ARTISTIC PRACTISE - GUNILLA LIND
BIKUBENFONDEN

ENGLISH BELOW

Bikubenfonden har udpeget Gunilla Lind til fondens indsats, Artistic Practice, der har til formål at styrke danske kunstneres mulighed for internationalt gennembrud.

Det er med stor glæde, vi nu kan præsentere Bikubenfondens Artistic Practise-portræt af Gunilla Lind.

Med Artistic Practise-indsatsen retter Bikubenfonden spottet mod Gunilla som talentfuld koreograf og formskaber, der “med et hyperaktuelt afsæt i tidens forfængelighed rammer sit publikum med vild humor og et overdådigt scenarisk sci-fi univers, der sætter vores behov for anerkendelse på spidsen.”

Fokus for indsatsen, Artistic Practise er et filmportræt, som Bikubenfonden udgiver i samarbejde med kunstneren. Her får vi et unikt indblik i de kunstneriske metoder og bagvedliggende tanker, som særligt kendetegner Gunillas arbejde. Som en del af indsatsen fik Gunilla mulighed for at vælge en international profil som samtalepartner i en interview-salon. Her valgte hun den anerkendte leder af Skånes Dansteater, Mira Helenius Martinsson. Samtalen indgår som en del af filmportrættet, hvor Gunilla kommunikerer sin kunstneriske praksis.

Mira Helenius Martinsson fortæller om mødet med Gunilla:
“Gunilla creates visual works with elegant ambience by offering the spectator colour harmonies and surprising shapes. The sharp content is seamlessly weaved inside the concepts. Her work is minimalistic and at the same time rich. The impressions are long lasting and thought-provoking making her a relevant choreographer representing her generation.”

Chef for kunstområdet i Bikubenfonden, Mette Marcus begrunder her fondens valg af Gunilla: ”Bikubenfonden har valgt at fremhæve Gunilla Linds praksis, fordi vi synes, hun arbejder med en unik blanding af moderne dans, fysisk teater, mode, lyskunst og arkitektur på en helt ny måde. Som digital indfødt, skærper hun med naturlig autoritet vores opmærksomhed på sandhedsværdien i det digitaliserede; hvad gør det ved os, når vi interagerer med billedmanipulerede kroppe og virtuelle identiteter udgjort af nuller og ettaller. Med hendes særlige greb udfordrer hun måden, vi både opfatter os selv og andre på. I sine sceniske værker insisterer hun på at tænke krop, kostume og bevægelser sammen i både modige og urovækkende sanselige rum, der rummer stort kunstnerisk potentiale – også udover landets grænser.”

Gunilla om sine værker:
”Jeg mener, det er vigtigt, at vi i en så skærmpræget verden møder scenekunst, hvor vi som tilskuere fornemmer former, dimensioner og teksturer. At møde kroppe der ikke kun er en flade som på en skærm, men opleve den levende og bevægende krops former i samspil med scenografiske elementer og formbare kostumer. Kønsdebatten er også en stor del af mit univers. Jeg oplever, at sociale medier skaber et rum for eksponering af kønsstereotype glansbilleder af, hvordan vi bør se ud og arte os – jeg ønsker gennem mine værker at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved samfundets strukturer og måden, hvorpå vi fremstiller og performer køn.”

Artistic Practice – Gunilla Lind er produceret af Meeto Film for Bikubenfonden.

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ENGLISH

The Bikuben Foundation has appointed choreographer Gunilla Lind to the foundation’s effort, ARTISTIC PRACTICE that aims to strengthen Danish artists' opportunity for an international breakthrough.

We are thrilled to announce that the BIKUBEN FOUNDATION’s Artistic Practise film portrait of Gunilla Lind is out now.

The Bikuben Foundation has spotlighted Gunilla Lind as a talented choreographer and creator who, “with a hyperactive understanding of the vanity of our time, strikes her audience with wild humour and a lavishly scenic sci-fi universe that puts our need for recognition at the tip.”

The Bikuben Foundation desires to strengthen the opportunities for talented Danish artistic practices to get to be participating in the international art scene. Therefore, in collaboration with the artist, the foundation publishes a film portrait, where we get an insight and an introduction into the artistic methods and underlying thoughts that characterize the artist's work.

As part of the effort, Artistic Practice Gunilla Lind had the opportunity to choose an international profile as a conversation partner in an interview. Here, recognized leader of Skåne's Dance Theatre, Mira Helenius Martinsson was chosen. Mira has a large Scandinavian and international network and a professional and deep understanding into the field of dance.

Mira Helenius Martinsson on her meeting with Gunilla Lind:
“Gunilla creates visual works with elegant ambience by offering the spectator colour, harmonies and surprising shapes. The sharp content is seamlessly weaved inside the concepts. Her work is minimalistic and at the same time rich. The impressions are long lasting and thought-provoking making her a relevant choreographer representing her generation”

Head of Arts at the Bikuben Foundation, Mette Marcus highlights the Bikuben Foundation's motivation for choosing Gunilla Lind:
“The Bikuben Foundation has chosen to emphasize Gunilla Lind's practice, because we think she works with a unique blend of modern dance, physical theatre, fashion, light art and architecture in a whole new way. As a digital native, she sharpened with her natural authority our attention to the truth-value of the digitized; what does it do to us when we interact with image-manipulated bodies and virtual identities made up of zeros and ones. With her style of work, she challenges the way we both perceive ourselves and others. In her scenic works, she insists on bringing body, costume and movement together in both courageous and disturbing sensory spaces that hold great artistic potential - even beyond the borders of the country.”

 Gunilla Lind about her art:
“I think it is important that in such a screen-packed world we meet the performing arts, where we as spectators sense shapes, dimensions and textures. Meeting bodies that are not only flat images as on a screen and experiencing the living and moving body shapes in interaction with scenographic elements and malleable costumes is really important. The gender debate is also a big part of my universe. I find that social media creates a space for exposing gender stereotyped glamour images of how we should look and behave - through my works I want to question the structures of society and the way we portray and perform gender."

ARTISTIC PRACTICE – Gunilla Lind is produced by Meeto Film for the Bikuben Foundation.

A BIG and heartfelt THANK YOU to the whole Bikuben foundation team engaged in the Artistic Practise effort with Gunilla Lind.