2024 · A collaboration with Adam James. Supported by the Borås Museum, Textil Museet, Skogen, Lindholmen Media Grant and Kulturbryggan.
Four day live role-playing game for 25 players set in a 18th century farmhouse and the bogs of Västra Götaland. Modified psychodrama, Statare cuisine and textiles, naturally mummified bog body, horn, wood, and roots.
Like a interplanar entity slowly emerging from the dismal bogs of Västra Götaland, players were invited to dissolve their self-narratives and merge into two enigmatic streams of collective consciousness.
Experience One: Secluded within the dim light of 18th century agricultural worker’s dwelling, dig into the claustrophobic embrace and domestic anxieties of an intimate cross-generational family preparing for the looming spectre of change. An embodied study of period craft production, their existence is punctuated by ritualistic preparations creating technology used to communicate with shadows from another plane.
Experience Two: Awaken in the boglands, submerged in a narrative that demands physicality and microbial intelligence. Here, via improvisational movement, you’re invited to activate a thousand layered years of decaying moss, while being magnetically pulled to a 18th century farmhouse miles away.
Procrustean Bed was a primarily non-verbal experience that focuses on material and somatic interactions to co-create a sphinx-like allegory that takes inspiration from intertwined regional narratives: the class struggle of Statare agricultural laborers, the mechanization of textile production, historical artefacts and biomes, folk magic, and interplanar travel.
