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

Kent G R Olofsson

Exposition

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

Kent G R Olofsson, Jörgen Dahlqvist

open exposition

About this exposition

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.

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.

type	research exposition
keywords	performing arts, music theater, composition, Choreography, politic history, staging
date	17/08/2023
published	23/10/2023
last modified	23/10/2023
status	published
affiliation	Stockholm University of the Arts / Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University
copyright	Kent Olofsson & Jörgen Dahlqvist
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1837695/1843211
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/vis.1837695
published in	VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	10. VIS Issue 10

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license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	blurbröd2
copyright	Teatr Weimar
license	Public domain
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name	Sagan 1
copyright	Kent Olofsson
license	All rights reserved
usages	audio, audio

name	hastochgris
copyright	JD
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	picture

name	Death to the welfare state Part 1-1
copyright	Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist
license	All rights reserved
usages	video, video

name	Death to the welfare state Part 1-2
copyright	Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist
license	All rights reserved
usages	video, video

name	Death to the welfare state Part 1-3
copyright	Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist
license	All rights reserved
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name	blurb1
copyright	Teatr Weimar
license	Public domain
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name	blurbbrödtext
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license	Public domain
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name	Sagan 2
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license	All rights reserved
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name	olofpalme
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name	Death to the welfare state Part 2-1
copyright	Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist
license	All rights reserved
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name	Death to the welfare state Part 2-2
copyright	Kent Olofsson/Jörgen Dahlqvist
license	All rights reserved
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name	Death to the welfare state Part 2-3
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name	Sagan 3
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name	The last thing
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usages	audio, audio

name	Death to the welfare state Part 4-2
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license	All rights reserved
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name	I've seen your face before
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name	Death to the welfare state Part 5-2
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name	Sagan 6 epilog
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name	blending
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name	Death to the welfare state Epilogue
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name	aboutus
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name	Sagan 4
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name	Take me anywhere
copyright	Kent Olofsson
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name	One step ahead of me
copyright	Kent Olofsson
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usages	audio

name	Death to the welfare state Script version in progress English
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