Now the autumn season’s Wednesday evenings begin. With the point of departure in the exhibition and publication Life Forms, artists, writers, researchers and curators get together for three nights to elaborate on different themes.
The first evening is devoted to a discussion on the inexorable attrition and obliteration of matter and how art and literature work with or against these forces, inspired by authors such as W.G. Sebald and Thomas Pynchon. Writers Åsa Maria Kraft and Tuija Nieminen Kristofersson, artist Andreas Eriksson and publisher Magnus Bergh will reflect, read and discuss this and other things. In collaboration with Albert Bonniers förlag.
It is said that the universe, including us and nature, is heading towards slow annihilation – the erosion labelled heat death and increased entropy. Åsa Maria Kraft’s and Tuija Nieminen Kristofersson’s lyrical texts reflect on entropy as an ongoing reality – socially and scenically in Kraft: the Iraq war, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the permafrost; physically in Nieminen Kristofersson: eroding ice sheets, wandering dunes – while the language and the reading of their work grow like crystals.
Is art and literature merely pointing towards the desert or can they offer pockets of resistance, providing a space for dreams and conceptions of alternative future life forms?
Wednesday Evening: Transformations, degradation and increased disorder
21 Oct at 6 pm
In Swedish. Included in the entrance fee