Lara Vejrup Ostan: Greyscale

his project builds on research conducted for the choreographic project Driver, which considered driving as a fundamental aesthetic and sensory dimension of today’s globalized world. In our earlier works, we explored how movement co-creates the mythology of the automobile (White Line Fever) and conducted field research with truck drivers across Europe. We translated their practices of measuring time, orienting in space, and travelling into a choreographic language (Before Lunch).
In Grayscale we focus on roads, i.e. the infrastructure of driving through which time is produced rather than measured.

The presentation of the project Driver will demonstrate how dance and choreography operate within a documentary context through means of somatopoetic strategies. It will include an overview of the project’s development and a selection of materials created during the residency. The event is aimed at anyone interested in research-based, experimental, and interdisciplinary formats, as well as practices at the intersection of different fields.

Foto: Benedicte Ramfjord