of collected material that were leaking out of the stream of utility and efficiency. It holds a hand underneath these shapes to see what else
they might become, observing their gravitational negotiation, like a flat stone being hurled over the water surface. Each surface contact takes it further from the shore until the spinning cannot sustain itself and weight is introduced again.
The stone sinks to the bottom of the sea, where the tide and waves move it again
and sand soften its edges.
The performative installation is accompanied by a publication.
*para: a prefix“meaning at or to one side of, beside, side by side” ( parabola; paragraph; parallel; paralysis ), “beyond, past, by” [www.dictionary.com/browse/para]
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Credits
Concept and performance: Martin Sieweke
Sonic composition and set-up: Hara Alonso
Dramaturgy: Hannah Krebs
Light: Olle Axén
Studio conversations: Oda Brekke
Supervision: Alice MacKenzie
Special thanks to:
NPP 2023-2025, Tove Salmgren, Chrysa Parkinson, Caterina Mora for inspiring references and conversations, Olle Axén for the technical support and light suggestions,Karin Hauptmann for the production, Ingela Stefaniak Öhman, Stockholm konstnärliga högskola, Anna Koch and Fredrik Wahlstedt from Weld.
Bio
Martin Sieweke researches on different notions of material-relations, working on and through prolongation, adaptation, detaching and recomposing as a dialogical interest. His practice of thinking with and alongside material tendencies hijacks the new towards a relational territory, installing an ecology that destabilizes the distances of consumerism. He explores these inventories of alternatives through bag-making, workshops, performances and scenography.
