Worklog by Lina Persson

A worklog exemplifying my practice of making situated interventions through narrative storyworlds and animated worldbuilding. My art often brings some conditions attached that aim at transforming the mindset and routines of the environments I enter, as a way to ”world” them. Constructing alternative inner story worlds has always been the basic mode for me to perceive the world, process the world, and to find ways to act in the world. worldbuilding as an artform also serves my interest in systems and “the whole”. an interest that brings about the desire for sustainability, for things to be fair, balanced, for “the whole” to sustain and thrive. My artworks often materialize as a response to something in my environment, a response that carefully takes form within the fictive storyworld. Examples of responses are a proposal to update the permanent exhibition on mining at Tekniska Museet, staging a shutdown of the university or introducing climate budgeting into film courses. This method of careful responses aligns with the concept of “worlding”, a term from material feminist thought about making “cuts” in the world, enacting interventions that produce the world I inhabit. “Worlding” is acknowledging the relations, how I am entangled in the world, while acting. Being embedded in a “storyworld” gives me the critical distance that enables me to respond more creatively, ”as if” things could be a whole lot different. Due to my interests in the full range of things, from material to structural to epistemological and ontological, I prefer to make interactions on all levels simultaneously in order to trace their effects, how they are connected, how they interact and affect one another. In order to reach initiated understanding into all parts of “the wholes” *I often engage in transdiciplinary collaborations with researchers from many different disciplines.

PERFORMATIVE STORYWORLDS: INTRODUCTION

Introduction | Worklog | Methods | References

Creating and using a fiction premise in order to restructure how I percieve and react to my contexts. The core of the project is the dynamic interplay between a growing fiction storyworld and the everyday life in the organization (see worklog).

In my practice I currently explore change, adaptation and transformation. At the moment my methods for this is to create a framework that I commit to and that conditions my work and everyday life. The framework is made up partly by binding agreements and legal documents concerning climate footprint and resource usage, that I commit to obeying.
The framework is also made up from immersive storyworlds that aim at modifying beliefs and desires regarding reality and possible alternative universes, through playfulness and interaction.

Through the phd studies I plan to let this initial framework guide the continuation of the practice. What happens when I allow intuition and creative flow start from these parameters? How may the values, cognitions, desires, the inner core of self, shift? How may shifts occur in the environment in which the practice/research takes place, in the organization, in the peer group, in the bureaucracy etc?

This research project aims to explore the dynamic process and interplay between the worldbuilding and worldings in my practice. Between an inner fantasy universe that I embed & immerse myself in through daydreaming at a specific plot of land, and my responses to everyday encounters in the university organization, research community, artistic collaborations and environmental activism etc.
The aim is to break with a reality that I live in and that shapes me, a reality I don't agree with and refuse to accept, by replacing it with an alternative, hypothetical reality.

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