MOCA Movements 2026: Benedikte Esperi
A choreographic study for camera Black Box versus White Cube, 2023

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In this choreographic video work, Benedikte Esperi explores the in-between space connecting a black box stage and a white cube gallery, using her body as the vehicle for translation between these institutional frames. Through a series of composed actions for the camera, she lets gestures, temporalities, and performative states normally associated with live performance migrate into the logic of installation and exhibition display, and vice versa.

​The recording site becomes a corridor, a passage or hinge, where neither theatre nor gallery fully dominates, and where the choreography tests how an artistic practice can remain one, even as its formats and audiences shift.

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Credits:
Benedikte Esperi: Choreography & Videographer
Jesper Cederholm: Composer

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Biography
Benedikte Esperi is a Swedish performance artist, choreographer, filmmaker and curator whose work spans live performance, dance for camera, installations and interdisciplinary collaborations within the expanded field of contemporary choreography. She is the founder and artistic director of Finnekumla Dans & Konstscen and curates platforms such as Dansfilmfestivalen, alongside her position as lecturer in dance as an artistic subject at the University of Gothenburg.

​Her performances, video works and site-responsive projects are presented in public space, black box and white cube contexts, where she consistently explores the politics of the body, public space and the shifting formats of performance.

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