in the ruins of Rejmyre’s future
performance lecture
Färgfabriken 2017 & Norrköping Konstmuseum 2018
This hour-long performance lecture was first presented in October 2017 at Färgfabriken in Stockholm, Sweden and subsequently at the Norrköping Konstmuseum in April 2018, as part of the opening of Peltz' exhibition coming out of his multi-year, artistic research project Performing Labour. The work is developed and performed with the Romanian performance philosopher and theatre scholar Ioana Jucan, who has written extensively on Peltz' work. Together they experiment at the intersection of live-feed video performance, exhibition, lecture and participatory theatre. The content of the performance lecture mines and extends the objects and videos Peltz is exhibiting in both spaces, including a 100:1 scale model, for a refuge in the glass factory-town of Rejmyre, Sweden for unemployed logging elephants from Myanmar [pictured in the images above] and artifacts from a re-enactment of an historic ice dive to recover an object called Any Thing from the Hunn Lake nearby the glass factory. A refuge in Rejmyre and Seeking an Any Thing from an uncertain time in the ruins of Rejmyre's future, explore a set of overlapping interests in factory towns and the construction of rural publics, the act of giving and taking refuge and experimenting with alternative states of consciousness within which we conduct, analyze and think the act of artistic research that have been central preoccupations in Peltz' recent work.
-> interview with Helena Scragg, curator of exhibitions at the Norrköpings konstmuseum, discussing the exhbition that in the ruins of Rejmyre's future explored
video documentation of the performance at Norrköpings konstmuseum