In 1957 the Swedish artist and writer Öyvind Falhström wrote the play Det hårda och det mjuka – Boord (The Hard and the Soft – Taable), a few years after he wrote his well known Manifesto for Concrete Poetry (1953). Fahlström certainly creates his own world where the hardships of life are rendered with a distinct brutality combined with an absurd humor. It is a world in which the borders between the individuals dissolve. They hit, they rub and use each other’s bodies in a way that is distinctly different from most social conventions. Even if other laws rule, it is a world that structurally reminds us of our own. Influenced by the repressing powers to make everything and everybody measurable the individuals consume each other.

Performed at Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm City Theatre (Unga Klara) and House of Dance, Stockholm.