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Sahab Museum: Imagination as a place to survive

Sahab Museum: Imagination as a place to survive

Salman Nawati
Wednesday 27 November 2024
7pm

Floating in the sky, free from walls, a museum breaking out of isolation, in the form of a cloud from which it takes its name, a shape that came as proof of Gaza’s rich history. Sahab… »

It is somewhat embarrassing that Sweden seems to be lagging behind here

It is somewhat embarrassing that Sweden seems to be lagging behind here

Thord Eriksson
Thursday 16 May 2024
7pm

A book about those who came here, those who were left behind and those who will be forced out of Sweden.

‘I thought I would write a book about an evacuation, I couldn’t imagine that it… »

Breaking Social

Breaking Social

Fredrik Gertten
Wednesday 10 May 2023
6pm

Can we afford the rich?
We live in an upside-down economy.
Those who contribute the most, receive the least. And those who gain the most, give back nothing.

Breaking Social is a documentary by… »

Mint

Mint

Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari
Friday 13 December 2019
6pm

Mint is a curatorial duo, a mobile exhibition project and an art space initiated by Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari. They work with a special interest for radical art production, intergenerational meetings and… »

Like a Woman: Reading and Discussion

Like a Woman: Reading and Discussion

Quinn Latimer
Wednesday 15 May 2019
7pm

Quinn Latimer will do a reading from her most recent book Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems (Sternberg Press, 2017). After a reading of selected texts, Latimer will discuss the process and making and structure of… »

The Baudelaire Fractal

The Baudelaire Fractal

Lisa Robertson
Tuesday 28 November 2017
7pm

A text which unravels a mystical experience — waking up in a hotel room one morning to discover that I have written the complete works of Baudelaire, yet without actually having become Baudelaire. It’s as if… »

Life takes place in the space between words

Life takes place in the space between words

Joseph del Pesco
Monday 4 September 2017
7pm

Join us for an evening with curator, writer and publisher Joseph del Pesco, who will read (very) short stories from his forthcoming book, The Museum Took a Few Minutes To Collect Itself, published by Art… »

Den unga jorden

Den unga jorden

Andreas Mangione & Frans Josef Petersson
with the publishing house Den unga jorden
Wednesday 31 May 2017
7pm

Artist Andreas Mangione together with art critic and editor Frans Josef Petersson are the persons behind the publishing house Den unga jorden (The young… »

On Kunsthalle Athena and South as a State of Mind

On Kunsthalle Athena and South as a State of Mind

Marina Fokidis
Sunday 6 March 2016
5pm

Marina Fokidis is a curator and writer based in Athens, Greece. She is the founding and artistic director of Kunsthalle Athena, which started as an experimental platform and is now taking its permanent form, and the… »

Hermann Scherchen: alles hörbar machen. An introduction.

Hermann Scherchen: alles hörbar machen. An introduction.

Luca Frei
Wednesday 3 February 2016
7pm

Luca Frei will give an introduction to his long-term project about German conductor Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966) and his pioneering research in electroacoustics in Gravesano, Switzerland. Frei will discuss his role in the project as visual artist,… »