Klara Mossberg – Space Wire
19 October
13:00 Balance performance, 13:30 conversation med Klara Mossberg
Main hall, Färgfabriken
Included in the entrance fee
Language: Swedish
Place can be pre-booked, drop in subject to availability. Pre-book your place here.
“As a tightrope walker, I work in a part of the room that is usually populated by air. The soles of my feet and shins move on the level of the room that is the floor’s most direct line of sight. My gaze meets surfaces and seeks reference points in an architecture that is created to be experienced from a downward perspective.
My perception is on edge as I step out onto the 12mm steel cable in a new room and my balance system adjusts its coordinates so as not to have to repeatedly question the position of my body in the room. Exploring a new space from this perspective is a palpably sensual experience. The presence and awareness of the body’s basic needs to orient and stabilize us make themselves felt.”
The Architecture Triennial at Färgfabriken is about creating the conditions for exploring the spaces that architecture offers or forces on us. Therefore, we invite the tightrope walker Klara Mossberg to a balance performance about the interpretive primacy of space. Based on her sense of space, she takes on the space that arises between the works and between the columns in Färgfabriken’s characteristic exhibition hall. The balance performance then turns into a public conversation about Klara Mossberg’s artistry, whose practice of movement is constantly juxtaposed with the supporting structure of the space.
Space Wire
Klara Mossberg is currently working on the project Correlational Space Wire, which explores the meeting between tightrope walking and architecture. The project runs for three years and is funded by Kulturbryggan.
Klara Mossberg
Klara Mossberg is a tightrope walker and has since 2011 worked around Europe with everything from musical and opera to international, contemporary circus companies and with her own projects. She was educated in both France and Sweden with a Bachelor’s degree in Circus and Equilibristics from SKH, but has also studied biomechanics and motor control in the Master’s program at GIH.
Mossberg’s own practice revolves around developing and expanding movement techniques on a tightrope, relating the circus body to architectural conditions and contextualizing circus skills outside the stage space. Currently, in the Correlational Space Wire project, she is working on developing movement methodology on taut wire that strives for movement on its surface without direct signs of what maintains balance. With its help, the project investigates our perception of gravity and accepted perspectives on our environment in terms of form and function.