Mårten Spångberg lives and works in Stockholm. His interests include choreography in an expanded field, which he has approached through experimental practices and creative processes in a variety of formats and expressions. Active since 1994 in different constellations (in particular International Festival, with Tor Lindstrand) he has produced works contextualized mainly in the world of dance, visual arts and architecture. As a performer he has created his own choreographies, from solos to larger scale works, presented at an international level, and has collaborated with, among others, Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt, Kroot Juurak, Jan Ritsema. With a background as a critic and theorist, starting from the long-term collaboration with Dagerns Nyheter in the 1990s, he initiated the network organization INPEX (with which he published four volumes of The Swedish Dance History) and the blog Spangbergianism, which later became Spangbergianism - The Book. He has published texts in numerous magazines and books. He has extensive experience in teaching both theory and practice, as well as directing the Master Programme in Choreography at the University of Dance in Stockholm. Among his most recent projects: the series The Dancing Seminar / A listening Dance at MoMA PS1 in New York.
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.