The Hustle - a Manuscript for Eight Voices
2022
The Hustle is a radio play about a city in transformation and the attempts of its inhabitants to cope with existence when familiar surroundings change.
Seven people, randomly brought together in a convenience store are confronted with each-other in the middle of the chaos. Here, opinions are exchanged regarding memory, fractured lines of sight, gentrification, phantom pain, neoliberalism and what happens to the body’s internalized choreography in an altered physical reality. The work contains distressing elements, strong language and descriptions of violence. Any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental.
The Hustle was developed for the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art and Västlänken.
The piece will be available at various sites around Gothenburg until 2028.
In an interview for GIBCA, I speak more about The Hustle here
manuscript: Annika Lundgren
readers: Margareta Andersson, Andreas Engman, Kim Johansson, Martin Liljeblad, Anna Liljedahl, Rita Nettelstad, Klas Trollius and Annika Lundgren
sound techician: Daniel Josefsson
where to listen:
Stadsbiblioteket Göteborg, Götaplatsen 3, 412 56 Göteborg
Viktoria Livs, Viktoriagatan 4, 411 25 Göteborg
Eklanda Livs, Eklandagatan 23, 412 82 Göteborg
7oClock, Linnéplatsen 7, 413 10 Göteborg
or just listen here: