ELISABET KARLSSON
Stockholm, Sweden
KLATTERTANTERNA
A difficult task. At first, the performers have to make the exhibition space at the Pall Mall Club "inhabitable", since it is decorated with synthetic wallpaper covered with the symbols of these popular cigarettes. 15 kilos of ladies' stockings are required to complete the performance, and they are placed on the floor in various parts of the hall. Clad in long grey dresses, with retro hairstyles and "long fingers" attached to their hands, the figures move spontaneously around the hall space, fascinating spectators with their unpredictability and pointless dialogue about overcoming obstacles. The act of overcoming is seen as a tough, stressful situation. Survival as "residence" in a segment of real time, and in the dramatic element of grotesque which is forever present in life. Moving like somnambulists, walking... but where? A retrospection of fantasies past? Conscious helplessness and avoidance of reality? Or is this the reality of performance, when its functions are simply reduced to assessing the situation at this moment in time?