Inside the ear, in three semicircular canals and two otolithic membranes, a viscose liquid flows in a slightly delayed movement. When the head moves a relational movement is created, registered in the cells of the organ. In order to keep still we are constant in motion. Weight is distributed between the soles of our feet, we parry the movements of the earth and the involuntary movements of our own body. It is an automatic system – learned, adapted to the surroundings and stored within the body. It can’t be controlled by will. To balance therefore requires a focused, but unfixed, state.

Experiencing the weight of the own body is an internal perspective of the body. An aspect of the body inaccessible to the surrounding, an experience of it not constructed in the encounter with the other. The bags of concrete often start leaking and before each performance they have to be adjusted in order to create equilibrium. It is like tuning a giant instrument to the weight of the bodies. It is also a crass weighing of bodies against a crude industrial material. The wires are tightened, the planks bend and the legs soon start to get numb. The bodies navigate in relation to the downward pull of gravity in order to remain upright.

"Statolit" is a performance and installation that the viewer may enter and exit freely. It has previously been presented at Galleri Mejan, as well as at the Royal Institute of Art’s 2018 Spring Exhibition at the Royal Academy.
The title, "Statolit", is Swedish for a tiny granule which some aquatic invertebrates and plants insert into their balance organ. Gravity pulling the statolith down gives the plant or animal direction to grow upward or swim in upright position.