Emma Bexell

‘Come and listen to recorded conversations with free groups in Malmö and help me try to construct the bold, unruly, playful, irreverent, tender and ineffective with only commercial toys to hand.’

- Emma Bexell

Welcome to ‘Bygga Fri Scenkonst i Lego’ - a performance and installation which, after its premiere in the Triangeln shopping centre in June, is now being shown at IAC as part of the Malmö Gallery Weekend. Here you are invited to build your own free group - out of Lego!

Unfortunately, there are only a few pieces that are a bit worn out and they seem to be getting fewer and fewer...

The artistic director of Bombina Bombast, Emma Bexell, set herself the challenge of mapping the independent performing arts scene in the city and then recreating it with square blocks of plastic. It went so-so, but perhaps it's not the product that counts. In a cultural climate that increasingly favours effective storytelling and quantifiable results, playing with Lego attempts to highlight the conflict between soft ideas and hard bricks, to find the playful in the political and vice versa.

Participating groups:
Banditsagor
Bobbi Lo
Dance is Ancient
Insite
IVER
Kollaborativet
Lilith Performance Studio
Malmö Dockteater
Memory Wax
Moomsteatern
Obanteatern
Potato Potato
Teater 23

Created and performed by Emma Bexell
Composer: Dehendrik Lechat Willekens
Participating artist: Filip Rahim Hansson
Realised with the support of the Swedish Arts Council and the City of Malmö
Language: Swedish and English
Age: rec from 12 years

Emma Bexell is the artistic director of Bombina Bombast, a touring performing arts company based in Malmö that has created works for stage, film and virtual reality and produced an escape room since its inception in 2011. Their artistic practice is characterised by a curiosity for the encounter between performing arts and innovative technology. Bombina Bombast has already been presented at festivals and venues around the world: at theatre festivals in Europe, the USA and Asia as well as at film festivals such as Cannes and Sundance. Together with Malmö City Theatre, Bexell is also the winner of the 2020 Thalia Prize for the performance ‘Eyewitnesses’.  Emma Bexell is a former student of the Malmö Theatre Academy and now teaches the independent course ‘Storyworlds in different media - about dramaturgy and world building’ at the Theatre Academy.  

Visit Bombina Bombast's homepage - bombinabombast.com