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Johan Tirén

Johan Tirén

Tuesday 14 December 2010
7pm

Johan Tirén will talk about his practice starting from the poster series Notes in connection with the celebration of a National Day, which is currently on view in the exhibition !? at Signal.

Metod is a series of lectures… »

We are the good ones: The public debate on the Swedish Democrats and their politics

We are the good ones: The public debate on the Swedish Democrats and their politics

Anders Hellström
Friday 3 December 2010
6pm

In his book We are the good ones, political scientist Anders Hellström examines the role of the Swedish Democrats in swedish politics and public debate, and puts them in relation to the currents of populism and… »

The Mess and the Bless -- Inside the Independent Art World

The Mess and the Bless — Inside the Independent Art World

Tuesday 30 November 2010
7pm at Chisenhale Gallery, London

A conversation between Benjamin Thorel (castillo/corrales, Paris) and Elena Tzotzi (Signal, Malmö) on working methods, curatorial collaboration, cultural politics and stubborn visions.

Signal is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 focusing on the production, presentation, discourse… »

Nordic Reputation in The World: A Passpartout

Nordic Reputation in The World: A Passpartout

Jeuno JE Kim
Monday 29 November 2010
7pm

The lecture introduces the idea of self-branding and self-exotification to debates about identity politics and specifically formation of national identities. It investigates Nordic and Scandinavian representations of itself to the rest of the world, and… »

!?

!?

Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Fia Backström, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Johan Tirén

29 October–12 December 2010
Opening Friday 29 October 7-9pm

Sweden has now an openly xenophobic party in parliament.

A party more than 300 000 people voted for.

A party that has kicked… »

Frieze Projects

Frieze Projects

Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park, London
14–17 October 2010

In 2009 Signal embarked on an extensive research project that resulted in the publication A Parallel History – The Independent Art Arenas of Skåne 1968–2008, a study on the variegated array of initiatives and… »

Sergio Augusto

Sergio Augusto

25 September–24 October 2010

Signal presents a specially commissioned work by artist Sergio Augusto in which the windows of Signal will be used as light boxes to illuminate the neighbourhood.

Music with roots in the aether - a portrait of Alvin Lucier (1976)

Music with roots in the aether – a portrait of Alvin Lucier (1976)

by Robert Ashley
Tuesday 7 September 2010
8pm

With an introduction by Frans Gillberg and Mathias Holmberg.

In connection with the opening of this year’s sound installation in Scaniaparken (Starfield Simulation #35), Signal – Centre for Contemporary Art, in collaboration with Music Doc,… »

Andreas Kurtsson

Andreas Kurtsson

Wednesday 9 June 2010
7pm

We welcome you to the series of talks entitled Samtal (conversation) where artists working in Malmö are invited to discuss and reflect on their practice and their working process. With this series of talks we want to focus on… »

On the aesthetics of editorial work and its potential as an artistic method

On the aesthetics of editorial work and its potential as an artistic method

Frans Josef Petersson
Thursday 27 May 2010
7pm

In conjuction with the exhibition Breaking Point: Kathryn Bigelow’s Life in Art that traces Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow’s presence in the art world in the 1970s in New York and her collaboration with Lawrence… »