Children’s Book Reading by Azeb Binega

Sunday 3 December, 1pm

Join us on the final day of Robel Temesgen’s exhibition for a special children’s book reading by author Azeb Binega in Amharic.

Tour of Robel Temesgen’s exhibition There’s No Politics in Painting?

Following the book reading there will be a guided tour of Robel Temesgen’s exhibition There’s No Politics in Painting? in Amharic and English.

The Bridge Radio broadcasts LIVE from Marabouparken! 

Sunday 3 December 2pm

Join us for The Bridge Radio’s LIVE broadcast from their research residency at Marabouparken. The programme will include a radio play made in collaboration with the artist Fikret Atay who exhibits in Marabouparken’s current exhibition Mouth Shut, Louds Shouts. Join us as the live audience or listen online here.

Since it’s getting colder outside and the snow is falling, something warm and christmasy will be served.

Book Launch

1 December, 6.30pm

After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives Edited by Shahram Khosravi

All welcome, drinks and snacks provided.

Join us for the launch of Shahram Khosravi’s new book After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives,focusing on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation. What are the consequences of forced removal? What dangers and challenges do they encounter following ‘removal’? And what forms of life do they create in countries to which they are sent?

Shahram Khosravi will introduce his new book, followed by responses to his research from The Bridge Radio and Ung I Sverige. We will close the event with the screening of Becky’s Journey (2014) by Sine Plambech.

The event will be LIVE broadcast by The Bridge Radio, a community radio made up of people with and without citizenship who make radio about migration and asylum politics. www.thebridgeradio.dk

Shahram Khosravi is Professor at Stockholm University and Uppsala University. He has written the books, Young and Defiant in Tehran, University of Pennsylvania Press (2008); The Illegal Traveler: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders, Palgrave (2010); and Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran, University of Pennsylvania Press (2017).

Radio School with The Bridge Radio 

Saturday 2 December at 12.00 noon

For those of you who missed it, there is another chance to join The Bridge Radio School! Come for a hands-on workshop focused on how radio can be used as a tool for social change. The workshop will explore reclaiming the right of expression and the ethical issues involved in making radio with and for minorities and marginalised groups as well as the technical aspects of making radio.

The workshops are primarily for people with migration backgrounds, those with experiences of movement the asylum system and other minority or underprivileged voices. Activists working with migration politics and other interested members of the public are also welcome. You do not need to have previous experience of radio to be part of the workshop! Just an interest in making radio and a readiness to try it out!

During the workshops there will be lunch and refreshments provided. If you have a computer or a sound recorder, please bring it for the workshop. There is limited space, so send an email to register, and please let us know if you need support in covering transport costs to attend the workshop: bridgeradio0@gmail.com

Artist talk with Fikret Atay 

Wednesday 15 November 6.30 pm 
All Welcome!

Marabouparken Konsthall invites you to an artist presentation by Fikret Atay. Fikret Atay practice draws from his life in Batman, a town in the Kurdish region of Turkey, close to the Iraqi border. Often working in moving image, Atay attempts to highlights the complexities and tensions found in his locality and how they connect to larger socio-political narratives.

In the exhibition Mouth Shut, Loud Shouts Fikret Atay presents the video Rebels of the Dance, in which two young boys sing and dance a censored festive Kurdish song.

Fikret Atay’s work has been shown in many International museums and art centres, including Centre Pompidou in Paris; Castello di Rivoli in Torino; MAXXI in Rome; Istanbul Modern in Istanbul and Tate Modern in London.

The Bridge Radio at Hallonbergen LIVE

Saturday 18 November 3 pm
Location: Fritiden, Hallonbergsplan 5, 174 52 Sundbyberg

The Bridge Radio is an independent radio project created by people with and without citizenship, who produce radio about migration, asylum and people’s movements. This autumn Bridge Radio are working on radio production workshops and a series of broadcasts. As part of a Hallonbergen LIVE, a day of events in Hallonbergen, we have set up a listening space in Fritiden. Join us to listen to their radio programmes and find out how you can participate!

Wednesday Cinema: Dreaming Lhasa

Join us for a screening of Dreaming Lhasa directed, written and produced by artist filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam. This feature film follows Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York who goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama’s exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet.

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam are part of Marabouparken’s current exhibition Mouth Shut, Loud Shouts; their film practice focuses on the Tibetan struggle and covers both documentary and feature films.

The Bridge Radio Presentation

Wednesday 11 October, 6.30pm

A presentation by The Bridge Radio on their work and upcoming workshops and LIVE broadcasts! Don’t miss it.

The Bridge Radio is a community radio created by people with and without citizenship, who produce radio about migration and asylum politics and people’s movements.

Read more about The Bridge Radio

VOICES AGAINST BORDERS
Saturday 14 October, 12–4pm
The Bridge Radio School

In a ‘hands on’ radio workshop, The Bridge Radio will address issues of how radio can be used as a tool for social change. The workshop will explore reclaiming the right of expression and the ethical issues involved in making radio with and for minorities and marginalised groups. We will learn the important steps of radio production – basic technical set-up, production skills, research, interview techniques and presenting.

The workshop is primarily for people with experiences of migration, the asylum system and other minority or underprivileged voices. Activists working with struggles against borders and other interested members of the public are also welcome.You do not need previous experience with radio to be part of the workshop! Just an interest in making radio and a readiness to try it out!

During the workshop there will be lunch and refreshments provided. If you have a computer or a sound recorder, please bring it for the workshop. There is limited space, so send an email to register, and please let us know if you need support in covering transport costs to attend the workshop: bridgeradio0@gmail.com

Please note the workshop will be in English but we will try and accommodate other language where we can

The Bridge Radio is an independent radio project created by people with and without citizenship, who produce radio about migration, asylum and people’s movements. The radio strives to support self-organisation among people who live without citizenship and to create a wide group of reporters. While staying critical towards the dominant discourse on asylum and migration the Bridge Radio aims to share information around the current developments related to asylum and migration, striving to spread the stories of those who have experienced migration and their struggle for the freedom of movement.

An afternoon with Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam and Laura Poitras

Saturday 23 September, 2–5pm
Marabouparken
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

2–3pm
A presentation on their practice and its engagement with the Tibetan struggle. The presentation will particularly focus on their current long term work Burning against the Dying of the Light

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam (1959) in New Delhi, India and (1959) in Darjeeling, India. In 1990, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam founded the production company, White Crane Films, which is dedicated, among other things, to research and to reflect on Tibetan cultural identity and political aspiration. In 2012, the duo founded the Dharamshala International Film Festival, now one of the leading independent film platforms in India. Their work has travelled to several film festivals and recently included a solo exhibition at Khoj Studios in New Delhi (2016), Contour Biennial, Mechelen (2017) the Dhaka Art Summit (2016).

3–3.30pm
Break with snacks and drinks

Saturday 23rd September 3.30–4.30pm
Critical Platforms – Artist’s role in creating alternative platforms for the distribution of moving image.

A discussion by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam on the Dharamshala International Film Festival and Laura Poitras on Field of Vision.

When filmmakers and longtime Dharamshala residents Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam started the Dharamshala International Film Festival in 2012, their main aim was to give the local community a platform for good alternative cinema. Five years later DIFF has become one of India’s leading independent film festivals and draws audiences from across the world.

Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and artist. She is also co-creator of Field of Vision, a filmmaker-driven documentary unit that commissions and creates original short-form nonfiction films about developing and ongoing stories around the globe. Her film CITIZENFOUR, the third part in a trilogy about post-9/11 America, won an Oscar for best documentary. Her reporting on NSA mass surveillance received the George Polk Award for National Security journalism, and shared in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.

Her first solo museum exhibition of immersive installations, Astro Noise, was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016. Her most recent films include Risk, following WikiLeaks and Julian Assange over 6 years, and Project X, about a mysterious windowless building in lower Manhattan. She is currently suing the U.S. government to learn why she was placed on a terrorist watchlist in 2006.
www.fieldofvision.org

Klinik
A workshop for artists with Felice Hapetzeder

Time: 16/9 10 am-6 pm
Place: Marabouparken Art Gallery
To attend: Please e-mail osa@marabouparken.se

The theme of workshop is to explore artist’s relationship to censorship and its related mechanisms. The workshop is based on the experience and work of the those participating in the workshop. To what extent are we affected by different types of censorship and self-censorship and how can we protect ourselves?

Klinik is a project developed and created by the artist group Local A. (Felice Hapetzeder and Jenny Berntsson) for artists in different phases of working life who want to reflect on their work and engage in exchange and debate with other artists. The safety of Klinik is created by its privacy. There is no public outcome or exposure of what is discussed within the clinic.

Klinik has been held at Konstfack Alumni, Iaspis, Lilith Performance Studio and Gothenburg Art Hall.

Background
In 2016, Hapetzeder attended the Children’s and Youth Art Biennial in Istanbul. During the opening of the biennale, some of the works in the biennial were censored by the municipal council. Discussions on how to respond and act in this situation; how artistic integrity is influenced and compromised; how artists’ personal and professional safety is protected; how artistic freedom is claimed; are some of the debates that have arisen from the situation.

Back in Sweden, Hapetzeder was faced with a form of corporate censorship when a staff member of a management company questioned a child’s right to express himself artistically during one of Hapetzer’s workshops on Markusplatsen outside Dieselverkstan when what appeared to be a pub-lic place proved to be a private area. The incident at the Markusplatsen made clear what happens when power over decision making that affect creative expressions and participation in society are left to judicious actors.

To continue to study and deepen the discussion, Hapetzeder conducted the pilot project, Practice Based Clinic Against Censorship, supported by the Swedish Institute in 2016 at Maraboparken Konsthall 24-28 October with the Swedish and Turkish artists Fikret Atay, Belit Sag, Secil Yaylali, Johanna Gustavsson and Felice Hapetzeder. Siyat Bant (Black Band), an organization that reports and investigates censored art in Turkey, was also involved during the work. The project resulted in a publication in solidarity with the author Aslı Erdogan 2017.

Supported by IASPIS

LIVE Radio!

Sunday 15 October, 2pm

Join us for The Bridge Radio’s LIVE broadcast from their research residency space at Marabouparken. The LIVE programme will focus discussion on deportation and deportation resistance with invited guest Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm and Uppsala University).

Visit The Bridge Radio

I have nothing to do with it

16 September, 2017, 10am–6pm
A workshop on censorship of artistic expression by Seçil Yaylalı & belit sağ

Join us for a workshop exploring different forms of censorship. The workshop builds a discussion drawn from participants’ personal experiences of silencing in order to develop methods on how to collectively resist.

The workshop is focused on those working in the arts and culture with experience in the field.

There is no age limit. The workshop will be held in English. The workshop is free but booking required. If you would like to join please email osa@marabouparken.se before 13th September and send a short text (maximum half an A4 page) detailing your motivation and area of work.

belit sağ is a videomaker and visual artist living in Amsterdam. She studied mathematics in Ankara and audio-visual arts in Amsterdam. Her video background is rooted in video-activist groups in Ankara and Istanbul, where she co-initiated projects like karahaber.org (2000-2004) and bak.ma (a growing online audiovisual archive of social movements in Turkey). She has exhibited her works in spaces including EYE Film museum, Amsterdam; MOCA, Taipei; DEPO, Istanbul; Toronto/Rotterdam/San Francisco International Film Festival; De-Militarized Zone Documentary Festival, South Korea; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart and CCA Derry~Londonderry, N.Ireland.

Secil Yaylalı is a visual artist with a background in Industrial Design and Arts. She has developed participatory art projects with different social groups such as forced migrants in Diyarbakir and Ramallah, psychiatric patients in Novara, teenagers in Alexandria, Berlin, Barcelona, Istanbul, migrant workers in Beirut and street vendors in Turin. In each project she creates an environment that supports collaborative production according to the specific needs and interests. She has exhibited her work in: CC Gallery (Malmö 2017); Alt_Chp Cross Cuts (Copenhagen 2016); Konsthall C (Stockholm 2016): Apartman Projesi (Berlin 2015); Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella 2013); Palazzo Ducale (Genova 2011); NGBK (Berlin 2010). Yaylalı is the co-founder of PASAJ artist initiative. She teaches basic design and contemporary art in Istanbul Technical University.

Image: Johanna Gustavsson, 2017

Sponsored by IASPIS

Women and the man made environment
27 August, at 2pm. Free admission, in english.

A discussion on women’s engagement with the city through the work of Hackney Flashers, Tessa Lynch and Pia Sandström. The event will include a short presentation from each contributor followed by a collective discussion on the importance of highlighting women’s experience and engagement with the build environment today.

Hackney Flashers collective was set up in 1974 and created influential agitprop material, including posters, slides, photographs and collages in the 1970s and 1980s . Their exhibition Who’s Holding the Baby is related to the theme of the exhibition Starting from the Self, and reflects upon the marginalization of women in the public space and the absence of affordable childcare.

Tessa Lynch works predominantly with sculpture and performance. Her work develops from the observation of her immediate surroundings and from her quest for the existence of a female flâneur, the woman who wanders aimlessly. The artist embarks on lengthy periods of active research that see her walking through the city streets in the company of chosen collaborators. These wanderings around the city are later transformed into sculptural installations that recall Lynch’s experience of the urban landscape. Tessa Lynch is based in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. Recent exhibitions include Now at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Painters Table in Gallery of Modern Art for Glasgow International Director’s Programme. Tessa Lynch is currently exhibiting at Spike Island in Bristol with the solo exhibition L-Shaped Room. www.tessalynch.com

Pia Sandströms work features in Starting from the Self as an installation that responds to the architecture and context of Marabouparken. Pia Sandström studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. She has been featured in solo exhibitions at several art institutions, including Moderna Museet (2013) where she showed an audio work commissioned for the Hilma af Klint exhibition, Bonniers Konsthall, Botkyrka konsthall, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, ARTES in Porto, and the Venice Architecture Biennale (2014).

Places are free, but booking is recommended. Please e-mail osa@marabouparken.se 

Textile Storytelling

Leader:  Tomas Woodski
No previous skills needed

Dates: 8/11, 15/11, 22/11, 29/11, 6/12
Wednesdays 5.30-7.30 pm 
Marabouparken Art gallery, Löfströmsv. 8, Sundbyberg.
Price: 1500 kr (material included)

Art class

Leader : Anna-Stina Ulfström.

No previous skills needed.

Dates: 28/9, 5/10, 12/10, 19/10, 26/10

Thursdays 4-5.30 pm 
Marabouparken Art gallery,  Löfströmsv. 8, Sundbyberg
Price: 1500 kr (material included)

Photography class

Course leader: artist Maia Lundblom. No previous skills needed.

Dates: 4/10, 11/10, 18/10, 25/10,  1/11

Wednesdays 5.30-7.30 pm
Marabouparken Art galleri, Löfströmsv. 8, Sundbyberg.
Price: 1500 kr (material included) 

Wednesday 19 July 6-8pm

Revart – Justice through Art

Join Revart for their workshop focused on how art can be used as a tool for changing injustices in society. We will talk about postcolonial structures and how they affect our everyday lives. The workshop is led by Emma Dominguez.

Emma Dominguez is an artist and activist. She has a Bachelor in Rhetorics and Opinion from Södertörn Högskola and is currently a student at Konstfack. She has been working with young people’s engagement with art at Stockholmsskolan and in various projects concerning inclusion. She believes in art as an instrument for change and making society more equal.

Places are free but limited. To book a place email: info@revpoetry.com

Revart (Revolution Art) is a new platform for visual art practices. It is initiated through Stockholm based Revolution Poetry’s research residency at Marabouparken and is led by Nachla Vargas Alaeb, Alejandro Montero Bravo and Maryam Dinar.

Praxagoras Kök
Elin Strand Ruin

Lördag 20 maj kl 13-16

Matlagning, mat och samtal
Välkommen till Praxagoras Kök! Detta är ett projekt på uppdrag av Sundbybergs Stad i samarbete med Marabouparken konsthall med deltagare från Stella Nova, Verdandi och boende i Hallonbergen. Initiativtagare är konstnären Elin Strand Ruin.

Walk-through
Anna Kinbom

Saturday 20 May 6pm

For her walk through-performance in Starting From The Self, Anna has specially developed her piece Karaoke Lecture in response to the works in Starting from the Self. Karaoke Lecture is a collection of songs written by Anna and performed for the audience to sing along to, it has been performed in public space aswell as in art spaces.

Places are free but limited. To book a place please email osa@marabouparken.se by Wednesday 17 May, 5pm.

Anna Kinbom works with text based performances, micro histories and alter egos. She uses the art context as a stage for her anti-performances, which show reluctance in methods of entertainment. Writing is the motor of her work – supported by the awkward body. Anna lives in Stockholm and has exhibited internationally at galleries and art centres including Gotlands Konstmuseum (with 0s+1s Collective), LARU Performance Festival in Helsinki and Maratón LODO in Buenos Aires. In 2015 her work was selected for the exhibition After Babel at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Anna has studied Performative Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and received her MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2013. 

Breakdown
Sarah Browne

Friday 19 May 2017, 5.30 pm                                                                            

Welcome to Breakdown a special spinning class developed by the artist Sarah Browne and produced by Marabouparken in collaboration with Friskis & Svettis Sundbyberg. Performed by Shirley Harthey Ubilla.

How strong are you? How resilient? How vulnerable? This is a specially scripted spin class, combining philosophy and artistic performance with fitness choreography. The leader will guide you through a varied “landscape” while questioning and exploring our expectations of bodily productivity in a capitalist society. This challenging class will feature racing, climbing and attacking intervals, set to a specially selected soundtrack.

To consider
All bikes are equipped with so-called SPD pedals for those who have such shoes. It is also possible to cycle with regular exercise shoes. Recommended length limit is 150 cm due to the height and dimensions of the bicycle.
Please bring a towel and water bottle and be prepared to sweat!
Places are free but limited. To book a place please email osa@marabouparken.se by Wednesday 17 May, 5pm.

This event is a collaboration between Marabouparken Konsthall and Friskis & Svettis i Sundbyberg and will take place in the fitness center which like Marabouparken Konsthall used to be a part of the chocolate factory.

Sarah Browne is an artist based in Ireland. Recent solo exhibitions include Report to an Academy, Marabouparken, Stockholm (2017), Hand to Mouth at CCA Derry~Londonderry & Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and The Invisible Limb, basis, Frankfurt (both 2014). In 2016 with Jesse Jones she developed In the Shadow of the State, a collaborative co-commission by Artangel and Create (Ireland). In 2009 Browne co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale with Gareth Kennedy as Kennedy Browne – the name for their collaborative practice.

Wednesday 27 September 6-7.30pm

Acts of Self Ruin Study Session with Shahram Khosravi

Marabouparken konsthall

The study session is free but with limited spaces so please book a place by emailing osa@marabouparken.se

A discussion focused on Shahram Khosravi’s research into processes of Inaudiblizing and Unvisibizing.

Inaudiblizing – The Eurocentric knowledge production is rooted in colonial history. Based on a North-South division, theory and concepts are produced in the North and the South is reduced only to empirical data. The non-European is the one to be diagnosed by Europeans. In public debates there is an inclusive exclusion that includes the other as a unvoiced object to be debated, but at the same time excluded as a subject who can think and theorize.

Unvisiblizing – Somewhere in Plato’s Euthyphro we read Socrates saying: ‘A thing is not seen because it is visible but on the contrary it is visible because it is seen’. The other is actively unseen. Rather than being invisible, the other is unvisible: exposed to a conscious act of unseeing, excluding, and left out. The other is not unseen because he is invisible, conversely he is invisible because he is unseen; in other word unvisiblized.

Following the study session there will be opening of Robel Temesgen’s exhibition, There’s No Politics in Painting? 

Shahram Khosravi is Associate Professor at Stockholm University and Researcher at Uppsala University. He has written the books, Young and Defiant in Tehran, University of Pennsylvania Press (2008) and The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders, Palgrave (2010). He has been an active writer in the Swedish press and also written fictions; ‘Round Trip to Ithaca’ in Exiled Ink! Magazine (2011) and ‘The Persian Escort’ in Collective Exile (2013).

Acts of Self Ruin Study Session is part of a two year research programme at Marabouparken, exploring the struggle for collectivity and equality in an age of individualism. Through a range of activities including exhibitions, residencies and a public programme, we will explore acts in which communities and individuals have put themselves at personal risk, or social ruin in the pursuit of other ways of living, and in pursuit of equality and solidarity.

Marabouparken’s Event Weekend

Friday 19 & Saturday 20 May 2017

Join us in Marabouparken’s Spring Clean!
To welcome in the Summertime we open up the doors of the Konsthall with a series of performances and events over two day. The event weekend takes place in connection to our Summer exhibition Starting from the Self that investigates the different ways society structures us to perform in different spaces, from public to private, from home to work. The exhibition is particularly concerned with how gender, race and class play into questions of private and public boundaries and the different ways people have transgressed and renegotiated these borders and the categorisation of space.

There will be food, drink, and Monster club for children. The whole family is welcome!

Friday 19 May 2017,  

5.30 pm Breakdown by artist Sarah Browne
Welcome to Breakdown a special spinning class developed by the artist Sarah Browne and produced by Marabouparken in collaboration with Friskis&Svettis Sundbyberg. Performed by Shirley Harthey Ubilla. It takes place at Friskis&Svettis, Sundbyberg, Löfströms allé 5. For more information click here.

6.30 pm Johan Lundin: ”Drive On”
A video-mimed live act filled with costume transformations, clown makeup and serious wigs staging humorous body characters and facial gender expressions. Ending up quite unexpectedly on a beautiful queer robotic carousel of feelings. No spoken language.
Johan Lundin touches gender identity, queerness and social structures through textile, video and performance. They have studied textile art at Konstfack, choreography at the School of Dance and Circus and performance studies at Stockholm University.

7 pm Tove Salmgren, ”This is not a performance”
Lately when Tove Salmgren has been invited to talk somewhere, as an artist, she’s been experimenting with reading a text concerning ’problems’. A text which also places saying and doing next to each other, or inside, but not.
Tove Salmgren works with dans, choreography and performance, as initiator and collaborator in different contexts and formats. Recently, her practice has taken curatorial forms, for example in collaboration with The Blob/Anna Efraimsson, We happen things/Manon Santkin and Moa Franzén and together with Kajsa Wadhia, she leads Köttinspektionen dans, a platform for experimental dance and choreography in Uppsala. Her own art can be described as a feminist and philosophical laboratory, a desire to systematically highlight and play with the relationships we have at hand. 

7.30 pm Pia Sandström reads Helga Henschen
Pia Sandström studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. She has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at several art institutions, including Moderna Museet (2013), where she showed an audio work commissioned for the Hilma af Klint exhibition, Bonniers Konsthall, Botkyrka Konsthall, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, ARTES in Porto, and at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2014).

8.30 pm Eugene Sundelius von Rosen: ”Förskolan arborariet”
We follow rabdor 1 and student 2 into the kitchen which is apparently the dining room. In there – to our big surprise – Sverrir is picking up the liquid and solid foods from the center of the room and then we wake up. Sverrir is constantly looking away in another direction. Rabdor 1 looks sown. The performance is in English and Swedish.
Eugene Sundelius von Rosen (b. 1991, Stockholm) works with writing, enactments, reanactments, performances and situations on- and off-stage. Abstract notions of when and where conversations, events or situations are likely, sutiable – and when these arise or evolve is a reoccurring theme.

21 pm–22.30 pm Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole DJ
Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole is an artist who’s practice exclusively utilises lens and non-lens based photography. She has been making Photo-Performances since 2012 which includes Tate Britain,  Kunstalle Bern, Växjö Konsthall, Fylkingen, she will perform in Jelili Atiku’s performance at 57th Venice Biennale. Her Practice involves deconstruction and challenges what is understood to be photography with a special interest in performance. Diana is an MFA 2017 candidate at the Royal institute of Art Stockholm.

Saturday 20 May 

1-5 pm Livstycket market and Fashion show

1-4 pm Verdandi and Stella Nova from Hallonbergen, invite you to Praxagoras Kitchen
Praxagoras Kitchen is a collaborative project commissioned by Sundbybergs Stad and Marabouparken konsthall with participants from Stella Nova, Verdandi och habitants of Hallonbergen. The initiative comes from artist Elin Strand Ruin.
Welcome to a cooking workshop where we can eat together and discuss on how we can take care of the public space? For more information click here.

4 pm Jimmy Offsesson and Teemu Mastovaara, “Art must be”
Through a music composition, performed by a classical string instrument and the fragile act of duct tape leaving the skin, a lyrical dynamic appears, that raises questions about art exclusivity concerning class background.
Jimmy Offesson, creator of the concept of this piece “Art must be”, is an artist, education specialist, drama teacher, works multidisciplinary, and engages in video and performance art. He studies at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Teemu Mastovaara is a cellist, composer, music educator, arranger and engages in multidisciplinary art. He studies the unique master’s programme of “contemporary performance and composition” at Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

5 pm Hiroko Tsuchimoto: ”A Memoir from California”
For this performance Tsuchimoto questions how we as human beings identify ourselves according to gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality in the present globalized, individualistic social context. She invites the audience to reflect upon her self-representation as a Japanese immigrant in a critical way: Am I genuinely able to identify with, and represent the story in 2017 solely because of my Japanese immigrant background? Performed in English.
Hiroko Tsuchimoto is a visual/performance artist, living in Sweden since 2008. Her works are generally manifested as stage performances and social experiments in public spaces. In her performance pieces she often provides communal experiences to audience members through physical assignments, dialogues, and collective movements.

6 pm Walk-through by artist Anna Kinbom
For her walk through-performance in Starting From The Self, Anna has specially developed her piece Karaoke Lecture in response to the works in Starting from the Self. Karaoke Lecture is a collection of songs written by Anna and performed for the audience to sing along to, it has been performed in public space aswell as in art spaces. Takes place at Marabouparken konsthall. For more information click here.

7 pm Nathalie Wuerth, “Mmm… Marabou”
Starting from Marabous famous slogan Mmm… Marabou, the soundscape of the M(mm) is tasted and tried in a series of tableaux for voice and loop pedal.
Natalie Wuerth (1969) is an artist based in Stockholm. She uses the voice as an artistic, material and medium to approach the relationship between spatial and social constructions.  The voice functions as a way to probe physical space and the body as a bearer of social relations, affects and language. The process is often collective and site-specific.
Wuerth has previously participated in performances at Konsthall C, Stockholm (SE); Godsbanan, Aarhus (DA); Spektrum, Berlin (DE) och PAB, Bergen (NO).

7.30 pm Marcus Baldemar: “Love Shrine & Your Majesty – Part 1” (solo version)
A (collective) healing session through self-loving but also a lap dance of sorts. The performance is in English.
Marcus Baldemar is a Brussels and Stockholm based dancer and choreographer. His interests at the moment are the symbiosis between language and the poetic/political body, healing and love as a method and motivation for change.

In spring 2017, Marabouparken Art Gallery will collaborate with Livstycket in Tensta. Together we will explore the perception of women’s work throughout history until today.
The project includes: an exhibition (5/6–28/5), a collaboration (workshops during February, March, and April), and an event (a fashion show 5/20).

The Strange Half-absence of Wandering at Night

Audio-Walk 17 December, at 2.30 pm (duration approx. 40 min.)
Meeting point: Marabouparken entrance (Subway: Sundbyberg Centrum)

Register: RVSP via email info@gap-art.org, before the 17 December 2016 (max. 30 participants)

Further details: Free admission. Held in English. 

Please bring your own mobile device/mp3 player and headphones. A download link to the mp3 file will be provided when registered. The walk will take place in all weathers, so please dress warm.

The Strange Half-absence of Wandering at Night

The exhibition Rethinking Flânerie at Marabouparken is accompanied by Johanna Steindorf’s audio-walk The Strange Half-Absence of Wandering at Night. In this audio-walk, participants accompany a female protagonist through the park and neighborhood at dusk. The walk reflects upon the female flâneur – the flâneuse – and the situation for women in public space. It mixes narrative, text excerpts, music and field recordings. The sun sets while the participant walks, bringing out other qualities of this environment.

Rethinking Flânerie is a group exhibition at Marabouparken that presents artworks by the international artists Nisrine Boukhari, Santiago Mostyn and Johanna Steindorf, who challenge the well-known concept of the flâneur in the 21st century. The exhibition curated by Elena Jarl and Iliane Kiefer, will feature photography, films and installations, which raise questions about gender, migration, home and exile.

The figure of the flâneur which was revived in French literature in the 19th century, has until today been widely debated in various disciplines. In the 20th century, artists reused flânerie and created new strategies of walking in the city to problematize the effects of capitalism on a changing urban landscape. Even if certain historical legacies still shape the perception of the flâneur today, Nisrine Boukhari, Santiago Mostyn and Johanna Steindorf show how present manifestations may be a necessity. As contemporary wanderers, travellers and even as a flâneuse they show new strategies to process personal conflicts and social inequalities. The artworks offer different means to experience a variety of narratives, encouraging the audience to rethink flânerie today.

For more information please visit: www.facebook.com/GapArtPlatform

Learn more about the exhibition Rethinking Flânerie

Johanna Steindorf (b.1982) is a German-Brazilian media artist based in Germany. She holds a Ph.D. from the Bauhaus-University in Weimar’s Media Arts department. Her research is based on the audio-walk as an artistic strategy to highlight questions of gender and migration. She is currently a teacher and research assistant at University of Cologne and has participated in various international conferences. Her work has mostly been presented in Germany and Brazil, the show at Marabouparken is her first exhibition in Sweden.

Textile Subtexts

Talks: Michael Barrett and Matt Smith
Wednesday November 23^rd, 6 pm
Talks will be held in English

As a part of the Textile Subtexts exhibition events programme, cultural anthropologist Michael Barrett and artist and curator Matt Smith, will discuss ways of reimagining history and the organisation of museums.

Michael Barrett will speak about textile in a global historical context, and how textile patterns, values and meanings are transformed and translated across geographies and time periods. But also how some meanings attached to textile patterns are not translated across geographies or not transformed over time; how some boundaries are stubbornly upheld, and how textiles retain certain core meanings or subtexts often to do with power, gender and race.

Matt Smith will discuss museums as reflections of the societies within which they exist. Something that places those who don’t see themselves reflected in the work of the museums, into the realm of the unreal. Drawing on a number of projects, Matt Smith will explore how curatorial practice in England silences LGBT experiences and how this might be addressed using techniques of institutional critique and artist intervention.

The lecture is included in the admission 50 sek.

Michael Barrett is a cultural anthropologist and curator for Africa at the Museums of World Culture in Sweden. He curates exhibitions, archives and public programs relating to the cultures and societies of the African continent and the African Diaspora. His research interests include the history of collections, migration, global fashion, materialities of African religions, and art and subjectivity in colonial archives.

Matt Smith is an artist and curator.  Solo exhibitions include Queering the Museum at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2010-11) and Other Stories at the University of Leeds (2012).  In 2015/16 he was Artist in residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
He received a practice-based PhD in Queer Craft from the University of Brighton, is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies and is Guest Lecturer at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Craft and Design.

Following the song’s threads: From traditional textiles to new technologies

Lecture by Paola Torres Núñez del Prado 

Wednesday November 9th at 6 pm
The lecture will be held in English

This lecture is about the quest of finding correspondences between orders and logics between traditional textile and electronics. Starting from the British mathematician Charles Babbage’s inspiration when designing the “Analytical Engine” in the 1830s that is, the Jacquard loom, which is considered to be the first computer. The use of punched cards created for the Jacquard loom, were subsequently used as main input/output in computers until the 1950’s. The lecture will also deal with traditional patterns used in textiles and modern geometry theories, as well as the role of pattern recognition in Artificial Intelligence.

Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, was born 1979 in Lima, Peru. She studied art in New York at Hunter College and in Stockholm at the Royal Institute of Art. She lives and works in Stockholm.

The lecture is held in conjunction with the exhibition Textile Subtexts, and is included in the admission 50sek.

Image: Shipibo-Style Sonified Textile, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, 2016

The exhibition Textile Subtexts takes its starting point in the “liberation” of textiles in the 1960s in Sweden. From here the investigation moves back and forward in time to pose questions on the role played by textiles in artistic practices and times.

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Seminars in connection with the exhibition (more information is coming soon)

October 5 at 6pm: Panel discussion Textile Emancipation.
Moderator: Annika Öhrner. Participants: Gunilla Lundahl writer, Patrik Steorn Director Thielska Art Gallery, Johanna Rosenqvist associate professor at Konstfack, Bella Rune Professor at Konstfack. Held in Swedish.

October 26 at 6pm: The Bauhaus Has Never Been Modern
Lecture with T’ai Smith. The lecture will be held in English. Learn more

November 9 at 6pm: Following the song’s threads: From traditional textiles to new technologies
Artist Lecture by Paola Torres Núñez del Prado. The lecture will be held in English.

November 16 at 6pm: Molas
Lecture and Workshop with Tomas Woodski. RSVP by info@marabouparken.se. Held in Swedish.

November 23 at 6pm: Lecture with Michael Barrett and Matt Smith
The lecture will be held in English.

November 30 at 6pm: Lecture with Tom Sandqvist about his book Born in a Shtetl and Sonia Delaunay
Held in Swedish.

Image: Johanna Friedman, Pappa vill inte gå en jämställdhetskurs, 2010

The Bauhaus Has Never Been Modern

Lecture by T’ai Smith, October 26 at 6pm

The Bauhaus, we have been told, represents all that is modern; the Bauhaus has appeared to be the exemplar of modernity and modernism. But such an assumption is rooted in what Bruno Latour would identify as the contradiction that pervades the modernist enterprise—a fundamental disjunction between its aim of rationality and the actuality of modern experience. As the planet is flooded with stuff, as modern furniture and textiles flood landfills with waste, as CO2 is released into the atmosphere while more modern stuff is produced, we need to rethink the idea that the Bauhaus was ever modern. This talk will reexamine the discourse of the Bauhaus and its commodity legacy in order to consider what the Bauhaus might offer as an alternative in the face of ecological crisis.

In conjunction with the exhibition Textile Subtexts at Marabouparken Art Gallery, T’ai Smith will consider the (gendered) labour and outsourcing of textiles, but also the possibilities that textile techniques and concepts, as initially investigated at the Bauhaus and later by artists in the 60s and 70s, might offer as we seek to reinvent the values that subtend art, economy, and philosophy.

In collaboration with Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international programme for Visual and Applied Artists.

The lecture will be in English and is included in the admission fee, 50sek.

T’ai Smith will also be lecturing at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Craft and Design on October the 28th. See more on Konstfack’s website  

T’ai Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is author of Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), her articles have appeared in Art Journal, Art Practical, Grey Room, Journal of Modern Craft, Texte zur Kunst, and Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. She is currently drafting a book manuscript titled Fashion After Capital: Frock Coats and Philosophy From Marx to Duchamp.

Release Civilisation & Provocation – The Ultimate Krabstadt Fanbook by Jeuno Je Kim and Ewa Einhorn

July 16 at 2pm at Marabouparken

On Saturday 16th of July Förlaget presents their new title Civilisation & Provocation -The Ultimate Krabstadt Fanbook by Jeuno Je Kim and Ewa Einhorn. Come and meet the authors and the people behind Förlaget, get a signed copy, watch a movie, listen to curator Johanne Løgstrup and join the discussion.

Krabstadt is a town in the Arctic where all the Nordic countries send their Unwanteds. Since 2013 Krabstadt is also a popular reality TV show for people all over the world to watch and laugh at Nordic rejects thrashing through gnarly post-social democratic realities. Now available in a book form! Get a free exclusive peep behind the scenes. What really happened during the making of the show? Meet the authentic characters from your favourite Krabstadt episodes and find out the truth behind this Nordic miracle!

Read the stories of the unflappably long-term unemployed, the tenacious immigrants and those with too many overdue bills who are flirting with minor to mid-level criminal records. The main characters, SchlopSchlop and KK are two annoying yet funny women. The revolving narrative centers on the exploits of SchlopSchlop and KK and their dealings with peculiar co-workers, bosses, clients, tourists and the town’s residents. SchlopSchlop is a lazy smart-ass, while KK is a workaholic fueled by a potent sense of Lutheran guilt. As colleagues, the two are often in conflict with each other, unless united against their vulgar boss-from-hell named IT. Krabstadt is a haven for annoying, funny, strong and diverse female characters with quirky side kicks.

& provocation is a book series that scrutinizes the use of provocation as an aesthetic during the 21th century. Civilisation & Provocation – The Ultimate Krabstadt Fanbook is the second volume in our series, following Heresy & provocation by Tero Nauha (FI) which went deep into the world of provocative performance art.

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Children’s yoga in Marabouparken

Yoga for children on Saturdays in Marabouparken, next to the pop up library in the park. Free admission!

June 11 at 2 pm
July 16 at 2 pm
August 13 at 2 pm

The Unstraight Museum is having a small exhibition in the parkpavilion in Marabouparken this summer. Part of The Unstraight Museum collection is on display and there will be a joint program of guided tours and other events connected to the exhibition.

The Unstraight Museum is a non-profit organisation working to draw attention to LGBTQI related questions within the museum and exhibition context. The purpose is to make non-normative and unstraight stories and history visible through cultural projects. Individuals who are ”invisible” or ”do not” exist, cannot demand any rights and will never be seen if their lives and stories are not represented. That is why representation is a key.

This is the first time the collection is put on a regular display, where it normally is only shown at The Unstraight Museums website. The collection that exists of mostly ordinary everyday objects is connected with a personal story that gives us another perspective of the meaning or representation of this objects.

Guided tours in Swedish will be available 18th of June, 16th of July and 20th of August, all at 2 pm. No charge.

For further information visit:

www.unstraight.org

How could it go so wrong when the thinking was so right?

Lecture and discussion on April 27 at 6.30pm

Anders Burman, Associate Professor in the History of Ideas, Södertörn University
Bo Lindquist, documentary filmmaker for The Swedish national television
Gittan Jönsson, artist

Anders Burman will hold a lecture on the 1960s and 1970s politics and ideas which is followed by a conversation with artist Gittan Jönsson, currently exhibiting at Marabouparken, and Bo Lindquist, who has made a documentary about the so called Rebel movement in 1968 in which Jönsson participated.

The lecture will be in Swedish and is included in the admission price 50 sek.

Learn more about Gittan Jönssons exhibition Parallel lines

Sketching thoughts

Lecture and discussion
May 11 at 6.45pm.

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Professor in Philosophy, Södertörn University
Gittan Jönsson, artist
Jockum Nordström, artist
Lise-Lotte Norelius, musician

Throughout her artistic career Gittan Jönsson has been sketching her life; domestic chores, life’s joys and its fears. Gittan Jönsson has also produced several comic books dealing with political and societal matters. Jockum Nordstrom, an artist from a younger generation, has become known for working with an aesthetic of sketching and comic book aesthetics and a imagery. The comic strip has associations with childhood matters, perhaps even with a sense of naivety, but is in both artists’ hands turned towards big matters and difficult issues.

In our culture there is an underlying paradigm that the written word conveys truth, whilst the drawn image is tinged with fiction. The philosopher Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback challenges in her book Att tänka i skisser this paradigm, and propose to see the image as the essence of truth, not subordinate to the philosopher’s words. In a lecture, followed by a conversation, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback discusses with the artists Gittan Jönsson and Jockum Nordstrom about thinking through sketching.

During this evening the musician Lise-Lotte Norelius will do a vacuum cleaner performance.

The lecture will be in Swedish and is included in the admission price 50 sek.

Lear more about Gittan Jönsson’s exhibition Parallel lines

Minibiblioteket i  Kerstin Bergendals Parkleken, foto Jean-Baptiste Béranger

POP UP LIBRARY IN MARABOUPARKEN 2016

Sundbyberg Public Libraries makes pop up in Marabouparken! Lend a book to read in the park or take it with you on a summer spree, no library card needed!

Loans may be returned to the pop up library or any of the public libraries in Sundbyberg. The pop up library can be found opposite the paddling pool in the park.

The pop up library opens on May 1st! 

Hours:
wed–sun 12–4pm.
Closed on rainy days.

PUBLIC ENQUIRIES GOTHENBURG

Public Enquiries is a research project which has its starting point in the artistic practice of Kerstin Bergendal, with a particular focus on her earlier project PARK LEK. It consists of three symposia and a publication which will be released in 2017.

The symposium in Gothenburg is the third in the series and it looks closer at how long-term, temporary artistic projects influence discussions about sustainability, city and cultural planning, how situated artistic practices can work as forms of enquiry as well as why such artistic practices are highly relevant today.

The symposium begins with lunch at 12:00 and ends 18:00. Seats are limited. Register here, free of charge.

The symposium will be held in English.

The event is organized by Valand Academy in collaboration with Marabouparken Konsthall (Sundbyberg) and Somewhere (Copenhagen) with support from Region Västra Götaland.

Learn more on Valand Academy’s site 

Further information on the Public Enquiries symposia

PUBLIC ENQUIRIES

– A research project responding to the work of the artist Kerstin Bergendal with particular reference to the project PARK LEK.
Marabouparken konsthall, SOMEWHERE and Valand Academy in collaboration

Seating is limited so please book in advance by mailing: pub@marabouparken.se at latest November 24. The symposium will be held in English. Free admission.

A book and a series of symposia
Public Enquiries is a research project responding to the work of the artist Kerstin Bergendal with particular reference to her project PARK LEK. The wider critical art practice that PARK LEK epitomizes has brought together Marabouparken konsthall (the original Swedish commissioning agency), SOMEWHERE (Art and Public Space Agency, Copenhagen) and Valand Academy of Art (University of Gothenburg) in a collaboration around a book and a series of symposia that will explore the diverse problematics that Kerstin Bergendal’s practice has systematically activated and explored for several decades.

A key goal of the project is to profile a mode of artistic practice and enquiry that engages questions of social practice, durational-though-temporary public art, participatory dynamics, critical urbanism, democratic processes and art outside the exhibitionary complex.

Three public symposia are organised in order to collect perspectives and gather material for the publication due in 2016. The dates of the symposia are: Stockholm (Sundbyberg) 26st November 2015, Copenhagen 28st of January 2016, Valand Academy Gothenburg 21st of April 2016.

PUBLIC ENQUIRIES SYMPOSIUM STOCKHOLM
26st of November, 13:00-17:00 hrs. Doors are open from 12:30. Coffee will be served.
Allaktivitetshuset, Sturegatan 10, Sundbyberg

This first symposium in the series will be organised in Sundbyberg, the small municipality near Stockholm, where the PARK LEK project took place. Keynote speakers and respondents will focus on artistic practices, projects and methods that have developed seminal work outside the exhibitionary complex within corporations, local government or as part of social movements and civic initiatives. These contexts constitute starting points for artistic ventures that are often fuelled by the participation of the stakeholders. However, as soon as art leaves the designated art context it is often followed by a discussion of integrity and instrumentalisation. How are such art practices motivated, articulated and maintained outside the art institutions?

Presentations:

Kerstin Bergendal will introduce some key issues of the PARK LEK project and discuss if and how the artist can act as a cross-runner or mediator between groups of people, places, expressions and forms of governance.

Per Hasselbergs work often address the revival or actualisation of social-spatial concepts and institutional forms. In his presentation, Change Everything!, he speaks about the Swedish heritage of radical social work that was the contextual starting point of his public artwork, the art institution Konsthall C in Hökarängen. The social work in Hökarängen 1977–1985 has been called “the most humane era in Stockholm’s social-care history” The idea of the experiment was to see the clients as fellow human beings, and to cope with social assistance as an insurance policy, instead of an alms.

In her presentation, The Model and the Balloon – breaking into utopia, curator Katrin Ingelstedt adds a new chapter to the story of the exhibition, The Model. A Model for a Qualitative Society at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the following adventure playground, The Balloon at Råby, Västerås in 1968–1969. She places these events in a time and context that revolted against the existing notions of child and childhood, in the same way as it revolted against a traditional view of art. The presentation leads up to the current project, The Balloon – Play for Real, where artists are conceived as key players in the societal processes of change.

Kultivator is an experimental art project, fusing organic farming and visual art practice. It is situated in rural village Dyestad, on the island Öland. In their practice artists and artistic coordinators Mathieu Vrijman and Malin Lindmark Vrijman discuss the parallels between provision production and art practice, between concrete and abstract processes for survival. In their talk, Models of Collaboration, they will show examples of recent artworks investigating new models of collaboration for shared produce, preparation and experience of food and community.

In her presentation Negotiating the “not-knowing” – Artist Placement Group and the ‘open brief’, Barbara Steveni will introduce the Artist Placement Group, its methodology and core axioms, and examples of Artist “placements” from the 70’s that demonstrate the “open brief” in the wider socio-political contexts actioned by APG. Their original concept was to expand the reach of art and artists into organisations of all kinds (commercial, industrial, and governmental) and at all levels, including decision-making, and on a basis equivalent to any other engaged specialist.

Respondents:
Lena From (Public Art Agency Sweden)
Meike Schalk (architect and associate professor KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Anna Högberg & Johan Tirén (artists)
Réne León-Rosales (currently postdoctoral researcher at the Child and Youth Studies, Uppsala University).

The editorial team for the book comprises: Helena Selder (Marabouparken konsthall), Stenka Hellfach and Ulrikke Neergaard (Somewhere) and Mick Wilson (Valand Academy).

All symposiums will be held in English.

For further information about the Public Enquiries project please contact:
Helena Selder, Marabouparken konsthall, helena.selder@marabouparken.se, ph: +46708-714591.
Mick Wilson, Akademi Valand, mick.wilson@akademinvaland.gu.se
SOMEWHERE, ulrikke@artsomewhere.com, stenka@artsomewhere.com

David Claerbout, The Quiet Shore, video 2011

Genom bilden med David Claerbout

Föreläsning med Annika Wik
Onsdag 14 oktober kl 18.30

När filmmediet var ungt fördes resonemang om hur människorna trädde fram ur skuggorna var gång bilder satts i rörelse. När projektorn startade väcktes människor till liv, när rörelsen upphörde eller bilden frös försvann livet tillbaka in i skuggorna lika snabbt som det hade startat. Som åskådare framför David Claerbouts filmer för han oss tillbaka till det fantastiska i övergången från stilla till rörlig bild i denna tid, sedan, via experimentfilmens undersökningar och olika genrer inom fotografi och film, för han oss i sina verk fram till, och kanske förbi, de möjligheter vi har att vinkla, förskjuta och tänja gränserna för vad som går att göra med mellanrummet mellan stilla bild och bild i rörelse i dagens bildlandskap. Om detta kommer Annika Wik utifrån sitt filmvetenskapliga perspektiv att prata under sin föreläsning. Genom filmklipp tar hon oss med på en resa genom bilder – både bokstavligen i relation till Claerbouts sätt att föra åskådaren genom bilden och metaforiskt genom filmhistoriska och filmestetiska resonemang.

Annika Wik har en doktorsexamen från Filmvetenskapliga Institutionen, Stockholms universitet (2001) där hon forskade och undervisade från 1996-2012. Idag arbetar hon i egen regi med forskning och kunskapsutveckling inom film och samtidskonst. Hon har varit forskningsansvarig på MAP, Mobile Art Production och är delredaktör till böckerna Imagining the Audience. Viewing Positions in Curatorial and Artistic Practice (2012) och Rörlig konstproduktion / Mobile Art Production (2010). Annika Wik ansvarar för kursmomentet videokonst i kursen Fotografiens och videokonstens historia på Konstfack i Stockholm och hon är en ofta anlitad föreläsare i både film- och konstsammanhang.

Forest and trees on the border of nature and culture in Sweden

Saturday September 26 at 3pm 

In connection with the exhibition Nothin’ Shakin’ But the Leaves on the Trees by the artist Edward Clydesdale Thomson professor Lars Östlund, Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå, will talk about his research on forest history, ecology and archaeology followed by a conversation with the artist Edward Clydesdale Thomson.

The forest in Sweden is greatly influenced by people and their use of natural resources – this is true for today but also in the past. In this presentation Lars Östlund will talk about the relationship between people and the forest in northern Sweden, particularly about the remnant natural forests and the Sami people, how people have used the forest and how this relationship has shaped the forest. He will also talk about the culturally modified trees, forest fire and the natural values of old forests.

After the talk a conversation will follow with the artist Edward Clydesdale Thomson who, in his exhibition Nothin’ Shakin’ But the Leaves on the Trees, reflects on the connections between land, ideology and identity.

The Lecture will be in English and is included in the admission 50 SEK.

Learn more about Edward Clydesdale Thomson’s exhibition

Guided tour
Wednesday, June 17 at 6pm

A guided tour of the exhibitions Participant Observers and Nothin’ Shakin’ but the Leaves on the Trees. Included in the entrance fee 50 SEK, held in Swedish.

Learn more about the exhibitions here

Wednesday, September 2 at 6pm

Artist Henrik Andersson gives an introduction to his exhibition Participant Observers. Included in the entrance fee 50 SEK, held in Swedish.

Open tours

Open introductory tour of the exhibition, the history of Marabouparken and the sculpture collection in the park is offered on the first Sunday in every month at 2pm. Open tours are available on June 7th, July 5th, August 2nd, September 6th and November 1st.

Included in the entrance fee 50SEK. Held in Swedish.

Wednesday May 13 at 6pm
Belief and Productivity: A Ride in the Forest
Artist Talk with Edward Clydesdale Thomson

In conjunction with the exhibition Nothin’ Shakin’ but the Leaves on the Trees, artist Edward Clydesdale Thomson will talk about the process behind Belief and Productivity: A Ride in the Forest, which manifests itself in five sculptures commissioned for Marabouparken. This will be a presentation about Thomson’s exploration of the cultural history of Swedish forest use and a reflection on the nature of Marabouparken itself.

During an artist residency in Sweden in 2013–2014, Thomson participated in a researcher-led expedition to the country’s northern old growth forests where traces of older, cultural forestry were examined. Traces of this research can be found in the sculptures now standing on the large grass lawn in Marabouparken, where references, images and elements of historical forest use and the industrial-scale growing of spruces intermingle in the same body of work.

Thomson’s sculptures speak of the different roles the trees in the forests have played in Swedish culture as timber, capital and cultural environment. The work Belief and Productivity: A Ride in the Forest is also a reflection on the park as an ideological space. Marabouparken was laid out to give the illusion of a naturally emerged oasis – a place for physical and spiritual recreation that would also create a strong sense of connection to the company and thus further loyalty and productivity. This is where the ideas about Marabouparken and the Swedish forest start to overlap – as models of belief and productivity.

“The narrative of forestry use in Sweden can be read in spiritual, economic and moral terms that define the complex politics of our relation to land use. Notions of identity and the modernistic ideals of productivity produce a responsibility for ‘nature’ that pairs morality and capitalist ideals.”

– Edward Clydesdale Thomson

The Artist Talk will be held in English, admission 50 SEK.

Learn more about the exhibition Nothin’ Shakin’ but the Leaves on the Trees

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Edward Clydesdale Thomson (b. 1982, Scottish/Danish artist based in Rotterdam) is a graduate of the MFA program at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and the BArch program at the Glasgow School of Art. He has been resident artist at Iaspis, Stockholm, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Notable recent exhibitions include: 25 jaar Stadscollectie Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2013), The Distracted Gardener & The Plumbing Subverter, Yeo Workshop, Singapore (2013), causa finalis, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (2012), Secret Gardens, TENT, Rotterdam (2012), Prix de Rome 2011, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (2011).

http://www.edwardthomson.net/

Kottan and friends
Children’s theatre in Marabouparken

A theatre show for kids in Marabouparken hosted by the theatre group Lilla Parken. A show about friendship with loads of music and entertainment. Played outdoors in Marabouparkren. Held in Swedish.

Aimed for children aged 2 years or older. No RSVP required.

Played on Saturdays: July 11, 18, 25 at 11.30 am.

In collaboration with the Municipality of Sundbyberg.

From chaos to insight
– talks in collaboration with Grafikens Hus and The Swedish Exhibition Agency

Wednesday September 9 at 4–6 pm
Location: Marabouparken Art Gallery
Language: Swedish

In March of 2014 Grafikens Hus in Mariefred burned down to the ground. This extreme situation ignited many questions, among them what does a public art gallery mean to a community?

In collaboration with Riksutställningar (the Swedish Exhibition Agency), Grafikens Hus has organized four talks around these questions to take place during 2015. Among partners in this conversation series are Magasin III, Nationalmuseum, Marabouparken konsthall and Eskilstuna konstmuseum. International guests will be invited to reflect on these issues. Nina Beckmann, director of Grafikens Hus since 2012, will moderate the series of talks From Chaos to Insight.

Read more about the program series.

Dialogue 3 at Marabouparken Art Gallery: On building a New Public Art Gallery
Does Sweden need yet another public art gallery? If one starts from the beginning again should one be building a physical gallery or are there alternatives? And who is to finance the venture?

The talk is free and open to all, but reservations are required. Limited space is available, first come first served. To make a reservation email: info@grafikenshus.se.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets
Book launch, lecture and reading, Tuesday March 24 at 6.30pm

Please join us for a lecture by Mierle Laderman Ukeles and the launch of her very first publication, Seven Work Ballets which focuses on her ongoing series of work ballet performances, which activate socio-urban choreographies of workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables in cities across the globe.

Since 1977, Ukeles has been artist-in-residence of the New York Department of Sanitation and has realised projects which aimed to support the sanitation workers and create awareness for the ecology of New York City. Her research within the Sanitation Department has informed the development of several public art performances spanning 1983-2012 and presented internationally in France, Rotterdam and Japan which now are gathered in the publication Seven Work Ballets.

The lecture will be followed by an in-conversation between the book’s editor Kari Conte and curator Krist Gruijthuijsen.

Release prize on the publication all evening!
Admission 50SEK, RSVP to osa@marabouparken.se if you like to join the lecture.

The publication is co-published by Kunstverein Amsterdam, Grazer Kunstverein and Sternberg Press in collaboration with Arnolfini, Bristol, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and Marabouparken konsthall, Sundbyberg. The programme is held in collaboration with Konsthall C with support from The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm and Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts & Design, Stockholm.

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles (born 1939 in Denver Colorado) studied at Barnard College and Pratt Institute in NewYork. Since the 1970s, she has exhibited and performed widely, among others in C7500, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford (1973), Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1980, both curated by Lucy Lippard), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York (1998), WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, PS1, New York (2007–2008) and the International Armory Art Fair, New York (2007), Maintenance Art Works 1969–1980, Grazer Kunstverein (2013), Maintenance Required, The Kitchen, New York (2013, organised by the Whitney Independent Study Program), and at the 13th Istanbul Biennial.

Representations of home and family life in art
Sunday March 29 at 2pm

(earlier Wednesday 18 March 6pm)

Lecture by art critic Katarina Wadstein MacLeod and artist talk with author Kristina Sandberg. Admission 50 SEK.

Art critic and associate professor Katarina Wadstein MacLeod gives a lecture with August prize winner Kristina Sandberg on the domestic from a 1960s and 1970s perspective.

The lecture will be in Swedish.

Film and events programme
Beginning with a survey of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her significant examination of Maintenance Art Work between 1969–1980 the exhibitions and events programme delve into expanded artistic examinations of the home, domestic (maintenance) work and the gendered division of labour; asking how these radical practices can prove relevant today. The accompanying film programme will be shown at Marabouparken konsthall and offers weekly reflections on feminist struggles battled in the everyday. Two showreels of artists film and video work punctuate the programme which include a number of work from the Cinenova collection, dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women.

Learn more about the public programme

Kristina Sandberg is a writer and psychologist. Her first novel called I vattnet flyter man was published in 1997. Between 2010 and 2014 she published the novel trilogy Att föda ett barn, Sörja för de sina and Liv till varje pris about the life of the housewife Maj living in Örnsköldsvik in Sweden. In 2014, Kristina Sandberg received SvD’s Literature Prize, the August Prize and the Moa Martinson scholarship. Photo: Maria Annas

Katarina Wadstein MacLeod is associate professor at Södertörn University and Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. She is also working as an art critic for the Swedish newspaper  Svenska Dagbladet. Photo: Södertörn University

Filmscreening
Bred and Born by Joanna Davis and Mary Pat Leece (1983, 75 min)

Wednesday 4 March 6pm, 50 SEK

The film depicts four generations of women in an East London family who talk about their own experiences and close family ties, and a women’s group who discuss their roles as mothers and daughters.

Film and events program
Beginning with a survey of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her significant examination of Maintenance Art Work between 1969–1980 the exhibitions and events programme delve into expanded artistic examinations of the home, domestic (maintenance) work and the gendered division of labour; asking how these radical practices can prove relevant today. The accompanying film programme will be shown at Marabouparken konsthall and offers weekly reflections on feminist struggles battled in the everyday. Two showreels of artists film and video work punctuate the programme which include a number of work from the Cinenova collection, dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women.

Learn more about the public programme

FILM SCREENING
The All-around Reduced Personality: Redupers, Helke Sander (1978, 98 min)

Wednesday 25 March 6pm, 50 SEK

Shot in 1977, the film focuses on the actual economic and political realities of the life of Edda, a single parent and artist living in Berlin during its occupation.

With support from Goethe Institute

Film and events programme
Beginning with a survey of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her significant examination of Maintenance Art Work between 1969–1980 the exhibitions and events programme delve into expanded artistic examinations of the home, domestic (maintenance) work and the gendered division of labour; asking how these radical practices can prove relevant today. The accompanying film programme will be shown at Marabouparken konsthall and offers weekly reflections on feminist struggles battled in the everyday. Two showreels of artists film and video work punctuate the programme which include a number of work from the Cinenova collection, dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women.

Learn more about the public programme

FILM SCREENING
The Maid, Sebastián Silva (2009, 95 min)

Wednesday 11 March 6pm, 50 SEK, 

Centred on Raquel, a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 20 years, the film exposes the blurred and exploitable boundaries of work, life and friendship when working within a family home.

Film and events program
Beginning with a survey of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her significant examination of Maintenance Art Work between 1969–1980 the exhibitions and events programme delve into expanded artistic examinations of the home, domestic (maintenance) work and the gendered division of labour; asking how these radical practices can prove relevant today. The accompanying film programme will be shown at Marabouparken konsthall and offers weekly reflections on feminist struggles battled in the everyday. Two showreels of artists film and video work punctuate the programme which include a number of work from the Cinenova collection, dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women.

Learn more about the public programme

Schmeerguntz, Gunvor Nelson, 1965

FILM SCREENING
7 Women Images, Canon Club Production (1970, 26 min)
Schmeerguntz, Gunvor Nelson (1965, 15 min)

Wednesday 1 April 6pm, 50 SEK.

7 Women Images presents documentation from an action in Copenhagen that saw women taking washing up taking into the streets. Made in collaboration with Dorothy Wiley, Schmeerguntz is Gunvor Nelson’s first film. Using collage, the film builds up a sharp portrayal of the contrast between the media’s depiction of women in society and the realities of life at home.

Film and events programme
Beginning with a survey of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her significant examination of Maintenance Art Work between 1969–1980 the exhibitions and events programme delve into expanded artistic examinations of the home, domestic (maintenance) work and the gendered division of labour; asking how these radical practices can prove relevant today. The accompanying film programme will be shown at Marabouparken konsthall and offers weekly reflections on feminist struggles battled in the everyday. Two showreels of artists film and video work punctuate the programme which include a number of work from the Cinenova collection, dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women.

Learn more about the public programme

FILM SCREENING

Wednesday 8 April 6pm | Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall

Co-curated by Marina Vishmidt from the Cinenova Working Group a selection of artist film and video deal-ing with womens’ experiences of womanhood, its expectations and struggle.

Mother’s Strike, Szum TV and Feminist Think Tank (2010, 22 min)
Ohyra, Klara Lidén (1979, 4 min)
Mum’s the Word, Carole Kostanich (1982, 23 min)
Women of the Rhondda, London Women’s Film Group (1972, 20 min)
Köket, Carin Ellberg and Katarina Lindgren Cavallin (1987, 26 min)

Film and events programme
Beginning with a survey of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her significant examination of Maintenance Art Work between 1969–1980 the exhibitions and events programme delve into expanded artistic examinations of the home, domestic (maintenance) work and the gendered division of labour; asking how these radical practices can prove relevant today. The accompanying film programme will be shown at Marabouparken konsthall and offers weekly reflections on feminist struggles battled in the everyday. Two showreels of artists film and video work punctuate the programme which include a number of work from the Cinenova collection, dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women.

Learn more about the public programme

Black Girl, Ousmane Sembène, 1966

FILM SCREENING
Black Girl, Ousmane Sembène (1966, 65 min)

Wednesday 15 April 6pm, free admission! 

The story of a Senegalese woman working for a French family and the racist and sexist struggles she faces abroad.

Film and events programme
Beginning with a survey of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her significant examination of Maintenance Art Work between 1969–1980 the exhibitions and events programme delve into expanded artistic examinations of the home, domestic (maintenance) work and the gendered division of labour; asking how these radical practices can prove relevant today. The accompanying film programme will be shown at Marabouparken konsthall and offers weekly reflections on feminist struggles battled in the everyday. Two showreels of artists film and video work punctuate the programme which include a number of work from the Cinenova collection, dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women.

Learn more about the public programme

FILM SCREENING
Girls at Marabou, Maj Wechselmann (1971, 34 min)

Wednesday April 22 at 6pm, 50 SEK. The film is in Swedish. 

A film about the many thousands of girls aged 15–20 who moved to Stockholm from rural areas in Sweden, and also from Finland. Many found work as packers in the food industry, a low-paid job on a conveyor belt.

Film and events programme
Beginning with a survey of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and her significant examination of Maintenance Art Work between 1969–1980 the exhibitions and events programme delve into expanded artistic examinations of the home, domestic (maintenance) work and the gendered division of labour; asking how these radical practices can prove relevant today. The accompanying film programme will be shown at Marabouparken konsthall and offers weekly reflections on feminist struggles battled in the everyday. Two showreels of artists film and video work punctuate the programme which include a number of work from the Cinenova collection, dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women.

Learn more about the public programme

Artists Talk and Film Screening  

Wednesday 25 February 6pm
Girls at Marabou, Maj Wechselmann (1971, 34 min) followed by an artists talk with film director Maj Wechselmann and journalist and film producer Wanda Bendjelloul. Admission 50 sek. 

A film about the many thousands of girls aged 15–20 who moved to Stockholm from rural areas in Sweden, and also from Finland. Many found work as packers in the food industry, a low-paid job on a conveyor belt. Artist talk with Wanda Bendjelloul where Maj Wechselmann tells about the work producing the film Girls at Marabou as well as the film Omställningen which she produced together with artist Anna Sjödahl in 1974.

Film Screening

Wednesday 18 February at 5pm
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman (1975, 201 min). Admission 50 sek. 

A seminal work of feminist and experimental film making. Chantal Akerman called it “a love film for my mother. It gives recognition to that kind of woman”. Shot by an all female cast it depicts the life of Jeanne Dielman as if it were a real-life, real-time documentary.

Film Screening at Zita Folkets Bio

Tuesday 10 February at 8pm

In connection to the exhibitions Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Works 1969–1980 and From Her House there is a collaborative public programme between Marabouparken and Konsthall C. To launch the From Her House film programme we start with an event in collaboration with Film i Samtidskonsten, FIS, at Zita Folkets Bio. The first screening is co-curated by Marina Vishmidt from the Cinenova Working Group and brings together a series of artist’s films and videos examining the home and the politics of domestic labour. Marina Vishmidt and artist Emma Hedditch from the Cinenova Working Group will provide an introduction to the screening.

And what does your mother do? Cine Mujer (1981, 10 min)
Often During the Day, Joanna Davis (1979, 16 min)
The Invisible Hand, Athina Tsoulis (1992, 11 min)
2011 12 30, Leontine Arvidsson (2013, 3 min)
Saute ma ville, Chantal Akerman (1968,12 min)
Kind als pinsel, Twin Gabriel (2007, 6 min)
She Said, Susan Stein (1982, 30 min)

Find tickets here

After the launch at Zita, the film programme will run on Wednesday evenings at Marabouparken konsthall. See the entire programme here

Cinenova is a UK based non-profit organisation dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women. Formed in 1991 from the merger of two feminist distributors, Circles and Cinema of Women, Cinenova provides the means to discover and watch experimental films, narrative feature films, artist’s films and videos, documentary and educational videos. Marina Vishmidt is part of the Cinenova Working Group which creates the conditions to distribute these works nationally and internationally.

www.cinenova.org

Film i Samtidskonsten (FiS) is an organisation for video art and art films supported by the Swedish Arts Council. The program is run in collaboration with cinemas, festivals and art institutions around Stockholm.

www.filmisamtidskonsten.se

The Invisible Hand, Athina Tsoulis, 1992

From Her House
Public Programme

A collaborative public programme between Marabouparken konsthall and Konsthall C.

Admission is included in the entrance fee, 50 sek.

Ongoing screening in the exhibition From Her House at Marabouparken konsthall
Omställningen, Berit Persson, Rolf Porsborn, Maj Wechselmann, Anna Sjödahl (1974, 60 min)

A film about the myth of motherhood and the social conception of the newborn baby. Mothers from different backgrounds are asked why they wanted to have a child and about their everyday situation after returning from the maternity ward.

She Said, Susan Stein, 1982

Tuesday 10 February 8pm| Film Screening at Zita Folkets Bio

To launch the From Her House film programme we start with an event in collaboration with Film i Samtidskonsten, FIS, at Zita Folkets Bio. The first screening is co-curated by Marina Vishmidt from the Cinenova Working Group and brings together a series of artist’s films and videos examining the home and the politics of domestic labour. Marina Vishmidt and artist Emma Hedditch from the Cinenova Working Group will provide an introduction to the screening.

And what does your mother do? Cine Mujer (1981, 10 min)
Often During the Day, Joanna Davis (1979, 16 min)
The Invisible Hand, Athina Tsoulis (1992, 11 min)
2011 12 30, Leontine Arvidsson (2013, 3 min)
Saute ma ville, Chantal Akerman (1968,12 min)
Kind als pinsel, Twin Gabriel (2007, 6 min)
She Said, Susan Stein (1982, 30 min)

For tickets follow the link

Tuesday 17 February 7-9pm | Housewarming Dinner at Konsthall C

The new co-directors of Konsthall C would like to celebrate their new home and invite you to join them for a Housewarming Dinner where they will share their plans for the new Home Works Programme together with Gunilla Lundahl and Joanna Lombard who will present their upcoming research. Free admission. To book please email info@konsthallc.se

Jeanne Dielman, Chantal Akerman, 1975

Wednesday 18 February 5pm | Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman (1975, 201 min)

A seminal work of feminist and experimental film making. Chantal Akerman called it “a love film for my mother. It gives recognition to that kind of woman”. Shot by an all female cast it depicts the life of Jeanne Dielman as if it were a real-life, real-time documentary.

Girls at Marabou, Maj Wechselmann, 1971

Wednesday 25 February 6pm | Artists Talk and Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall
Girls at Marabou, Maj Wechselmann (1971, 34 min), artists talk with film director Maj Wechselmann and journalist and film producer Wanda Bendjelloul

A film about the many thousands of girls aged 15–20 who moved to Stockholm from rural areas in Sweden, and also from Finland. Many found work as packers in the food industry, a low-paid job on a conveyor belt. Artist talk with Wanda Bendjelloul where Maj Wechselmann tells about the work producing the film Girls at Marabou as well as the film Omställningen which she produced together with artist Anna Sjödahl in 1974.

Bred and Born, Joanna Davis och Mary Pat Leece, 1983

Wednesday 4 March 6pm | Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall Bred and Born, Joanna Davis and Mary Pat Leece (1983, 75 min)

The film depicts four generations of women in an East London family who talk about their own experiences and close family ties, and a women’s group who discuss their roles as mothers and daughters.

Sunday 8 March 2-5pm| International Women’s Day SOAPBOX discussion at Marabouparken konsthall

A half-day discussion event in celebration of International Women’s Day. Presentations from artists Gittan Jönsson, Joanna Lombard and Gunilla Lundahl as well as local women’s organisations will address their relationship to ‘women and work’ from a personal perspective. In collaboration with ABF.

The Maid, Sebastián Silva, 2009

Wednesday 11 March 6pm | Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall The Maid, Sebastián Silva (2009, 95 min)

Centred on Raquel, a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 20 years, the film exposes the blurred and exploitable boundaries of work, life and friendship when working within a family home.

CHANGE OF DATE!

Sunday March 29 at 2pm (earlier Wednesday 18 March 6pm)
Lecture by art critic Katarina Wadstein MacLeod and author Kristina Sandberg at Marabouparken konsthall

Art critic and associate professor at Södertörn University and Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Katarina Wadstein MacLeod gives a lecture with August prize winner Kristina Sandberg on the domestic from a 1960s and 70s perspective.

Tuesday 24 March 6.30pm | Seven Work Ballets Book Launch, lecture and reading by Mierle Laderman Ukeles at Marabouparken konsthall

Please join us for a lecture by Mierle Laderman Ukeles and the launch of her very first publication, Seven Work Ballets which focuses on her ongoing series of work ballet performances, which activate socio-urban choreographies of workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables in cities across the globe. The lecture will be followed by an in-conversation between the book’s editor Kari Conte and curator Krist Gruijthuijsen.

The publication is co-published by Kunstverein Amsterdam, Grazer Kunstverein and Sternberg Press in collaboration with Arnolfini, Bristol, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and Marabouparken konsthall, Sundbyberg.

The All-around Reduced Personality:Redupers, Helke Sander, 1978

Wednesday 25 March 6pm | Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall The All-around Reduced Personality: Redupers, Helke Sander (1978, 98 min)

Shot in 1977, the film focuses on the actual economic and political realities of the life of Edda, a single parent and artist living in Berlin during its occupation.

Wednesday 1 April 6pm | Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall
7 Women Images, Canon Club Production (1970, 26 min)
Schmeerguntz, Gunvor Nelson (1965, 15 min)

7 Women Images presents documentation from an action in Copenhagen that saw women taking washing up taking into the streets. Made in collaboration with Dorothy Wiley, Schmeerguntz is Gunvor Nelson’s first film. Using collage, the film builds up a sharp portrayal of the contrast between the media’s depiction of women in society and the realities of life at home.

Tuesday 7 April 7pm | Counterplanning from the Kitchen, Housewarming Dinner at Konsthall C

In Konsthall C’s kitchen, curators Kim McAleese and Josefin Vargö have invited a commercial ‘chef’ and a domestic ‘cook’ to respond to the questions posed in the Ukeles’ Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!. Produced in 1969, the manifesto connected to other feminist activities around the world which began to articulate the inequities inherent in the capitalist system of paid (masculine) and unpaid (feminine) labour. The dinner is an attempt to readdress the issues raised by Ukeles for a contemporary audience. To book please email info@konsthallc.se. Free admission!

Women of the Rhondda, London Women’s Film Group, 1972

Wednesday 8 April 6pm | Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall

Co-curated by Marina Vishmidt from the Cinenova Working Group a selection of artist film and video deal-ing with womens’ experiences of womanhood, its expectations and struggle.

Mother’s Strike, Szum TV and Feminist Think Tank (2010, 22 min)
Ohyra, Klara Lidén (1979, 4 min)
Mum’s the Word, Carole Kostanich (1982, 23 min)
Women of the Rhondda, London Women’s Film Group (1972, 20 min)
Köket, Carin Ellberg and Katarina Lindgren Cavallin (1987, 26 min)

Wednesday 15 April 6pm| Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall
Black Girl, Ousmane Sembène (1966, 65 min)

The story of a Senegalese woman working for a French family and the racist and sexist struggles she faces abroad.

Wednesday 22 April 6pm | Film Programme at Marabouparken konsthall Girls at Marabou, Maj Wechselmann (1971, 34 min)

A film about the many thousands of girls aged 15–20 who moved to Stockholm from rural areas in Sweden, and also from Finland. Many found work as packers in the food industry, a low-paid job on a conveyor belt.

Cinenova is a UK based non-profit organisation dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women. Formed in 1991 from the merger of two feminist distributors, Circles and Cinema of Women, Cinenova provides the means to discover and watch experimental films, narrative feature films, artist’s films and videos, documentary and educational videos. Marina Vishmidt is part of the Cinenova Working Group which creates the conditions to distribute these works nationally and internationally.

www.cinenova.org

…och konsten att lyssna

Book release och artist talk with Leif Jordansson and Jonas Ellerström
Wednesday October 22 at 6 pm

Artist and music composer Leif Jordansson releases his book …och konsten att lyssna. Artist talk with Leif Jordansson and editor Jonas Ellerström on the topics covered in the book.

After the talk the experimental ensemble The Great Learning Orchestra makes a concert performing scores from their current exhibition a4 room.

The Great Learning Orchestra was initiated by Leif Jordansson in 2004. Jordansson has composed music for several sets for theatre, television and dance choreography. In recent years, he, along with Peder Bjurman created a series of theatre installations by the name FMR.

The lecture will be held in Swedish

Lecture by Magnus Haglund
Wednesday, November 12 at 6 pm

Magnus Haglund lectures on notations from early composers such as Christian Wolff to modern musicians like Christian Marclay, related to a wider contemporary context. Why does Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s philosophical classic Mille Plateaux begin with a notation of Sylvano Bussotti? In what way does the graffiti culture affect our way of reading graphic notations? Who has the power over music?

After the lecture The Great Learning Orchestra will perform compositions from their exhibition a4 rum.

The lecture will be in English and is included in the admission 50 kr.

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Magnus Haglund is based in Gothenburg. He has written the books Den nakna staden, Åke Hodell and Musikens frihet och begränsning and is continuously working as an art critic for the newspaper Göteborgsposten. Along with Isak Eldh he runs the conceptual pop project The Marble Fauns.

Music that hurts

Lecture by Peter Bryngelsson
Wednesday, November 26 at 6 pm

The musician and author Peter Bryngelsson lectures on music’s ability to justify our actions. Based on Anders Behring Breivik’s music list at Utøya, Bryngelsson will show examples from music´s presence in war, torture and mass murder through famous dictators taste in music: Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Idi Amin.

After the lecture The Great Learning Orchestra will perform compositions from their exhibition a4 rum.

The lecture will be in Swedish and is included in the admission 50 kr.

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Peter Bryngelsson is a musician and writer. He has been a member of several bands including Ragnarök, Urban Turban and Cinematique. Bryngelsson has also authored the books Filmmusik, det komponerade miraklet, Musik och Tortyr; torterad till den ljuvaste musik and Vårt behov av tystnad.

www.peterbryngelsson.com

Foto: Per Ingar Nilsen (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Bild: Pelle Halvarsson

a4: En musikworkshop med The Great Learning Orchestra

Monsterklubben Deluxe! Familjedag lördag 4 oktober 2014 kl. 11.00–16.00
Kostnadsfritt

Häng med på en familjedag i musikens tecken! Den experimentella musikorkestern The Great Learning Orchestra ger workshopen a4 där barn och vuxna får komponera egna musikstycken som sedan framförs på plats i konsthallen.

Begränsade platser till workshopen så först till kvarn gäller. Mejla till info@marabouparken.se senast den 1 oktober om du vill komma.

Läs mer om utställningen No Sound Is Innocent och The Great Learning Orchestras installation a4 rum

Photograph: Juergen Staack

The Girl Who Never Was
Performance by Erik Bünger and Artist Talk with Manuel Saiz

Friday, 28 November at 2.30 pm. The lecture is in English.

The Girl Who Never Was is the third and final part in a trilogy that began with A Lecture on Schizophonia and continued in The Third Man. The project exist both as a lecture performance and as a video and is currently on view in Erik Bünger’s exhibition Written on Tablets of Flesh .

In 2008 an American researcher rediscovers the lost traces of the first recorded voice ever: the 148-old voice of a little girl singing the French lullaby ‘Au Clair de la Lune’. One year later another researcher experiments with the playback speed and manages to prove that what the fragment actually contains, is the voice of a full-grown man. This exact same lullaby is the song sung by the artificial intelligence HAL in the French version of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’. As HAL dies his voice performs precisely the same glissando as the voice of the non-existent girl: a high-strung, insistent voice is gradually slowed down into a deep, sleepy and harmless one. The work uses these two voices as coordinates, and explores how a particular insistency, pertaining to the voice alone, makes it the vehicle for certain kinds of inexistencies, as they make their way into our world. The more we try to shut her voice out, the more persistent her song becomes.

www.erikbunger.com

Only the exhibition Written on Tablets of Flesh will be available to visit on Friday (28/11)

CLUB M/S
Friday 22 August 2014 7 pm–3am
50 SEK

Nadine Byrne, performance
Apan Korssell Nygren, live
Jonas Kleerup, lecture 

DJ Dust (Daniel Savio) + M/S Crew

THE PARK

Stjärnbagaren
Sculpture and audio work by Theodor Klingberg Geschwind and Peter Geschwind

Stjärnbagaren is a part of the group exhibition Uppehåll and the audio work is available for lending at the Marabouparken art centre.

Monsterklubben Deluxe
Minecraft Konst-LAN

Den 9-10 augusti 2014 tömmer vi konsthallen och förvandlar den till ett Minecraft Konst-LAN!

Under ledning av minecraftorienteraren och YouTube-spelaren Hanna Fridén (känd från P3 Spel) ges spelare chans att bygga tillsammans i en specialkonstruerad spelplan föreställande konsthallen och Marabouparken.
LAN:et är ett såkallat jämlikhets-LAN där tjejspelare ges förtur till att delta och det gemensamma bygget sker genusmedvetet och på lika villkor.

Passar: 7–14 åringar
Tid: 9–10 augusti, kl. 13–16
Entré: barn 50 kr/ tillfälle

Obs! begränsade platser, tjejspelare ges förtur.
O.S.A senast 1/8 till info@marabouparken.se

Det kommer att finnas datorer på plats så ta inte med egen dator.
Byggandet sker i grupp.

Mer om Monsterklubben

DELFINEN – MELLAN MUSSLA OCH MOLN
Svenska Teatern – Stockholm

Helger: 23–24, 30–31 augusti 2014 klockan 15.00
Vardagar: 26–29 augusti 2014 klockan 10.00 och 13.00
Längd: ca 50 min

Delfinen – mellan mussla och moln är en glad och varm föreställning för både barn och vuxna!

Hör berättelsen om en pojke som har en delfins själ, om Miriam som träffar med den borttappade Delfinen Rosario och om ett möte som kom att förändra i princip allt.

Familjeföreställning för alla mellan 5–99 år. Spelas utomhus i Marabouparken och avslutas med en målarworkshop för de som vill vara med. Spelas inomhus vid regn.

Föreställningen är gratis, ingen föranmälan!

Skolklasser kan förboka via Kina Löwenbrååt Koski: kina.lowenbraatkoski@sundbyberg.se

Av: Gunilla Linn Persson efter en idé av Susanne Osten.
Medverkande: Camilla Nyberg och Andreas Rodenkirchen.
Regi: Björn Melander.

Presenteras i samarbete med Kultur Sundbyberg  

June 4

Andreas T Olsson
(actor and director)
Mårten Schultz
(professor in civil law and columnist)

June 11

Horace Engdahl
(academician, researcher, author and critic)
Andrea Edwards
(actress and director)

June 18

Bengt Skogholt
(voice actor and musician)
Louise Epstein
(author and journalist)

June 25

Shanthi Rydwall-Menon
(comedian)
Rasmus Nielsen
(artist Superflex)

RED ALERT! A talk show on the brink of catastrophe is the title of a series of performance evenings that form part of Marabouparken’s summer programme Uppehåll, in which comedian and performance artist Olof Olsson experiments with the talk show format. The show’s title refers to the highest state of alert at the US Department of Homeland Security. In Red Alert! practically anything can happen.

The main theme of the Wednesday evenings is the interest in the voice as a subject. When we cast our vote in the general election we exercise our right as citizens – we make our voices heard. The ancient Greeks held that people’s souls were revealed in their voices, and in our time we still associate the manner in which people speak with whom we believe they are. And we are also constantly asked to play different roles: as bosses and workers, as parents and children, as teachers and students, as opinion-formers, romantics and entertainers. And in all these roles our voices change.

In RED ALERT! performance artist and comedian Olof Olsson asks: What is a voice? The specially invited guests are all, in one way or another, interested in the politics of voice. We will meet journalist Louise Epstein and comedian Shanthi Rydwall-Menon, musician Bengt Skogholt, artist Rasmus Nielsen among others. The guests will be accompanied by a sidekick, a one-man-orchestra and by the host dressed in an elegant suit, but with too short trousers. There will be a mixture of humour and seriousness in a talk show that is both better and worse than anyone can possibly imagine.

About Olof Olsson

Olof Olsson was born in Helsingborg and has lived in Copenhagen for the last 20 years. Olof Olsson works with spoken performances such as lectures, speeches, comedy, talk shows and Q&As. Having studied languages, philosophy and translation theory, he finally ended up in the art education system. After 15 years of attempting to make a go of conceptual art, Olof Olsson began working with performance art in 2007.

HUMFREE BUG ART

Humfree Bug Art plays at Marabouparken on August 15th at 7 pm.
Free admission!

Humfree Bug Art, emerging European pop group, has soulfully crafted graphics which infused with their mindful eclectic music manages to find a delicate balance between the two art forms. Holding the thread that keeps it all together, this Swedish sextet, sews their visions and sounds creating an overall experience that will launch you on a journey not to be forgotten.

ANDREAS SANDBERG // Drums
FREDRIK FORELL // Guitar
ARVID JONSSON // Vocals
SEBASTIAN SVENSSON NYLIN // Guitar
DANIEL WESTIN // Keys

More about Humfree Bug Art

Presented by Marabouparken art centre and Grolsch

ARCADE OVERSEAS
26 April 2014 at 8pm–3am

Club ARCADE OVERSEAS pays a visit to Marabouparken.

bar
stage
dance floor
one night only
A R C A D E O V E R S E A S

presented by
M A R A B O U P A R K E N

live N E W N O V E T A (UK)
live T O W L I E (SE)
live S A R S (SE)

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SPORTLOV MED MONSTERKLUBBEN 2014
ONSDAG–SÖNDAG KL. 13–16

Missa inte Monsterklubbens sportlovprogram:

Onsdag, torsdag, fredag: Monsterklubben Deluxe Zoo
I anslutning till vårens utställningar Vår inre natur och On Invasive Grounds av Katja Aglert öppnar vi ett tillfälligt fantasizoo för utdöda djur. Tillsammans med formgivaren Shabnam Faraee återskapar vi mammutar, Bucardorer, uroxar och mycket mer i återvinningsmaterial.

Lördag: Casias lilla fotoskola
Tillsammans med fotografen Casia Bromberg får du chans att göra egna vykort, fota porträtt och printa snygga fotokopior.

Söndag: Monotypi
Med inspiration från vårens utställningar gör vi unika och vackra konstgrafiska tryck med läskiga undertoner tillsammans med Irina Lazarescu.

Tid: kl.13–16, uppsamling i entrén kl.13.00 för en kort guidad familjevisning eller drop in under dagen.
Pris: 50kr. eller ett terminskort för 150kr. Allt material ingår.

Monsterklubben håller till på Marabouparken Konsthall.
Klubbarna passar barn från 6 år och uppåt.

Vårens alla Monsterklubbar 

Bo Lindenstrand Grupp

Jazzkonsert i restaurang Parkliv
Lördag 14 december 2013 kl. 14 – fri entré

En jazzig eftermiddag med Bo Lindenstrand Grupp

Bo Lindenstrand saxofon
Leo Lindberg piano
Ove Gustavson bas

Everything-Can-Happen-Parade, “FÖRSTÅ GEMENSKAPENS KAPITAL”, Anna Witt, 2013. Photo: Mikaela Krestesen

EVERYTHING CAN HAPPEN-PARADE

Anna Witt is a German artist (b. 1981) who often works in different local contexts with performative interventions in public space involving strangers, often passers-by. The works in the exhibition Manifesto are connected to a new site-specific work that the artist has been working on in Sundbyberg during the winter. A common theme of the new work and the works in the exhibition at Marabouparken art space is that they act as playfully staged situations where people can express their ideas about society – a characteristic feature of Anna Witt’s artistic practice.

Together with the residents of Hallonbergen Anna Witt has composed a manifesto that was conveyed in a parade during the spring 2013, the so-called Everything Can Happen Parade, where the participants, using sculptural letters, will form the text as the parade moves along. Manifestoes are historically connected to a certain cultural scene or to a political agenda whereas the Hallonbergen manifesto will voice a multitude of perspectives and levels. Concrete topics in Hallonbergen, private matters and global concerns face each other and create a private but at the same universal agenda for the future.

PARK LEK is possibly the first art project in Sweden that successfully managed to challenge existing plans for re-development of a residential area, and replace it with a constructive set of counter-proposals and guidelines for how the municipality could work with urban planning in the future.

For the duration of four years, from October 2010 – till May 2014, artist Kerstin Bergendal worked together with the local community. Not only did they propose and gain support for an alternative way to densify the neighbourhoods Hallonbergen and Ör, they also managed to change the way the city thinks and acts on issues regarding urban planning. This was done through concrete work with ideas and form, combined with “administrative activism” in Sundbyberg municipal administrations and the City Council.

PARK LEK started off with an invitation from Marabouparken art centre to think and reflect on the City of Sundbyberg’s green public spaces. The result consisted, among other things, of a subjective hand-drawn map of the area of Sundbyberg, presented in an exhibition at the art centre in 2010. This marked the beginning of the project’s next phase where Kerstin Bergendal was invited by the planning department of Sundbyberg to lead a parallel dialogue process regarding the densification of the two neighbouring districts, Hallonbergen and Ör.

PARK LEK part of a research project
The second and third part of the project was realised by the artist Kerstin Bergendal in collaboration with Marabouparken art centre and Sundbyberg City Council as part of the research project  Collaboration on the Design of Public Spaces which was organised by The Public Art Council Sweden, The Swedish National Heritage Board, The National Board of Housing, and The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design.

Completion in a bright pink room
The project’s final part, PARK LEK PARLIAMENT, materialized as a bright pink open space in Hallonbergen Shopping Centre, where discussions and workshops were conducted in full view amid the shopping centre’s other visitors. At the end of the project in May 2014, the municipal government in Sundbyberg, made the principal decision to use proposals, as well as the working methods of the PARK LEK project in their future work with the urban development.

After four years, the artistic heritage left by the PARK LEK project, to the city of Sundbyberg consists of: fifty filmed interviews with more than 140 participants (for the whole project more than 300 people participated), an accumulation of perspectives on the districts, gathered in a layered map of Hallonbergen and Ör, and a new public platform for discussion in Sundbyberg named PARK LEK PARLIAMENT.

Last but not least the artist handed over a set of guiding principles that can serve as a recipe for increasing local democracy in urban development:

Utopian thinking as planning method.

Accumulation of perspective, rather than streamlining.

The skills of life lived.

Address: Who am I talking to?

Conflicts are part of the work – and can be a good thing.

Time! Time! Time!

Read more about the project at: www.parklek.com

Kerstin Bergendal awarded Broder Ejves Scholarship 2014
Artist Kerstin Bergendal has been awarded Broder Ejves Scholarship 2014 for the PARK LEK project, where she used herself as “cross-runner” between groups of people, places, and governance models. The scholarship is awarded by Konstfrämjandet.

About the artist – Kerstin Bergendal
Kerstin Bergendal is known for large-scale interventions and participatory projects that map the participants thoughts and ideas regarding their local surroundings. Trough a structured, yet intuitive process – different groups are presented to each other in order to engage in dialogue about local urban development plans. In this way the artist, in her practice acts as a catalyst for new ways of thinking regarding urban space, design- and building processes.

Curator and artistic director, Helena Selder
helena.selder@marabouparken.se

Monsterklubbens höstlovsspecial 2013! 

Under höstlovet v. 44 är det monsterklubbsaktiviteter 6 dagar i rad.  Vi håller till på Marabouparken Konsthall alla dagar utom 2/11 då vi är på Hallonbergens Bibliotek. Som vanligt börjar vi kl. 13 och håller på till kl.16

Från 6 år

Köp ett terminskort för 150 kr och gå på alla höstlovets monsterklubbar, annars kostar det 50 kr per gång.

30/10: Skräckdjungel/Littel shop of horror: Vi bygger en läskig papparsdjungel som växer sig vild  i det pedagogiska labbet. Pedagog/Konstnär Tomas Woodski.

31/10: Designa en egen Monsterklubbsväska: Textilkonstnären / kostymören Eva Lindelöf håller i en sy-workshop där man får chans att tillverka sin egen unika Monsterklubbsväska.

1/11: Mardrömsdiorama: Tillsammans med pedagogen Matilda Zeits iscensätter vi våra värsta mardrömmar. Kom och gör tittskåp.

2/11: Monsterklubben pop-up! Specialprogram!
Monsterklubben gästspelar på Hallonbergens bibliotek. Kom dit och gör monsterdockor av kasserade leksaker tillsammans med pedagogen/konstnären Tomas Woodski. (Kostnadsfritt).

3/11: Zombie: Tillsammans med pedagogen/konstnären Zafire Vrba gör vi kroppsdelar av plastfolie och tejp.

4/11: Monsterklubbensurpris: Överraskningsworkshop där allt kan hända tillsammans med pedagogerna/konstnärerna Zafire Vrba och Tomas Woodski. Missa inte!

Monsterklubben 2012

Söndagsaktiviter på Marabouparken kl. 13-16

Nytt för i höst! Köp ett terminskort för 150 kr och gå på alla höstens monsterklubbar.

Vid köp av terminskort ingår en gratis entrébiljett för en vuxen till höstens  utställning “Hembyg(g)d” och fri entré till alla aktiviteter under höstlovet.

Från 6 år.
Varje klubbtillfälle kommer att innefatta en tur i parken eller i konsthallens utställningar samt olika aktiviteter utomhus och inne i vårt pedagogiska labb.

Höstens program: 

9/9 Vi kör igång med höstens första Monsterklubb. Favorit i repris – Pinskavalkad: Vad är viktigt nog att bära som en pin? Pinmaskinen går varm i labbet.

16/9 – Jätteinstallation och foto: Tillsammans bygger vi en omfattande installation som fyller hela monsterlabbets golv med hjälp av våra medhavda saker och ting som finns i labbet. Sedan fotar vi fina detaljer ur installationen. Pedagog: Anna-Stina Ulfström

23/9 –Monsterklubbens detektivbyrå: Med inspiration från höstens utställning “Hembyg(g)d” tar monsterklubbens detektivbyrå över parken och konsthallen . Med kameran som vapen finns chans att avslöja en och annan hemlighet. Pedagog: Matilda Zeits.

30/9 – Textilworkshop: Spännande syklubb tillsammans med kostymören/scenografen Eva Lindelöf. För mer info se : www.marabouparken.se

7/10 – Gatukonst: Med höstens utställning “Hembyg(g)d” i ryggen gör vi gatukonstsskulpturer av tandpetare och ärtor tillsammans med pedagogen/konstnären Zafire Vrba.

14/10 – Hemliga ljudverkstan: Skapa knasiga ljud och finurliga teckningar tillsammans med Pedagogerna/konstnärerna: Tomas Woodski och Zafire Vrba.

21/10 – Monsterklubbens detektivbyrå: Med inspiration från höstens utställning “Hembyg(g)d” tar monsterklubbens detektivbyrå över parken och konsthallen . Med kameran som vapen finns chans att avslöja en och annan hemlighet. Pedagog: Matilda Zeits.

28/10 – Tittskåp/Diorama: Vi kollar in Kerstin Bergendals konstverk PARK LEK och bygger egna miljöer, parker, hus och kvarter .

Höstlov: Monsterklubbens höstlovsspecial! Se eget program!

11/11 – Sugrörsarkitektur: Tillsammans med pedagogen/konstnären Zafire Vrba bygger vi så högt som möjligt med hjälp av sugrör och limpistol.

18/11– Teckningsfabriken. Vi undersöker vår omgivning och samlar
mönster, gör frottage (Frottage kallas överförandet av en förlaga i relief till papper genom att man lägger papperet ovanpå teckningen och gnider det med träkol, krita) och tecknar utifrån roliga uppdrag. Inomhus och i parken.

25/11– Allkonstverk- Vi vänder in och ut på materialskåpen och gör ett gemensamt allkonstverk. Foto, ljud, vitt fluff, yoghurtkorkar, gosedjur, nålfilt, lera, staniol och mycket mycket mer!