The Fugue - OuUnPo Research Session XIV STOCKHOLM | 4-8 FEBRUARY 2015

(Info och program på svenska här.)

The European artistic network OuUnPo invites you to the Fugue, an experimental festival in collaboration with Swedish artists, researchers and institutions. Each day OuUnPo carries out actions, talks, screenings, workshops and performances in different venues and locations across the city of Stockholm.



The session takes its starting point in the fugue state, a rare psychiatric disorder that is characterized by complete but reversible amnesia. The patient loses all traces of personal memory and identity and condition can last hours or days. People suffering from dissociative fugue often undertakes unplanned travel or wandering during which the patient might establish a temporary new identity.

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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4


Artists Adrift
 18:00 -20:00


Bonniers Konsthall, Torsgatan 19



An evening with artist talks, performance and sound art.


Part of the public opening of CityWalks


TICKETS AT ENTRANCE

X-mas comes early this year!

Vision Forum and its partner organisation Curatorial Mutiny are proud to announce new support for ongoing projects. We congratulate Niclas Fasth for getting funding for his publication Sond which is looking at digital games from a both critical and playful perspective. We are also happy that Vision Forum director Per Huttner was awarded a grant from IASPIS to work with Jacopo Miliani for the upcoming OuUnPo session on the Fugue in Stockholm in February 2015. The interdisciplinary group 1 +1=3 and Curatorial Mutiny have been supported by the Swedish Arts Council to work further with music and neuroscience. Vision Forum and Jean-Louis Huhta were also given support retroactively for his participation in We Are What We Lost, the 13th OuUnPo session i Sao Paulo (Don't miss the great article by Isabel Martinez Abascal about the events in Artishock.) We also have new partners for for the upcoming OuUnPo session on the Fugue in Stockholm in February 2015. More about that here soon!

We are also pleased to announce that the Disembodied Voice project has been awarded a Research and Development Grant from Arts Council England. To follow their activities and upcoming events please keep an eye on their blog or visit their Facebook page.
Congratulations everyone - keep up the hard work!!!

Norrköping Air – Call for Residency

 

CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS - PLEASE COME BACK NEXT YEAR

Norrköping Air offers three artists the opportunity to live and work in Norrköping, Sweden from June 1– August 31, 2014. It is the second year that we offer this summer residency to artists from all over the world to develop projects in dialogue with the Norrköping Air team and Swedish institutions.

1. What kind of artistic practice are we looking for?
∞ Norrköping Air focuses specifically on time-based art and process-based practices. We are particularly interested in work that can be presented in public spaces of the urban landscape or work that is site-specific, experimental and challenges or looks for alternatives to existing ideas, forms and norms.
∞ We are looking for projects to be developed in tandem with the other two residents’ practices and in dialogue with Norrköping Air’s partners in the region.

2. What do we offer?
∞ Each selected resident will receive a 15,000 SEK grant per month for the three months of June, July and August 2014.
∞ We offer accommodation and at least one return ticket to the artist’s country of residence*.
∞ We provide access to production facilities at Linköping University (mostly digital) as well as access to other work space(s).
∞ Each successful applicant will have an opportunity to show the work publicly with one of our partners in Norrköping and/or region.
∞ The grant includes a small budget for production and a public presentation.

To find out more click here.

Vision Forum Launches Swedish Residency Program

Vision Forum is proud to announce the launch of its residency program in Sweden - Norrköping Air. It is a two year experimental project in collaboration Verkstad and Linköpings universitet. The program will run summer 2013 and summer 2014 and is supported by with IASPIS, Norrköpings kommun and Östsam. This year's artists in residence are: Anna Hess, Natasha Rosling and Johanna Adebäck.

You can read more about it here or contact the program's director Aldis Ellertsdottir (aldis.ellertsdottir (at) gmail.com).

Li Xiaofei - artist talk at IASPIS, Stockholm

Li Xiaofei is currently an Iaspis programme grant-holder. He is a Chinese visual artist who lives and works in Shanghai. He graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Li is the Founder and Director of the Creek Art Center, Fei Contemporary Art Center (FCAC) Shanghai, and the Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall.
Li has been focusing on the Assembly Line project since 2010. He has visited hundreds of factories in the delta of the Yangtze River. He has filmed interviews and engaged in dialogues with people working at these sites for production. The videos deliberately mix artistic and documentary language. Images of the individual and the machines are constantly being cut up, restructured, transformed and rebuilt into an evocative reality. This body of work explores a number of interlocking themes including the relationship between labor and management, between man and machine, between the factory and the individual and the relationship between the individual and society.

Li's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including: Pavillion 0, Palazzo Donà, Venezia, Italy (2013); Portraits, Galerie C, Neuchatel, Switzerlan (2013); Descriptive Acts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (2012); Melancholy in Progress, 2012 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2012); Reliquie als Fetisch in Kirche, Kunst & Konsum, Trier Contemporary Art Center, Trier, Germany (2012); JETLAG, Multimedia Contemporary Art in China, Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover, Germany (2012); Trans Media Fashion and Art Exhibition, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai, China (2012); Assembly Line, Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, Mandarins Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; Ictus Gallery, San Francisco, USA; OV Gallery, Shanghai, China; Pretty Land Gallery, Krefeld, Germany (2012); Taiwanese Contemporary Art (TCA Project), ISCP, New York, USA (2011) among others. Li has been the recipient of grants and awards from multiple organizations, including Asia New Zealand Foundation Wellington Grants, New Zealand (2013), Iaspis International Residency Grant, Stockholm, Sweden (2013), the Sovereign Foundation Fellowship of Asian Cultural Council (Rockefeller Foundation), New York, USA (2011).

 Tuesday 21 May, 18.00
The Project Room, Iaspis, Konstnärsnämnden, Maria skolgata 83, Stockholm