Varsha Nair
& Lena Eriksson
LOOC: Line Out Of Control
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performance: duration 3 hours; video documentation above – 21 mins
From the original Festival website:
A piece about imaginary and real borders, crossing/not crossing boundaries, communication/lack of it, about our different perspectives of the same or similar situations.
Varsha Nair (Bangkok) and Lena Eriksson (Basel) sit at either end of the space, drawing on a roll of paper that connects them, with pens connected by a string, whilst manipulating two sound boxes that provide a beat, at times interrupting and disturbing each other’s process and hand movements. The drawing includes perspectives of the space itself and of people visiting the space, as perceived from the opposite sides that the artists are seated.
They first presented the work in a public space for the Performance Saga festival (April 09), in the passenger waiting room located between the Swiss and French sides of the main railway station in Basel.
Varsha Nair has exhibited her solo and collaborative works internationally and in Thailand where she lives. She has presented performances at Performance Saga, Basel, in collaboration with Lena Eriksson (2009); at Khoj Live, New Delhi (2008); On the Move, Hong Kong (2008); National Review of Live Art, Glasgow in 2006 and 2004; and at National Review of Live Art Midland, Perth, Australia in 2005. Nair is co-organiser of Womanifesto in Thailand (womanifesto.com), and editorial board member of the web art journal Ctrl+P (ctrlp-artjournal.org). Born in Kampala, Uganda, Nair has a BFA from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda, India.
Lena Eriksson (born 1971, Switzerland) studied Visual Arts at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Sierre. Calling her practice ‘polymorphic’, which includes developing works in close collaboration, she works with drawing, video, installation, performance and concepts. From 2004-09 she established and managed ‘Lodypop’ – an independent art space in Basel (wlodypop.ch). She presented LOOC with Varsha Nair, Performance Saga Festival, Basel (2009); Fortunetelling with Chris Regn and Tina Z’Rotz, Kunsthaus, Langethal (2009); The Tourist, Cartoon Museum, Basel (2009); Flowerpower, Asiatopia, Bangkok (2008); I am the Original, Lothringer 13, Munich (2007); No Projectionwith Andrea Saemann, Kunsthof, Zurich (2005); All is full of love, Frankfurt (2005); (2004) I am crazy for being so lonely, PlugIn, Basel 2004); Singing with Hagar Schmidhalter, Andrea Saemann and Chen Tan, 3rd Performance Festival, Xian (2002).
Varsha is now based in Baroda, India.
LOOC: Line Out Of Control
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From the original Festival website:
A piece about imaginary and real borders, crossing/not crossing boundaries, communication/lack of it, about our different perspectives of the same or similar situations.
Varsha Nair (Bangkok) and Lena Eriksson (Basel) sit at either end of the space, drawing on a roll of paper that connects them, with pens connected by a string, whilst manipulating two sound boxes that provide a beat, at times interrupting and disturbing each others’ process and hand movements. The drawing includes perspectives of the space itself and of people visiting the space, as perceived from the opposite sides that the artists are seated.
They first presented the work in a public space for the Performance Saga festival (April 09), in the passenger waiting room located between the Swiss and French sides of the main railway station in Basel.
Varsha Nair has exhibited her solo and collaborative works internationally and in Thailand where she lives. She has presented performances at Performance Saga, Basel, in collaboration with Lena Eriksson (2009); at Khoj Live, New Delhi (2008); On the Move, Hong Kong (2008); National Review of Live Art, Glasgow in 2006 and 2004; and at National Review of Live Art Midland, Perth, Australia in 2005. Nair is co-organiser of Womanifesto in Thailand (www.womanifesto.com), and editorial board member of the web art journal Ctrl+P (www.ctrlp-artjournal.org). Born in Kampala, Uganda, Nair has a BFA from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda, India.
Lena Eriksson (born 1971, Switzerland) studied Visual Arts at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Sierre. Calling her practice ‘polymorphic’, which includes developing works in close collaboration, she works with drawing, video, installation, performance and concepts. From 2004 – 2009 she established and managed “Lodypop” – an independent art space in Basel (www.lodypop.ch). She presented LOOC with Varsha Nair, Performance Saga Festival, Basel (2009); Fortunetelling with Chris Regn and Tina Z’Rotz, Kunsthaus, Langethal (2009); The Tourist, Cartoon Museum, Basel (2009); Flowerpower, Asiatopia, Bangkok (2008); I am the Original, Lothringer 13, Munich (2007); No Projection with Andrea Saemann, Kunsthof, Zürich (2005); All is full of love, Frankfurt (2005); (2004) I am crazy for being so lonely, PlugIn, Basel 2004); Singing with Hagar Schmidhalter, Andrea Saemann and Chen Tan, 3rd Performance Festival, Xian (2002).