Events

Saturday 7 May

2 p.m.
Inauguration of the Bachelor’s students exhibition

3-4 p.m.
Guided tour at Konstfack’s Degree Exhibition 2022
Maximum 25 people per tour. Sign up for a list at Konstfack’s front desk.
Location: Gathering at Konstfack’s front desk.

3 p.m.
Yuqing Tang, Industrial Design
The Sound Warping Space
Music with traditional Chinese instruments + electronic music that interacts with Yuqing Tang´’s audiovisual installation.
Location: S6

3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Moa-Matilda Nilsson, Textiles
AGGRESSIVE TEXTILE
The performance is a symbol of ritualization and the repetitive acts that create gender. The wrestler is representative of hegemonic masculinity and by performative acts he stages hypermasculinity. Macho-Moa is an alter ego that imitates hypermasculine alter egos in the subculture of wrestling. The macho alter ego is created with the help of textile and put in a sports context, which allows males to show off their bodies, whilst still being seen as hegemonic and aggressive.
Location: A5

3-5 p.m.
Heidi Edström, Fine Art
a yellow flag (q)
Location: The basement. Starting at the front desk.

5.00-5.20 p.m.
Pontus Johansson, Fine Art
(som svärdet sträckt ur handen)
views of a lost co-boy on his milk pallet
Location: A3

6.00-6.20 p.m.
Pontus Johansson, Fine Art
andedräkter (du roterande vätskor)
monologues about the air guest
Location: A3

Sunday 8 May

3-4 p.m.
Guided tour at Konstfack’s Degree Exhibition 2022
Maximum: 25 people per tour. Sign up for a list at Konstfack’s front desk.
Location: Gathering at Konstfack’s front desk.

3.00-5.00 p.m. and 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Heidi Edström, Fine Art
a yellow flag (q)
Location: The basement. Starting at the reception.

Monday 9 May

3.00-5.00 p.m. and 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Heidi Edström, Fine Art
a yellow flag (q)
Location: The basement. Starting at the reception.

Tuesday 10 May

3.00-5.00 p.m. and 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Heidi Edström, Fine Art
a yellow flag (q)
Location: The basement. Starting at the reception.

5.00-5.20 p.m.
Pontus Johansson, Fine Art
(som svärdet sträckt ur handen)
views of a lost co-boy on his milk pallet
Location: A3

6.00-6.20 p.m.
Pontus Johansson, Fine Art
andedräkter (du roterande vätskor)
monologues about the air guest
Location: A3

Wednesday 11 May

3.00-5.00 p.m. and 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Heidi Edström, Fine Art
a yellow flag (q)
Location: The basement. Starting at the reception.

Thursday 12 May

3.00-5.00 p.m. and 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Heidi Edström, Fine Art
a yellow flag (q)
Location: The basement. Starting at the reception.

Friday 13 May

3.00-5.00 p.m. and 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Heidi Edström, Fine Art
a yellow flag (q)
Location: The basement. Starting at the reception.

5.00-5.20 p.m.
Pontus Johansson, Fine Art
(som svärdet sträckt ur handen)
views of a lost co-boy on his milk pallet
Location: A3

6.00-620 p.m.
Pontus Johansson, Fine Art
andedräkter (du roterande vätskor)
monologues about the air guest
Location: A3

Saturday 21 May

12:30 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 6:30 p.m.
Maja Fredin, CRAFT!
AND WE CAN’T BUILD OUR DREAMS, SO MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY
An imitation of an Elvis impersonator, singing karaoke as an investigation of all the excuses we make to continue our mad journey towards a melting plastic inferno. Welcome to the Eternal Shrimp Feast, and Viva Las Vegas, baby.
Location: S5

2 p.m.
INAUGURATION OF THE MASTER’S + TEACHER EDUCATION STUDENTS EXHIBITION
Location: Dialogical Space

2-3 p.m.
Ita Drew, CRAFT!
THE MYTHIC SENSE OF SELF
An entity roaming from the subconscious into the conscious space. Drew’s work is inspired by folklore and storytelling, the work is an embodiment of the interior we live within the imagination of the mind. Drew often draws ideas and inspiration from her own personal experiences.
Location: Basement

2:45-3 p.m.
Jens Masimov, Fine Art
JAG ÅKTE NER TILL STOCKHOLM (VOLVO-142 A CAPELLA)-PERFORMANCE
In Jag åkte ner till Stockholm (Volvo-142 A capella) a cult classic song from the late 90s is distilled into a poetic hymn that celebrates rurality.
Location: Dialogical Space

3:00-5 p.m.
Amandah Andersson, CRAFT! and Áron Birtalan, guest artist
THE ELASTICA SYMBIOTICA SOUNDSCAPE ADVENTURE — A MEDITATIVE SOUND JOURNEY THROUGH THE GARDEN OF FIBER DELIGHTS
The performance works as an invitation for all visitors to take part of an intuitive, playful and meditative journey into the soundscape based on the garden of fiber delights. The performance is a collaboration between Amandah Andersson (textile and visual artist and master student at CRAFT!-Textiles) and Áron Birtalan (performance artist and PhD student of performative arts of Stockholm University).
Location: Gallery Konstfack

3-4:30 p.m.
Marta Edling, Konstfack Common Seminar
TRADITIONS AND HIERARCHIES INSIDE/OUTSIDE KONSTFACK. A DIALOGICAL LECTURE ON WHY HISTORY MATTERS
An overview of the recent history of higher art, craft and design education in Sweden reveal substantial inequalities in terms of prestige and resources. Konstfack, for example, was up until 1977, formally only a “fackskola”-a secondary school with a vocational orientation while Kungliga Konsthögskolan became part of the system of higher education already in 1908. The lecture invites the audience to engage in a talk on the traces of such historical hierarchies. What may be identified of traditional structures inside and outside Konstfack, that relates to older political, social and artistic power dimensions?
Location: Dialogical Space

4:00 p.m.
Alma Winkler, CRAFT!
TAKE MY LIFE PERFORMANCE
Take My Life investigates the existential issues and the complex and conflicting emotions that arise from the experience of becoming and being a mother. This is embodied in an installation with textile sculptures, which will be activated through performative investigations during the exhibition. By processing memories with body and mind, I experience them again and explore the subject intuitively.
Location: S2

4-5 p.m.
Berenice Hernández
PHANTOM LIMBS / GHOST ARCHITECTURE IN VIRTUAL REALITY
A virtual reality experience open to the public.
Location: Seminariegatan

5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Zizi Buffet
DRAG AND BURLESQUE PERFORMER
Location: Dialogical Space
Zizi is a French performer who discovered herself while living in Stockholm. She loves to put smiles on faces with her burlesque acts. Quirky and sexy she transports you in her own world where anything is possible!

Sunday 22 May

12 a.m. – 2 p.m.
A Continuous Flow, Curator Lab
CURATORIAL GUIDED TOUR
Let’s meet in the Dialogical Space at 12 o’clock to embark on a journey of discovery along the continuous flow of degree projects.
Location: Dialogical Space (meeting point)

1-2:30 p.m.
Anna Emilie Aperia, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts
MUSIC AND MAKING WORKSHOP
I have been examined in which ways pupils in an arts class experienced that background music affects the ability to create and to feel the peace to work. In the workshop in the Dialogical space we will meet and do a paintingtask and listen to different music. We discuss our thoughts and feelings about this phenomenon.
Jag har undersökt på vilka sätt elever upplever att bakgrundsmusik i bildsalen inverkar på möjligheten att skapa och uppleva arbetsro. I workshopen i dialogical space möts vi och gör en måleriövning samtidigt som olika musik spelas. Vi diskuterar våra åsikter och tankar om detta fenomen.
Location: Dialogical Space

1-2 p.m. and 2-4 p.m.
Ita Drew, CRAFT!
THE MYTHIC SENSE OF SELF
An entity roaming from the subconscious into the conscious space. Drew’s work is inspired by folklore and storytelling, the work is an embodiment of the interrior we live within the imaginationof the mind. Drew often draws ideas and inspiration from her own personal experiences.
Location: Basement

2:30-3.00 p.m.
Shuyu Chen, Curator Lab
BEHIND THE BLUE CURTAIN-CURATORIAL INTRODUCTION
A brief introduction to the spatial condition of Konstfack’s school building and its main hall three locations to date.
Location: Dialogical Space

3-4:30 p.m.
Martin Avila, keynote speaker
CHANGE THE WORLD! A SUNDAY WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN AND FUTURE AT KONSTFACK
A Sunday workshop open for children from 9 years on, hosted by Martin Avila, designer, researcher and Professor of Design at Konstfack. It is a brainstorming meeting to look for your own way to become a researcher and make changes in a creative way for our shared future world.
Location: Dialogical Space

3:00-5 p.m.
Amandah Andersson, CRAFT! and Áron Birtalan, guest artist
THE ELASTICA SYMBIOTICA SOUNDSCAPE ADVENTURE — A MEDITATIVE SOUND JOURNEY THROUGH THE GARDEN OF FIBER DELIGHTS
The performance works as an invitation for all visitors to take part of an intuitive, playful and meditative journey into the soundscape based on the garden of fiber delights. The performance is a collaboration between Amandah Andersson (textile and visual artist and master student at CRAFT!-Textiles) and Áron Birtalan (performance artist and PhD student of performative arts of Stockholm University).
Location: Gallery Konstfack

5-6 p.m.
Atorina Adam, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts
IN-BETWEEN AMBIVALENCE
For the past years in-betweenness in art-has been the main focus of my work-aspiring to find a balance in my worlds, to find a place. No matter who we are or where we come from, we may all have an ambivalence towards our identity. I want to bring forth the complexity in the conversation about the different worlds that exist and meet within a person, especially those with homes in several cultures. The event is an interactive performance-based artwork where the collective asks questions to the visitor, catalyzing a space for conversation about the ambivalence within a person who experiences in-betweenness. It is about the visitors letting go of control and entering a world where someone else decides the identity of the visitor.
Location: Dialogical space 

6:30 p.m.
Maja Fredin, CRAFT!
AND WE CAN’T BUILD OUR DREAMS, SO MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY
An imitation of an Elvis impersonator, singing karaoke as an investigation of all the excuses we make to continue our mad journey towards a melting plastic inferno. Welcome to the Eternal Shrimp Feast, and Viva Las Vegas, baby.
Location: S5

Monday 23 May

12:30 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 6:30 p.m.
Maja Fredin, CRAFT!
AND WE CAN’T BUILD OUR DREAMS, SO MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY
An imitation of an Elvis impersonator, singing karaoke as an investigation of all the excuses we make to continue our mad journey towards a melting plastic inferno. Welcome to the Eternal Shrimp Feast, and Viva Las Vegas, baby.
Location: S5

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Karl Bern, Alice Hultdin, Julian Paul Gasson and Xiaoyi Shen, Individual Study Plan in Design
ENTRY-POINTS/INTER-POINTS
‘We’ are all in this together, but ‘we’ are not all the same, nor are we all ‘in this’ in the same way. (Bodies of water, Astrida Neimanis) We are four designers all working with relationships to other species and ecologies. Our human de-centered design approaches employ strategies for coexistence and togetherness in different ways and to different ends. Please join us as we discuss the diverse ways our more-than-human co-designers offered entry points into our projects and what lessons we will take with us from our former teachers.
Location: Dialogical Space

2-2:15 p.m.
Andy Allen-Olivar, Fine Art
EIGHT TIMES FOLDED
A reading of scenes from a film script that will never become a film. These scenes are written in tandem with interchangeable lightboxes shown in the basement under the same title. The lightboxes of varying size and dimension-each containing various arrangements of archival photos, found photos, stolen photos, photos taken by the artist, collected objects, gifts, photocopies, tear sheets, material hidden from sight, and text. The scenes and the lightboxes to explore and convey a place. How does this place hold memories and a collective memory for those in it? Through its history, language, dogs, alcoholics, traditions, traces, fishes, mothers, rituals, trees and anecdotes.
Location: Dialogical Space

1:30-2:45 p.m.
Anna Gäfvert and Mallika Ålander, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts and Hiroko Tsuchimoto, external collaborator
LEARNING TO BECOME WITH
Welcome to join a hands-on site specific outdoor experience. As an ongoing response with body and materials, we suggest reimagining practices of walking, listening, pausing, making, and resisting. In an entanglement of teaching and learning-becoming with the in-between-site.
Please come with comfortable outfits for these practices.
Location: Dialogical space (meeting point)
Participants: 10, no special registration required. If you have questions email: mallika.alander@student.konstfack.se

3-4 p.m.
Malin Arnell, PhD, keynote speaker
MELTING TOGETHER
Location: Dialogical Space
Through this lecture performance Malin might finally understand what their hot flashes has to do with global warming, or together we might understand what happens when we listen to the roar of the glaciers, if we listen to the lamentations of the clear-cut, to the epilogue about the endangered birch groves of the million programs, or what happens when we share the pain of the melting ice sheets?

4-5 p.m.
Berenice Hernández
PHANTOM LIMBS / GHOST ARCHITECTURE IN VIRTUAL REALITY
A virtual reality experience open to the public.
Location: Seminariegatan

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Beatrice Alvestad Lopez, CRAFT!
ELEMENTAL BODIES
Beatrice Alvestad Lopez practice moves between fields of poetic cinematography, writing, craft, and land-based performance. As a context-based practice concerned with geo-bodies, hydro feminism, and poetic narratives. Emphasizing a connection to place and openness toward the non-human, vegetative and planetary bodies. As part of the dialogical space, she presents a few of her recent filmic performances that explore a bodily relation to land through ritual and movement.
Location: Dialogical Space

6-7 p.m.
Ita Drew, CRAFT!
THE MYTHIC SENSE OF SELF
An entity roaming from the subconscious into the conscious space. Drew’s work is inspired by folklore and storytelling, the work is an embodiment of the interior we live within the imagination of the mind. Drew often draws ideas and inspiration from her own personal experiences.
Location: Basement

6:30-7 p.m.
Seroconversion (Birt Berglund, Fine Art and Johan Sundell)
WET2WET
queer desire like noise, leaking, overflowing, no such thing as a dry signal
queer desire like noise, sound is constantly changing, interacting, never stopping
self-oscillation is auto-eroticism
cross-modulation is cross-contamination
wet2wet is a queer noise performance with a double setup of two audio mixers sending feedback back and forth.
Seroconversion is a queer noise project by Birt Berglund and Johan Sundell.
In the project they examine themes of noise and queerness through sound, performance, text, and installations.
Location: Dialogical Space

Tuesday 24 May

12:30 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 6:30 p.m.
Maja Fredin, CRAFT!
AND WE CAN’T BUILD OUR DREAMS, SO MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY
An imitation of an Elvis impersonator, singing karaoke as an investigation of all the excuses we make to continue our mad journey towards a melting plastic inferno. Welcome to the Eternal Shrimp Feast, and Viva Las Vegas, baby.
Location: S5

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Nadia Smedeland, Spatial Design
TACTILE TALKS WITH MARCIA HARVEY ISAKSSON, THE TALK IS GUIDED BY NADIA SMEDELAND
“Tactile Talks,” is a conversation series with focus on subjects such as: materiality, body, sensory experience, and knowledge.I, together with an invited guest, sit down and discuss the challenges we face today from the perspective of an interior architect. The conversations are open to audience participation.
Location: Seminariegången “Tactile stories”

12:30 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Hanna Forslund, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts
TO TAME THE FOX. OPEN TALK AND DISCUSSION
My event consists of a discussion about participation and socialization in education and at Konstfack and is based on my study of students’ participation in the subject bild and how they are tamed through socialization in a hierarchical system.
Location: Dialogical Space

2-3:30 p.m.
Lisa Nyberg, keynote speaker
PEDAGOGIES OF THE UNKNOWN
Lisa Nyberg will present her research into Pedagogies of the Unknown, starting from the question: how can we study for a future unknown? In light of anthropogenic climate change, a global environmental crisis, and its destabilizing impact on social and economic systems, there is an urgency to examine how we relate to the future in our pedagogy; how we anticipate, imagine and prepare through our teaching and our studies. From this unsettling location she will facilitate a conversation on the critique class as one of the fundamental elements of arts education, and the role it plays in navigating uncertainty, power and suspense.
Location: Dialogical Space

4-5 p.m.
Berenice Hernandez, Craft! and Meriç Algün, guest artist
PHANTOM LIMBS / GHOST ARCHITECTURE
A conversation between artist Meriç Algün and Berenice Hernandez about identity, place, the aftermath of having moved from one culture to another, and how being surrounded by a new and foreign architectural world can interrupt one’s connection to the sense of self.
Location: Dialogical Space

5-5:40 p.m.
Mika Lindblad, Individual Study Plan in Design
Talk: Social Constructivism and design-design beyond physical form.
What is design, and what is the role of the designer? In this talk I will broaden the view of the designer’s role and articulate the idea that artefacts and objects go beyond physical form. I will examine everyday objects and how social phenomena have affected the design. Why did the poop knife become an internet sensation, and why did so many Americans keep a kitchen knife by their toilets? How is storytelling and provenance affecting the objects? When do we learn how to interact with a chair, and is the clothes chair also to be considered design? With a social constructivist perspective, I have examined design and artefacts as social phenomena. I want to argue that artefacts around us exist as both social and physical objects, and that we should broaden our view of the role of the artist and designer. What is the difference between a ring and a wedding ring, a dollar or monopoly money? In particular, I argue that the designer should be thought of as both someone who constructs social objects as well as someone that gives physical form to them.
Location: Dialogical Space

5:40-7 p.m.
Vasco Forconi, Maria Lind, Gunilla Lundahl, Hanna Nordell, Erik Sandberg and Joanna Warsza, CuratorLab
CURATORLAB PRESENTS TWO BRAND NEW BOOKS
Curating beyond the Mainstream. The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström researches decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches to the profession of curating in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2000s. The publications were edited by CuratorLab 2020/21. Published by Konstfack Collection and Sternberg Press
Through conversations with curators and participating artists, Assuming Asymmetries. Conversations on Curating Public Art in the 1980s and 1990s revisits some of the most groundbreaking yet under-researched European and US public art exhibitions of the 1980s and 1990s.
Location: Dialogical Space

Wednesday 25 May

12:30 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 6:30 p.m.
Maja Fredin, CRAFT!
AND WE CAN’T BUILD OUR DREAMS, SO MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY
An imitation of an Elvis impersonator, singing karaoke as an investigation of all the excuses we make to continue our mad journey towards a melting plastic inferno. Welcome to the Eternal Shrimp Feast, and Viva Las Vegas, baby.
Location: S5

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Joanna Moe, Spatial Design and guests: Karin Andersson (Disorder), Per Hasselberg (Grundare Konsthall C), Lisa Deurell (Arkitekt), Sebastian Dahlqvist (Verksamhetschef Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus), Stefan Cizinsky (Björkhagens Hjärta)
ETT SAMTAL OM FRAMTIDENS GEMENSAMMA RUM
Today, we see urban planning that focuses mostly on maximising the number of square metres of living space. We need more housing, but where are the spaces for socializing, dancing, playing and debating? Aware that the most environmentally friendly building is the one already built, I have been exploring how, through small additions and spatial interventions, one can find new ways to develop one. Can a disused and threatened boiler plant in Björkhagen create a space for community? Based on my thesis, I would like to invite you to a conversation about the common space of the future.
Location: Dialogical Space

1-2 p.m.
Nadia Smedeland, Spatial Design
TACTILE TALKS WITH ANDREAS NOBEL GUIDED BY NADIA SMEDELAND
“Tactile Talks”, is a conversation series with focus on subjects such as: materiality, body, sensory experience, and knowledge. I, together with an invited guest, sit down and discuss the challenges we face today from the perspective of an interior architect. The conversations are open to audience participation.
Location: Seminariegången “Tactile stories”

2-2:30 p.m.
Malin Glännestrand, Spatial Design
WHERE SOMETHING GOES UP, SOMETHING ELSE GOES DOWN
A film about when textiles meet glass. We have a tendency to want to sort our surroundings, we set things against each other, value them and place them in a hierarchical order. Where something goes up, something else goes down. We attribute different properties to materials, techniques and spaces and load them with values. Our perception of the environment is based on a collective construction. Textiles are sorted among the home, women and decoration while glass is associated with exclusivity, traditional masculine craftsmanship and architecture. Where something goes up, something else goes down. Textile can be defined as material, like fiber, or as technique, like weaving, knitting, sewing. Threads that together form a composition by running over and under each other. Where something goes up, something else goes down Can I disrupt the hierarchical order between textile and glass by merging them? I would like to change our view of how we can use textiles in a spatial context.
Location: Dialogical space

2:45-3:35 p.m.
Brown Island, keynote speaker
AN ISLAND IN THE SEA
Members of Brown Island share the group’s collective work and reflect on collective organizing within Nordic art institutions.
Location: Dialogical space

3:45-4:35 p.m.
Brown Island, keynote speaker
FORMING ISLANDS, CLAIMING SPACE, THAT NOD OF RECOGNITION, SHARING KNOWLEDGES, FOR US BY US, MARKING PRIVILEGE, A HUG, A SMILE, A SHOULDER, SPACE TO BREATHE, SUPPORT GROUP, THERAPY, BIG BELLY LAUGHS, COOKING TOGETHER, EATING TOGETHER, BREAKING DOWN THE GAZE, UNPACKING ALL YOUR SHIT, GETTING IT TOGETHER, MAKING NOISE, SITTING ON THE FLOOR, FLOATING IN THE WHITE SEA, MAKING VISIBLE.
A conversation between members of Brown Island and other separatist BIPoC groups that have and are organizing at Nordic art schools.
Location: Dialogical space

4:40-5:00 p.m.
Brown Island, keynote speaker
GETTING TOGETHER
A closed gathering for BIPoC students, Brown Island, and invited BIPoC organizing groups to meet.
Location: Wickmans

4-5 p.m.
Berenice Hernández
PHANTOM LIMBS / GHOST ARCHITECTURE IN VIRTUAL REALITY
A virtual reality experience open to the public.
Location: Seminariegatan

5:15-6 p.m.
Rana Kadry, Visual Communication
POETRY COLLECTIVE READING
In my degree project and research, I became curious about how women are perceived in my culture and how this image changed through history, in relation to traditions and religion. Who is the woman that lived centuries before me and who is the one that will be born in future generations? In the book Classical Poems by Arab Women, we get to experience poems written by Arab women both from the pre-Islamic era as well as after Islam. Those poems are very rare, many of them were never published before. Through the reading, we will get to know how those women described their daily life, their romances, and their beliefs. This book is bilingual, both Arabic and English speakers are welcome to read in the language of their preference.
Location: Dialogical space

6-7 p.m.
Atorina Adam, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts
IN-BETWEEN AMBIVALENCE
For the past years in-betweenness in art-has been the main focus of my work-aspiring to find a balance in my worlds, to find a place. No matter who we are or where we come from, we may all have an ambivalence towards our identity. I want to bring forth the complexity in the conversation about the different worlds that exist and meet within a person, especially those with homes in several cultures. The event is an interactive performance-based artwork where the collective asks questions to the visitor, catalyzing a space for conversation about the ambivalence within a person who experiences in-betweenness. It is about the visitors letting go of control and entering a world where someone else decides the identity of the visitor.
Location: Dialogical space

Thursday 26 May

12:30 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 6:30 p.m.
Maja Fredin, CRAFT!
AND WE CAN’T BUILD OUR DREAMS, SO MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY
An imitation of an Elvis impersonator, singing karaoke as an investigation of all the excuses we make to continue our mad journey towards a melting plastic inferno. Welcome to the Eternal Shrimp Feast, and Viva Las Vegas, baby.
Location: S5

1-2 p.m.
Karin Hansson, keynote speaker, artist, researcher & curator
AFTER WORD-ABOUT THE MEANING WITH WORK THROUGH (ART)WORK
In this presentation I will introduce you to my artistic and curatorial practice in general and talk more specifically about the Collective Memory-Work method we used in our latest project “Work a Work” to develop the exhibition theme together with the participating artists.
Location: Dialogical Space

1-2 p.m.
Ita Drew, CRAFT!
THE MYTHIC SENSE OF SELF
An entity roaming from the subconscious into the conscious space. Drew’s work is inspired by folklore and storytelling, the work is an embodiment of the interior we live within the imagination of the mind. Drew often draws ideas and inspiration from her own personal experiences.
Location: Basement

1:15-2:15 p.m.
Nadia Smedeland, Spatial Design
OPEN TACTILE TALKS, GUIDED BY NADIA SMEDELAND
Open tactile talks, come by and sit down for a talk guided by Nadia Smedeland. “Tactile Talks,” is a conversation series with focus on subjects such as: materiality, body, sensory experience, and knowledge.I, together with an invited guest, sit down and discuss the challenges we face today from the perspective of an interior architect. The conversations are open to audience participation.
Location: Seminariegången “Tactile stories”

2:00-3:00 p.m.
Anna Märta Danielsson, Trina Gaard, William Wikström & Queenning Zhao
Moderator: Filippa Stålhane, Spatial Design
MEMORY + PRACTICE
Memory is essentially a highly creative act. When we remember something, our memory is always changing. When we retell a story, we always change elements or facts in the story.
If memory is a creative act, then putting it into contemporary art or dealing with it artistically is a more precise way to start to work with it, to question it, or collaborate around it.”-Helene Nymann
What does it mean to work with memory as a method and material? How can we reach memory through practice and practice through memory? A conversation with a starting point from four of the master’s diploma projects in Spatial Design.
Location: Dialogical Space

3:00-3:30 p.m.
Alma Winkler, CRAFT!
TAKE MY LIFE
In Winkler’s master’s project “Take My Life” the artist investigates the existential issues and the complex and conflicting emotions that arise from the experiences of motherhood and how this affects one’s view on life and identity. This is embodied in an installation with textile sculptures, which will be activated through performative investigations during the exhibition. The image of the mother has always been addressed in art but these images are made from an outside view, painted by male artists. The female artists’ own experiences of motherhood have been rare. In addition, the mission of being a mother does not fit into the image of an unbound artist. There is a preconceived belief that an artist must be able to devote all her time and thought to art to be successful, and that a mother should devote all her energy to her kids to be a good and present mum. 
The two identities collide. Additionally, the subject tends to diminish the artist who takes on the subject-to just being a mother. It is not considered a heavy and difficult substance for art.
Location: Dialogical Space

3:30–4:00 p.m.
Laslo Strong, Visual Communication
“I NEVER LEARNED TO TYPE WITH TEN FINGERS” – READING AND PRESENTATION
A reading by Laslo Strong of excerpts from his book titled I Never Learned to Type with Ten Fingers, followed by presentation of research behind it. The project compiles stories from inside a family-run school of typewriting and stenography founded in 1910 in Stettin, a city once part of Germany. It delves into the past century of typography, through personal and corporate documents.
Location: Dialogical Space

4-4:40 p.m.
Mika Lindblad, Individual Study Plan in Design
Talk: Social Constructivism and design-design beyond physical form.
What is design, and what is the role of the designer? In this talk I will broaden the view of the designer’s role and articulate the idea that artefacts and objects go beyond physical form. I will examine everyday objects and how social phenomena have affected the design. Why did the poop knife become an internet sensation, and why did so many Americans keep a kitchen knife by their toilets? How is storytelling and provenance affecting the objects? When do we learn how to interact with a chair, and is the clothes chair also to be considered design? With a social constructivist perspective, I have examined design and artefacts as social phenomena. I want to argue that artefacts around us exist as both social and physical objects, and that we should broaden our view of the role of the artist and designer. What is the difference between a ring and a wedding ring, a dollar or monopoly money? In particular, I argue that the designer should be thought of as both someone who constructs social objects as well as someone that gives physical form to them.
Location: Dialogical Space

4-5 p.m.
Berenice Hernández
PHANTOM LIMBS / GHOST ARCHITECTURE IN VIRTUAL REALITY
A virtual reality experience open to the public.
Location: Seminariegatan

5-6 p.m.
Atorina Adam, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts
IN-BETWEEN AMBIVALENCE
For the past years in-betweenness in art-has been the main focus of my work-aspiring to find a balance in my worlds, to find a place. No matter who we are or where we come from, we may all have an ambivalence towards our identity. I want to bring forth the complexity in the conversation about the different worlds that exist and meet within a person, especially those with homes in several cultures. The event is an interactive performance-based artwork where the collective asks questions to the visitor, catalyzing a space for conversation about the ambivalence within a person who experiences in-betweenness. It is about the visitors letting go of control and entering a world where someone else decides the identity of the visitor.
Location: Dialogical space

Friday 27 May

12:30 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. / 4:30 p.m. / 6:30 p.m.
Maja Fredin, CRAFT!
AND WE CAN’T BUILD OUR DREAMS, SO MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY
An imitation of an Elvis impersonator, singing karaoke as an investigation of all the excuses we make to continue our mad journey towards a melting plastic inferno. Welcome to the Eternal Shrimp Feast, and Viva Las Vegas, baby.
Location: S5

12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Sofia Runarsdotter, Fine Art, Ashik Zaman, guest curator, and Camila Manuelsdotter Pino, former handball player and photographer
THE WASH UP – ARTIST TALK
An intimate conversation between MFA grad candidate Sofia Runarsdotter and former handball player and photographer Camila Manuelsdotter Pino about the overlap between contemporary art and sports, and matters of the body/performance and the stakes of going for «it». Moderated by curator and editor-in-chief Ashik Zaman.
Location: Dialogical Space

1-2 p.m.
Jason Norda, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts
GAME SHOW
Experience school without any negative consequence! No risk, High reward. Just as school is supposed to be. Talk, think, play and win prizes!
Location: Dialogical Space

1-4 p.m. intermittently
Ita Drew CRAFT!
THE MYTHIC SENSE OF SELF
An entity roaming from the subconscious into the conscious space. Drew’s work is inspired by folklore and storytelling, the work is an embodiment of the interior we live within the imagination of the mind. Drew often draws ideas and inspiration from her own personal experiences.
Location: Basement

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Katarina Bonnevier, keynote speaker
WE ARE THE CLUB
There is never just one space. The walls that surround us, imaginary or built, always carry an excess of meanings, its purposes and effects are never fully determined. Nevertheless, the aim matters. We construct buildings, but they also construct us. What happens if we imagine the built environment as embodied proposals? Would the world change?
Location: Dialogical Space

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Julia Hellgren, Teacher Education Programme in Visual Arts
Workshop on digital games
A drop-in workshop where you make your own jumping game using pixelgraphics. The artist will guide you in creating a character and a level. It’s up to you to make it however tricky and gorgeous you want it.
Location: Dialogical Space

4 p.m.
Alma Winkler, CRAFT!
TAKE MY LIFE PERFORMANCE
Take My Life investigates the existential issues and the complex and conflicting emotions that arise from the experience of becoming and being a mother. This is embodied in an installation with textile sculptures, which will be activated through performative investigations during the exhibition. By processing memories with body and mind, I experience them again and explore the subject intuitively.
Location: S2

4-5 p.m.
Berenice Hernández
PHANTOM LIMBS / GHOST ARCHITECTURE IN VIRTUAL REALITY
A virtual reality experience open to the public.
Location: Seminariegatan

4:30-5:15 p.m.
Lovro Japundzic, CuratorLab and Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, guest artist
LARP POUR L’ART
Lecture/conversation on role-play and participatory performances that inspire mutually created fictions. Lovro Japundzic will be joined by artist Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski whose practice includes elements of play, storytelling, and interaction.
Location: Dialogical Space

6-7 p.m.
Jens Masimov, Fine Art
CANDY FLIP (BÅLSKÅLEN)
The punch bowl as a portal. A social event where homemade wine is mixed into a potion.
Location: Dialogical Space