I Could Be a Fly, and the Web That Traps Her

Mediated walk
performance
2024

How do we acknowledge that we are all in the same vessel through the waters of existence?

In this occasion I have been exploring the question of how the city’s rhythm, the urban messages, and nature’s subtle dance influence the patterns in my mind. How do these affect my relationships and behaviours as I move through the city? The inquiring has been done as part of an artist in residence program in the Urban Research Institute at Malmö University.

Listen, walk, and let yourself flow through the channels of Malmö. In this process, I step into a space where the subtle buzz of wasps and the rhythms of city life blend together. I feel the texture of the air, the whispers of nature, and the urban symphony around me. Engage with the sensations that weave through our everyday moments, appreciating how different elements coexist and influence each other, including the tensions and conflicts, and the awareness of the gap between what I wish for and what actually unfolds.


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Participatory Project, Existential Health

I Could Be a Fly, and the Web That Traps Her.
Photo: Nick Krijnen

Meaning and Inner Resonance

Workshop-performance
2022

With creation as a basis, the participants got to reflect from themselves in a natural environment, explore what is in them when the noise is silenced and what happens in your mind when you meet other people.

The workshop is led by Helena Fernández-Cavada, artist, with support from Ana Maria Bermeo, project manager Art and Health, Konstfrämjandet Skåne.
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Participatory Project, Existential Health

There is no reference here to walk without getting lost, unless you know something about the stars.

Performance
2023

I hear and feel the wind moving the sand. Otherwise, it is silent here. I can see the dunes moving every second. The footfalls I left in the sand have been erased by the wind, thus there is no trace of how I arrived here. It is time now to let the wind erase, also, the footpaths in my mind.

This performance includes voice and audio-visual elements divided in two stages: First recognizing
that changes are permanent and wondering around the process of letting go. Letting go as an everyday practice, although not easy to accomplish, the intention may be there but things come back again and again, other times we have to let go even if we wish not to. The second part is a collective chorus of voices: my voice, voices recorded over months and the public contribution set an immersive sound environment that brings to awareness what we wish to let go and allow the grief that comes with that process.

Letting go has both a political and existential dimension. On the one hand to relinquish all control as an strategy towards a “non-fascist living”, Michel Foucault’s notion of “art of living counter to all forms of fascism,” including that “in us all… the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us (…)”. On the other hand, letting go as a pathway of surrender, to abolish the obstacles for a better existential wellbeing.

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Existential Health

Performance view at Malmö Konsthall. Paper bag, stones, audio 3d and voice.