84 - Erik Åberg: Asking Big Questions through Juggling - Part 1 of 2

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In this episode we bring you the first part of a conversation with Erik Åberg who at the time of recoring is writing his Ph.D about juggling. He is an extraorinary juggler with a wonderful way of thinking and finding real deep questions about juggling, writing, researching, archiving, and answering them in illuminating ways.
We start out talking about how it is to write a ph.d about juggling.
He is seeking to grasp his process and to describe an actual practice which could then reliably be used to create work.
How ideas pop up AFTER you have worked hard on them, whilst doing something else.
How to break down what you're doing into components and then make them geometrical.
Ghost cubes. Moveable sculture which allows sculptures happen in time.
His work on Headrolls.
Making archiving and intellectual work into part of your artistic process.
His epiphany that the reality of anything we create be it a book a show or a sculpture resides in the spectators experience.
The importance of asking what this experience is.
How the experience of a sculpture and a performance relate and differ.
Who owns time in the experience of art?
Three dimensions of time and participation in the artistic experience.
Links:
Erik Åberg's Ghost Cubes
Erik and Jay Gilligan's juggling show Bevis
Erik and Jay's juggling show Blick
A more biographical interview with Erik for those who want to get to know him a little more.
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