Milan Image Art Fair - Economic Body & FLUX Box

In collaboration with Fluxum Foundation

Stockholm Dansfilm Festival

The short film "The Economic Body" was featured at Stockholm Dansfilmfestival at Zita the 21 December. More about Stockholm Dansfilmfestival

Crossover - Dance and Social Science

La Maison des Etudiants Suédois invites you to an interdisciplinary event on the crossover between dance and social science, held at CIUP. With kind support from La Maison des Etudiants Suédois, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.

Fredriksson (SE), Steil (LU), Brandão (BR)

Friday 30 October 2015 at 20.00
PROGRAM
20.00-20.10: Introduction to concept
20.10-20.45: Film screening of “The Economic Body”
20.45-21.30: Discussion and refreshments

“There is a correlation between the ways we use our bodies and the roles we play”

Fredriksson, Steil and Brandão co-create their first interdisciplinary event on the intersection between dance and social science. The three met in the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, and gathered in their mutual but diverse explorations of the fields. Fredriksson presents film excerpts from her interdisciplinary project “The Economic Body” (2014), and invites Steil and Brandão to elaborate on their current research and performance projects.

Anna-Mi Fredriksson is a choreographer and economist from Stockholm, Sweden. After working as a dancer with The English National Ballet, she studied at Stockholm School of Economics, where she co-founded the organisation Art Division, exploring and developing the relationship between arts, business and society. She is currently residing in Paris where she studies International Economic Policy at Sciences Po.

Laura Steil recently obtained her PhD in anthropology from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE). She spent the last decade researching the social and cultural dynamics of several “non-academic” dance scenes in France, most notably the hip-hop or “afro” scenes. She uses dance as an ethnographic research tool, considering the (dancing) body not only an object but a locus and vector of knowledge. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the GSRL (EPHE).

Carolina Brandão is a dancer and sociologist from São Paulo, Brazil. She was classically trained and worked in various contemporary projects throughout her career. After studying Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo, she alternated for 8 years between works in contemporary dance and in consulting, evaluating social projects. She is currently studying International Public Management at Sciences Po – Paris.

La Maison des Etudiants Suédois
La Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
7F Bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris
(RER B, Tram 3, Bus 21, 67 : La Cité universitaire)

Photos © Liv-Kristin Rød Korssjøen
Program for event 30 oct 2015

Project - Kulturbryggan

Kulturbryggan has released their annual report for 2014-2015, featuring The Economic Body. The report highlights the unique collaboration between the academic field and the arts, and allows a public transparency into the project, regarding how it evolved, and what insights have been generated. See full report.

“Genom projektet har jag lärt mig att det krävs ett sammanhang för att tvärdisciplinär diskussion och reflektion ska uppstå, och en koreograf har möjligheten att skapa detta sammanhang genom den konstnärliga processen.” – Anna-Mi Fredriksson

På vilket sätt koreograferas individers beteende av socialt konstruerade system och strukturer? I en process bestående av reflektion, diskussion och koreografiska experiment skapades The Economic Body, ett verk som belyser och problematiserar koreografins och ekonomins performativa aspekter. Bakom projektet står Anna-Mi Fredriksson, klassiskt skolad dansare tillika student vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm. Hon har genom den studentdrivna organisationen SASSE Art Division etablerat ett unikt samarbete mellan Handelshögskolan och Weld, en konstnärsdriven plattform för dans och konst. Anna-Mi Fredriksson upplever att intresset för projektet har växt både inom och utanför samarbetsinstitutionerna.

Projektet har presenterats för en bred publik vid den internationella forskningskonferensen Art of Management & Organization (AoMO) Conference på Copenhagen Business School (CBS), på Handelshögskolans doktorspromotion i Blå Hallen, samt under två föreställningar på Weld. Vid dessa tillfällen bjöds publiken in att delta i interaktiva moment, som till exempel i processens initiala skede då en diskussion hölls med forskare och studerande inom ekonomi, sociologi, filosofi och konst, samt vid föreställningarna på Weld, där interaktiva reflektioner från publiken dokumenterades. 

Kulturbryggan menar att liknande frågor har ställts inom konsten tidigare, men när projektägaren ställer dessa från rätt plats – inifrån ekonomins egen högborg på Handelshögskolan i Stockholm och ges tillgång till både lärare och studenter, har man möjlighet att på allvar påverka attityder och tänkande i den ekonomiska sfären. Projektet fortätter att utvecklas. Med utgångspunkt i publikens reflektioner från Weld drivs processen vidare tillsammans med dansarna Kajsa Sandström och Mia Hjelte. Nu planeras, i samarbete med organisationen Fluxum Foundation i Schweiz medverkan i MIA Milan Image Art Fair i april 2015 samt en kortfilm för framtida utställningsmöjligheter.

”Jag upplever att det finns ett behov av att skapa fler möjligheter till utbyte av kunskap och idéer mellan den ekonomiska och kulturella samhällssfären kring hur kulturell verksamhet kan samverka med det ekonomiska området för en bättre samhällsutveckling.” – Anna-Mi Fredriksson

Milan Image Art Fair 2015

Six performances were presented at Milan Image Art (MIA) Fair 2015 with dancers Mia Hjelte and Kajsa Sandström in collaboration with Fluxum Foundation and FLUX Laboratory.

More information about the performances at MIA 2015

More information about the collaboration with Fluxum Foundation and Flux Laboratory
Photos © Erik Widman and Benedicte Damslora

Film at SSE Ceremony in the City Hall

Excerpts from the project were showcased as a short film at Stockholm School of Economics Installation & Conferment Ceremony in the City Hall. The film was accompanied by a speech about interdisciplinary processes between art and science. Central questions were decision making processes and gender structures in the business world.

Art of Management & Organization Conference 2014

The interdisciplinary project "The Economic Body" premiered at the 7th International Art of Management & Organization Conference 2014, held at Copenhagen Business School 28th-31st August. As a part of the conference opening, a choreography was performed by dancers Kajsa Sandström and Sandra Gerdin. Insights from the process were presented in the conference stream for Dance, Choreography and Organisation.

 

Photos © Benedicte Damslora

Download full conference program

Article - Koreografisk Journal #2

In the second issue of Koreografisk Journal, the article "Dans som kroppslig erfarenhet" was published together with dancer Anna Pehrsson. It is an elaboration on dance as bodily experience.

Link to article

Read about Koreografisk Journal

Panel - Kultur & Näringsliv

Panel discussion arranged by Kultur & Näringsliv and Artworks Journal at Stockholm School of Economics. Erik Modig from Center for Arts, Business and Culture – ABC presented his book “Värdet av Konst”, followed by a panel discussion about arts in tomorrow’s business world. Additional panelists were Hanna Gustafsson from Brunswick Arts, Ludvig Persson Lejon from AudioApps, and Jan Åman, founder of Färgfabriken. Moderator was Linda Nordfors, artist and CEO of Reflection Company.

More information see: Kultur & Näringsliv, Artworks Journal

Photos from the event

Organization - Art Division.

Throughout 2014, the organisation Art Division was established in the Student Association at Stockholm School of Economics. Through exhibitions, projects and events the organisation aims to explore the relationship between arts, business, and society. More about Art Division: www.artdivision.se

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sasseartdivision

Photography - Let there be light

For Mother Magazine

Director: Au Matt

Cinematographer: Joachim Thörnqvist

Choreography/Dance: Anna-Mi Fredriksson

Dance - Reconsideration

Reconsideration (Omprövning) investigates the refined and skilled body of the ballet dancer as shaped by the traditional technique of ballet.

In 2011 Anna Koch initiated the first stage of the choreography project as work in progress. Now in 2012 its second stage the project will be presented as a solo dance performed by Anna-Mi Fredriksson who returns to Stockholm after an extensive period as a member of the ensemble of The English National Ballet. This will inaugurate her premiere on a Swedish stage. Later 2012 the project will develop further to a groupwork with four dancers.

Idea/Choreography: Anna Koch. Dance/Photo: Anna-Mi Fredriksson. Light: SUTODA    

Produced by Weld with support by
Kulturrådet, Stockholms kulturförvaltning, Stockholms läns landsting och Konstnärsnämnden

Review in SvD: http://www.svd.se/kultur/scen/ett-solo-mellan-tva-varldar_6948775.svd
Review in DN: http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/scenrecensioner/omprovning-pa-weld/

Fashion - Naim Josefi & The Couture Movement

Stills and video from The Couture Movement, a film for Naim Josefi.
Maja Bergström & Naim Josefi, Beckmans College of Design.

Sound design: Evnita Kapoor

Dancer: Mia Hjelte

Choreographer: Anna-Mi Fredriksson

Director of Photography: Joachim Thörnqvist

During spring 2011, I worked with designer Naim Josefi and art director Maja Bergström from Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. Together we created a film where physical movement becomes visual shapes. Fashion, imagery and human physicality converge into one united expression. 

Read about Naim's collection

The Couture Movement from melkhoofd on Vimeo.

Fashion - Granfors

Film for designer Granfors.
Cinematographer: Max Modén 

Choreography: Anna-Mi Fredriksson

Dancer: Mia Hjelte

Graphic Design: Kristoffer Tellström, Christoffer McKie

Marketing Communication: Christine Anasthase, Lars Lundberg 

Production: Martina Carlsson

In the concept for Granfors, the choreographic idea was inspired post-modernist architecture. Granfors works with deconstruction in his design concept and we wanted to create a  physical deconstruction of how the garments enter new shapes through movement. 

Performance - Slow shutter experiment at Shunt

Performance project with photographer NK Guy at Shunt, London.

Interdisciplinary - LUXOR

Luxor is a collaboration between dancer Anna-Mi Fredriksson, artist Pauline Amos and music producer William Orbit. A series of gigs were held at Shunt, London.

William Orbit

Dance - English National Ballet

Highlights from ENB 2005-2009.

Swan Lake, Concert for Princess Diana, Wembley Stadium, 2008.

Etudes, Royal Festival Hall, London 2008.

Photo: Daria Klimentova

Photo: Laurent Liotardo

Swan Lake, Versailles, 2008.

Alice in Wonderland, Cardiff Millennium Center, 2007.

Photo: Amber Hunt

Swan Lake, Royal Albert Hall, London.