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2024 // Teater Viirus, Helsinki
Skapelsen is born from existing creation myths and myths yet to be born. It moves inevitably through mythical creatures, unravelling the infinity of the universe. The work is a proposal of a time where perception takes centre stage, and where we can glide through the layers of history, reaching for the unimaginable.
Skapelsen is a dance performance in the form of a scenic poem, where a new world emerges from the echoes of the one we know. The performance is an imaginary beginning composed by the artist duo Broas & Nyberg together with the working group.
Premiere: 4.5.2024, Teater Viirus, Helsinki
Concept and direction Broas & Nyberg
Performers Ella-Noora Koikkalainen, Kardo Shiwan
Costume design Hanne Jurmu
Music Martin Granö
Part of the process Eija Klinga
Choreography Jenna Broas
Scenography and light design Fabian Nyberg
Producer Sofia Charifi
Production O linjär ry
Press photos Venla Helenius
Supported by The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Konstsamfundet
Duration 60 min
2023 // Experimental short, 20 min
Poetry from Topian Futures is a three-part video work about inevitability, the passage of time, and human's relationship with nature. The work paints poetic pictures of the world as could be - or perhaps as it already is.
Concept, direction & performance: Broas & Nyberg
Composer: Martin Granö
Edit: Fabian Nyberg
Supported by: Finnish Cultural Foundation,
Photos: Broas & Nyberg
Awards and nominations (as of February 2025):
- Nominated 'Best Experimental Work', Greenwich Film Festival, 2024
Public screenings (as of February 2025):
Carpicorn Film Festival tammikuu 2025
- Greenwich Film Festival, Online screening, 19-21.9.2024
- Moving North Tanssielokuvia pohjolasta, curated by Kati Kallio, Helsinki, Finland, 19.9.2024
- Tampere Dance Current Festival, 'Human Nature' Film Screening, curated by Kati Kallio, Tampere, Finland, 24.5.2024
- 'Kietoumia', Art Exhibition, Porvoo, Finland, November 2023
2022 // Installation
Ljuslunga II is part of a series of light sculptures that look at breathing as a phenomenon from various perspectives.
Ljuslunga II handles photosynthesis, nature’s enchanting process that transforms light into matter and whose by-product gives birth to life in the form of oxygen. The work is a kind of an artificial, breathing organism that filters the glowing light from within, through dried algae.
Concept, design and implementation: Broas & Nyberg
Ääni/Ljud/Sound: Martin Granö
Supporters: Porvoo City, Svenska Kulturfonden
Photos: Fabian Nyberg
2021 // Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Helsinki
Premiere 30.9.2021, Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Helsinki
Designing the End is a fabulation of the future, past and present. It is acceptance. A farewell. An effort to grasp something that is larger than us.
Designing the End discusses the end of our current civilisation, and the contemporary human’s obsession with their imagined death. The performance is an audiovisual montage consisting of hunches, flickers and both familiar and strange realities.
How far can we stretch the thought of designing the end of the world and our own death? How can we remain righteous and empathetic in a changing world? What kind of story will be told about us in the future?
Credits
Concept, direction and on stage: Broas & Nyberg | Choreography: Jenna Broas | Spatial, video and light design: Fabian Nyberg | Sound design: Ville Aalto | Costume and textile design: Hanne Jurmu in collaboration with Taneli Ukura | Assisting spatial and video design: Aino Kontinen (Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture) | Mentor: Ami Karvonen | Produced by: Zodiak - Center for New Dance, O linjär ry | Residencies: Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence for artists and researchers, Old Mine Residency Outokumpu | Supporters: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Konstsamfundet, Tre Smeder foundation, The Finnish Cultural Foundation | Premiere date and place: 30.9.2021 Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Helsinki
Duration (minutes): 75 min | Stage dimensions: 10 x 14 x 4,5 | Target group: 12 and up
2020 // Experimental short, 3:55 min
Video work by the artist duo Broas & Nyberg. The characters Purple and Violet tries to save the planet.
Concept, direction & performance: Broas & Nyberg
Composer: Martin Granö
Lyrics: Fabian Nyberg
VFX: Fabian Nyberg
Supported by: Svenska Kulturfonden, Finnish Cultural Foundation
Photos:Screenshots
2020 // TSC Studio, Helsinki
Truths That Never Were by artist duo Broas & Nyberg deals with the concept of a living subject and its ontological, virtual and fleeting truths. The work manifests itself in space through the dialogue between animated video and multidimensional movement. The work captures the viewer in a surrealistic landscape moving on the border between the unreal and the real.
Concept, choreography and design: Jenna Broas and Fabian Nyberg
Composition and sound design: Martin Granö
Virtual premiere 20.3.2020 @ 19:00 (GMT+2) at this site. The show will be streamed live (and only live) at this time.
PERFORMANCES AT TSC STUDIO (Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 E, 3rd floor): Postponed to a later date due to the Corona outbreak.
In collaboration with and supported by: Tero Saarinen Company, Ehkä-production & contemporary art space Kutomo, Svenska Kulturfonden, Finnish Cultural Foundation
Photos: Broas&Nyberg
2020 // Installation
The light sculpture Ljuslunga (Light Lung) is a gentle depiction of abandonment and the beauty of death. Ljuslunga is a kind of artificial lung that reflects being on the verge of death - a time where the question of the end and its expectation is present. The mechanical repetition of the sculpture creates an expectation of the next breath and at the same time takes the thoughts to the body’s attempt to sustain life in its final moments. Ljuslunga is thematically positioned between life and death. Breathing is the body’s automatic way to regulate life, and is present until the last moments of life. The work is an image of being near the last moments, where breathing goes through different stages. It is light, thin, heavy, fragmented, even, and with sudden changes. The light of the work varies between cold white and saturated yellow. The work invites the experiencer to settle down and calm down, but at the same time it tells the story of stagnation and to have to give up.
Concept: Broas & Nyberg
Design & implementation: Fabian Nyberg
Supporters: Svenska Kulturfonden, The Finnish Cultural Foundation
Photos: Fabian Nyberg
2019 // Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki
Because of truths we have a hard time #2 is a journey into identity, the subject and the self. The theme of the work has raised from the experience of how one’s identity, agency and the subject dissolves, stretches and drowns – in trends, in truths served through different channels and in decision anxiety. The work raises questions about the limits and limitlessness of the subject’s agency and existence in a technologically built terrain.
Concept, choreography and design: Jenna Broas and Fabian Nyberg
Composition and sound design: Martin Granö
Partners: Tero Saarinen Company, Svenska Kulturfonden, Ehkä-production & contemporary art space Kutomo
Photos: Broas&Nyberg
2019 // Ehkä-tuotanto, Kutomo (Turku)
Because of truths we have a hard time places itself somewhere between the genres of contemporary dance and installation art. It is the first co-work by the artist duo Jenna Broas and Fabian Nyberg. In the work, the mind of the performer, the mind of the audience, and the mind of a machine form a synthesis, creating a stage reality that raises questions about the limits or the limitlessness of the subject’s agency and existence.
Concept, choreography and design: Broas&Nyberg
Production: Ehkä-production, Broas&Nyberg
Residency: Ehkä-production / Kutomo (Turku)
Photo: Broas&Nyberg
