Lara Ostan Vejrup: Greyscale

The presentation of the Driver project will shed light on how dance and choreography operate within a documentary context through somatopoetic strategies. It includes a performance offering an overview of the project’s development, along with a selection of materials created during the residency. This will be followed by a conversation with the makers.
The event is intended for anyone interested in research-based, experimental, and interdisciplinary formats, as well as practices situated at the intersections of different fields.

Research presentation • performance and artist talk

Author: Lara Ostan Vejrup
Performer: Ella Östlund
Sound Designer: Moritz Nahold

Tickets: 3 €
Reservations & info: info@bunker.si or pr@maska.si

GRAYSCALE – Residency

About the project
What do roads teach us about time, space, and movement?
The world of truck drivers: long working hours with irregular schedules, solitude as well as loneliness, strict regulations, precarious working conditions, and long periods spent away from home, friends, and family—forming a paradoxical situation of movement: being in motion while remaining still. It is a play with prejudices about perception and agency, a game about who moves whom, at what pace, and through which spaces.

Greyscale is a continuation of the research project Driver, in which the author Lara Ostan Vejrup approaches driving as an essential aesthetic and sensory dimension of today’s globalized world. In earlier works, she explored how movement co-creates the mythology of the automobile (White Line Fever), and conducted field research with truck drivers across Europe. She translated their practices of timekeeping, spatial orientation, and travel into a choreographic language (Before Lunch).
In Greyscale, she turns her focus to the infrastructure of driving – to roads through which time is not measured but produced, to constant labor in transit, and to forms of work that are pushed to the periphery.

About the artist
Lara Ostan Vejrup (1995) is a Slovenian–Danish choreographer based in Denmark.
Through her work, she challenges the capitalist logic embedded in movement. She approaches choreography and dance as socio-political practices, and understands corporeality, time, and space as constitutive elements of perception and creation that shape how we imagine, create, and recreate worlds. Her work engages with specific contexts such as roads, driving, and truck drivers in DRIVER vol. I and DRIVER vol. II; migration, care workers, and agricultural laborers in Movement for All, homes; and stillness and the phenomenon of hikikomori in All these roads just for you. In her artistic practice, she employs somatopoetic strategies to document and foreground reality. She works across various formats and media, including film and text, to shape, transmit, and further develop the logic of dance.

Ostan Vejrup is also a co-founder of KOMMA Performance Productions, a performing arts association based in Copenhagen.