Terminal (2012) it is an expansion of a duet that Nilsson and Ursprung collaborated on during the creative process of Ursprung’s graduate thesis project, Terminal 24. The work explores interpersonal relationships in transient spaces. As described by cultural anthropologist Marc Augé, transportation terminals represent non-places; they are as ubiquitous as they are nonexistent. They represent an anti-cultural space that lacks cultural familiarity, yet they are a part of the cultural knowledge of our increasingly globalized society. It is our argument that it is in the shared familiarity of these spaces so devoid of cultural specificity that we uncover and display our most universal human characteristics.
By stripping away the notion that culture makes us human, we hope to use human movement—both pedestrian and transit-specific—to build a movement vocabulary that reflects global knowledge of locating and relocating ourselves.
Terminal has been presented by springWIDEopen, Movement Research, Brown University, and with the Boston Touring Group in London, UK.