/LETTERS/MALMö/ Malmö 19.06.2010 By Ingvild Hovlan Kaldal
THE same day I write a letter for måg from Malmö’s art scene, I was in Gothenburg were I just heard the news that Göteborg’s Konsthall was threatened to close down within the next six months. The helpless feeling and the sad news made me feel glad I had left this sinking ship of a city one year ago. Now back in Malmö, some weeks later I read that the Lillith Performance Studio will be forced to close down. The Lillith Performance Studio has been a unique arena for live performance since 2007. Located at Bragegatan they have presented 6-8 large-scale performances every year. Their concept is to offer both Swedish and international artists a production space and time to develop and create live projects on site. Earlier this year I visited the Lillith Performance Studio when the NY-based artist Genevieve Bellaveau performed as her alter ego Gorgeous Taps. The church of gorgeous Taps and the reality show was a performance built on the set of masses Bellaveau earlier performed in a church created in her backyard in Brooklyn, NY. The visitors entered the studio transformed as the artist’s home and backyard and for 1,5 hour [ 1.5 hours o r 5hours or 15 hours?] we became members of the church society. In one week she performed 9 different ceremonies were she, together with 50 people from Malmö, examined the mass and how we could forge a bond with her. In the same building as the Lillith Performance Studio, Skånes Konstförening and their side proj-