The second episode of drift dialogues starts in the middle of a practice. Sonja comes from architecture and Oda from dance, they discover they share many interests, but use different words. In this conversation they complicate each other's means of making sense of life, work and art in a society where consumption controls the way we see things. How can ideas and methods alter our perception? What are the limits of the formats we use when we work and how do they form the potential for thinking and memorizing?

During November 2023 they met several times over a pile of papers and books in höjdens studio. Listen to them read, describe and discuss their own work as well as texts and performances by other artists and thinkers.

Sonja Lindgren is an architect based in Stockholm, and works in the fields of architecture, design and scenography. She is educated at Umeå School of Architecture.

Oda Brekke is a dance artist based in Stockholm, working internationally as a choreographer, writer and performer. Her choreographic work has been presented at MDT, Weld and Fylkingen in Stockholm, Bergen Kjøtt and Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art and includes ‘When there’s only surface left’ (2021), ‘Cut: a choreo-essay’(2023) and ‘dead dead document’ (2024). Since 2018 she has organised a range of discursive formats and structures for collective spaces and processes.

Works mentioned in the episode:

Object Making- Manon Santkin

From the publication Art as Practice| Art as object https://www.skogen.pm/publication/oYXbtdaJbecXi3uxJ

Cut: a choreo-essay- Oda Brekke

https://odabrekke.com/Cut-a-choreo-essay

Performed at 14.01.2023 Kafé Mix, höjden studios

the deconstruction of the image of swedish domestic architecture through ‘marginalia’- Sonja Lindgren

https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-196662

The Breast piece- Alice Chauchat & Frédéric Gies

https://www.alicechauchat.net/text-breastpiece.html

Translating the Essay into Film and Installation- Nora M. Alter

Michael Taussig- Fieldwork Notebooks

Sarah Vanhee- Oblivion

"Wonderment Domastication", Gabriel A Maher

https://www.gabrielmaher.xyz/wonderment-domastication

In the first episode of drift dialogues you hear a non-linear reading of a book Maia and Stina made together when they met in the studio at höjden November 2023. The reading is followed by a discussion some months later where they look back at the activities that led to and landed in the book.

Amongst other things Maia invited Stina to join her in scores of listening, talking, writing and moving, adapted from her recent piece ‘fictions, stitched’ with Copenhagen based choreographer Max Wallmeier that was presented at Weld in Stockholm November 2023. Stina shared movement and writing practices, and proposed a performance score that took place around the whole house, adapted from her ongoing process with the Zürich based artist Sophie Germanier.

STINA EHN (SE) works with dance and choreography based in Stockholm. Her work departs from experimental methods where steps and language inform one another and she often works in close collaboration with other artists. Her choreographic work has been presented at places such as Dance Nucleus Singapore, Weld Stockholm, HAUT in Copenhagen and Köttinspektionen in Uppsala. Stina has been a member of höjden studios since 2020 and part of organizing the performance event Kafé Mix since 2022.

MAIA MEANS (NO/DK) is a Stockholm-based freelance dancer who spends time between performance, text and organisational practices. The last years she has worked with choreographers such as Oda Brekke, Sindri Runudde, Björn Säfsten, Ellard/Lech and Mette Ingvartsen. Together with Max Wallmeier, she has created two books and the performance “fictions, stitched” that premiered in 2023. Means is part of running “höjden”, a self-organised space for artists in Stockholm.

höjden studios is an artist-run space for work and a shared context for artists and cultural workers to meet. Join us at https://hojden.house

drift is a proposal that aims to trace artistic and discursive tendencies moving through höjden studios. It simultaneously constitutes a forum where materials and ideas can transform, resonate or fall apart in the movement of recurring meetings. drift is a record of cacophonies landing slowly over time as artists at höjden studios invite for openings and points of connection.

drift is produced by Oda Brekke and Scott Cazan

Mastering by Foad Arbabi

Graphics by Edith Ekström

Supported by Kulturrådet