Submission 360°
YEAR: 2022 I MATERIAL: HD video, 5 min, 16:9, color, sound, single-channel, 35 mm copy | Directed, performed and edited by Åsa Cederqvist | Production design and renderings by Immerence / Fredrik Holmgren
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Submission 360°, 2022
ENG: In my project Mama Dada Gaga (2019) I use pink colored dough as a metaphor for the Material, and that of becoming the material. This body is scanned and expanded into the virtual world in a site-specific work that was first shown in the summer of 2021. This work is a standalone piece but is based on the same experience.
After a period of exhaustion, manifested both physically and mentally, I see a parallel to a planet and a society in exhaustion. The way we treat each other and all other living things will affect us all. I’ve met some strong bodily sensations that triggered old physical and psychological traumas. I’ve been seeing myself from outside, vulnerable, falling apart, being pushed around, sensing my body as a membrane through where everything must pass.
In Submission 360° we see a falling body. A body that is slowed down in it’s fall. All living inhabitants on this planet are in fact always drawn down, pressed down by the force of gravity. In a more metaphorical sense our bodies’ elasticity and energy do also fall down, little by little, each day. And we are submitted to this cycle.
If it weren't for gravity, we would fall into space. We fall every day, and every day cells die, our skin falls, slowly our senses and tissues fall into an inevitable decay – or transformation – into something new. We are often unaware of this, but we are still subject to this cycle.
Eventually, we return to where we came from, according to some creation myths, to the ground and the earth. If we zoom out, we are also facing rapid species extinction with a much warmer climate, and soon we will no longer be able to live on this planet. The puddle in the film may be a memory and a portal to what was here long ago. Perhaps this is the back door to meet the Water Spirit [which you can meet in the AR work The Essence]?
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After a period of exhaustion, manifested both physically and mentally, I see a parallel to a planet and a society in exhaustion. The way we treat each other and all other living things will affect us all. I’ve met some strong bodily sensations that triggered old physical and psychological traumas. I’ve been seeing myself from outside, vulnerable, falling apart, being pushed around, sensing my body as a membrane through where everything must pass.
In Submission 360° we see a falling body. A body that is slowed down in it’s fall. All living inhabitants on this planet are in fact always drawn down, pressed down by the force of gravity. In a more metaphorical sense our bodies’ elasticity and energy do also fall down, little by little, each day. And we are submitted to this cycle.
If it weren't for gravity, we would fall into space. We fall every day, and every day cells die, our skin falls, slowly our senses and tissues fall into an inevitable decay – or transformation – into something new. We are often unaware of this, but we are still subject to this cycle.
Eventually, we return to where we came from, according to some creation myths, to the ground and the earth. If we zoom out, we are also facing rapid species extinction with a much warmer climate, and soon we will no longer be able to live on this planet. The puddle in the film may be a memory and a portal to what was here long ago. Perhaps this is the back door to meet the Water Spirit [which you can meet in the AR work The Essence]?
Submission 360°, 2022
SV: I mitt projekt Mama Dada Gaga (2019) använder jag rosafärgad deg som en metafor för materialet och för att bli material. Denna kropp skannas och utvidgas till den virtuella världen i ett platsspecifikt verk som visades första gången platsspecifikt sommaren 2021. Detta verk är ett fristående verk men med samma bygger på samma upplevelse.
Efter en period av utmattning, som manifesterades både fysiskt och mentalt, ser jag en parallell till en planet och ett samhälle i utmattning. Hur vi behandlar varandra och alla andra levande varelser kommer att påverka oss alla. Jag har upplevt starka kroppsliga sensationer som utlöst gamla fysiska och psykiska trauman. Jag har sett mig själv från utsidan, sårbar, fallande, knuffad, och känt min kropp som ett membran genom vilket allt måste passera.
I Submission 360° ser vi en kropp som långsamt faller ner mot marken. Vi faller alla ständigt mot marken. Om det inte vore för gravitationen skulle vi falla ut i rymden. Vi faller varje dag, och varje dag dör celler, vår hud faller, långsamt faller våra sinnen och vävnader in i ett oundvikligt förfall - eller omvandling - till något nytt. Vi är ofta omedvetna om detta, men ändå är vi underkastade denna cykel.
Så småningom kommer vi tillbaka till det vi kom ifrån, enligt vissa skapelsemyter, till marken och jorden. Om vi zoomar ut, står vi också inför en snabb artdöd med ett mycket varmare klimat, och snart kommer vi inte längre att kunna leva på den här planeten. Vattenpölen i filmen kanske är ett minne och en portal till det som fanns här för länge sedan. Kanske är detta bakdörren för att träffa Vattenanden [som du kan möta i AR verket The Essence]?