Supermarket Talks is the seminar programme, with panel discussions, artist talks and video screenings.
In 2012 we created a performance art stage under the name Red Spot, in a black box theatre space, complementing the perfomances going on everywhere at Supermarket.

For the programming we initiated a collaboration with Riksutställningar (Swedish Exhibition Agency), the Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF), the French Institute and the Romanian Cultural Institute.

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If the description is in Swedish, the talk/panel is held in Swedish.

FREDAG/FRIDAY 17/2

TALKS, Filosofiska Rummet - "I evighetens väntrum"
kl 14, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

Hur hanterar människan tankar om “evighet” och “ändlighet” – är ett sätt konsten? Är konsten en outsinlig källa till evig kontemplation?

Medverkande: Staffan Carlshamre (filosof), Lisa Jonasson (konstnär), Bengt Gustavsson (astrofysiker).
Programledare: Lars Mogensen

TALKS, Konstnärer eller terrorister?
Kl 16, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

Tre korta presentationer följt av ett efterföljande samtal om konstens gränser.

Medverkande: Dror Feiler (konstnär), Gunilla Sköld Feiler (konstnär), Joakim Stampe (konstnär), Jakob Kimvall (doktorand i konstvetenskap vid Stockholms universitet).
Moderator: Pontus Raud (SUPERMARKET)

TALKS, Marja Viitahuhta - ”Spotlight”
Kl 19, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

“Spotlight” is a performance that consists of several monologues dealing with the structure and nature of performance; in its own way it is a deconstruction of the boundary conditions of performance, a lecture about this topic.

TALKS,The Naked (The Hague)
Kl 19.45, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

The Naked promotes a glocal understanding of the art-world today. (http://www.thenaked.nl) ‘A global view from different local perspectives’.

LÖRDAG/SATURDAY 18/2

TALKS, Approaching the contemporary art scene in the Western Balkans
Kl 13, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

This panel discussion aims to provide an insight into the complex region and the context of post-Yugoslavia and the context of post-war and new nation building.

Participants: Alketa Kurrizo (Zeta Galeri, Tirana), Selman Trtovac (3d BGD, Belgrade), Dimitrije Tadic (Ministry of Culture Serbia), Pierre Courtin (Duplex 10m2, Sarajevo) and Johan Pousette (Swedish Exhibition Agency and curator October Salon 2010).
Moderator: Helene Larsson (Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of Sweden in Belgrade)

TALKS, Art and Artists: Floating Values
Kl 15, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

Three short presentations followed by a panel discussion dealing with the perception of art’s value in an era of revolutionary change.

Participants: Kirse Junge Stevnsborg ( Artistic Director at Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen), Irene de Craen ( Art critic and curator based in Amsterdam)
Moderator: Johan Pousette, Riksutställningar

TALKS, Activism and Contemporary art
Kl 17.15, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

Activism has become a vital part of contemporary art, in line with the strategies of social criticism that has characterised contemporary art in recent years. We meet four artists with four different stories where their actions have influenced their lives.

Participants: Bedri Baykam (Artist and President of a+A, Turkey), Li Gang (artist/curator, China), Marla Bendini (artist, Singapore) and Paul Dunca (artist, Romania).
Moderator : Pontus Raud (SUPERMARKET)

TALKS, Kimbal Bumstead – “Diagonally Upwards”
Kl 18.45, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

“Diagonally Upwards” is a performance journey diagonally upwards through the European winter from Amsterdam to Luleå via Stockholm. During this overland journey by bike and hitch-hiking, the characters for the performance are the people who Bumstead meets and the protagonist is himself.

SÖNDAG/SUNDAY 19/2

TALKS, David Karlsson - “I tider av kris behövs konsten”
Kl 15, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

I tider av allvarlig kris behövs konsten mer än någonsin. Vi behöver fantasi, vi behöver rum och utrymme för gemensam reflektion. Därför är det en central kulturpolitisk uppgift att säkra konstens autonomi.

Föreläsare: David Karlsson (författare till boken “En kulturutredning: om pengar, konst och politik”)

TALKS, Vilket värde har konsten idag, egentligen?
Kl 16, Kulturhuset, Studio 3

Ett miniseminarium om kultur/politik och samtidskonstens värde i dagens samhälle. Vad händer med konstens utveckling och politiska potential i relation till en politik som arbetar för ökad andel privata insatser?

Medverkande: Sinziana Ravini (konstkritiker), David Karlsson (kulturskribent), Patrik Liljegren (Kulturförvaltningen Stockholm stad), Isabel Löfgren (konstnär).
Moderator: Johan Pousette (Riksutställningar)

CREDITS

Programming: Izabella Borzecka, Pontus Raud, Johan Pousette (Riksutställningar)
Many thanks to the staff of Kulturhuset and SUPERMARKET’s team of volunteers.
Language editing: Sheena Malone

The seminar programme is made in cooperation with Riksutställningar – Swedish Exhibition Agency and Swedish Radio and with generous support from Swedish Institute and Iaspis.
 

Above: SUPERMARKET TALKS

FRIDAY 17/2

RED SPOT, Elias Björn – ”Mangrief”
Kl 14, Kulturhuset, plan 3

Elias Björn’s performance ‘Mangrief’ is a part of a larger investigation into manliness and masculinity. In ‘Mangrief’ the audience encounters a man in relation to ‘its’ own body.

RED SPOT, The Institute for Tricks and Arts – invites you to a survey of the spaces in-between
Kl 15, Kulturhuset, plan 3

The Institute for Tricks and Arts intends to bring theatrical cracks under the microscope, and hope to find answers to questions we are all asking. After many years of award-winning research in the outer waters, where presence, interactivity and mimic equilibrism rule, we now turn the magnifying glass on ourselves.

Presented in cooperation with STOFF.
In charge of investigations: Niklas Valenti and André Kaliff

RED SPOT, Zirkus Loko-Motiv – “The Oldies’ Market – a tribute to Boris Vian’s surreal world”
Kl 17, Kulturhuset, plan 3

“The Oldies’ Market” is a hysterical ‘condensation ’ from the critically acclaimed performance “Hjärtkniparen”, played at Teater Giljotin in Stockholm in autumn 2011. A ruthless market with oldies, a crucified horse, raw potatoes, running paint. A parallel world where everything is possible.

RED SPOT, HP Process: Philippe Boisnard/ Hortense Gauthier – “ALPHA_LAB”
Kl 18, Kulturhuset, plan 3

HP Process (Hortense Gauthier and Philippe Boisnard) is an entity in the conjunction/disjunction which develops a digital practice of art-action. The basis of their work is poetry; they consider digital technology as tools for extension, intensification and deconstruction of language and poetic forms, or as a medium capable of reinvigorating the writing, and give it new forms.

Presented in cooperation with The French Institute.

RED SPOT, Paul Dunca – “Incubus Cryptmaw”
Kl 19, Kulturhuset, plan 3

He sleeps all day long and only lives at night. He’s 269 years now, but he only does this since 241. He was like anyone else before and yes, now he really sucks. Blood and energy. After celebrating his 126th birthday killing 12 virgins, he decided it’s high time for a lifestyle change. We present you Incubus Cryptmaw.

Presented in cooperation with The Romanian Cultural Institute.

RED SPOT, Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt – “Transit”
Kl 20, Kulturhuset, plan 3

Within “Transit” Stefanie Sixt and Markus Mehr are continuing their creative artistic development which started with “Synchron” and “Komo”. The artist’s interpretation of the diverse levels of physical death and the question for the spiritual afterlife is manifested in “Transit”.

Presented in cooperation with STOFF.

RED SPOT, Musik: Jon Rekdal (trumpet) and Santiago Jimenez (violin)
Kl 21, Kulturhuset, plan 3

Jon Rekdal will perform a piece called “Call of the Sirens”. Rekdal blows organic trumpet over highly synthetic ambiences and intuitive strings by Santiago Jimenez, framing the end of the opening day.

SATURDAY 18/2

RED SPOT, Cirkus 3000 – “Ante portas”
Kl 13, Kulturhuset, plan 3

Ante Portas is a joint production of multimedial theatre / art / performance.
The story tells the continually evolving saga and surreal adventures of two heroines, Mademoiselle Simonetta and Julie la Fleur, who are travelling through space and time to semi-mythological places, encountering various legendary characters – historical and fictional – along the way.

RED SPOT, Joakim Stampe & Chuyia Chia – “A Thread of Red Between Us”
Kl 15, Kulturhuset, plan 3 + additional hours inside and around Kulturhuset

Chuyia Chia’s mapping project is about connections between people and place where her body works as an agent interacting, connecting and threading connections to different people from place to place. Joakim Stampe’s art typically deals with social and political issues. With a philosophical critical attitude he gives the audience and the viewer a picture of the world that surrounds us.

RED SPOT, The Institute for Tricks and Arts – invites you to a survey of the spaces in-between
Kl 16, Kulturhuset, plan 3

The Institute for Tricks and Arts intends to bring theatrical cracks under the microscope, and hope to find answers to questions we are all asking. After many years of award-winning research in the outer waters, where presence, interactivity and mimic equilibrism rule, we now turn the magnifying glass on ourselves.
In charge of investigations: Niklas Valenti and André Kaliff

Presented in cooperation with STOFF

RED SPOT, Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt – “Transit”
Kl 17, Kulturhuset, plan 3

Within “Transit” Stefanie Sixt and Markus Mehr are continuing their creative artistic development which started with “Synchron” and “Komo”. The artist’s interpretation of the diverse levels of physical death and the question for the spiritual afterlife is manifested in “Transit”.

Presented in cooperation with STOFF

RED SPOT, HP Process: Philippe Boisnard/ Hortense Gauthier – ”CONTACT”
Kl 18.30, Kulturhuset, plan 3

HP Process (Hortense Gauthier and Philippe Boisnard) is an entity in the conjunction/disjunction which develops a digital practice of art-action. The basis of their work is poetry; they consider digital technology as tools for extension, intensification and deconstruction of language and poetic forms, or as a medium capable of reinvigorating the writing, and give it new forms.

Presented in cooperation with The French Institute.

RED SPOT, Musik: Jon Rekdal (trumpet) and Santiago Jimenez (violin)
Kl 19.15, Kulturhuset, plan 3

Jon Rekdal will perform a piece called “Call of the Sirens”. Rekdal blows organic trumpet over highly synthetic ambiences and intuitive strings by Santiago Jimenez.

SUNDAY 19/2

RED SPOT, Pulp Puppets – “Project genesis”
Kl 12, Kulturhuset, plan 3

Pulp Puppets is a puppet theatre that creates live-animated movies with various low and hifi techniques that together bring to life a story right in front of the spectator’s eyes. “Project Genesis” is a science fiction with a dash of film noir.

Presented in cooperation with STOFF.

RED SPOT, What is performance art?
Kl 14, Kulturhuset, plan 3

What does “performance” mean today when it is now on everyone’s lips? Is there something that gets lost? Participants from SUPERMARKET’s new performance stage RED SPOT join the final summarising talk about the valuating and meaning of performance art.

Participants: Joakim Stampe (artist), Bogdan Szyber (artist), STOFF (Stockholm Fringe Fest)
Moderator: Izabella Borzecka (SUPERMARKET)

RED SPOT, Pulp Puppets – “Project genesis”
Kl 16, Kulturhuset, plan 3

Pulp Puppets is a puppet theatre that creates live-animated movies with various low and hifi techniques that together bring to life a story right in front of the spectator’s eyes. “Project Genesis” is a science fiction with a dash of film noir.

Presented in cooperation with STOFF.

Take me to the top

CREDITS

Programming: Izabella Borzecka, Pontus Raud and STOFF, STOFF – Stockholm Fringe Fest .
Many thanks to the staff of Kulturhuset and SUPERMARKET’s team of volunteers.
Language editing: Sheena Malone

The performance programme is made in cooperation with STOFF – Stockholm Fringe Fest and with generous support from the French Institute, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the participating artists.