GAME CHANGER
BY: ARTIST DUO LILITH
March 28, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Ongoing performance (drop-in until 7:40 PM)
March 29, 2:00 PM–4:00 PM
Ongoing performance (drop-in until 3:40 PM)

Rebellious individualism, compliant group affiliation, and collective grief processing are explored in the audience-interactive performance Game Changer. Performers and visitors move through an uncertain borderland in a dim club-like environment, all reverently wearing anonymizing hoods adorned with carnival-like feathers. Longings for intimacy, comfort, and expression are tested and processed through gestures, rituals, dances, and impulses. A group of performers and dancers follow a predetermined choreography—sometimes individually, sometimes as a group. A twelve-year-old girl leads the game, occasionally moving the audience and performers around the room.

The piece dissolves and shifts the boundaries between visitor and performer, as each guest chooses how to participate. LILITH creates visual worlds through intuitive, collage-like processes where performance, film, text, sound, and sculptural installations interact. Their work centers on inner human states and drives, exploring the rituals and ceremonies we follow to function and be accepted within a group. Through performances that touch on community, belonging, and exclusion, LILITH constructs their works as living images. Their foundation lies in universal human questions—love, longing, and grief—driven by a desire to penetrate the viewer’s consciousness, like a hum and a hope to understand what it means to be human.

LILITH is the artist duo Elin Lundgren (b. 1973 in Stockholm, based in Linderöd and Malmö) and Petter Pettersson (b. 1972 in Kristinehamn, based in Linderöd and Malmö). The duo has worked together in visual and performing arts in various forms since 1999. Their works have been exhibited both in Sweden and internationally, most recently at Malmö Art Museum in the group exhibition The Art of the Opening Statement – Setting the Tone for an Exhibition, and in Toronto during the international performance festival 7a11d.

In 2007, the artist duo founded Lilith Performance Studio—an independent venue for practical artistic research focusing on newly produced, large-scale performance art by invited artists from around the world.

Game Changer
Idea and concept: Artist duo LILITH
Music: Siri Jennefelt
Performers: Inna Pettersson Lundgren, Erwin Semler, Selma Kjellsson, Joakim Carlson, Lo Lundgren, Nim Ahlgren, Sonya Aho, Shania Amrani, Alma Edvall Bons, Sanna Bons, Sara Christiansson, Ariel Flander, Rickard Grönberg, Siri Hedlund, Toril Hedberg, Thomas Hiljeborn, Sofia Holmberg, Martin Hult, Herkules Jansson, Karolina Kautsbaum, Signe Larsson, Elin Lundgren, Stephanie Lundgren, Karna Malmblom, Erik Mellerstedt, Belinda Morén, Jacob Skarehag, Ove Uusma Schyffert, Ann-Sofi Östlund.

The performance Game Changer is produced in collaboration with Bildmuseet, Norrlandsoperan, and Vita Kuben, with support from Umeå Municipality. It has been presented at Bildmuseet in Umeå and at Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö.