HUGSTEN

Hugsten is a collaboration between Annsofie Jonsson and Håkan Jonsson, two Swedish artists living in Berlin, who focus on visual and sound art respectively, but transcend the boundaries when working together. Hugsten creates artworks and performances that allow them to explore crafts, memories, dreams, and chosen allies together. We are interested in the use of ritual in performances and approach it in three ways: Tactically, to create a receptive mind and a temporal suspension of disbelief in both the audience and ourselves; operationally, to enable construction of meaning beyond aesthetics; strategically, to allow us to imagine alternative futures.

The word hugsten (lit. will-stone) appears in Eddan, Hyndlas sång, verse 41, where Loke finds the heart(hugsten) of a woman, half-burnt on a linden wood fire, eats it, becomes pregnant and gives birth to all the weird creatures of the world.