Diaries, Notes and Sketches pt 1: Real-time history writing and the dissemination of queer art.

KL: 18:00–20:00, 15 December,
Index, 2022

Noting the centennial of Lithuanian poet and filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Index will be hosting a three part screening series showing Mekas’ experimental diary film Walden from 1968. Using Walden as a point of departure, the series will spotlight Mekas’ important role as enabler, organizer, connector of people, and devout advocate for art.

When premiering the three hour long Walden, Mekas created a schema, a sort of map guiding viewers through the film. The brief introductory text to the map states that “the Author won’t mind (he is almost encouraging it) if the Viewer will choose to watch only certain parts of the work (film), according to the time available to him, according to his preferences, or any other good reason”. Following this logic, each session will contain the screening of one of Walden’s six reels, followed by a discussion between invited guests.

This first session is inspired by Mekas’ role in creating Anthology Film Archives and his legacy of fighting censorship and championing the work of queer filmmakers. It will focus on building archives for material which has been misrepresented or excluded in traditional writings of history, and methods for promoting and disseminating queer art.

Isabella Tjäder, Curator of Learning at Index, will moderate a discussion between Anna Linder, SAQMI – The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images; Augustas Čičelis, Lithuanian Queer Archive; Johan Sundell, Arkivet för Rosa Brus; and Laima Kreivytė, curator, writer and founding member of the queer feminist artists’ collective Cooltūristės.

Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Place: The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Kungsbrostrand 19, Stockholm

Diaries, Notes and Sketches pt 2: Critique, contemplation and editorial outlooks is scheduled for 20 January 2023
Diaries, Notes and Sketches pt 3: Poetic cinema and polyphonic practices is scheduled for 28 January 2023

The series is produced by Index in collaboration with the Lithuanian cultural attaché in Sweden, Finland and Denmark. It is produced in partnership with Lithuanian Culture Institute.

Hård och Hårig

Anna Gavanas,
2009

Hård och Hårig

Låten Hård och Hårig komponerades och producerades av Anna Gavanas år 2009 som en 90tals techno/ hardcore/ gabber tolkning inspirerad av  Gunilla Grundströms framträdande ”Fittan Sticker Fram” som hon framförde i Idol år 2004. Idén om att göra en version kläcktes av Carolina Falkholt och Gavana fick inspelningar med Gunilla Grundströms sång via hennes kompis Seka. År 2011 framfördes låten på eventet Ful Space på Göteborgs Konsthall, till dans och skrål av Gunilla Grundström själv.

Anna Gavanas har gjort egen musik under namnet Gavana sedan 2008 och har släppt fyra EPs på det svenska skivbolaget Meerkat Recordings (den femte, Greek Dub, kommer ut hösten 2020): Greek Acid, Malaga Nights, Culture Vulture och Vicious Vibrations, som alla har spelats flitigt i Sveriges Radio och i synnerhet ”Elektroniskt i P2”. Låten El Andaluz från Malaga Nights blev en hit i Colombia (!) och EPn listades som ”hot pick” av Sattelite Records i New York. Gavana har remixat och samarbetat med andra artister (som Carosnatch och Rona Geffen) och släppt musik som del av två dous: Pufferfisk och Bass Trolls. 

Gavana producerar sin musik utifrån en bakgrund som vinyl-DJ sedan 1990-talet och har spelat på de flesta klubbarna i Stockholm (resident DJ på bland annat LASH sedan 1990-talet till idag) men även i övriga Sverige och utomlands. 

Subkategorier: ljudkonst
Kategorier: Musik

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powervacua

Vincent Duraud,
2021

Vincent Duraud (powervacua) is a transdisciplinary artist, whose work is interested in reference shifting, togetherness, and the space carved by lived experiences in human understanding. Patchwork-sighted, they have worked with photography, video, installation, text, sound & performance, separately or in combination, exploring themes of norms, narratives and alternative systems. They have prioritized self-organized spaces & collective processes, and are one fourth of queer collective ‘fake daughter’, which has run events online & at the höjden studio cooperative.

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