Fragile Decisions: A performance workshop on contemporary strategies of censroship and solidarity
Who: UNICORN Artists in Solidarity and the workshop participants
Where: in the main exhibition space at Malmö Konsthall
When: Wednesday, october 16 (part of the Forbidden Culture Week)
Duration: 17:00 – 19:00
IMPORTANT:
For each person participating in the workshop: bring a piece of soft material (fabric, paper, plastic, string, etc.) that is important for you as a personal symbol of social struggles. We will use this material during the performative workshop, as well as to build a collective object with it at the end: so make sure you bring something that is personal but that you can part with. Thank you!
During Forbidden Culture Week UNICORN Artists in solidarity propose a participatory performance workshop open to everyone who is interested in strategies of social and political performance. The performance workshop will consist of dialogic and material interventions in connection to Lenke Rothman’s work “Life as Cloth”, asking what are a cultural institution’s limits and possibilities to understand, listen and relate to an artist’s political engagement (or disengagement), and how do contemporary censorship and contemporary institutional solidarity function in the art world.
UNICORN invites cultural workers and institutional representatives from Skåne and the general public to take active part in a performative, partially scripted dialogue: between institutions and artists, between materials and words, between the past and the future.
The workshop will be in English.
UNICORN Artists in Solidarity is a network of cultural workers, artists and researchers based in Sweden. Its current active members are Jinyan Zeng, Hanna Una Holmquist, Ramona Dima, Samaneh Roghani, Simona Dumitriu, Susanne Ovelius and Taylor Filrup Eliasen.
Facebook event and more info here.
Co-organizer and host: Malmö Konsthall
Image credit: Samaneh Roghani, Sarajevo, 2017
WORKSHOP: Free to Forbid / Fritt att förbjuda
More info here.
We are happy to announce that our next artists in residence, film makers, story tellers and performers MingMing and Shi Tou have arrived in Sweden from China for a residency of six months, made possible by amazing partnerships and support. October-December 2023 will be spent by the artists under the generous and warm hearted roofs of Konstepidemin, as they will get to know Gothenburg and its vibrant art scene. From late December until March 2024 they will grace our lovely hometown, Malmö, where Malmö Konsthall will be their amazing host, with the generous support of IASPIS Konstnärsnämnden. Thank you Malmö Konsthall, IASPIS, Konstepidemin and Perpetuum Mobile for making this possible.
As part of the residency, UNICORN and Malmö Konsthall will host a talk with the artists on November 23, from 18:30 at Malmö Konsthall: “Queer home-making: Shitou and Mingming in dialogue with UNICORN”. More details on the event page.
*Photos courtesy of the artists.
We are welcoming Samaneh Roghani as our new artist in residency for 2021! / Vi välkomnar Samaneh Roghani som vår nya residenskonstnär för 2021!
This year’s UNICORN residency is made possible with support of Perpetuum Mobile and Artists at Risk (AR)-Network, Malmö Konsthall, and BRUNÅKRA Temporary.
Årets UNICORN-residency möjliggörs med stöd av Perpetuum Mobile och Artists at Risk (AR)-Network, Malmö Konsthall och BRUNÅKRA Temporary.
OPEN CALL 2021
Konstnärer i Malmö och Skåne är välkomna att söka till Unicorn IA&AR Residency / Artists in Malmö and Skåne are invited to apply to a Unicorn IA&AR Residency
Deadline: April 15th 2021.
Syskon återförenas som konstnärer
UNICORN – Artists in Solidarity välkomnar i år konstnärerna Bahareh Mirhadi och Arash Mirhadi till ett två månaders konstnärsresidens under våren 2020.
Siblings reunite as artists
UNICORN – Artists in Solidarity welcome the artists Bahareh Mirhadi and Arash Mirhadi to a two months residency during spring 2020.
Är du nyfiken på UNICORN- Artists in Solidarity arbete och vad vi jobbar med just nu? Kontakta oss: unicorn.malmo(@)gmail.com.
Are you curious about UNICORN – Artists in Solidarity’s work and about what we are currently working on? Send us an e-mail at unicorn.malmo(@)gmail.com.
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