Nea Landin (she/her) is an artist working within the fields of contemporary dance, performance art, installation art, theatre, and technology. Her work combines choreography, visual arts and computer programming. It revolves around human digital presence and affects our bodies, minds and relationships to others. Previous works by Nea includes “desktop.dreams”, an online performance which takes place live on the computer desktop common programs such as Excel, Mail, Photobooth and Chrome extensions of body and mind. The piece deals with everyday use, memory and the self, and has strong transhumanist undertones. Another work, “OTHER”, explores intimacy and closeness in relation to distance and anonymity. It is a computer mediated duet between two participants connecting to each other from separate rooms. The experience relies on fantasy and empathy as the participants share and imagine sensations, give each other sound massages, and mirror one another in various ways.
Nea has performed in Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Tunisia, Denmark and Finland, and collaborated with artists such as Adèle Essle Zeiss, Robin Jonsson, Uncover Choreography, Claire Parsons, Noah Hellwig, Iraqi Bodies, Christina Tingskog, Scott Cazan, Toby Kassell & Ingeborg Zackariassen, Valencia James, Ron Howell & Graham Vick. She studied dance at Balettakademien Stockholm, choreography, philosophy and Klein technique at Stockholm University of the Arts, and computer programming at Konstfack. Nea is currently on her second year as an artist in residence at SITE Sweden.
References:
- desktop.dreams https://vimeo.com/884771578?share=copy
- OTHER https://vimeo.com/896354458?share=copy
- Chatgpt_except https://vimeo.com/927066691?share=copy
- Onism – The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/onism
