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Another Image of Existence
No full textSince 2015/2016, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Valentina Desideri have been engaging in a joint practice of so-called Poethical Readings, a device that engages the poetic and the ethical at the limits of the epistemology and ontology of the modern Subject. In this interview, Ferreira da Silva and Desideri provide insight into the singular and theatrical dynamics of Poetical Readings, as well as The Sensing Salon, a format for the collective exercise of Poethical Readings. They consider their practice with respect to the issue of power and the image of existence that undergirds modern politics, suggesting that Poethical Readings partake in the construction of a different image of existence no longer founded on the violent operations of the Subject. Having taken place in the autumn of 2020, that is, in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the interview is framed by and addresses these issues through the discussion of the social ramifications of the corona crisis
Shapes of Sounds
No full textShapes of Sounds is a publication that gathers reflections from and documentation of three sound art projects undertaken at Kungl. Konsthögskolan/Royal Institute of Art, by Ami Kohara, Johanna Mårtensson and Rossana Mercado-Rojas during 2018-2019. The publication includes QR-codes that enable access to the sound works and other material via Vimeo
Smälta, smälta, smälta, a strange lament for the irretrievable
No full textThe CT scanner scans the body horizontally, shooting narrow X-ray beams through the body to make a 2D image slice of a patient. A peristaltic pump, pumps a variety of fluids and is mainly used in biological systems such as the gastrointestinal tract. It is a controlled environment to separate, collect, and depict what humans are unable to see with the naked eye. These technological devices have become a standard of how humans repair and experience biology and ecology. However there are other experiences that bring one back to the physical and bodily awareness such as pausing, listening, connecting, and breathing. This can lead to a way of observing one’s surroundings slightly differently. A way of sensing the strangeness of reality, like perceiving our relation to technological developments and its social and ecological costs. To know that there is no way to separate, collect, and depict what in reality is entangled and complex, like air and water. There are glass containers on the floor and hanging on the walls, and tubes, water circulating and there are piezo microphones, wires, speakers and silicone. Two dual systems of circulation. The outside is turned inside, like crystalline guts. Small air bubbles pass the microphones, leaking sound out into the space. At intervals, the peristaltic pumps fill the Pythagorean cups to the tip, then the entire content is drained through the base. Non-human sounds intermingle with the sounds of human breath and movements, both in a video work and during the exhibition in a performance
Mötet med stenen
No full textJag började reflektera djupare kring stenens existens när jag lade märke till stenmuren runt Långholmens fängelse. Ett fängelse, som nu mera är ett hotell, restaurang och museum, där jag tillsammans med Nicole Newsha Khadivi och Mattias Andersson organiserade utställningen Panoptikon (2021). Muren är byggd av fångar som suttit i fängelset, som en typ av straffarbete. Stenarna bröt de tio minuter bort från fängelset – i stenbrottet vid Västerbron. I mitt verk I was here ville jag använda sten från samma stenbrott, men denna gång skapa ett minnesmonument och istället för en mur skapa ett fönster där det gick att se mellan stenarna. Stenarna kapade jag i mitten och graverade in anteckningar och klotter som fångarna hade skrivit i sina celler. Klottret hittade jag till viss del på Långholmens fängelsemuseum, men jag använde även fotografier från Stockholms stadsarkiv som underlag. Dessa texter graverade jag in spegelvänt på ena delen av stenarna och på den andra sidan graverade jag in de så att dem var läsbara. Stenarna med den spegelvända texten placerade jag tillbaka i stenbrottet och de läsbara installerade jag i en plexiglasskiva i den före detta rastgården som är en del utav ett panoptikon på Långholmens fängelse
Kroppen vi delar
No full textIn this essay I share my thoughts on painting’s ability to merge and dissolve; the personal and thegeneral, visual and bodily experiences. That a painting carry the property of bleeding throughspatiality’s. I will talk about paintings in our shared environment as bodies in space. Between whatthe painting might refer to and the space the painting's back rests against. The space to enter andthe common body - this in-betweenness of the painting as an object. This is an attempt in text toapproach properties of painting - the activation and archiving of divergent spaces, bodies andsensibilities
A grain of eternity
No full textMy essay is an excursion out to a sand quarry where I have done investigative work about the place. I have researched the history of the place, what materials are there, what plants and animals live there and how we humans use the place today and how we affect its design. The essay investigates the choreography of life’s movements and transformations in the physical world, and how the physical space bends according to life, but that life also adapts to the changing space at the same time. The result of the interaction between the different agents is what I've been searching for. And how that same effect happens in my work in the studio. My design of this work resulted in an installation with photographs, sculptures and a projection. Where the works have been created with inspiration from the same acting forces that take place in the sand quarry
Förslag till andra former av berättanden genom montaget och collaget
No full textI work with a recombination of my own photographs, family photos, found images, documents and other materials to open up possibilities or memories that in different ways suggests other ways of perceiving images and telling stories. I often use collage, montage and sewing as techniques when I rework my material. By combining different physical materials and objects, such as images with different social and historical charge or pop cultural references, I believe an entrance to something further can be provided
Elinor Silow Masteruppsats
No full textI paint memories, thoughts, and feelings as different characters, symbols, and various figures. This essay is an attempt to describe the process and practice I work within. In my work titles are important and therefore I have divided the essay into, titles, memories, different painterly approaches, and actions. The chapters are meant to show how I shape different memories and emotions into characters that develop from painting to painting and me with them