“Extension of your ear – a site specific lecture performance” is an aesthetic experiment in which Tove gets involved with a specific exhibition space, it’s materialities and stories. The performance lecture proposes to go in dialogue with the exhibition space of Happimess; language based video installations by the Seoul-based Web art group Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. As Tove is tuning in with the space’s volumes and textures, she is performing a series of statements revolving around media, technology and art, which negotiates the materialities of the space, and it’s boundaries. Extended materialities of many kinds became central in this experiment which is now a seed for a follow up performance including three more performers. The work was a commissioned piece curated by HAKA art collective, presented at Köttinspektionen (2021).
As choreographer Tove considers her practice as being in dialogue with contextual materials; the artistic eco-system as an assembly of relations, materials, ideas, practices and forms which she attend to as a host and guest to connect, highlight and create links through a lens of criticality. In this way she is not so much occupied by creating something new or to produce new meanings, but rather to do something critical to what she finds in the assably of things. The art medium as a place to reflect on itself, it’s conventions, procedures, relations and ideas through its particular scales, paces and patterns is used to reflect on the scales, paces and patterns of the world. The choreographic practice is further grounded in an idea of knowledge as something local and subjectively situated, which is an ethical standpoint that configures the work as a critical space for those involved; her, collaborators and audiences.