The Potential Space (I)




YEAR: 2017 
WHAT: Presentation at Open Studios at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, March 2, 2017 | MEDIUM: a one-day durational performance setting compromised by mixed media, specially invited guests and improvisation with the audience. 

The Potential Space is an atmosphere, a setting, a situation of possibilities. I found the expression ”potential space” when stated by the paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. He says: "Playing takes place in the potential space between the baby and the mother­figure....[T]he initiation of playing is associated with the life experience of the baby who has come to trust the mother figure". I use Winnicott's term for a sense of the inviting and safe interpersonal field in which one can be spontaneously playful while at the same time connected to others, and this is what I also claim to do with this model.

In various settings and frame works I invite the audience to take part and become immersed by and interacted with through the space and the ongoing work and/or performances. The idea is to post something that I, nor the spectator, need any explanation or pre­knowledge about, you don’t need to make any judgements of what you experience. You may just left to “be”.


Invited collaborators: Ziúr, Cred, Lyra Pramuk (former Ande), Bimsala, Olleesch & Liza



The entrance of your choice

Part of a over head projection, that was activated during the session
deta
Detail of matresses, made as part of the setting


Lyra Pramuk singing and Ziúr playing ambient and fleshy tunes


Åsa sitting under a thin layer of fabric, on matrasses,
a kind of womb like setting “giving birth” to a new voice, experimenting with texts



Åsa sitting under a thin layer of fabric, on matrasses,
a kind of womb like setting “giving birth” to a new voice


Åsa sitting under a thin layer of fabric, on matrasses,
a kind of womb like setting “giving birth” to a new voice
Mark