Malin Elgán

By half - Half a provocation at MDT

Photo: Ulf Lundin

Sa 27.1.2024, 19:00-21:00, MDT

Su 28.1.2024, 16:00-18:00, MDT

Choreographer Malin Elgán and team visit MDT and record a film with live audiences.

By half. Half a provocation at MDT

Do not take anything for granted. We don't. The staff has gone home. Standing in the foyer of the dance room, we think: a recording! With any luck, the evening will have a beginning. And an ending. Think about Romanticism! Think of Conceptual Art! There are no bushes and trees to disappear into and emerge from. Perhaps there is an audience. Are you also not sure which way to go?

Come if you choose to this provocation or - recording of Not a show, at MDT - sort of.

Malin Elgán is a choreographer. She creates and performs works in theaters, art galleries, museums and the internet. In her latest, ongoing project “Delar” [“Parts”], she collaborates with artist and film photographer Lars Siltberg.

“Delar” occupies a place in the general mess - and is then turned into installations, films and more. “Delar” operates to visualize public space and the expected realm of the arts. The work defines its own terms in an instant. Its space emerges as an enigma, not obvious, but circumscribed.

Malin Elgán

Malin Elgán is a choreographer and artist, based in Stockholm and active internationally. Elgán takes an interest in art beyond the genre-specific and operates through an expanded choreographic practice – through various expressions, formats and media. She does not let dance be limited to certain movements and places. Rather she takes dance out of its usual contexts to enable new meanings.

At MDT, her most recent works include "Läst till hälften" [“Half Read”] (2022) and ["The Child Shape"] (2021).

Her ongoing series “Delar” has been shown at Ställbergs gruva in Bergslagen, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus and Hallen in Farsta.

Previously, her work has been presented on stages such as Dansens Hus and Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Nationalmuseum and Bonniers Konsthall, as well as at Göteborgs Konsthall, Nasjonalmuseet and Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Poppositions in Brussels, Ausland in Berlin and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

Elgán has also been a guest editor for a special edition of the art magazine Paletten, which was temporarily renamed Baletten, and her choreographic practice has been awarded the Birgit Cullberg grant.

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