Mårten Spångberg: ‘How much I dislike art that looks experimental’
By the way, dance is a bit reminiscent of an event for the publication of a book titled “Stories, which tell us nothing”.
I wanted to talk about magic, but I did not like the idea of a magician. The circus killed all the feelings in me. Then I wanted to talk about Tyler, the Creator, and Chance the Rapper and the comma that makes all the difference. Tyler as a kind of Aristotelian, and Chance bumping into John Cage. It struck me that there is an important difference between dance and choreography, just as there is a difference between magic and the circus, or between Tyler and Chance. There is enough of Cage everywhere, so I’m leaving him aside. I am interested in the difference between dance and performance and between extended choreography and choreography as extended practice. The problem of practice is still disturbingly present. I was convinced that the mental in the experimental is still a matter of the mental. You know, the fact that you go, a bit mad, one might say, when you are overwhelmed by extremely illogical behaviour. Obviously it’s also a matter of the mental, just as the experimental is related to image or representation. Dance has similar problems with images. Choreography does not. Maybe that’s why it’s really important to dance. A lot.
– Mårten Spångberg
Lecture, 4 May, 2023
19:00–21:00, Kino Šiška, upper lobby
Workshop, 5 May, 2023
10.00–18.00, Tivoli
Organisation and co-production: Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija and Maska Ljubljana in association with CUK Kino Šiška and JSKD.
Workshop with Neodvisni
On May 5th there will be a workshop with Mårten Spångberg and the writers and critics who write regularly for the web portal Neodvisni (Independent) in the field of independent contemporary performing arts, edited by Maša Radi Buh and Jakob Ribič. Contemporary dance is under-represented in our space, even in the field of criticism, therefore we co consider it necessary to develop formats that enable the meeting between theory and practice and systematically develop the practice of writing in the field of contemporary dance.
About the Speaker
Mårten Spångberg is a multidisciplinary choreographer and writer based in Berlin.
He is interested in dance and choreography as extended practices, which he develops through various experimental formats and expressions. He has toured internationally with recent works such as La Substance, but in English and The Internet and Natten. His writing has been published and translated into many foreign languages.
