Ongoing

Konsthall C - Techniques of Persuasion (ongoing exhibition, Stockholm until July 4)

Opening on Wednesday June 9 at 5-9pm
Parallel opening Konsthall 323 c/o Konsthall C
The exhibition runs until July 4, 2010

Konsthall C
Cigarrvägen 14
Hökarängen Sweden
Open Wed, Thu, Sat and Sun from 12 to 5pm

Artists: Sébastien Berthier (Fra), Savas Boyraz (Tur), Hans Carlsson (Swe), Wattanai Chanakot (Tha), Maryam Ebrahimi (Irn), Ami Kohara (Jpn), Frida Krohn (Swe), Behzad Noori (Irn), Ellakajsa Nordström (Swe), Sean O´Connor (Gbr), Anna Odell (Swe), Malin Pettersson Öberg (Swe), Shirin Sabahi (Irn), Ylva Trapp (Swe), Johan Wahlgren (Swe) and Nathalie Wuerth (Swe)

Techniques of persuasion - curated by Viveka Forsman (Fin) and Marina Noronha (Bra)
How appealing it is to change people’s mind? When opinions differ, being persuasive can have a positive meaning and produce a genuine response. It is an argument that requires techniques, ranging within speech to conversation. Seen as acts of transformation, this group show presents various backgrounds, reflecting different social structures and beliefs. They expand the field of language to convince the audience through installations, images and video works. Hence, without visitors there is no persuasion.

Sébastien Berthier and Malin Pettersson Öberg participate with the collaborative project ”Untied (Flag)”
more info under Selected works, or at www.sebastienberthier.com

Everyday archives (working title for ongoing film project)

Video project about Paris initiated in 2009, where my own photographic archive from the city is manipulated and combined with excerpts from a Swedish guidbook from 1953 (What one wants to know about Paris, T. Wickman). Two different stories or perspectives on the city are thus told in parallel and reflects one another; sometimes through conflictuous meetings. The aim is to illuminate the power and possibilities involved in narration, but also its inherent ambivalence and manipulation. Facts and fiction is merged in the film, in a manner which makes them hard to separate. Different temporal perspectives are represented and explored, as well as different positions: the fifties / the present, the tourist / the resident, the Swedish / the French, the young woman / the middle-aged man. The film is intended as black and white, bilingual (Swedish/English or Swedish/French) with sound, and planned to be projected on the back of an old Swedish school map of Paris. A collaboration with the artist David Åberg (www.davidaberg.se) has recently been initiated, for the sound and technical aspects of the film. The final production will be carried out at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Stockholm 2010-2011, in the framework of the project program for professional artists. What you see here are some excerpts from the storyboard of the film.

Slakthusateljéerna - new studio association and project space in Stockholm (open since June 1st, 2010)

A group of professional artists educated in Sweden and abroad and active within the Swedish and international art scene, has during 2010 started the studio association Slakthusateljéerna. Our activiy will take place on 445 square meters in a building designed by Ralph Erskine, in Slakthusområdet (The Slaughterhouse District) in Stockholm. Here, around fifteen contemporary artists and other cultural producers will have their workplace from 1 June 2010. All are professionally active and have a broad national and international network. Our art practices have a diversity that will be reflected in our programme. Except for single studios there is a project room of 71 m2 where we want to produce a public programme with exhibitions, film screenings, magazine releases and public conversations, as well as workshops and other pedagogic activities. Slakthusateljéerna will be an artist-run space for studio work and exhibition activities and international exchange. A unique activity, taking place in between established institutions and small- er artist-run galleries : something we think is needed within the field in which we work. Through residencies we want to invite foreign artists, and in this way generate a creative exchange both for our members and the invited guest/guests. Slakhusområdet (The Slaughterhouse District) was built in 1912, a modern industrial area for large-scale slaughtering and refining activity outside of the city and as an alternative to the smaller, local backyard-slaughterhouses which were considered unhealthy and outdated. Barely one hundred years later, Slakthusområdet is still the main meat distributor for the Stockholm citizens, even if many people talk about small-scale, local agriculture. The city is growing and Slakthusområdet and Årsta partihallar are areas which will be turned into residential neighbourhoods as soon as their business activities can be moved elsewhere. Around the world, in Copenhagen, Madrid and New York, meatpacking districts have been transformed into places for art and culture. We would be glad to see this happen also in Stockholm.

Malin Pettersson Öberg

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