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Presentation of Precious Balance Walk (13.24)

(2020) Precious Balance Walk (13.24) by the intuitive art project I Still Live in Water,
Felicia Konrad and Johan Haugen

”We are all waters in the same Ocean.”
– Yoko Ono

6 Nordic Performance Artists invited to perform in and with water in The Sound/Öresund, Ribersborgs Beach, Malmö, Sweden. Filmed in 4 days in August 2019. The film intends to create an immediate sense of affinity with water and to awaken impulses and inspiration to explore the fact that our bodies are composed of water and that we live in a hydrosphere. And remind us of how precious water is, and that we need to protect water.
(Music in the film; Water is Instinct; Felicia Konrad, David Carlsson, Mats Persson, from the sound piece Water Dialogues).

Film 
2020 Precious Balance Walk (13.24) https://vimeo.com/460235021
Streaming at TriArt, only Sweden; www.triart.se/streama/precious-balance-walk
2020 Precious Balance Walk (13.24) TRAILER
DIRECTORS: Felicia Konrad and Johan Haugen/I STILL LIVE IN WATER
PERFORMANCE ARTISTS
LISA NYBERG; MALMÖ/SWEDEN, ERIK HÖGSTRÖM; MALMÖ/SWEDEN, JOAKIM STAMPE; GOTHENBURG/SWEDEN,
MERI NIKULA; TORNEO/FINLAND, IGNACIO PÉRES PÉRES HELSINKI, FINLAND/VENEZUELA
ELENA LUNDQUIST ORTIZ COPENHAGEN/COPENHAGEN/DENMARK
CINEMATOGRAPHER BENJAMIN ZADIG
CAMERA ASSISTANTS ANNA ÅHLANDER LINNEA SPARÉN 
SOUND TECHNIC/DESIGN DAVID GÜLICH
EDITOR SASCHA FÜLSCHER 
MUSIC DAVID CARLSSON/FELICIA KONRAD/MATS PERSSON
(BASS DAVID CARLSSON VOCAL FELICIA KONRAD)
MENTOR: FILM DIRECTOR JENIFER MALMQVIST MALMÖ/SWEDEN
PRODUCERS: TANGRAM FILM /I STILL LIVE IN WATER  
WITH THE SUPPORT FROM NORDIC CULTURE FUND, BOOSTHELSINGBORG, FILMCENTRUM SYD, MARINT KUNSKAPSCENTER OHBOY HOTEL

With support from Nordic Culture Fund, Filmcentrum Syd, BoostHelsingborg, Marine Knowledge Center in Malmö, Oh Boy Hotel

Prices and selections, independent film festivals around the world
Best Experimental Film: ARFF Paris Around Film International 2021, European Short Film Festival 2021, Gliff Golden Lemur Film Festival 2021 Portugal, Arrow International Film Festival 2022, Sweet Democrazy Film Award 2022, Bhutan International Short Film Festival 2022, Venus Community Awards 2022 Turkey, AIMAFF, Athens 2023, Frida Film Festival 2023 Mexico, Vegas Movies Awards 2023, Echonation Audio and Filmfestival 2023, Ireland, Golden Giraffe International Film Festival, Nice, Tokyo Awards 2023, Budapest Film Festival 2023, Garoaawards 2023, Sao Paolo, Best Short Film Award 2022/23 Summer Edition, London England, Beyond the Screen Film Festival 2024, Antwerpen, Belgium, London Movie Awards 2024, 
Best Mood Film: Yeti Film Fest, Iceland 2024, Sensei FilmFest Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Honorable Mention (Best Experimental) New York Tristate International Film Festival 2023, Your Way International Film Festival 2023, Malta 
Best Performing Art and Critics choice; Calcutta International Cult Film 2022
Best Dance or Poetic; Climaxfilmfest Critic Awards 2022 Spanien
Best Cinematography; Benjamin Zadig; Arrow International Film Festival 2022, Golden Wheat Awards 2022 Turkey,
Vegas Movie Award 2023 
Best Sound Editing, David Gülich, Arrow International Film Festival 2022 Frankrike
Best Sound Design; David Gülich, Paris Shorts Film Awards 2022
Best Arthouse Film; 8 & Halfilm Awards May 2022
Best Director: Golden Wheat Awards 2022 Turkey
Best Original Sound Track: Fox Film International 2023, Italy 
Special Award; Cinematographer Benjamin Zadig/Precious Balance Walk; Cinematic European Film Festival 2022 Moldavia
’Outstanding Achievement’; DIFF Durk International Film Festival 2021 Bhutan, Reels International Film Festival 2022 Indien
Nominated Arthouse Finalist at Stockholm Independent Film Festival 2021
Nominated finalist for Best Poetic at Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, London 2022, Magma Film Awards 2022 (Hawaii)
Nominated finalist; Bridge of Peace Film Festival 2023, Paris
Nominated Best Experimental of the Year; Vegas Movie Awards 2023
Nominated finalist Best Avant-Garde Film: Nocturna Brooklyn Film Festival 2024
Nominated finalist Best Cinematography: Benjamin Zadig, Yeti Film Fest, Iceland 2024
Nominated finalist Best Experimental: Sensei FilmFest, Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Nominated finalist Best Experimental and Best Dance and Poetic; Filmhaus, Berlin, January 2024
Selected; Prague International Indie Film Festival 2021, Serbest International Film Festival (SIFF) 2021, Water Docs 2021, Canada
Nov Nature & Culture - Poetry Film Festival 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark, Hollywood On The Tiber Film Awards 2021, 
Flickfair International Film Festival 2022, Snow Leopard International Film Festival 2022, European Peace Film Festival 2022 Ukraine, French International Modern Script and Film Festival 2023, Black Owl Festival 2023, Bodrum,Mugla, Turkey 

Live Screenings of Precious Balance Walk
2024 17th of August, Bistrita Romänia International Film, the festival takes place at Teleki Castle in Poșmuș Bistrita Romania , as part of a larger arts festival (ArtCast TELEKY) that includes concerts, exhibitions, poetry, and workshops. "We are confident that your film will be well received by the audience."@briff_film_festival
2024 8th of June On World Ocean Day our film Precious Balance Walk (13.24) screened nonstop at Malmö Art Hall https://malmokonsthall.se/evenemangs/havets-dag-kortfilmen-precious-balance-walk/
2023 14/9  OSLO, at ECOPERFORMANCE IN ARCHITECTURE, as part of the teaching and research program BODY & SPACE MORPHOLOGIES ACTING AND THE ACTED IN A MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD at the Institute of Architecture The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)Oslo, Prof. Rolf Gerstlauer. https://aho.no/no/courses/40-559/2023-host
2023 3/9 Cinema Panora, Malmö, Malmö in the making
2023 2/6 Sao Paolo, 3ird Ecoperformance International Film Festival www.ecoperformance.art.br
(Also a part of the streaming of 57 films online 1-4 JUNE 2023)
2023 27-28 May, Southern Swedish Design Days, Malmö, (Locally Alien)
2022 23/9 St Pauli Kyrka, Malmö Gallerihelg 2022/ Konstfrämjandet i Skåne 
2021 6/9 Friis Frame, Panora Cinema, Malmö, Sweden
2021 6/10 Malmö Art Hall, Malmö, Sweden
2021 13/10 Nordic Labour Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden
2021 28/11 Nature & Culture - Poetry Film Festival, Islands Brygge Culture House, Copenhagen, Denmark 
(also online together with 157 other films!)

Exhibitions
2024 October 1-5, Precious Balance Walk is one of 20 films looping in MOSTRA ECOPERFORMANCE FILM FESTIVAL at Sesc Pompeia (São Paulo, Brasil), International Ecoperformance Film Festival (2021 - 2024) @ecoperformancefilmfestival, https://www.ecoperformance.art.br/ Maura Baiocchi Wolfgang Pannek.
2024 10/2 -3/3 Amsterdam: Group Exhibition: WATER EN VUUR AQUA ARDENS
https://www.kunstinzicht.nl/kunst/tentoonstelling/19922/e24381/sonja-cabalt-aqua-ardens-water-vuur-ndsm-fuse-amsterdam.html
2021 2/10 - 7/11 Precious Balance Walk, arthouse/experimental film, at Gibca Extended (Gothenburg International Biennal for Contemporary Art), Tjörns Municipality, Sweden

DIRECTORS FELICIA KONRAD AND JOHAN HAUGEN/I STILL LIVE IN WATER
PERFORMANCE ARTISTS
LISA NYBERG; MALMÖ/SWEDEN, ERIK HÖGSTRÖM; MALMÖ/SWEDEN, JOAKIM STAMPE; GOTHENBURG/SWEDEN,
MERI NIKULA; TORNEO/FINLAND, IGNACIO PÉRES PÉRES HELSINKI, FINLAND/VENEZUELA
ELENA LUNDQUIST ORTIZ COPENHAGEN/COPENHAGEN/DENMARK
CINEMATOGRAPHER BENJAMIN ZADIG
CAMERA ASSISTANTS ANNA ÅHLANDER LINNEA SPARÉN 
SOUND TECHNIC/DESIGN DAVID GÜLICH
EDITOR SASCHA FÜLSCHER 
MUSIC DAVID CARLSSON/FELICIA KONRAD/MATS PERSSON
(BASS DAVID CARLSSON VOCAL FELICIA KONRAD)
MENTOR: FILM DIRECTOR JENIFER MALMQVIST MALMÖ/SWEDEN
PRODUCERS: TANGRAM FILM /I STILL LIVE IN WATER  
WITH THE SUPPORT FROM NORDIC CULTURE FUND, BOOSTHELSINGBORG, FILMCENTRUM SYD, MARINT KUNSKAPSCENTER OHBOY HOTEL

Beautiful essay about Precious Balance Walk by the curator, author, and researcher; Bronwyn Bailey Charteris

22/8 Live Performance with interactivity Photos/Archive
The Throne - Our desire to own water/nature
The Hierarchy, the dominance. The climate changes. 
A poetic reflecting and examining performance with interactivity by Felicia Konrad, Johan Haugen, Erik Högström, Annou Nilsson, Lisa Nyberg och Alicia DAilly.
Place: Ribersborgs beach, Malmö/Sweden; Time: 14-16.
The Throne was a free continuation of the performance 'Water is instinct' that we did in August 2017. 
 

                                                                                                                                    Felicia Konrad  photo Johan Haugen, I Still  Live in Water
2020
28/7 - 16/8
Outdoor installation of the sound piece Water Dialogues at Malmö Art Museum, as an extension of the ongoing exhibition Shapeshifters. 9th of August; Slow collective walk, and 16th of august Live Performance Concert, Body of Water; Felicia Konrad, David Carlsson, Mats Persson, Tina Quartey. 
Film documentation  Short film clip  Short film clip with waterphone

                                                                                                                                                     Amniotic Fluid (canvas) photo Johan Haugen
AMNIOTIC FLUID EXHIBITION
Amniotic Fluid: photo Johan Haugen/Amniotic Fluid print on canvas 102X160 cm. 
Text: Felicia Konrad 5 dialogues with Water 
Sound piece: Water Dialogues 20 min: What's Beneath The Surface Tina Quartey/Mats Persson
Water is instinct Felicia Konrad/David Carlsson/Mats Persson, Invocation Tina Quartey, Water Dialogues Felicia Konrad/Mats Persson/David Carlsson.
Short art film; Precious Balance Walking (13.24).
6 Nordic Performance Artists invited to perform in water and with water. 

2019
31/3  Water is Instinct played in Swedish radio, Jazzradion P2  and Kalejdoskop P2
16/3 Digital release and event; Water Dialogues at Underverket, Malmö.  Spotify  Bandcamp
A Living Installation with ambient improvisational music with water and water meditations. 

FEEDBACK ON THE WATER DIALOGUES:
From the Art Intendant Desriée Lennklo at Tomelilla Arthall:
"During the exhibition period, many of our visitors took part in Water Dialogues.
It was installed in an almost dark room in the lower part of the art hall. In the room, there was sitting possibilities and the sound piece was experienced by help from audioguides and headphones. The sound piece seemed to stimulate stillness and reflection. Often when we in the staff were crossing the room you met visitors sitting and half laying in sacosacs , apparently encapsulated in the sound piece. And in themselves. 
The sound piece appealed to both children and adults, and these moments of stillness and soulful presence as the piece offered gave the visitors a very strong experience. -Tomelilla Arthall found that the sound piece was very appreciated and that it gave a deepening understanding, not only in the understanding of our relationship to water but also and maybe the most important, our relation to ourselves, our origin and our future." 
 
Other musicians/composers in genres as classical music/rock, film music, and independent pop about Water Dialogues:
"Very associative and visual. The ASMR feeling in the mix with bass and voice really works great in Water is Instinct.
There is a calmness, stillness and naturalness in the whole piece that makes it very exciting, and the work with the sound, and it's effects is impressive. Super great work. "

"Very special. Incredibly well integrated in so many levels - the sound, the listening, the musical, the storytelling with the sound/the basic/elementary and the personal story. And BEAUTIFUL! I especially like the sounds of the water and the honesty in the vocal. Very good recordings and very good produced."

"Listening to Water Dialogues now. I LOVE IT! The vocal is awesome, deep and beautiful, and the music and the sound landscape is magic.
I really like that it sounds like a collective work. The different pieces blend together so well and smooth. I hope you will play live again soon."

2018
8/9 - 4/11 Tomelilla Konsthall, Sweden.
Jeanette Schäring/Whose water are you? Konrad/Haugen/Amniotic Fluid  Gunilla Pantzar/Inside
9/9 We are all water in the same Ocean/ I Still Live in Water: Interactive performance, Water meditation and Water banquet tasting water from Island, Skåne and Värmland. 
Thank you Rannveig þyri Guðmundsdóttir, river protector, and Linda Mjöll Stefansdóttir, film designer and shaman!
2016
15/10 - 13/11 Blå Ställets Konsthall, Angered, Gothenburg/Sweden.
Jeanette Schäring/Whose water are you? I Still Live In Water/Amniotic Fluid Curator Bibbi Forsman

PERFORMANCE
2018
A tribute to the driving force of life
Water Walk - An Art Performance Walk
24/8 Ribersborg City Beach
Interactive and with inspiration from Global Art Performance Walks and from the slow walk in the Japanese dance form Butoh. The walk welcomed everyone who wanted to participate. Before the walk; a water meditation.
I Still Live In Water together with the artists Erik Högström, Susanne Ovelius and Monika Gora.
The event on Facebook

2017
Water is Instinct. 
13/8, Ribergsborgs City Beach
A performance that was partly interactive.  
Starting points for the work in the performance:
Erik Högström b.1969. Artist, musician, and arranger of gallery nights in Malmö. Reflected over the modern human's wish to own nature. Johan Haugen b. 1968. Artist. Johan's senses focused on the tactile meeting between water and land.
Felicia Konrad b. 1964. Voiceperformer/Artist. Concentrated on balance and communication with water and breathtaking quantum physics. Annou Nilson b. 1976. Dance Artist. Answering on the movements of water inside and outside the body, and invites to meetings. Andreas M. Larson b. 1987. Artist Performance and Sound. Transferred himself back to his childhood on the island Tjörn, Sweden and the relation to the sea he has thereafter. 
The event on Facebook

2016
A glass of water, please! - The water in your glass is maybe older than the sun.
22/8 At Malmö City Library, Sweden.
15/10 Opening performance at Konsthallen Blå Stället, Angered, Gothenburg/Sweden. 
Jeanette Schäring/Whose water are you? I Still Live In Water/Amniotic Fluid, curated by Bibbi Forsman. 


2015
To carry water. To carry 5890 liters of water one day.
An interactive site-specific performance. 
30/5 Dome of Visions, Copenhagen/Denmark
9/8 Ribersborg City Beach 9/8, Malmö/Sweden; also participating; Percussion: Martin Brandqvist, Emeli Ek, Emil Sjunnesson
Tina Quartey. Speech: Catarina Rolfsdotter, Author/Journalist/Moderator.
Documentation film: Christian Jönsson.
Film from Dome of Vision, Copenhagen
Film from Ribesrborg City Beach, Malmö  Short raw film children interacting, percussion and water 
With support from Malmö City Cultural Support and Dome of Visions. 

5890 liters is an average Swedish person's daily water footprint according to WWF.
"The performance is playing with and reflecting on our unawareness around how much water we use daily in our modern societies and were we take the water, and the fact that we in a way have lost control. It is is not any longer possible for one single human living in a modern society to manage to carry the weight and perform the physical work that is necessary to provide the water used daily. And also that we are unaware of the water in our own bodies, we consist of 70 % water, water that the dinosaurs have been drinking of. What we do to water we do to ourselves. The piece is also in the same time a tribute to all people carrying water on a daily bases, and to the water itself and to the big natural cycle!"

Sound Installation and Sound Pieces 
2019
16 mars Digital release and event; Water Dialogues at Underverket, Malmö.  Spotify  Bandcamp
A Living Installation with ambient improvisational music with water and water meditations. 
 
2018
Soundpiece in Audiologues at Tomelilla Art Hall 8/9- 4/11 in the exhibition Amniotic Fluid
Soundpiece: Water Dialogues 20 min: What's Beneath The Surface: Tina Quartey/Mats Persson/David Carlsson Water is instinct: Felicia Konrad/David Carlsson/Mats Persson, Invocation Water Dialogue: Felicia Konrad/Mats Persson/David Carlsson

2016

Love is an Ocean was selected by the artist and curator Pascale Barett (Fra/B) for Water Works 2016 global online exhibition. Water Works is an initiative taken by the artist Suzon Fuks, Brisbane, supported by Australia Art Council. www.water-wheel.net
Love is an Ocean/Cosmic Wash Over/Mats Persson sound design Felicia Konrad vocal/lyrics Caroline Leander piano David Carlsson bass Robin Knutsson drums.  At youtube  at Spotify

Background story of the film project Precious Balance Walk 
Late Autumn 2017 We started to invite artists and people connecting to water in their art or life, to walk together with me at Ribersborg Beach, Malmö, with the water glass on the head; Precious Balance Walk...building inspiration together.
The idea of making a film came up when Ignacio Pérez Pérez one of the grounders of Global Art Performance Walks came to Malmö and walked with me. I met Ignacio at his workshop Shaman Walking at the performance festival Body Landscapes, Copenhagen, arranged by the artist David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo. At the same workshop, I met Matilde Real who just finished her master on Utopia at Goldsmith University, London. When Matilde came and walked with us in November it was freezing cold. Watch the spontaneous short film that she made from this day. But what was crucial was when we decided to make a kind of spontaneous film with the artist Lisa Nyberg august 2018, and we seriously realized the need to make a film in a more traditional and professional way.