Who are ya?!

Artist: Klas Eriksson

Parent project: Choreographies of the Social

City: Stockholm

Category: Temporary art

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For Choreographies of the Social, artist Klas Eriksson re-enacts “Who are ya?!”, a performance from 2011 focusing on temporality, architecture and collectivity. 120 participants will, at a given signal, light flares commonly used at football matches.

Image 1 of 1. Klas Erikssons verk Who are ya?! i Göteborg 2011.

On Who are ya?!

Klas Eriksson is interested in structures of power, control and limitations. Informed by an investigation of mass-culture and employing various strategies, his practice materialises through a variety of media such as performance, video, photography, painting, text and sculpture. For Choreographies of the Social, Eriksson re-enacts “Who are ya?!”, a performance from 2011 focusing on temporality, architecture and collectivity. 120 participants will, at a given signal, light flares commonly used at football matches. After the flares have burned out and darkness swallows the site again, a collective shout with the words of the title arises to fill the air.

120 participants will, at a given signal, light flares commonly used at football matches.

The performance is site-specific and is always activated in dialogue with a particular architecture, in this case a bridge. It can be seen as a temporary sculpture in the public domain, posing an honest question in a collective way. The artist aims to establish a communicative immediacy, which is both visually and conceptually innovative.

On Klas Eriksson

Klas Eriksson (b. 1976) graduated from The Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm in 2010. Since then he has had solo shows at Göteborgs Konsthall (2017), Prosjektrum Norrmans, Stavanger (2015) and Kalmar Art Museum (2013). He has also participated in a large number of group shows in Sweden and internationally. Klas Eriksson works are represented at museums, Public institutions, Private Collections, Statens Konstråd, Göteborg Konst and in Public works.