Shows for Extinction Lena Kimming, Liv Schellander, Alexandra Wingate

In Shows for Extinction we explore the existence of a coming catastrophic event. It is an „extinction“ in its concrete meaning and a metaphor for the extinction of the human ego. Taking inspiration from Isabelle Stengers work, we propose a process in which (ideally) identities are dissolved, and hence fixed attributions as human-animal / human nonhuman are turned into mobile relations. The accent is on becoming, on the transformation of body and form. Could this process of a shedding of one’s own humanness towards a transformation and deterritorialization generate new forms of animism, and be a way of decolonising patterns of thinking?

Shows for Extinction is in process and will be a film and a film installation.

This work was developed during a production residency at Riksteatern in Hallunda in Stockholm in 2021 where we had a live online work in progress showing. Collaborating with us was composer Cha Blasco, director, light and sound designer Eric Sjögren and filmmaker Petra Koppla Dahlberg. And valued feedback from dance artist Majula Drammeh. This production is supported by Ställbergs gruva, Riksteatern, BMKÖS Vienna and Västra Götaland Regional Council.