29 March–24 April 2007

The Evening Salon presents a series of events with performance / dance / lectures / poetry / film during five weeks in March-April. The Evening Salon borrows elements from various forms of public gatherings like the literary salons of the 18th century, the town hall meeting and Speaker’s Corner to bring forward a number of means of expression and different strategies of how to make one’s voice heard.

29 March at 7pm
Edda Manga (Researcher in History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University)

4 April at 7pm
Rani Nair, dancer & choreographer (performance- work in progress)

10 April at 7pm
Jeremiah Day, artist (performance)

12 April at 7pm
RåFILM (VJ session)
An evening on film as weapon.

19 April at 7pm
Johannes Anyuru, poet (lecture/poetry reading)
Johannes Anyuru was first published in 2003 with his collection of poems entitled Only the gods are new, using the Iliad as a frame for his portrayal of contemporary Sweden. At the Evening Salon Johannes Anyuru departs from the novel he is currently working on entitled The tears of the cities, which deals with the tools, money and the walls and doors of houses, with the birth of writing as an economical system in the ancient Sumer, where Iraq lies today. Borders, cavities, emptiness, war, state of emergency, sovereignty. How we measure time with clocks and calendars, and every year we dance below the rockets and recreate power from chaos. It deals with what is possible to say and if there is any dignity, or rather maybe any values.

Johannes Anyuru (born 1979) is based in Gothenburg.

24 April at 7pm
Ida Börjel, Pär Thörn, Andrzej Tichý (Reading)
A litterary evening with Ida Börjel, Andrzej Tichý, Pär Thörn, Gustaf Fröding, Patrik Ourednik, Hertha Müller, Anne Carson, Anonymous, Michel Foucault, Mircea Cartarescu, Nils Holmberg, Enver Hoxha and Erik Beckman.