3/3, by Anders Rönnlund

Uppsala Municipal Theatre
3/3 is a work in mixed media by an artist who enters performance art from his former engagement in installation and video art.
The work contains an interplay between the artist and video projections on objects partly installed during the work. Everything is planned in minute. But something goes wrong and the artist tries in vain to abort the performance, as the projector is started to early. He has to work with a building site projected behind him and in a hurry to gain the lost time in relation to the video installation. The correct places for the objects who shall carry projections are measured out carefully. Then two boxes are put in the chartered positions. Thus, three versions of the artist are presented on the scene, two of which are videos projected at the boxes on the left and right hand.
An elementary chat takes place, where the living artist responds to job titles spoken out in English and Swedish. making very short comments in both languages. - Carpenter, says the projected artist on the right. - Snickare, the projection on the left hand answers. And the living artist responds: - It was a long time ago. --- Det var länge sedan. It is like a language course, or a rehearsal before a presentation of his CV at some official institution.
Eventually the scene changes slightly and the rythmic element of the reading expands into a kind of beat and percussion performance giving associations to hard rock culture. Through a series of subtle shifts we can discern an evolution where the artist is re-educated and takes on a new , more aggressive attitude.

Key concepts: Spoken word, mixed media, reference, language course, CV