Exposition

Death to the Welfare State: An Exposition on Political Discourse and Artistic Collaboration (2023)

Kent G R Olofsson, Jörgen Dahlqvist
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Död åt välfärdsstaten (Death to the Welfare State) was a theatre performance for actors, dancers, and musicians that dealt with a concern that the welfare system in Sweden was about to be dismantled. To explore this worry political speeches were superimposed with a narrative inspired by George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm to examine how perceptions of welfare in Sweden have changed from the early 1900s to the present. This artistic research exposition elaborates on the process of developing the theatre piece. It unpacks how the relation between discourse and narrative informed the text and music, and how it allowed for a dramaturgical structure that included all the various performative elements and artistic expressions. Furthermore, the exposition discusses how the performance was composed through a collaboration that was characterised by an open-ended dialogue between the artists and how this enabled distributed decision making, as well as artists performing in other ways than they are used to. The exposition explores the open format of Research Catalogue. Through text and video documentation it builds on the dramaturgical structure of the performance itself: an introduction, five parts and an epilogue. The ambition of the exposition has been to make yet another iteration of the performance.

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Teaterföreställningen Död åt välfärdsstaten hade premiär 2018 på Teatr Weimar. Det var en tvärkonstnärlig föreställning med skådespelare, dansare och musiker som undersökte hur synen på välfärden i Sverige förändrats från tidigt 1900-tal till idag. Föreställningen byggdes på kända svenska politikers tal som sammanfördes och överlagras med en adaption av George Orwells roman Djurfarmen. Expositionen går igenom hur relationen mellan politisk diskurs och narrativ gav en dramaturgisk struktur som öppnade för olika performativa element och konstnärliga uttryck. I arbetet med att skapa föreställningen gjordes ett manus i form av ett handlingsschema, som möjliggjorde en tvärdisciplinär process. Arbetsprocessen kännetecknades av en öppen dialog där beslut kring sceniska val skiftade mellan de olika konstnärerna. Expositionen utforskar det öppna formatet i Research Catalogue. Genom textens disposition, videodokumentation och ljudinspelningar som lånat den dramaturgiska strukturen från föreställningen – en introduktion, fem delar och en epilog – blir expositionen ännu en version av föreställningen.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsperforming arts, music theater, composition, Choreography, politic history, staging
date17/08/2023
published23/10/2023
last modified23/10/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationStockholm University of the Arts / Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University
copyrightKent Olofsson & Jörgen Dahlqvist
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1837695/1843211
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/vis.1837695
published inVIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue10. VIS Issue 10


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1837718 IMG_9262 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1837752 Sagan 1 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1838082 WS exemple 1 Del 1 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1838085 20 WORDS - song Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1838086 20 WORDS - song Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1839787 Sagan 2 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1839789 Sagan 3 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1839793 Sagan 4 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1839795 Sagan 5 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1839797 Sagan 6 epilog Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1839810 The last thing Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1839815 The death of the old dog Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1839866 WS del koreografi Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1841119 Hello Dogs Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1843248 The enemy of the dogs Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1843290 One step choreo part 5 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
1843291 olofpalme Jörgen Dahlqvist CC BY-NC-ND
1843315 audiovideo JD CC BY-NC-ND
1843316 audiovideo2 JD CC BY-NC-ND
1843330 hastochgris JD CC BY-NC-ND
1843350 skadespelare JD CC BY-NC-ND
1843409 aboutus JD CC BY-NC-ND
1843484 blending JD CC BY-NC-ND
1843505 visuality JD CC BY-NC-ND
1843607 collaborations JD CC BY-NC-ND
1843612 musical JD CC BY-NC-ND
1843740 audio icg video bollar 3 JD CC BY-NC-ND
2022216 WS video chapter example 1 Kent Olofsson Public domain
2022493 WS video chapter example 2 Kent Olofsson Public domain
2022500 WS video chapter example 3 Kent Olofsson Public domain
2023981 WS example Fields of DS in part2 Kent Olofsson Public domain
2024006 I've seen your face before Kent Olofsson Public domain
2024064 WS song Take me anywhere Kent Olofsson Public domain
2259696 Död åt välfärdsstaten Del 1-1 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
2259699 Död åt välfärdsstaten Del 1-2 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
2259706 Död åt välfärdsstaten del 1-3 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
2259872 Död åt välfärdsstaten Del 2-1 Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
2260102 Death to the welfare state Part 1-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260114 Död åt välfärdsstaten Del 1-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260145 Death to the welfare state Part 1-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260178 Death to the welfare state Part 1-3 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260200 Death to the welfare state Part 2-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260251 Death to the welfare state Part 2-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260339 Death to the welfare state Part 2-3 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260380 Death to the welfare state Part 3-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260459 Death to the welfare state Part 3-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260476 Death to the welfare state Part 4-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260518 Death to the welfare state Part 4-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260540 Death to the welfare state Part 5-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2260542 Death to the welfare state Part 5-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2288177 Death to the welfare state Part 1-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2289158 Death to the welfare state Part 1-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2289162 Death to the welfare state Part 1-3 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2289170 Death to the welfare state Part 2-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2289364 Death to the welfare state Part 2-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2294403 blurb1 Teatr Weimar Public domain
2294404 blurb2 Teatr Weimar Public domain
2294408 blurb3 Teatr Weimar Public domain
2294430 blurb4 Teatr Weimar Public domain
2294431 blurb5 Teatr Weimar Public domain
2294474 Death to the welfare state Part 4-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2296383 Take me anywhere Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
2296386 One step ahead of me Kent Olofsson All rights reserved
2296407 Death to the welfare state Part 5-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2296450 Death to the welfare state Part 4-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2297110 Death to the welfare state Epilogue Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2308692 Death to the welfare state Part 3-1 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2308694 blurbbrödtext Teatr Weimar Public domain
2308702 blurbröd2 Teatr Weimar Public domain
2308813 Death to the welfare state Part 3-2 Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved
2309051 Death to the welfare state Script version in progress English Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist All rights reserved

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