Entry 1
After a hiatus from dancing, I started developing a performance piece for my documentary Itumeleng. For every session, I filmed myself processing topics brought up while speaking to my mother about our shared and separate lives. Conceptualizing the performance piece I focused on how to show the audience my inner world. Editing the material I understood that the piece was for me to embody my inner world. Entry 1 is a video diary journaling this.
aÏa
aÏa is a performance developed from the project Itumeleng, a documentary capturing a conversation between a mother and child about migration, intergenerational trauma, and healing. The film weaves together music, dance, and mixed-media art to expand on itu's visual world. The work will be performed by dancer itu Berglund and sound artist Renatha Frendberg. It is a sound and dance work that will highlight performative methods and spatiality with the theme of healing. Through the investigation of sound and somatic dance, itu and Renatha will interpret embodied self-knowledge about healing. Both artists have independently explored their mediums for healing during different periods. Through dance improvisation inspired by basic body awareness, foundations in street dance and contemporary dance, the dancer wants to invite to their healing body. The sound image will build on the sounds and movements that Renatha and itu explore together during conceptualization, as well as introducing new unknown elements in real time. With this performance, we want to create a room of dance and music, a room that allows the viewer to experience healing by staying in their emotions. We do this by using elements that remind the audience of themselves, blurring the line between performer and performance-goer, actively inviting to dialogue and not having a formal stage set-up.
aquatic pattern
Untitled, 2020
In recent years, I, like much of the online world, have been introduced to the world of AI. My journey into this field deepened with my exploration of basic concepts in the philosophy of consciousness, deep learning, and mathematical functions. This exploration, particularly fueled by Douglas R. Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid," ignited my interest in patterns. Hofstadter's work led me to appreciate patterns and loops, as seen in my simple animation, "Aquatic Pattern," designed to mimic wave patterns. This piece serves as a visual metaphor for the complex processes of neural networking, offering an artistic view to these scientific phenomena.
My approach is mainly artistic, diverging from the scientific methods typically employed in neural networking, which rely on mathematical functions and machine (deep) learning to generate forms. While creating and replicating aesthetics is fascinating within the art world, the concept of pattern learning holds significant relevance across both modern science and various art disciplines. This leads me to wonder how we can create spaces that encourage the merging of different disciplines. My curiosity lies in the exploration of these spaces, where art and science merge to enrich our collective understanding and appreciation of the world around us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkwXa7Cvfr8&t=648s by Emergent Garden.
Abyss
Still image from Abyss , 2023.Abyss is playful work, drawing inspiration from figures and diagrams from academic textbooks and research papers. The work wanders between being an aesthetically “meaningless” object and active symbol. The background essay G.E.B is available in the Texts section.
Untitled
Untitled, 2023
Where sound, visuals and poetry meet.
Sound - Ignacy Kratochwil
Text - Micaela Berglund
Mixed Collection
Workflow/Asset
TimeLine 1
Workflow, asset for ongoing project
Graphic work
AKG Posters and flyers
Club VAAB graphic assets
Graphic assets for a queer residency hosted by Blackbird, Gothenburg.Artists’ Corner: Collage as a working method, Konstepidemin, Gibca Extended
Untitled project
Untilted ongoing large scale animation
World building project mixing 3d modelling/ 3d textures, photography and available 3d assests. 2023-Abyss (2024)
1 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20416695211053352 (Joseph S. Lappin and Herbert H. Bell) (This illustration is based on a diagram of Gibson (1966, p. 244)
The collage/inspiration board for "Abyss" serves as a visual exploration into the depths of perception and consciousness. At its heart lies the Kanizsa triangle, a clever illusion that tricks the eye into seeing a triangle where none exists, challenging our notions of reality. Surrounding this are figures drawn from Keiji Tanaka’s paper Columns for Complex Visual Object Features in the Inferotemporal Cortex: Clustering of Cells with Similar but Slightly Differe , depicting a 'visual alphabet' within the inferior temporal cortex — a testament to how our brains encode complex visual information. Completing the collage is a diagram that unravels the mystery of how awareness and neuron processing intertwine, illustrating the seamless integration of sensory input with our conscious experience. Together, these elements weave a narrative that bridges the abstract with the tangible, inviting onlookers into a realm where illusion and understanding coalesce.
Early reference materials and 3d model sketches. 2022-2024 Abyss (2024).