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Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of an immersive antidisciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. *Within the so-called “sensory turn” of contemporary art, their work concerns the perceptual side of aesthetic materials and meetings, emphasized in individual and shared experiences. The duo constructs site-specific situations, in which the boundary between action and perception is renegotiated with a given relation to “culture” and “technology”. In their work, simulated realities are left incomplete, with triggers and nudges that activate the visitor’s ability to create independent meaning from a web of mental and physical objects.
Here notions of freedom, autonomy and what is real, imagined and perceived are negotiated by the visitors themselves.

Their work appropriate from different art forms and methods: staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, Spatial sound, augmented & virtual reality and temporal structures from music and film. In the border between virtual media and the physical body, Lundahl & Seitl asks where the aesthetic experience and social exchange take place, as well as what consequences a changed choreography of this has.

An example is the nomadic artwork “Unknown Cloud” (2016), which, like a flashmob, brings people together at different locations worldwide. Central to the work is the participants own being in time and their abillity to create relations with the lifeworlds of others. Synchronized via Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and with interfaces from everyday life, the Cloud creates a global secular ritual of the present.

Their works and projects have been exhibited worldwide, including (but not limited to): in the UK at Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, Battersea Arts Centre, Royal Academy of Arts, Cell Project Space and NOMAD Projects; in Germany at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berliner Festspiele, Hamburger Kunsthalle, MMK2 and Kunstmuseum Bonn; in France at Center Pompidou-Metz, and Avignon Festival; in Belgium at S.M.A.K, STUK and Museum M; in Switzerland at Kunsthalle Bern; in Austria at Steirischer Herbst and Museum der Moderne; in India at the Kochi Muziris Biennalen; in South Korea at Wooran Foundation; in Iceland at Cycle Festival; in Norway at Momentum 8 – Tunnel Vision, Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art; in Sweden at Weld, Nationalmuseum, Dramaten, Accelerator and Magasin III; and in the USA at SOCAP California.

Lundahl & Seitl have also shared their work with the public, free of charge, outdoors in numerous locations, for example, in rural communities in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India; in surburban communities in Fisksätra, Sweden facilitated by Folkets Hus; in the grounds of the National Centre of Biological Sciences in collaboration with Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India; in the grounds of the School of Economics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Lundahl & Seitl are supported by Kulturrådet, Kulturbryggan and Iaspis – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists, as well as Arts Council England and the British Council.

*text credit: Frida Sandström