Where sandstorms are frequent, but the people are warm - Mirja Timm

“I move between wanting to know more and wanting to know less, between wanting to feel more but not too much. You probably know this, but a stranger is a lover who decided that it's safer not to care.”

What does estrangement mean in times of social disconnection, increasing polarization, and detachment from the ‘natural’ world?

Where sandstorms are frequent is a performance inviting you into the dilemma of "how to stay connected to self, world, and others in a disconnecting container?"

This work is part of the Contemporary Performative Arts exam performances.

Bio

Mirja Timm (she/her) is an artist who works in the field of performative art, design and community work, with themes related to dis/connection, care and responsibility. The resulting works are often participatory and immersive.

Mirja grew up in Northern Germany, between peat bogs and the visual expanse of heathlands. She works with scents and stories, windows and entry-points, digestion-spaces and dilemmas.

She has a keen interest in examining how to find balance in an out-of-balance society, and practices gardening, dancing with the plant-people, and somatic research

EXPERIMENTATIONS 2.0

Studenter på masterprogrammet Contemporary Performative Arts, Högskolan för Scen och Musik vid Göteborgs Universitet, presenterar sina masterarbeten på Skogen, Atalante, Lagerhusets bibliotek, Naturhistoriska museet och Valandkvarteret på Vasagatan 50 mellan den 16–27 februari.

Studenterna arbetar under två år med ett konstnärligt undersökande projekt och redovisar här sina processer genom installationer och föreställningar.

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Måndag 16 februari kl 14 & kl 18 >>Pia Nüchterlein

Onsdag 18 februari kl 13:30 & 17:30 >>Mirja Timm

Fredag 20 februari kl 14 & kl 19 >> Lisa Mårtensson