Stills started out as an experiment. I was interested in how video as technology could interact or inform our (physical) doing, and what this would produce in return. I wanted to see how presence could be experienced, like a physical idea, through this media. From a technical point of view the task was simple. I used the camera only to capture, and the people did the ‘effects’. I was working with the ambiguities and tensions between intention and action, playing with disturbances of the optical perception and notions of time and resistance.

by: Mette Edvardsen, filmed in Tromsø, Norway 2002.
special thanks to: Reima Kaiponen, Inge Lodewijks, Juha Lämsä, Jouko Karhu, Jari Karhu, Liv Hanne Haugen, Lawrence Malstaf, Yukiko Shinozaki, Leo and Heine R. Avdal.
Stills was created in the context of Sauna in Exile, a project by Heine R. Avdal, Mette Edvardsen, Liv Hanne Haugen, and Lawrence Malstaf.

PRESENTATIONS:
In-Presentable, La Casa Encendida/ Madrid 16 - 22 June 2008
Images and Views of Alternative Cinema/ Nicosia, Cypres 7 - 8 June 2008
Borderline Festival, Platform China - Theatre in Motion/ Beijing 29 June 2007
Video dance, Thessaloniki Film Festival/ Athens 18 - 25 May 2007
La democrazia del corpo/ CANGO Cantieri Goldonetta/ Firenze 22 October - 12 November 2006
Figura N° Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Xing/ Bologna 21, 24, 26 + 29 April 2006
DANSCAMDANS - Filmplateau/ Gent 24 ­ 26 November 2005
Dancenight, Kaaitheater/ Brussel 26 Febuary 2005
Fricties, Vooruit/ Gent 1 - 28 Febuary 2005
Bodyworks - PARCOURS 3- Vooruit/ Gent 28 April - 1 May 2004
Sauna in Exile, Norlysfestivalen, Rådstua/ Tromsø 21 - 25 January 2004
Design Futures, Goldsmith University/ London 14 November 2003
Sauna in Exile, Nordic Scene festival, Les Bains::Connective/ Brussel 4 - 8 December 2002