Artistic Statement

The dancer and choreographer aims to build an archive of tools, experiences and memories through research in connection with multidisciplinary artists. As an individual artist still looking to belong and share in a community Österlund's priority is on understanding the artistically articulate ways of movement and its genre specific ways to convey an idea outwards in the structure of performance art and theatre.

Current themes revolve around deconstructing and putting on display the patterns of our society as a highly sharing and communicative species needing to better oneself and the systems we have constructed around us. The interest is in opposites as a base for a conflict. Duality gives a reason to tackle a creative task; Österlund uses polarisation as a base to approach the performative aspect of putting the arts on display. 

Österlund balances between the serious and carefree creating dance through intuition while melding a multitude of different genres and creative expertise while discovering the unexpected.