HANDHELD is a choreographic installation that plays with the contemporary body—the closest thing we have, and yet the greatest mystery.

 

Through video, percussion, movement, and tactile sculptures, the work surrounds the visitor and opens up a space where the body is explored at its own boundaries: against material, against the inanimate.

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The hand is a recurring figure in the work, both concrete and metaphorical. Hands that knead, pull, examine, and shape a soft material, while sculptural bodies and traces fill the space. Living bodies move among the sculptures, creating relationships between material, space, and viewer.

Through touch, an imaginary space unfolds where the free, sometimes absurd logic of play and fantasy meets gravity. Here, the hand functions as an exploratory tool that shifts perception, guides the gaze, and negotiates between the organic and the constructed—between what we feel and what we may never fully understand.

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The installation unfolds on a 30-minute loop, combining a 3-channel video, tactile moving sculptures, and sound.

 

HANDHELD was developed as part of a research residency at IASPIS, Konstnärsnämnden in Stockholm in autumn 2024, and premieres at Weld in Stockholm in 24-26 April 2026 with dancers/performers Ina Dokmo, Siriol Joyner, and Helena Lambert.