HS82 x Cristina Caprioli

In October 2020, Humans since 1982 engaged in a collaboration with Stockholm based choreographer Cristina Caprioli with the aim of exploring different ways of contextualising Rocking Church. The collaboration resulted in two public performances at HALLEN in Farsta, Sweden in which Rocking Church was presented together with Caprioli’s spatial installation Pending Sky, three of her collaborating dancers, and a soundscape composed by artist and musician Yoann Durant.

Ulm minster is located in Ulm, Germany – the hometown of one of Humans since 1982’s founding artists. The church replica itself is a found object, initially created as a recreational passion project by an 80-year-old modeler from Germany. The original maker had already sold the church to a Mr. Frank R. Schindler of Neu-Ulm, who agreed to pass it over to Humans since 1982 to create Rocking Church.

Now transformed through its incorporation into an assemblage sculpture, Rocking Church bears surrealist qualities and lacks fixed meaning. It brings together two seemingly discordant symbols – the church and a child’s toy – to encourage multiple implications and explore the potential of playfulness in relation to artistic creations. Combining skilled craftsmanship with the intervention of an artist studio, Rocking Church collapses assumptions about the hierarchies of making in favour of celebrating the curiosity and perseverance required to complete any creative project from concept through to realisation.

Rocking Church: Humans since 1982
Pending Sky: Cristina Caprioli
Choreography: Cristina Caprioli
Dancers: Anja Arnqvist, Philip Berlin, Madeleine Lindh
Sound: Yoann Durant

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