Peder Bjurman
Peder Bjurman is an artist, writer and director. In combining imagery and music with strong abstract or narrative texts, his performances often blend the tragical with the poetic or comic. He gives equal importance to light, sound, set and the actors’ performances, often utilizing cutting edge stage technology. His work is often devised and developed in close collaboration with the ensemble or with other artists, composers, designers and stage tech companies.
Slow Walker
Digital animation, geolocated augmented reality promenade, photography
The Slow Walker project by Peder Bjurman stages microscopic tardigrades as gigantic AR-objects in the landscape around the Nordic House using geolocated augmented reality. The colossally enhanced creatures slowly move and graze through the landscape, interacting with the audience as they come closer. Tardigrades are microscopic survivors, capable of resisting extreme temperatures, from the absolute freezing point to extreme heat. Yet they are highly sensitive to climate change, when their environments are threatened due to a rise in temperatures in their natural habitats: wetlands and moss. Slow Walker´s monumental, yet ephemeral creatures float between life and death as symbols of the fragility of ecosystems, as mystical beings, and as sculptural objects.
Scan the qr code to experience the artwork:
Digital animation, geolocated augmented reality promenade, photography
The Slow Walker project by Peder Bjurman stages microscopic tardigrades as gigantic AR-objects in the landscape around the Nordic House using geolocated augmented reality. The colossally enhanced creatures slowly move and graze through the landscape, interacting with the audience as they come closer. Tardigrades are microscopic survivors, capable of resisting extreme temperatures, from the absolute freezing point to extreme heat. Yet they are highly sensitive to climate change, when their environments are threatened due to a rise in temperatures in their natural habitats: wetlands and moss. Slow Walker´s monumental, yet ephemeral creatures float between life and death as symbols of the fragility of ecosystems, as mystical beings, and as sculptural objects.
Scan the qr code to experience the artwork:
