Supermarket Talks and Performance Programme 2012

TALKS FREDAG/FRIDAY 17.2 lighet” – är ett sätt konsten?

14.00 TALKS, Studio 3 Filosofiska Rummet – “I evighetens väntrum”

Är konsten en out­sinlig källa till evig kon­templa­tion?

Filosofiska rummet bedriver filosoferande samtal i Sveriges Radio P1 sedan 1997. Nu gästar Filosofiska rummet SUPERMARKET för ett live­ inspelat existentiellt samtal, “I evighetens vänt­rum”.

Hur hanterar människan tankar om “evighet” och “änd­

Medverkande: Staffan Carlshamre (filosof), Lisa Jonasson (konstnär), Bengt Gustavsson (astro­fysiker).

Programledare: Lars Mogensen Längd: 60 min

RED SPOT FREDAG/FRIDAY 17.2 under the microscope, 14.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor cracks and hope to find answers to

Elias Björn – ”Mangrief”

Marla Bendini, rainbowartsproject, Singapore

Elias Björn’s performance ‘Mangrief’ is a part of a larger investigation into manliness and masculinity. Here is the body which functions as a confinement for an ‘I’ that is being examined. Is a male a male just because of a certain anatomy? Or is the manliness situated somewhere else?

In ‘Mangrief’ the audience encounters a man in relation to ‘its’ own body.

Duration: 15 min

15.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor The Institute for Tricks and Arts – invites you to a survey of the spaces in-between.

Presented in cooperation with STOFF. 17–19 February 2012 Kulturhuset, Stockholm

We will try to put our lives at risk in an entertaining study of the physical consequences of hesitation.

The Institute for Tricks and Arts intends to bring theatrical

questions we are all asking.

After many years of awardwinning research in the outer waters, where presence, inter­ activity and mimic equilibrism rule, we now turn the magnify­ ing glass on ourselves.

In charge of investigations: Niklas Valenti and André Kaliff Duration: 20 min (and can be painful).

17.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor Zirkus Loko-Motiv – “The Oldies’ Market – a tribute to Boris Vian’s surreal world” “The Oldies’ Market” is a hysterical ‘condensation ’ from the critically acclaimed performance “Hjärtkniparen”, played at Teater Giljotin in Stockholm in autumn 2011.

A ruthless market with oldies, a crucified horse, raw potatoes, running paint. A parallel world where everything is possible.

Duration: 20 min

TALKS FREDAG/FRIDAY 17.2 16.00 TALKS, Studio 3 Konstnärer eller terrorister?

Vad väljer man för strategi som konstnär när man får stark respons på sitt konstnärskap men samtidigt blir utsatt för hot och trakasserier? Är den personliga yttrandefriheten hotad? Hur ser framtiden ut?

Tre korta presentationer följt av ett efterföljande samtal om konstens gränser.

Medverkande: Dror Feiler (konstnär), Gunilla Sköld Feiler (konstnär), Joakim Stampe (konstnär), Jakob Kimvall (doktor­and i konstvetenskap vid Stockholms universitet).

Moderator: Pontus Raud (SUPERMARKET) Längd: 120 min

Dror Feiler och Gunilla Sköld-Feiler uppmärksammades 2004 för installa­ tionen “Snövit och sanningens vansinne” som vandaliserades av den israeliska ambassadören och som sedan gav upphov till en mindre diplo­ matisk kris mellan Israel och Sverige.

Dror var med på Ship to Gaza som en av de drivande krafterna, och blev miss­ handlad och gripen av israelisk militär när fartygskonvojen stormades den 31 maj 2010 Joakim Stampe är konstnär och projekt­ledare för Live Action Göteborg.

Han har verkat som konstnär i över 25 år, och har under senare år fokuserat sitt konstnärsskap på performance.

En utgångspunkt för Joakim var Göteborgs­kravallerna 2001.

Jakob Kimvall , doktorand i konst­ vetenskap på Stockholms universitet.

Kommer inom kort ut med en avhand­ ling om ”Nolltolerans” som handlar om Stockholms stads klotterpolicy.

Stockholm stad bedriver en häxjakt på en hel konstform, hävdar Jakob och ser förbudet som ett hot mot den person­ liga yttrandefriheten.

RED SPOT FREDAG/FRIDAY 17.2 18.00

RED SPOT, 3rd floor HP Process: Philippe Boisnard/ Hortense Gauthier – “ALPHA_LAB” Presented in cooperation with The French Institute.

HP Process (Hortense Gauthier and Philippe Boisnard) is an entity in the conjunction/ disjunction which develops a digital practice of artaction. The basis of their work is poetry; they consider digital tech­nology as tools for extension, intensification and deconstruction of language and poetic forms, or as a medium capable of reinvigorating

the writing, and give it new forms. They have essentially developed multimedia poetry performances where sound, image and text are generated in real time, to build a poetry in motion, and in perpetual reconfiguration.

Duration: 15–25 min

19.00

RED SPOT, 3rd floor Paul Dunca – “Incubus Cryptmaw” Presented in cooperation with The Romanian Cultural Institute.

“It is possible to gain eternity because you only want to

TALKS FREDAG/FRIDAY 17.2 19.00 TALKS, Studio 3 19.45 TALKS, Studio 3 Marja Viitahuhta – ”Spotlight”

The Naked (The Hague)

“Spotlight” is a performance that consists of several monologues dealing with the structure and nature of per­ formance; in its own way it is a deconstruction of the boundary conditions of performance, a lecture about this topic.

The Naked promotes a glocal understanding of the art-world today. (www.thenaked.nl) ‘A global view from different local perspectives’.

Duration: 30 min

Duration: 30 min

RED SPOT FREDAG/FRIDAY 17.2 please others?

Yes, it is, say the most views of religions.

Is it possible to only please while being an artist?

Yes, if this pleases yourself too.”

In “Incubus Cryptmaw”Paul Dunca facilitates a meeting with a contemporary perform­ ing vampire.

He sleeps all day long and only lives at night. He’s 269 years now, but he only does this since 241. He was like anyone else before and yes, now he really sucks. Blood and energy.

After celebrating his 126th birthday kill­ ing 12 virgins, he decided it’s high time for a lifestyle change.

We present you Incubus Cryptmaw. You shouldn’t be scared of meeting him, because he’s not afraid of that!

Duration: 40 min

20.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt – “Transit” Presented in cooperation with STOFF. Within “Transit” Stefanie Sixt and Markus Mehr are con­ tinuing their creative artistic development which started

with “Synchron” and “Komo”.

Visuals and music patterns are set at eye level, equally influ­ encing each other, combining sound and form to create a holistic piece of art. The artist’s interpretation of the diverse levels of physical death and the question for the spiritual after­ life is manifested in “Transit”.

The visuals are most of the time based on animated pho­ tographs of light reflections.

Unreal rooms are created and open up space for the viewers interpretation, due to her or his status of experience and knowledge.

Duration: 50 min

21.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor Music: Jon Rekdal (trumpet) and Santiago Jimenez (violin) Jon Rekdal will perform a piece called “Call of the Sirens”, an ongoing cine­ matic music-installation and addendum to Marklund-Rekdal’s piece “Musical chair, Melody table, Sonic cabinet” (seen at the Candyland exhibition stand). Rekdal blows organic trumpet over highly synthetic ambiences and intuitive strings by Santiago Jimenez, framing the end of the opening day.

TALKS LÖRDAG/SATURDAY 18.2 How does history influence 13.00 TALKS, Studio 3 the contemporary culture, and Approaching the contemporary art scene in the Western Balkans

where do we find the potential for development today?

A large number of the par­ ticipating galleries from the Western Balkan region are exhibiting at SUPERMARKET 2012.

This panel discussion aims to provide an insight into the complex region and the post-Yugoslavia, post-war and new nation building contexts.

What are the characteristics of contemporary art in the Western Balkans today?

Participating: Alketa Kurrizo (Zeta Galeri, Tirana), Selman Trtovac (3d BGD, Belgrade), Dimitrije Tadic (Ministry of Culture Serbia), Pierre Courtin (Duplex 10m2, Sarajevo) and Johan Pousette (Swedish Exhibition Agency and curator October Salon 2010).

Moderator: Helene Larsson (Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of Sweden in Belgrade)

Duration: 60 min

RED SPOT LÖRDAG/SATURDAY 18.2 13.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor 15.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor

Cirkus 3000 – “Ante portas”

Ante Portas is a joint production of multimedial theatre / art / performance.

The story tells the continually evolving saga and surreal adventures of two heroines, Mademoiselle Simonetta and Julie la Fleur, who, following their passionate impulses and desires, are travelling through space and time to semi-mythological places, encountering various legendary characters – historical and fictional – along the way, and undergoing profound changes both physical and psychological, from elephantwoman-mutation and lycanthropy to involvement with Cold War secret agent plots and vampirism.

Duration: 60 min

Joakim Stampe & Chuyia Chia – “A Thread of Red Between Us” Chuyia Chia’s mapping project is about connections between people and place where her body works as an agent inter­ acting, connecting and thread­ ing connections to different people from place to place.

The performance will start together with Joakim Stampe for 10–20 min, and both split in different directions, and continue in durational longer hours.

Joakim Stampe’s art typically deals with social and political issues. With a philosophical critical attitude he gives the audience and the viewer a picture of the world that sur­ rounds us. His performances / actions are highly visual, although he also works with

TALKS LÖRDAG/SATURDAY 18.2 (Art collective in Amsterdam), editor art 15.00 TALKS, Studio 3 magazine Mister Motley, teaching art Art and Artists: Floating Values

Four short presentations followed by a panel discus­ sion dealing with the percep­ tion of art’s value in an era of revolutionary change. Per­ spectives on new strategies such as artistic communities, self-organised initiatives and new ways to gather in hybrid networking.

Participants: Kirse Junge Stevnsborg, Irene de Craen, Robert Stasinski, Ida Hansson.

Moderator: Johan Pousette, Riksutställningar/Swedish Exhibition Agency Duration: 90 min Irene de Craen Art critic and curator based in Am­ sterdam. Contributing to websites and magazines, project manager at FUCK,

theory at Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

Kirse Junge Stevnsborg Artistic Director at Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Previ­ ously at Gävle Konstcentrum, Dunkers Kulturhus, Gallery Nicolai Wallner and Tate Gallery. Holds a master’s in Aesthetics and Culture.

Robert Stasinski Curator and art critic, contributing to international art magazines and an active debater regarding e.g. issues as art criticism and public funding with a special focus on political science and development in society.

Ida Hansson Artist and project manager at Galleri Verkligheten in Umeå, an artist-run gallery with focus on exhibitions with international, national and local contemporary art, public dialogue and pushing the boundaries between art and reality.

Johan Pousette Coordinator of Contemporary art at the Swedish Exhibition Agency, freelance curator, lecturer, adviser to TCE Boston.

Former adviser to the Nordic Council of Ministers / NCP and former director of the Baltic Art Center.

RED SPOT LÖRDAG/SATURDAY 18.2 sound and significantly inter­ 17.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor active with the audience.

Duration: 20 min + additional hours inside and around Kul­ turhuset

16.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor The Institute for Tricks and Arts – invites you to a survey of the spaces in-between.

Presented in cooperation with STOFF for information, see Friday 15.00 Duration: 20 min (and can be painful).

Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt – “Transit” Presented in cooperation with STOFF

for information, see Friday 20.00 Duration: 50 min

18.30 RED SPOT, 3rd floor HP Process: Philippe Boisnard/ Hortense Gauthier – ”CONTACT” Presented in cooperation with The French Institute.

HP Process (Hortense Gauthier and Philippe Boisnard) is

TALKS LÖRDAG/SATURDAY 18.2 Bedri Baykam: On April 18 2011, 17.15 TALKS, Studio 3 Bedri Baykam and his assistant Tugba Activism and Contemporary art

Activism has become a vital part of contemporary art, in line with the strategies of social criticism that has characterised contemporary art in recent years. We meet four artists with four different stories where their actions have influenced their lives.

What kind of strategy do you choose as an artist when you become exposed to threats and harassment?

Kartulus, were stabbed by a man in Istanbul. The attack is associated with Bedri’s action for a sculptural work, a work that is an attempt to heal Turkish – Armenian relations, which was ordered to be destroyed by the Turkish Prime Minister.

Marla Bendini lives and works in Singapore. Born Ong Boon Kok Bendini Junior in 1986, “Marla Bendini” was created in 2007, as an ongoing process of the identity as the “art form”.The artist’s multidisciplinary and highly personal works have become her sig­ nature, expressing ideas about gender binaries and the dysfunction of social and cultural structures, particularly with her personal physical body as an articulation tool.

Kimbal Bumstead is a performance artist from London. “Diagonally Upwards” is a performance journey diagonally upwards through

Paul Dunca is a performance artist, ac­ tor, dancer and trained as a choreogra­ pher in the National University of Drama and Film “I. L. Caragiale”, where he also graduated with a masters in playwriting.

Duration: 120 min

RED SPOT LÖRDAG/SATURDAY 18.2 an entity in the conjunction/ 19.15 RED SPOT, 3rd floor disjunction which develops a

Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt, “Transit”

Music: Jon Rekdal (trumpet) and Santiago Jimenez (violin)

Jon Rekdal, photo: Martin Lidell

Duration: 25–30 min

Kimbal Bumstead – “Diagonally Upwards”

Li Gang was the originator of the famous studio district BIAC (Beijing International Artist Camp) in the village Suojiacun in Beijing’s north-eastern outskirts. The village was demolished during the protests in 2010.

Participants: Bedri Baykam (artist and President of a+A), Li Gang (artist/curator), Marla Bendini (artist) and Paul Dunca (artist).

Moderator : Pontus Raud (SUPERMARKET)

digital practice of art-action.

The basis of their work is poetry: they consider digital techno­logy as tools for exten­ sion, intensification and de­ con­struction of language and poetic forms, or as a medium capable of reinvigorating the writing, and giving it new forms. They have essentially developed multimedia poetry performances where sound, image and text are generated in real time, to build a poetry in motion, and in perpetual reconfiguration.

TALKS LÖRDAG/SATURDAY 18.2 the European winter from 18.45 TALKS, Studio 3 Amsterdam to Luleå via

Paul Dunca, “Incubus Cryptmaw”

Stockholm. During this overland journey by bike and hitch-hiking, the characters for the performance are the people who Bumstead meets and the protagonist is himself.

Duration: 30 min

TALKS SÖNDAG/SUNDAY 19.2 För att konsten ska kunna 15.00 TALKS Studio 3 bidra till detta nödvän­ “I tider av kris behövs konsten”

I tider av allvarlig kris behövs konsten mer än någonsin. Vi behöver fantasi, vi behöver rum och utrymme för gemensam reflektion, annars kan inga problem lösas. Kulturpolitiken är både ett politikområde i egen rätt och samtidigt en förutsättning för det politiska samtalet, och för demokratin.

diga samtal måste den vara oberoende. Därför är det en central kulturpolitisk uppgift att säkra konstens autonomi.

Föreläsare: David Karlsson.

David Karlsson är författare till boken “En kulturutredning: om pengar, konst och politik” som diskuterar kulturpoli­ tikens uppgifter mot bakgrund av de förändringar den nu genomgår.

Längd: 45 min

RED SPOT SÖNDAG/SUNDAY 18.2 12.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor 14.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor

Pulp Puppets – “Project genesis” Presented in cooperation with STOFF.

Pulp Puppets - “Project gen­ esis” Presented in cooperation with STOFF Pulp Puppets is a puppet the­ atre that creates live-animated movies with various low and hifi techniques that together bring to life a story right in front of the spectator’s eyes.

Several cameras, puppets, mannequins, green screens and overhead projectors are used to cut, edit and project the story on the “silver screen” in real time. Do It Yourself ver­ sions of American pop culture is what Pulp Puppets shows are about. “Project Genesis” is a science fiction with a dash of film noir.

Duration: 60 min

What is performance art?

What does “performance” mean today when it is now on everyone’s lips? Is there some­ thing that gets lost?

Participants from SUPER­ MARKET’s new performance stage RED SPOT join the final summarising talk about the valuating and meaning of per­ formance art.

TALKS SÖNDAG/SUNDAY 19.2 Sinziana Ravini är curator, konstkritiker 16.00 TALKS Studio 3 och redaktör för Paletten. Med sin bas “Vilket värde har konsten idag, egentligen?”

Ett miniseminarium om kultur/ politik och samtidskonstens värde i dagens samhälle.

Med en ifrågasatt offentlig finansiering runt om i Europa, och en politik som arbetar för ökad andel privata insatser från t ex näringslivet, vad hän­ der med konstens utveckling och politiska potential?

Medverkande: Sinziana Ravini (konstkritiker), David Karlsson (kulturskribent), Patrik Liljegren (Kulturförvalt­ ningen Stockholm stad), Isabel Löfgren (konstnär).

Moderator: Johan Pousette (Riksutställningar) Längd: 90 min

Participating: Joakim Stampe (artist), Bogdan Szyber (artist), STOFF (Stockholm Fringe Fest).

Moderator: Izabella Borzecka (SUPERMARKET) Duration: 60 min

16.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor Pulp Puppets – “Project genesis” for information, see 12.00 Duration: 60 min Pulp Puppets, “Project genesis”, photo: Sara Mac Key.

i Paris skriver Ravini för tidskrifter som bl.a Artforum, Artpress, SITE och Glänta samt för dagstidningar som DN och Göteborgsposten.

Patrik Liljegren är chef för kultur­ strategiska avdelningen på Stockholms stads Kulturförvaltning. Har tidigare arbetat vid Riksteaterns JAM-projekt och Södra teatern. Han är utbildad på Kaospilotskolan i Danmark.

David Karlsson är kulturskribent och idéhistoriker. Han skrev boken “En kulturutredning: om pengar, konst och politik” som diskuterar kulturpolitikens uppgifter mot bakgrund av de för­ ändringar den nu genomgår.

Isabel Löfgren är konstnär, frilans­ curator, skribent och doktorand vid European Graduate School i media och filosofi. Hon har deltagit i Konstfacks CuratorLab, gjort konst­projekt i det offent­liga rummet och bedrivit konst­ närlig forskning på Residence Botkyrka samt Vision Forum.

Johan Pousette är samordnare för samtidskonst på Riksutställningar, frilanscurator, föreläsare, rådgivare till TCE Boston. Tidigare sakkunnig för Nordiska ministerrådet / Kulturkontakt Nord och fd chef för Baltic Art Center.

HP Process, “ALPHA_LAB”, photo: Evelyne Goupy

Acknowledgements: Programming: Izabella Borzecka, Pontus Raud, Johan Pousette (Riksutställningar) and STOFF, Stockholm Fringe Fest.

Many thanks to the staff of Kulturhuset and SUPERMARKET’s team of volunteers.

Graphic Design: Andreas Ribbung Language editing: Sheena Malone

The seminar programme is made in cooperation with Riksutställningar – Swedish Exhibition Agency and Swedish Radio and with generous support from Swedish Institute and Iaspis.

The performance programme is made in cooperation with STOFF – Stockholm Fringe Fest and with generous support from the French Institute, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the participating artists.