Mårten Spångberg
CoachingProject: Who do you want to be: Artificial Sugar!

Who do you want to be: Artificial Sugar! When 'what' is in the centre politics become representational. This workshop concentrates on the artist as producer and how modes of production introduce different protocols for activation. When 'what' is in the centre expression is the basis for evaluation. This workshop focusses on structural differentiation and fuzzy/dissolved practices. One part is largely process, discussion based, a second strictly movement based engaging in 'reversed improvisation'. Mårten Spångberg Mårten Spångberg works and lives in Brussels and Stockholm. His work starts from choreography but branches out into different forms of expression. He initiated the Panacea Festivals in Stockholm (1996 - 2001) and co-curated the Body Currency, Wiener Festwochen (1998), Read My Lips, Oslo (1997), the Fourth International Summer Academy, Frankfurt (2002), and CAPITALS Acarte, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, (2002-2003). He is a frequent essayist and has worked as an opera and dance critic for daily newspapers, such as Aftonbladet (1991-93) and Dagens Nyheter (1993-97). Mårten Spångberg is founding member of Fame International and has performed a.o. with BDC and Tom Plischke, Xavier Le Roy, Bak-truppen, and Alice Chauchat. He did dramaturgical work for Ina C. Johannessen, I. Bjornsgaard, Angela Guerreiro, Dennis O’Connor, Lilia Mestre/Mette Edvardsen, and Christine de Smedt/Les Ballets C de la B. His own performance projects are internationally presented: Avantgarde (1999), Recent Works (2000). In 2001 he choreographed Break, Intermission, Before and After, a commission for Ballett Frankfurt and Plosion. In 2002 i.e. All All Over Over All All et.al. and Artists' talk. In 2005 Tanz im August presented a number of interventions focussing on how choreography and architecture interface in shaping human relations. _ He has created several installation works for a.o. Marres, Maastricht; Kunstverein Baden Baden and Le Magasin, Grenoble. Mårten Spångberg is Guest Professor at the University of Giessen, Germany; project coordinator at the Art Academy Maastricht and Senior Tutor at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels.