Curator Tessa Praun gives a special guided tour of the Smadar Dreyfus exhibition.
Chief curator Richard Julin gives a special guided tour of the Tal R exhibition Old Confused.
Curator Elisabeth Millqvist shows the exhibition Seven Wall Drawings and tells the history behind Sol LeWitt’s famous wall drawings.
Bellowed Endearments and Echoes of Resistance: How the Voice Bonds and Unbinds in Smadar Dreyfus’ “Mother’s Day”
In Dreyfus’s compelling installation the voice refuses to be pinned down. At once intensely personal and resolutely collective, a marker of intimacy and a site of resistance, the shouted exchanges of mothers and children separated by the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line on the Golan Heights speak of both a specific context – Druze families divided by the occupation of the Heights; Middle Eastern women’s use of the voice to declaim and lament – and more universal ones: the voice as connective tissue between mothers and children; the multiple registers that co-exist in vocal interchange. Disembodied voices, unsynchronised interchanges: Dreyfus forms them into an eloquent work about dislocation, silence and liminal communication.
Anne Karpf is a writer and sociologist. Her books include the family memoir The War After: Living with the Holocaust (Faber Finds) and The Human Voice: The Story of a Remarkable Talent (Bloomsbury). She writes on social and cultural affairs for The Guardian, broadcasts regularly for the BBC, and is co-editor of A Time to Speak Out: Israel, Zionism and Jewish identity (Verso). She teaches at London Metropolitan University.
Chief curator Richard Julin in conversation with Tal R about his artistry and the work with his exhibition Old Confused at Magasin 3.
The Syrian Bride is a 2004 film directed by Eran Riklis. The story deals with a Druze wedding and the troubles the politically unresolved situation creates for the personal lives of the people in and from the village. The movie’s plot looks at the Arab-Israeli-conflict through the story of a family divided by political borders, and explores how their lives are fractured by the region’s harsh political realities.
The film has garnered critical acclaim and has won or been nominated internationally for several notable awards.
Like the voices in Smadar Dreyfus’ work Mother’s Day the carachters in the film shout to each other across the border in an attempt to hold together the shattered families.
An in depth conversation about Santiago Sierra’s artistry between Lisa Rosendahl, curator and director of the Baltic Art Center in Visby and exhibition curator Elisabeth Millqvist. Lisa Rosendahl has worked with Sierra numerous times.Santiago Sierra is an artist who leaves no one unmoved, and he is seen both as provocative and controversial. The conversation deals with the issues that comes up when working with Sierra. Lisa Rosendahl is the director of the Baltic Art Center in Visby. As a curator she has worked with Santiago Sierra in the production of GROUP OF PERSONS FACING THE WALL AND PERSON FACING INTO A CORNER (2002) and POLYURETHANE SPRAYED ON THE BACKS OF 10 WORKERS (2004). Together with Daniel McClean she is co-curator for the project Exchange: Sites of Negotiation in Contemporary Art including Sierra’s site specific work DEATH COUNTER (2009) for Hiscox Insurance Group in London.
Creativity as resistance; on the research about resistance and the resistance’s practical creativity
Ph D Stellan Vinthagen, senior lecturer in sociology and resistance activist in several resistance movements. Stellan teaches and does research on resistance techniques, tectics and strategies within social movements, action groups and among individuals in Sweden and the so called Third world. He is co-editor for the publication Motstånd (released in April 2009 on Liber), and one of the founders to the global research network Resistance Studies (www.resistancestudies.org) and action project Ship to Gaza.
Tessa Praun presents the exhibition with works by Johan Grimonprez, including Doubletake, 2009, included in the Magsin 3 collection.
Film evening at Magasin 3 in relation to the exhibition iloveyouihateyou. Classical experimental films selected by chief curator Richard Julin. The films will be shown on a 16 mm projector. Café and bar. The exhibition iloveyouihateyou will remain open during the evening.
The program consists of personal favorites within experimental film. The ambition is to show films from different time periods and to highlight a number of artists and films that never or rarely have been shown in Sweden before. These films are before their time, some of them produced by the most renowned underground legends. The program has a tempo that moves from ultra-fast clips to slow motion – from silent film to an intense remix of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” and its soundtrack.
/Richard Julin
FILM PROGRAM:
Rose Lowder, BOUQUET 1 , 1995
Len Lye, Trade Tattoo, 1937
Mary Menken, GO GO GO, 1962-64
Jonas Mekas, Award presentation to Andy Warhol, 1964
Abigail Child , Covert Action. Part 5 of Is This What You Were Born For?, 1984
Martin, Arnold, Passage a l’acte, 1993
Rose LOWDER , Bouquet 10, 1995
Total length 52 min