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2011.11
Workshop at the SU-EN Butoh Company
2011.07
June 29- July 3 open from 12-17 daily
Opening on Wednesday 29th 5 - 9 pm
Performance by Hiroko Tsuchimoto and Sofia Törnblad at 7 pm
Tomas Stark
Vygandas Simbelis
Hiroko Tsuchimoto
Sofia Törnblad
Malin Pettersson Öberg
Warning, trivial observation: most actions take place somewhere or other. Some specific place must serve as the site of our being, staying, going, traveling to/from, must we be, stay, go, or travel to/from. Doing anything at all implies a place; without placement, action becomes unthinkable. Now, the opposite is a more complicated condition: places, considered as meaningful realities in these human lives of ours, are unthinkable without us and our actions; they come into existence only when there’s been human interference.
Your place? The dependency, then, is reciprocal. The place in itself (those surfaces and shapes of natural or architectural forms) (if there is such a thing) (i.e. a das Ding an sich) is mute and empty until we charge it – invest it with meaning – either by physical action on the spot, or in the mind. Even more intriguing is the idea that the place will multiply as new individuals establish a relationship with it: since the memories and attitudes that we have invested in it are so different, your place is identical with mine only in such insignificant aspects as its coordinates on the map and its name. The place is not one, but a potentially inevitable number of places, as many as there are humans who think about it, remember it, own it and feel it. A place is neither in the plural nor in the singular; neither owned nor free. Anyone can claim a felt ownership of a nation, an abandoned public pool, or a Paris sidewalk café.
From the exhibition essay Your place or mine?
by Johanne Nordby Wernø
2011.05
Vernissage 18/5 klockan 17:00 – 22:00
Öppet 19/5 – 22/5 klockan 12:00 – 18:00
Medverkande konstnärer
Dominique Fleury
Elvire Soyez
Eva Arnqvist
Frida Tebus
Hans Rosenström
Henrik Eriksson
Ida Pettersson
Johan Wilén
Jonas Isfält
Kanslibyrån, John Huntington & Per-Arne Sträng
Kajsa Pontén
Karin Lindh
Katarina Lundgren
Kira Carpelan
Linda Hofvander
Malin Pettersson Öberg
Maria Andersson
Noak Lönn
Paul Kokamägi
Paula Urbano
Petra Axelsson
Samuel Nyholm
Shiva Anoushirvani
Sofia Törnblad
Stina Persson
Ulrika Sparre
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2011.04
FOLK VARIATIONS / LIFE IN THE WOODS
Commissioned by RADAR, Loughborough University, UK.
This is an experimental project utilizing the collaborative filmmakig process for a temporary social experiment - an intentional woodland community. Borrowing a format from left-wing outdoor education programmes and socialist summer camps started in the early twentieth century, such as the Kibbo Kift, the aim is to reflect upon the history of folk revivalism, the neo-pagan movement and the relationship with queer and left wing politics in the British context. By engaging with the forest site as one of political contestation, the project aims, in part, to examine how our relationship to nature is mediated by histories, ideologies, stories and myths. The final video will explore whether living experiments such as this do have the potential to produce new collectivities. This intention will also be reflected in the film-making process, as responsibility for finding different ways of representing the experience on camera will be taken by the whole group.
2010.04
Beyond Former Heaven
(or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography)
Directed by Olivia Plender
July 5 - August 13, 2010
The Banff Centre
Banff, Canada
This residency will encourage participants to work, live, play, and think collaboratively and is based on the view that experimentation should not simply be confined to the safe space of art practice but can also change our social relations. The main focus of activity will be to open up the idea of what research can be, approaching it as a performative act in itself. In this context, research can be understood as an ongoing group performance encompassing familiar academic models (such as reading groups and field trips), alongside activities such as collaborative film-making, experimental ways of living, and other more irrational approaches to knowledge production.
We will be exploring research methods borrowed from a wide range of historical sources, including Mass Observation, initiated in England in 1937 by ornithologist and anthropologist Tom Harrisson, communist poet Charles Madge, and documentary film-maker Humphrey Jennings (who was also the British representative of the surrealist movement). The original aim of Mass Observation was to create an “anthropology of ourselves” using an approach that was between surrealism and the social sciences, by conducting dream surveys, and mapping the conditions and opinions of the British public on a wide variety of topics including work, religion, and popular culture.
Another key reference point is Monte Verità, an early 20th century Utopian community established in Ascona, Switzerland. During the decades when it existed, a huge variety of avant-garde artists, writers, dancers, psychologists, sociologists, educational theorists, and mystics visited in order to live and work experimentally, including Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hemmings, Isadora Duncan, Rudolf Steiner, Max Weber, and Rudolf Laban who developed many of his theories about dance there.
Participants will be encouraged to collectively organize their activities as they engage with one another and their surroundings.