Lundahl & Seitl is a Stockholm-based artist duo formed in 2003 by Christer Lundahl (born 1978 Jönköping, Sweden) and Martina Seitl (born 1979, Jönköping, Sweden).Sandström, Frida (2018). "Lundahl & Seitl". In & Beyond Sweden: Journeys Through Art Scene. Ljungberg, Joa; Malm, Lena; Mostyn, Santiago; Pousette, Johan eds. Art & Theory Stockholm, pp. 148-149. The duo's practice consists of site-specific situations and cross-disciplinary projects, "where the line between action and perception is renegotiated", as noted by Frida Sandström.
The duo's working method has been described as being a combination of staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial sound, and augmented and virtual reality, through the exploration of notions such as freedom, autonomy, reality, imagination, memory, and the relation between humans and technology.
Selected artworks In 2019, Lundahl & Seitl in collaboration with ScanLAB Projects created The Eternal Return series, which consists of three choreographed and mixed-reality artworks that examine virtual reality. The Unknown Cloud series was brought to life in 2015 and it is an artwork, which is based on visitor participation through the usage of an application and guidance of audio-visual instructions.Tanos, Erika (2017). "Lundahl & Seitl. Unknown Could on Its Way to Berlin". Limits of Knowing. Immersion. Oberender, Thomas; Petkiewicz, Joanna eds. Berliner Festspiele, Kerber Verlag. pp. 46-56. According to Josephine Machon, the work tackles themes such as human perception, inclusion, and interconnectedness.Machon, Josephine (2017). "Missing Rooms and Unknown Clouds: Darkness and Illumination in the Work Lundahl & Seitl." In: Theatre in the Dark. Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre, Alston, Adam; Welton, Martin, eds. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 147–168. In the Symphony of a Missing Room series (2009), the audience experiences a museum venue through participation,Forming in the pupil of an eye. Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016). Fliedner, Kelly ed. Kochi Biennale Foundation, pp. 272-274. which has been created through various technical, choreographed, and voice stimuli, as Ronald Jones described.Jones, Ronald (December 2010). "Lundahl & Seitl. Nationalmuseum". Art Forum. Retrieved 2023-04-26.Jones, Ronald (April 2017). "A Voice Comes to One". Immersion, Berliner Festspiele, pp.16-19. The artwork investigates the nature of memory.
Exhibitions Lundahl & Seitl had solo and group exhibitions in several venues, such as Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2014), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, 2016); Kunstmuseum Bonn (2017); Accelerator (2017, Stockholm); ‘Tunnelvision’, Momentum 8, Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015, Moss, Norway); ‘An Imagined Museum’, Centre Pompidou Metz (France, 2016-2017); ‘forming in the pupil of an eye’, Kochi Muziris Biennale (India, 2016); ‘Temple of Alternative Histories’ at Staatsteater Kassel (Kassel, 2022); Screen City Biennial: ‘Other Minds’ (Berlin, 2022).
Awards
2010 - Stockholm Art Prize 2010 - Birgit Cullberg Prize 2011 - Salzburg Festival Young Directors Award (Montblanc) 2011 - Edstrandska Foundation for Contemporary Art Award 2019 - Sven Harrys Art Prize 2020 - Shortlisted for the Lumen Prize 2022 - STRP ACT Award, co-artists Untold Garden
References
Further reading Jonas, Sebastian (2021-09-15). "Vr-verket "Involution" borrar sig in i publiken". Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 2023-04-25. SAC Journal 6: Breaking Glass - Spatial Fabulations & Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality (2021). pp. 58-67; pp.144-151.* Husel, Stefanie (2019). “Immersive art – immersive research?”Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances, Kolesch, Doris, Schütz, Theresa, Nikoleit, Sophie eds. London, Routledge Digital dynamics in Nordic contemporary art (2019). Toft, Tanya ed. Bristol, Intellect. Weickmann, Dorion (July 2017). "Dance and Immersion. Pointe shoes and 3-D-glasses". Goethe Institute. Retrieved 25 April 2023. "A Sensory-Distorting Theater Experiment Invades Museum Spaces" (2016-09-03). www.vice.com. Retrieved 2023-04-25. Olsson, Thomas (2015-06-25). "Konspirationsteorier frodas på norsk konstbiennal". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-04-25. Machon, Josephine (2013). Immersive Theatres. Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance, Palgrave Macmillan. Expósito, Frank (2013-03-30). "Lundahl & Seitl on their latest synesthetic collaboration". Artforum. Retrieved 2023-04-26. Gardner, Lyn (2013-03-27). "The Memory of WT Stead – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-04-26.