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The Pilgrim City

The Pilgrim City

Hans Carlsson
Wednesday 10 June 2015
7pm

A talk on forward/visionary and backward/reactionary movements in Malmö. In the essay From Pilgrim to Tourist – or a Short History of Identity Zygmunt Bauman compares the pilgrim’s search for inner peace and enlightenment with the… »

Soundscapes of the past and the present

Soundscapes of the past and the present

Cajsa S. Lund
Tuesday 8 April 2014
7pm

In our modern society sound is almost constantly present. In pre-historic times, there were more of silence. Our listening habits depend on the sound in our environment, but the meaning attached to sound also determine… »

Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening - 180 years!

Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening – 180 years!

Jennie Fahlström
Wednesday 18 January 2012
7pm

The oldest now existing art association in Sweden – Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening – visits Signal and the director of SAK, Jennie Fahlström, talks about the association of today.

Anachronism – against a historical mania

Anachronism – against a historical mania

Sara Edenheim
Thursday 8 December 2011
7pm

Sara Edenheim presents her book Anachronism – Against a historical mania (Anakronismen: Mot den historiska manin) and questions what is always taken for granted, our need for history. The book was published in 2011 by Glänta,… »

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… »

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… »

Mayo Thompson and the Red Krayola

Mayo Thompson and the Red Krayola

Mikael Nordlander
Tuesday 11 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 Weiner,… »

On Galleriet Läderfabriken and Galleri Lång

On Galleriet Läderfabriken and Galleri Lång

Presentation och talk with Marianne Andersson, Åsa Maria Bengtsson and Christina Lång
Tuesday 1 December 2009
7pm