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— sensory walk
— come, Memory
— DANCER’S SLAB
— flowers
— the figure of a woman
— card carrying saint
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Dancer’s Slab, 2022
Super 8mm film transferred to digital video with sound,
3 minutes, 25 seconds
This experimental short engages with the Järrestad petroglyphs — a quartzite slab in southern Sweden bearing more than twelve thousand 3,000-year-old carvings associated with ritual, fertility, power, and myth. Filmed through a speculative lens, the work traces a composite, semi-fictional womanly figure used as a narrative and research guide across ancient sites.
Catalogue-like observations of the carvings are intermittently interrupted by fleeting bodily presences — clothing, limbs, shifting rhythms — unsettling the film’s role as document and inviting an embodied encounter with the site’s layered histories.
Filmed in September 2021 in Marcinkonys, Lithuania and at The Dancer’s Slab near Järrestad, Sweden.
Recorded, edited, and composed by Katrina Niebergal in June/July 2022 in Oakland and Rotterdam. Sound by Bergur Anderson.
Dancer’s Slab, installation view, an other world, Rotterdam, September 2023