SIZE OF COMPANY
Up to 6 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-scale to large-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Visual Artist
Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitll

Choreographer/Artist
Martina Seitl

ARTISTIC POLICY
Lundahl & Seitl have been working together since 2003. With a strong foundation in research, the artists’ stage large-scale to smaller; performance works, exhibitions, guided tours and walks, that require the visitors’ full immersion. By using instruction, choreography and technology, Lundahl & Seitl investigate space, time and perception. The duo has collaborated variously within the areas of architecture, fashion, cognitive neurology and classical music. Their work has been presented internationally in museums, theatres, galleries and dance contexts in festivals and in site-specific public spaces, including presentations at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Steinway and Sons Piano Workshop, Cell Project Space, The A Foundation, The Whitechapel Gallery and Battersea Arts Centre in London, National Museum and Weld, Stockholm, Museum M, Belgium.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘[It] has a dislocating, dream-like power and a painterly eye in the way it composes images.’ The Guardian

‘Guided by whispered instructions and hands which lead you into suddenly bright dioramas reminiscent of a Vermeer group portrait.’ Time Out London

‘Most innovative performance of the Year’ (2007) Balettanz

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
My Voice… When blindfolded, a single visitor follows instructions from a voice from headphones, synchronised with the touch and gestures of unseen performers in their space. (10 mins, mulltiple performances per day, multiple visitors per slot, 1 performer/visitor at a time.)

Rotating in a Room of Images The work is an audio-instructed walk situated in a room shifting from light to total darkness, and that further shifts in shape and scale. An itinerary of tableau vivant unfolds. (15 mins, multiple performances per day, 3 performers, 4 on the road.)

Work/Workshop Six visitors receive instructions from wireless headphones inside a space of total blackout. The instructions are synchronised between the participants and performers involved. In this non-place, slowly the visitors’ paths merge but they fail to coincide with their own selves. (45 mins, multiple performances per day, 4 performers, 5 on the road.)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Symphony of a Missing Room This is an instruction-based work, site-specific to a museum setting. It builds on the format of the guided tour but its instruction develops into an orchestration of the visitors’ senses. For every new museum the work ’visit’ the previous museum and its recording, is burried in a layer of virtual museums and momentarily traversed by the visitor when walking inside the top layer of the current physical museum, which then after a new commission will be buried and ackumulated inside the work. Symphony of a Missing Room is a museum of itself but indeed also a work, collecting museums. (45 mins, 6 visitors, multiple performances per day, 4 performers. 6 on the road.)

The Birthday Series By incorporating feedback video and live enactment, the work traverses virtual layers of a party, inviting its visitors to operate and command live avatars within the social schema of the space. (2 performers, 3 on the road, this work can also be installed by instructions from the artists.)

WRAP-AROUND
Many of the artists’ projects have generated illustrated talks/lectures and workshops, these can be offered as part or separate from the installation of a performance work.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2010 Museum M, Leuven/Brussels (Symphony of a Missing Room)
2009 National Museum, Sweden (Symphony of a Missing Room)
2008 Weld, Sweden (Work/Workshop)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Negotiable