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Karin Bähler Lavér, Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari, curators of the 2020 Luleå Biennial, and the artist Erik Thörnqvist, take you along on digital guided walkthroughs of the six biennial exhibitions: Luleå konsthall, Norrbottens museum, Välkommaskolan, Havremagasinet länskonsthall, Galleri Syster and Silvermuseet. In Swedish.
Digital guided walkthrough with curator Karin Bähler Lavér, Havremagasinet Regional Art Gallery.
Footage and editing by Thomas Hämén.
Karin Bähler Lavér, Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari, curators of the 2020 Luleå Biennial, and the artist Erik Thörnqvist, take you along on digital guided walkthroughs of the six biennial exhibitions: Luleå konsthall, Norrbottens museum, Välkommaskolan, Havremagasinet länskonsthall, Galleri Syster and Silvermuseet. In Swedish.
Digital guided walkthrough with curator Asrin Haidari, Välkommaskolan, Malmberget. Footage and editing by Thomas Hämén.
Karin Bähler Lavér, Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari, curators of the 2020 Luleå Biennial, and the artist Erik Thörnqvist, take you along on digital guided walkthroughs of the six biennial exhibitions: Luleå konsthall, Norrbottens museum, Välkommaskolan, Havremagasinet länskonsthall, Galleri Syster and Silvermuseet. In Swedish.
Luleåbiennalen 2020: Time on Earth
Digital guided walkthrough with curator Emily Fahlén, Luleå konsthall.
Footage and editing by Thomas Hämén
Karin Bähler Lavér, Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari, curators of the 2020 Luleå Biennial, and the artist Erik Thörnqvist, take you along on digital guided walkthroughs of the six biennial exhibitions: Luleå konsthall, Norrbottens museum, Välkommaskolan, Havremagasinet länskonsthall, Galleri Syster and Silvermuseet. In Swedish.
Digital guided walkthrough with curator Karin Bähler Lavér, Galleri Syster
Footage and editing by Thomas Hämén.
Karin Bähler Lavér, Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari, curators of the 2020 Luleå Biennial, and the artist Erik Thörnqvist, take you along on digital guided walkthroughs of the six biennial exhibitions: Luleå konsthall, Norrbottens museum, Välkommaskolan, Havremagasinet länskonsthall, Galleri Syster and Silvermuseet. In Swedish.
Digital guided walkthrough with artist Erik Thörnqvist, Norrbotten’s Museum.
Footage and editing by Thomas Hämén.
Karin Bähler Lavér, Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari, curators of the 2020 Luleå Biennial, and the artist Erik Thörnqvist, take you along on digital guided walkthroughs of the six biennial exhibitions: Luleå konsthall, Norrbottens museum, Välkommaskolan, Havremagasinet länskonsthall, Galleri Syster and Silvermuseet. In Swedish.
Digital guided walkthrough with curator Karin Bähler Lavér, The Silver Museum. Footage and editing by Thomas Hämén
Video tour by curator Edi Muka, Public Art Agency. Woven songs crops up within the biennial’s various exhibitions as well as in public places in Norrbotten. The project poses a series of questions that concern something as matter- of-fact as the earth, and how we live our lives there. The earth is at once a symbol of the sacred and the profane, and the material foundation for life and death, right under our feet. In various ways Woven Songs grapples with suspending a western logic in which the magical perspective has been separated from the level of everyday life. It turns the ear to the ground and listens to the rumble, traumas and songs that are awoken. At Välkommaskolan in Malmberget, this line of enquiry meets a local landscape collapsing from the effects of the mining industry. The school has already been evacuated and will be demolished shortly after the end of the exhibition. At Vita Duvan in Luleå a sonic installation speaks to the unifying power of song and the women’s history contained within the walls of the former prison. At Luleå Art Gallery, we are introduced to the story of an enigmatic magician whose rotting magic factory on the outskirts of Jokkmokk is being reclaimed by nature. At the Luleå University of Technology and at the magnificent waterfall Storforsen, sculptural forms in the shape of fists burst out of the ground as if in revolt. Towards the end of the biennial, a choreographic work will praise the earth in a wild ritual where bodies, plants and liquids collide and become one with one another.
Footage and editing by Thomas Hämén.
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Date: 21.11.2020~14.2.2021
Holidays and time for art film! Over two days, the 1st and 2nd of January, The Luleå Biennial offers you the opportunity to take part of a selection of video works, included in the 2020 biennial Time on Earth, on our website. A private cinema in time of resting, waiting for brighter days. Common to the films on view are components of magical realism. The concrete complex of reality interacts with elements that float, haunt and come to life.
The films will be available for streaming on our website from 12 noon on Saturday 2 to midnight on Sunday 3 January.
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Works included in the program:
Gago Gagoshidze, The Invisible Hand of My Father, 2019
Ana Vaz, Sacris Pulso, 2008
Peter Weiss & Hans Nordenström, According to Law, 1957
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Gago Gagoshidze, The Invisible Hand of My Father, 2019
Gago Gagoshidze paints a portrait of his father and his right hand. Born 1953 in Georgia, the father belonged to the wave of migrants who after the fall of the Soviet Union came looking for work in the countries of Western Europe. The film takes place in an altered state, as it is recorded after a workplace accident in which Gagoshidze’s father lost his hand in a cement-mixer. As a result he returned to Georgia and settled in a cabin in Racha, where he now lives a quiet life made possible by a monthly pension for the disabled provided from Portugal. The hand hovers above him like a spirit in the magnificent surroundings of the mountains of Caucasus. It reminds us of the fact that the accident took place ”in the right time”: Right before the ”invisible hand” of the global market lost its grip. Thus the hand functions as an image of shifting economical landscapes – from the fall of the Soviet Union to the global financial collapse of 2008 – and a prosthetic with which a meaningful relationship cannot be formed.
Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze (b. 1983, Kutaisi) is an artist based in Berlin.
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Ana Vaz, Sacris Pulso, 2008
The vast open spaces between residential blocks and experimental concrete structures set the stage for a reflection on the city of Brasília in Ana Vaz’s video work Sacris Pulso. Accompanied by quotes from Clarice Lispector’s books, Brazil’s masterminded capital emerges as a ghost from the utopia of architectural modernism, and using the fragmented layerings of the collage, Vaz develops anachronism as a principle.
The film revolves around the paradoxes of temporality. It depicts a world where the narrative of progress has lost credibility and where a chord struck on a bass instrument can cause cars, trams and waterfalls to change directions, and instead be sucked into a backwards vortex. Vehicles and waterways of all kinds stand in for the machines and systems that once represented faith in the future, but which, in their accelerated contemporary state, only seem to transport us further away from the world. Thanks to Light Cone, Paris.
Ana Vaz (b. 1986, Brasília) is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris.
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Peter Weiss & Hans Nordenström, According to Law, 1957
In According to Law, Peter Weiss gives a penetrating documentation of claustrophobia, alienation and absence of sexual life in a youth prison in the 1950s, in Uppsala, a small town in Sweden. From unexpected angles he is catching the naked external and gloomy interior. These sequences visualise in a suggestive way the structure of power in prisons. The text in the beginning of the film says: “This film has been censored by the state. We who made the film, have been prevented in our freedom of speech, you, who see the film were supposed to suffer from certain details in reality”. Thanks to Filmform.
Peter Weiss (1916 Potsdam–1982 Stockholm) was an artist, author and experimental filmmaker.
Hans Nordenström (1927~2004, Stockholm) was an artist and architect.
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Time: 12:00~00:00
Lulu is how Luleå first appeared in writing in 1327, a name of Sami origin that can be translated as “Eastern Water”. This is the title of the Luleå Biennial’s journal, fiirst published in conjunction with the Luleå Biennial 2018. For this years edition of the biennial readers are offered different points of entry to the biennial’s overall theme: realism today. The Lulu journal is made by the biennial’s artistic and invited guest editors. It is published here on the biennial’s website and can be downloaded for printing. Design: Aron Kullander-Östling & Stina Löfgren.
ISSN: 2003~1254
Radio 65.22 is an auditory cross section of the biennial’s theme and contents, which amplifies and makes accessible written texts, framed situations and artistic voices. Radio 65.22 also enables an encounter with chosen parts of the Luleå Biennial’s activities for those who cannot experience the biennial in situ.
With Radio 65.22, we want to inscribe ourselves into an experimental and exploratory radio tradition, where the media itself becomes a platform for our ideas on radio and its capacity to depict and mirror the world around us. The task of Radio 65.22 is to tell of reality, in further ways that may not be possible through the image or the text.
Under Fragments: Time on Earth you will find radio programmes and sound pieces in different genres and forms that reflect this year’s biennial in various ways. Spirit of Place is a touring series of literary conversations on language and place. The culture journalist Kerstin Wixe takes us along to places that have played a significant part in an author’s stories, or carries the story’s history. Woven Songs is a deepening series of radio programmes that accentuate singing, the voice and the role of storytelling in the creation of new world views and orders, produced in collaboration with Public Art Agency Sweden.
Listen, reflect, enjoy!