3 2 1 HUMP
by Scilla Rajalin
Project Description - Residency:
3 2 1 HUMP
This work was born in response to the warfare situation in Europe and grew from an intuitive urge for resistance against the government's call to “prepare for war”. The work acts as a commentator in the eternal wrestling match between peace & war and sits as an opposing concept to the continuous arming of forces in Sweden and around Europe.
3 2 1 HUMP calls for radical love as a method and relies whole heartedly on human connection, intimacy and the strategies of the senses. The work combines soft form and misplaced aesthetics of violence-dismantling elements of force and challenging our perceptions of power.
The work is commissioned by BOY Konsthalland takes form through sculpture, video installation and continuous discussive discourses. The investigative aspect of the work concerns our relationship to violence, how it affects the way we relate to other people, and its influence on the political climate acrossEurope. The research is carried out via movement-based practices, with a focus on care, active listening, and attentive ways of connecting. This takes further shape through sculpted materialsand archived visual expressions on the theme. The exhibition opens in October 2025 at BOY Konsthall, Bollebygd.
Scilla Rajalin: (they/them)
Scilla Rajalin is a Swedish/Finish non-binary artist based in Stockholm, they work multidisciplinary with choreography, visual arts and creative writing - creating dynamic, often humorous work around notions of identity, un-reliable realities and systematic cycles of routines and patterns.
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Scilla has a creative portfolio that reaches between the US, UK, Italy and Scandinavia, working with Staibdance Dance Company, Margareta Åsberg, Eva Recacha, Holly Blakey, Lewis Walker, Linda Pistol and Becky Namgauds.
They graduated from London Contemporary Dance School with a First Class BA Hons in contemporary dance before continuing to freelance as a choreographer, dancer, movement director and rehearsal director between London and Stockholm. Scilla recently launched the project-based company RAJ, collaborating with local sound artists and visual artists, delving into sexuality, opposition and non-linear perceptions of time. Their most recent projects focus on the concept of archiving and how methods of documentary can meet live performance and dance. Scilla keeps a focused eye on detail and on the playful contradictions of dramaturgical problem solving.
Work in progress
