Dystopian Animation

Fågelbo Residency, January 2021

Collaborating artists: Lucinda Linderman (US) and Nicole Neidert (SWE)

FATVillage Project Space

523 NW 1st Ave, Fort Lauderdale

Imagining recycling as a means of existence in a not-so-distant future, Dystopian Animation is a residency concept, sculptural process, and performative piece that brings discarded materials to life through collection, construction, and choreography.

The sculptural components, using rubber as the primary up-cycled material, act as wearable, interactive sculptures, with choreographic phrases that allude to the morphing of humans and technology. As the artists re-form and re-animate the rubber, they explore the material’s dichotomous nature as natural and synthetic, sappy-white and carbon-black; fluid and rigid, beneficial and plethoric.

Discarded x rays form the secondary material, manipulated to create illuminated caves, which act as intimate performance spaces to contemplate our transformation going forward into an uncertain future.

As we have experienced the chaos of Covid 19 over the last year, we have a glimpse of our future trajectory if we continue business as usual, making the exploration of these themes vital. With the current conditions prohibiting travel, this collaboration has occurred between continents. 

During the collaboration, the artists work-shopped the space together. Linderman sent sculptures to Neidert who filmed her animations of the sculptures, then sent the sculptures back to the space.  Additionally, Neidert filmed movement choreographed in response to the objects which are projected onto sculptural screens in the project space. These films, movement, and lights stand in for Nicole's physical presence in the project space.

Through Nedert’s projections and Linderman’s Sculptures, the artists explore the concept of human transformation through morphing with technology and the many paths where that may lead. 

Dates and Times:

Soft Opening on Thursday, January 28th from 4 pm to 8 pm. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dystopian-animation-tickets-137846545729

Exhibit open on Saturday January 30th from 11 a.m to 4 p.m RSVP in groups of 5 or less: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dystopian-animation-tickets-137852385195

Exhibit open to the public with staggered entrance on Saturday January 30th from 4 P.M. to 8 pm. 

Nicole Nedert is a choreographer and dancer based in Sweden. She is exploring several interests related to artificial, elevated and exaggerated expressions. Her work is busy with textures, structures, distortion, dancing and artificial realities. She use these artificial expressions to expose different aspects of humanity.…

Nicoleneidert.com

@nicoleneidert

Lucinda Linderman is a recognized environmental artist and activist based in Miami, Florida. Her practice centers around the rescue, transformation, and impact of industrial and post-consumer packaging. Since 2001, she has created sculptures and performances that offer solutions to sea-level rise, plastic pollution, and our waste producing culture.

Lucindalinderman.com

@lucindasculptor

Funding for this project is provided in part by the Knight Foundation, Broward County Cultural Division, Konstnärsnämnden and FATVillage Projects