Mårten Spångberg
Spangbergianism II
lecture performance & imaginary book launch
with Mårten Spångberg and Linnea Martinsonn

Effect always knows where, what and when it is, affect have no freakin’ idea and likes it. Effect is obviously about here and there, affect about a bump in the road, about the journey. Effect is worried about when we arrive, affect forgot where we were going.

Effect is occupied with recognition – it might be blurry, vague, shady or low-res – but always recognition. Effect is like a dude who likes to stick around and leaves just a little bit too late. Affect on the contrary is some thing that constantly withdraws, escapes vanishing around the next corner and is unrecognizable. If it’s any thing its perhaps mostly a celebrity with amnesia.


It could have been the presentation of the second volume of Spangbergianism, the latest version, printed as a book, of the politically incorrect blog from which Mårten Spångberg launched a new paradigm of choreography in an expanded field. With the conclusion of the first era of Spangbergianism, founded on attack, or rather, on exorcism, from within artistic and associated practices that start from dance and performance, now thought and reflection are combined with the sensual and the intuitive, affect confronts effect. Mårten Spångberg brings an 'illustration' of his ideas to Live Arts Week.

friday19 april   9 pm >  MAMbo