SLADE 2007 SUMMER SHOWS, Malin Ståhl, MFA, www.malinstahl.se/showreel/

Incantatio, 2006
Video, 6 mins

Dream of a Dream, 2007
Video, 8 mins 45 secs

Artist's Statement
I am interested in performative acts and roles adopted in personal presentation. I play (with a few exceptions) all characters in my videos myself, taking on different personas, roles and stages of femininity. In experimenting with roles I employ the clown character, as a roaming trickster who transgress pre-conceived and agreed structures, both in appearance and in action.
The work is structurally linked to the theatre of the absurd and to the theatre theories of Bertolt Brecht. These influences can be seen in that there is no clear direction driving the narrative and in that the work sees a constant break-up of illusion.