Dépaysement - Vilda Siurblyte at KSM-lab

Dépaysement is a French word for the feeling that comes from not being in one’s home country. It is the unsteady feeling you get when you are away from your home; a sense of disorientation due to experience of unfamiliar surroundings.

Dépaysement is a change of scenery — a person in an unusual setting, an unknown environment or in an unexpected situation. Appropriated from anthropology. Dépaysement is defined as the experience of (re)seeing familiar object in different way.

Vilda Siurblyte has been working on a photographic project for the last six months and Dépaysement is the outcome of this process. She shows less than a dozen photographs from Östergötland where she has used analogue camera, scanned the images and often added text to the black and white imagery.

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.

The Vision Forum Film Publication is in the Shops

Vision Forum Film is very proud to announce the catalogue "Vision Forum Film Three Film Collaborations between Sweden and China."It looks at three projects that Vision Forum has undertaken in 2011-12: The River by Yang Tingting, Effektivia by Jesper Frilund and Assembly Line by Li Xiaofei. The book is edited by Rudi Heinrichsen, translated by Yan Rong and beautifully designed by Erik Månsson.

"This publication is the outcome of “Film and Visual Art: Globalization and Democracy in Sweden and China” , a project that we have developed, in cooperation with Fei Art Center in Shanghai, in order to inspire young people to become involved in issues of globalization, democracy, and human rights through collaborative film ventures. We have brought together young people from Sweden and China and allowed them to reflect on how human beings respond to the pressure that is put on young people in our globalised world."

For more images click here. To order your copy click here or write to info (at) visionforum.eu.