Grayscale
What do roads teach us about time, space, and movement?
This project builds on research conducted for the choreographic project Driver, which considered driving as a fundamental aesthetic and sensory dimension of today’s globalized world. In our earlier works, we explored how movement co-creates the mythology of the automobile (White Line Fever) and conducted field research with truck drivers across Europe. We translated their practices of measuring time, orienting in space, and travelling into a choreographic language (Before Lunch). In Grayscale we focus on roads, i.e. the infrastructure of driving through which time is produced rather than measured.
As part of the residency, three events open to the public will take place:
- Online workshop Four Strategies for Decentralising Sight in Audio Description of Dance (29 January, 6–8 PM)
- Workshop (30 January, 4–7 PM)
- Research presentation (14 February at 6 PM)
- Residency
January and February 2026 at the Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
Author: Lara Ostan Vejrup
Producer: Lučka Neža Peterlin
PR: Urška Comino
Production: Maska Ljubljana
Financial Support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, The Municipality of Ljubljana – Department of Culture
Photograph on the cover by: Benedicte Ramfjord
Greyscale:
About the artist:
Lara Ostan Vejrup (1995) is a Slovenian–Danish choreographer based in Denmark.
Through her work, she challenges the capitalist logic embedded in movement. She approaches choreography and dance as socio-political practices, and understands corporeality, time, and space as constitutive elements of perception and creation that shape how we imagine, create, and recreate worlds. Her work engages with specific contexts such as roads, driving, and truck drivers in DRIVER vol. I and DRIVER vol. II; migration, care workers, and agricultural laborers in Movement for All, homes; and stillness and the phenomenon of hikikomori in All these roads just for you. In her artistic practice, she employs somatopoetic strategies to document and foreground reality. She works across various formats and media, including film and text, to shape, transmit, and further develop the logic of dance.
Ostan Vejrup is also a co-founder of KOMMA Performance Productions, a performing arts association based in Copenhagen.
Photo by: Benedicte Ramfjord
