DANSE MACABRE was shot in London in autumn 2019 during the protests and demonstrations related to Brexit dominated the streets,as well as in Winter 2020 shortly before the outbreak of Covid-19 radically re-structured the sphere of the public. Both events brought states of exception and a temporary suspensions of law. With a focus on dance and affectual politics, the film takes a closer look on what gestures and bodily expressions are provoked through the current state of crises, but also how order and disorder are inscribed in bodies and movements in public space. Through new friendships, disorder, dark humour, and erratic moving bodies and voices the film explores acts of resistance, the politics of performance, visibility, and queerness in order to to bring up urgent questions around xenophobia, closing borders, and the politics of fear.

E.I The Blob is a noise making interactive “image-organism” sensitive to sound and touch, created to explore new ways of thinking, being, acting with the Moving Image. With it we want to open up for human to non-human social relations, where situated forms of response-ability exisits, and where the digital and the organic systems are intertwined in a continual state of affecting and changing each other.

E.I the Blob plays a central role in the artistic research project “Non-knowledge, Laughter and the Moving Image” where it allows us to rethink our relation to the moving image and to see it as an intra-active* vibrant body. With E.I the Blob we want to shift our attention away from the moving image as form of representation, to it as a material of psychic intensities and fields of individuation. Thus, we neither see the moving image as a tool or a property that we as subjects can control and own, nor do we look at it as a separate entity with closed borders that we are studying from outside. Instead we are interested in a research entangled with it where we could learn from and with it, and from where new temporary borders and becomings could emerge. The name E.I could stand for Earthificial Intelligence, or simply a mispronunciation or confusion of the acronyms A.I. or E.T.

Funded by the Swedish Research Council (2017-03110) and hosted by Kungl. Konsth.gskolan/Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

Fear of Flying (2019) is a video-work shaped around a series of experiments which through Virtual Reality explores the paradoxical feelings of being simultaneously in control and out of control, here and there, moved and moving - states that are triggered by the complex system of interactions that take place between the technology and our bodies, nervous systems and brains.

Funded by the Swedish Research Council (2017-03110) and hosted by Kungl. Konsthögskolan/Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

Pamphlet: The Dance of Disorder, Online Symposium, 27-28 Nov 2020, Hamburg and Online.

Departuring from the work DANSE MACABRE, the symposium THE DANCE OF DISORDER invited the public to two days of online screenings, readings, performances and discussions with contributions by: Black Audio Film Collective (Screening: The Handsworth Songs), Oona Doherty (Screening/Discussion: Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus), Liv Fontaine (Performance), Kelina Gotman (Lecture: The Feeling of Plague), Barbara Hammer (Screening: I Was/I Am), Caspar Heinemann (Reading: The Devil), Annika Larsson (Screening/Discussion: Danse Macabre), Yulia Lokshina & Angela Stiegler (Screening/Discussion: Subjective Hill), Dana Michel and Tracy Maurice (Installation/Screening/Conversation: Lay them all down), Semiconductor (Screening: 20Hz), Jasmine Schädler (Lecture Performance: The Possessed Gaze), John Smith (Screening: Twice) as well as conversations between Kelina Gotman, Oona Doherty, Liv Fontaine, Casper Heinemann, Yulia Lokshina, Jasmine Schädler, Annika Larsson, Paul Niedermayer, Michel Wagenschütz and Isabel Gatzke a.o. Moderated by Olympia Bukkakis. Design by Leon Lothschütz.

Conception and Montage: Annika Larsson / Editors: Annika Larsson and Isabel Gatzke / Design: Leon Lothschütz.

The book consists of transcribed bar conversations, song lyrics and stills from the filmed material in juxtaposition with modified passages from the stories of The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. Together with a selection of historical bar and intoxicant imagery, lyrics, texts and poetry they form a multi-voiced document, a collective drinking and laughing political body.

THE SLEEPOVER EXPERIMENT pamphlet consists of apolyphonic montage of text quotes and images connected to the event The SleepOver Experiment at Index Foundation in Stockholm between 18–19 October 2019. With contributions by: Susan Hiller, Annika Larsson, Vladyslav Kamenskyy, John Smith, Lap-See Lam, Harun Farocki, Zbynek Baladrán & Barbora Kleinhamplová, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, The Otolith Group, JUCK, Augustin Maurs and Serge III Oldenbourg.