Föreställningar / Events
a collaboration between Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag
27 Oct 2016 - 08 Jan 2017
FÖRESTÄLLNINGAR / EVENTS
a collaboration between Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag
27 October 2016 – 8 January 2017
Chapter I
Saturday November 12, 1–4 p.m. (open to the public from 3 p.m.)
An event about performance as a linear process that occurs on a stage. About time and sequences of events, thought patterns and causal contexts.
Workshop with Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag. Invited guests, open to the public from 3 p.m.
Chapter II
Wednesday November 30, 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. (30 min.)
An event about free speech.
Speech is silver, but silence is gold. An incendiary speech.
Performance with Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag.
Föreställningar* is a joint project by Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag about our ideas about various everyday phenomena. Central to the project is the technique of drawing in an expanded sense, which is used to make everyday life visible and as a starting point for creating spatial narratives. Drawing’s flexibility and simplicity is used to break down, construct and re-evaluate ideas and interpretations about our times, our language, and the opportunities we have to shape our lives and ourselves.
The title refers to the French philosopher Foucault’s concept of “eventualization”, which involves making everyday reality visible by elevating it to an event (“föreställning” in Swedish). Alfredsson and Brag explore how an exhibition can function as a space for such events by creating spatial totalities, a kind of scenographic form of expression that encompasses space, time and movement, and sound. During the project the two artists will create space for a number of events plus a book. The project’s contents will be developed together with its form as the process continues. Drawing – as a projection, animation, in book form or on paper – is the project’s backbone. The physical format of drawing is very malleable and the same images can appear in various formats.
The Föreställningar project starts at Malmö Konsthall and will consist of a series of exhibitions and workshops plus a book. The project will be done in stages – chapter by chapter, event by event. The results of each workshop will be incorporated in the project in various ways. The book, which functions as an archive, is intended to emerge in stages over time, to be compiled and published in its final form at the beginning of 2019.
Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag have followed and been inspired by each other’s artistic expression for more than 25 years. Whilst both of them are inspired by what surrounds us in everyday life and both have drawing as a common starting point, their forms of artistic expression are very different. In Föreställningar the encounter between them becomes an interesting cross-fertilisation of artistic expression and ways of thinking.
Welcome to the opening Wednesday October 26.10, 6–9 p.m.
* The Swedish word "Föreställningar" means: Performances, representations, presentations, notions, imaginations, visualizations, ideas, conceptions
Anna Brag was born in 1965 in Karlskrona, Sweden and studied at the Nordic Art School
in Karleby, Finland from 1986-88 and at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Norway from 1988-92. She has exhibited in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Germany, Russia etc. She has also created a number of public art works in Sweden. She has been a lecturer in fine art at Malmö University since 2011.
Gertrud Alfredsson was born in 1965 in Uddevalla, Sweden and studied at KV Konstskola in
Göteborg from 1980-81 and at Konstskolan Forum in Malmö from 1983-88. She has exhibited in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Venice and New York. She has worked as an
art teacher at the Dunkers kulturhus cultural centre in Helsingborg. She has run the cultural association Kulturföreningen Artpit since 1995 and has worked with the creative schools project Skapande skola in Ängelholm since 2012. This autumn she was development manager of the art profile at Wieselgren School in Helsingborg.
a collaboration between Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag
27 October 2016 – 8 January 2017
Chapter I
Saturday November 12, 1–4 p.m. (open to the public from 3 p.m.)
An event about performance as a linear process that occurs on a stage. About time and sequences of events, thought patterns and causal contexts.
Workshop with Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag. Invited guests, open to the public from 3 p.m.
Chapter II
Wednesday November 30, 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. (30 min.)
An event about free speech.
Speech is silver, but silence is gold. An incendiary speech.
Performance with Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag.
Föreställningar* is a joint project by Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag about our ideas about various everyday phenomena. Central to the project is the technique of drawing in an expanded sense, which is used to make everyday life visible and as a starting point for creating spatial narratives. Drawing’s flexibility and simplicity is used to break down, construct and re-evaluate ideas and interpretations about our times, our language, and the opportunities we have to shape our lives and ourselves.
The title refers to the French philosopher Foucault’s concept of “eventualization”, which involves making everyday reality visible by elevating it to an event (“föreställning” in Swedish). Alfredsson and Brag explore how an exhibition can function as a space for such events by creating spatial totalities, a kind of scenographic form of expression that encompasses space, time and movement, and sound. During the project the two artists will create space for a number of events plus a book. The project’s contents will be developed together with its form as the process continues. Drawing – as a projection, animation, in book form or on paper – is the project’s backbone. The physical format of drawing is very malleable and the same images can appear in various formats.
The Föreställningar project starts at Malmö Konsthall and will consist of a series of exhibitions and workshops plus a book. The project will be done in stages – chapter by chapter, event by event. The results of each workshop will be incorporated in the project in various ways. The book, which functions as an archive, is intended to emerge in stages over time, to be compiled and published in its final form at the beginning of 2019.
Gertrud Alfredsson and Anna Brag have followed and been inspired by each other’s artistic expression for more than 25 years. Whilst both of them are inspired by what surrounds us in everyday life and both have drawing as a common starting point, their forms of artistic expression are very different. In Föreställningar the encounter between them becomes an interesting cross-fertilisation of artistic expression and ways of thinking.
Welcome to the opening Wednesday October 26.10, 6–9 p.m.
* The Swedish word "Föreställningar" means: Performances, representations, presentations, notions, imaginations, visualizations, ideas, conceptions
Anna Brag was born in 1965 in Karlskrona, Sweden and studied at the Nordic Art School
in Karleby, Finland from 1986-88 and at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Norway from 1988-92. She has exhibited in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Germany, Russia etc. She has also created a number of public art works in Sweden. She has been a lecturer in fine art at Malmö University since 2011.
Gertrud Alfredsson was born in 1965 in Uddevalla, Sweden and studied at KV Konstskola in
Göteborg from 1980-81 and at Konstskolan Forum in Malmö from 1983-88. She has exhibited in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Venice and New York. She has worked as an
art teacher at the Dunkers kulturhus cultural centre in Helsingborg. She has run the cultural association Kulturföreningen Artpit since 1995 and has worked with the creative schools project Skapande skola in Ängelholm since 2012. This autumn she was development manager of the art profile at Wieselgren School in Helsingborg.