HYPHAE Series  2020,  

Performance Art Installation / Photography  & Video, July 2020

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Hyphae Series - thrives on as a progressive ongoing collaborative project, featured around the world in several group exhibitions, both online and in physical gallery spaces. This 2020 series comprises of a collection of photographic still images and a digital video film,  capturing the behind the scenes, site specific performance, an installation in a forest location, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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This performance was about the elemental uncertainly of time, space and being. The film was a collaboration, between two Gothenburg based artists, directed and performed by Cárdenas and co-directed / filmed, photographed and edited by Hayes. It depicts Cárdenas in her creative process and using her knowledge of Asian philosophies to influence her art practice. Mindful rituals such as repetition, meditation and flow, are engaged during the recorded performance, staged in a secluded woodland environment, seemingly in isolation, yet it playouts familiar rituals that weave our existence and union with nature. It's pattern forming outcomes are seen in a continuous wrapping of a thread around a cluster of trees, unifying these tall columns in winding repetition. This can be a metaphor for the finest of filaments of the underground fungi network, mycelium that support and join up to make complex connecting underworlds to enrich the survival of forests and yet it can also have the adverse consequences on mighty tree structures by cutting off food supplies and nutrients, spreading disease with prolific intent.  It is between these two contexts that En-Tropy is born, a new project to connect and collaborate with other artists in the cities locality...   

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In connection with this single performance was a larger context of collaboration, the premise being part of an international project called TIMESPECIFICS -  A personal choreography in time and space.  This was created during the current Global Covid -19 Pandemic, involving a range of international artists from 8 different countries, mostly in lockdown, as a reflection of the constraints under which artists set out to make and produce work. Yet at the time Sweden was not in full lockdown, although with national recommended restrictions in place for social distancing and self isolation. 

TIMESPECIFICS collaborative film project is found on news page.  

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'Hyphae is about the elemental uncertainty of time, space and being, shot during the Global Pandemic Covid-19.

 With this piece the artists imagine a world where all types of humans and nature forge their duality into a oneness, thereby living in harmony or mutualism. The transformation that happens to the space in the forest during the performance and experience of flow is a metaphor for transmutation and purification.'  

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Director and Performance:  Gaby Berglund Cárdenas -  International Multi Disciplinary Artist 

Co-Director / Photography & Video, Editing : Bev Hayes - Visual Artist, Photographer, Printmaker  Based in SWEDEN 

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