Welcome to the act of closure

This fragment of time will be passed as a picture, a postcard, a puzzle; a poem in 3 chapters as an ode to all the moments spent together; instances of joy, sweat and the endless ways this simple wheel continues to surprise. 

It never ends. Surprise me please! Let me push you and you’ll pull me? 

It constantly transforms, we tumble, we stumble and finally we fall and then we are forced to adapt.    

A signature,  

A so long 

A see you on the other side!    

Throughout this 3-year journey, in fact, the wheel has been reinventing me!  

Alva Harju Jansson

Alva Harju Jansson always starts from chaos, chaos and play.  

Playful chaos.  

Her composition needs to be strictly detailed yet utterly free, working curiously through these layers, she describes her practice as an onion, a delicious spice which might make her cry. 

Her work balances, explores, rotates, leads and follows her on a chaotically playful and experimental journey through the spaces and frames the wheel offers. She has not yet discovered every angle.  

To make, experience experiment. Extravaganza  

Apart from scribbling cryptic poetry Alva spends her hours in the studio moving with her wheel, acro bike, voice and sometimes other human bodies.  

Her eye is attracted by the frame of the wheel, she is drawn to site-specific and innovative work stretching the possibilities of the big and small spaces.

During her time att the BA programme at SKH she has , together with NAVET and KTH lead two different projects. Bending the wheel explored and created a new apparatus. In collaboration with a sound designer, realised a site-specific perfromance leading her to really listening to the sound of her wheel.    

She adores the surrelaists the dada the non-sense sense, essense and presence circus invites her to experience. 

Outside eye: Angela Wand