Interview with Kerstin Frödin and Åsa Unander-Scharin — Winners of the Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2024.

We are thrilled to share this in-depth interview with Kerstin Frödin and Åsa Unander-Scharin, in which they offer insight into their decades-long collaboration and artistic journey with this piece.

Their collaborative work takes Makoto Shinohara’s composition Fragmente (1968) as its point of departure, expanding it into a contrapuntal dialogue between music and dance where both forms are treated as equal partners. Frödin and Unander-Scharin reflect on how the work’s fragmentary, gestural structure opened space for metaphorical mapping and playful interaction, and how sound and movement became interwoven materials — not merely coexisting, but continuously shaping one another.

Transforming Fragmente2 into an exposition for the Research Catalogue became both reflection and discovery: weaving together score annotations, video, text, and metaphorical frameworks into a work that is simultaneously documentation and an artwork in its own right.

Read the full interview here to learn more about Frödin and Unander-Scharin’s creative process, their collaboration, and the artistic methods that underpin their research: 

https://societyforartisticresearch.org/rc-prize-2024-winner-interview

*Figure 2: Kerstin Frödin and Åsa Unander-Scharin in the exhibition space Färgfabriken, Stockholm, 2021. Photo credit: Patrik Eriksson.