Alice MacKenzie och Siriol Joyner. Foto: Cato Lein och Alice MacKenzie
”We have been duetting since 2019. We make performances, sound, scent, books, and dances. Our works are sensorial capsules created from materials gathered in a place: plants, sounds, movement, and colour. We work in Welsh, English, and Swedish, co-writing poems and scores to guide our process.
We have previously worked together at c.off in Stockholm and in residencies at Dansplats Skog and Köttinspektionen Dans. Our immersive work Rihpin njálmev vaj gillgin hållåt ja tjuavvga gålgåj ulgus (They opened their mouths to speak and the light poured out) is currently travelling around Norbotten as part of iM Konsthall, a mobile gallery initiated by Northern Sustainable Futures, Moskosel. For Rihpin njálmev vaj gillgin hållåt ja tjuavvga gålgåj ulgus, we worked with processes of gathering, translating, and printmaking, with the sensation of beauty as a method. We are curious about how the sensual and tactile elements of the analogue meet the digital. In connection to this work we were invited to make a contribution to the Brottet issue of the magazine Nya Nya Norrland by Jens Strandberg, drawing upon the leftovers and waste products from our practice.”
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What does the SITE residency enable you to do?
– We need space and time to make, gather and dance. We want to use the year to document, archive, and publish all the works we have made so far: developing our website, physically publishing a calendar, and developing a kind of lending service/distribution model for the artists’ books that we have created so far.
What are you working on right now?
– Currently we are making a calendar or a wheel of the year for freelance artists which will be RISO printed at ArtLab Gnesta. A calendar is a powerful framework for structuring both personal and collective expectations and desires, to look “beyond the day to day, [and] give space for other horizons.” (Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, ‘At Least Once Upon a Time’). We want to make something for ourselves and other artists that helps to remind us that we are not alone even when we don’t meet, that offers a way to relate to the patterns and rhythms of an often precarious freelance life.
How would you like to further develop during your residency at SITE?
– This frame of a year at SITE is a time to dig into our own archive, imagine futures, and orient our work together. We are looking forward to meeting our fellow INKUBATOR artists and to working alongside them.