Gun Lund
Gun Lund is one of the pioneers of Swedish contemporary dance. Since 1995 she leads the contemporary experimental dance ensemble E=mc2 .
foto Mic Calvert
Gun Lund has created more than fifty original productions. She has created a number of innovative items for the stage, like "I......tid" ("In.....time") for seven dancers and thirteen stones "Images of Dream & Death", which, among other things, emerges from the light induced physiological processes of the eye and "Tabula Rasa" - a dance study which included 3 500 lit-through sheets of papers.
She has, together with her life-companion Lars Persson (specialist in the general of medicine), intensified the dialogue and interaction between art and science. During autumn 1998 they were engaged for a serie of performances, seminars and lectures focusing on the images and ideas of modern cosmology at the university of Uppsala.
MUON SPIN
Modern Physics is full of metaphors, intense and compelling images. It is hardly interesting from an artistic point of view just to reproduce those images, illustrating them with the body. It is not the straight forward representation of the metaphor which is my goal in the encounter with science. Rather it is the experience, and perhaps later an understanding, on a deeper more intuitive level, of all these processes that constitute our "reality" and existence.
Dance has the wonderful property of being able to express both the present and the past in one single motion - a motion which can be extended to the infinite or compressed to an instant.
Dance also unifies motion and space in a very concrete way. Dancers have, for example, no difficulty in experiencing theoretical concepts like space-time or curved space.
When creating " Muon-spin " as part of Acting Physics, it is the character of the myons and their properties that arouse my curiosity and which form the base of my work with emphasis on the
non-descriptive interpretation. The penetration of our apparently massive bodies by these particles put our normal way of thinking into question. And somewhere these particles emerge as a sign from times passed. In a way we share both history and the present with them.
The room at KTH makes a multidimensional experience possible; the bodies and movements in the dance seems to have different extensions and directions, depending on the "relative" point of view of the observers.
Through dance, music and painting, our bodies become aware of the sensations of ear, eye and skin, of the true, disturbing and marvellous experience of being a human, to be able to reflect over and sense some of the mysteries of our existence.
some more pictures from Muon Spin including the sculpture
photo Monica Sand
In dance the Poissonian distribution, which contributes both to the sculpture and the music, can form a basis for a presentation of fragments of movements and/ or directions and speeds....
