Last year’s (Supermarket 2023) Talks & Performance programme

See the full programme for 2023 below.

Maria Skeppström, ’Time To Shine’, pine and fir cones, 2023, photo: Sanna Lindberg

SUPERMARKET TALKS & PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME

TALKS & PERFORMANCE have formed a vital part of the art fair since it began with the aim to stimulate the interest of the broad public in questions, topics and trends relevant to contemporary art. Live Action, Lokal_30, No Budget Performance, STOFF – Stockholm Fringe Fest, Fylkingen, IASPIS, KRO – Artists’ Association of Sweden, Konstpool, PAiN – Performance Art in Norrbotten, PALS – Performance Art Links, Istanbul Performance Art, and many more have been important contributors to the Talks & Performance programme.

SUPERMARKET TALKS functions as an open space for talks, presentations, and debates on contemporary art and its relation to society in general. The previous themes have been Art of the Future (2009), Documentation/Non-documentation (2010), The Absent Hub (2011), The Waiting Room of Eternity (2012), Happiness (2013), Difference(s) (2014), Invisibility – who represents who? (2015), 10th anniversary of Supermarket (2016), Intimacy (2017), Legacy: who will survive and what will be left of them? (2018) and Temporary moratorium: all allowed? (2019), Fabricated (2020), Shapeshifters (2021), and Holy Fluff (2022). The theme of Supermarket 2023 is Twilight Zone. 

SUPERMARKET PERFORMANCE shows works by performance artists from around the world both on- and off-stage and offers a range of performances from durational pieces to participatory or lecture performances and experimental music.

Thursday 11 May

13:30 TALK
The Individual versus The Collective (In English)
PASAJ: Seçil Yaylalı and Selin Atik (TR)
PASAJ is an art initiative that runs a project space used for various purposes, such as exhibitions, performances, workshops and talks in the field of contemporary arts. Collectivities in independent structures often start with great motivation and expectation. Then things can change. How can the members of a collective fulfill their individual needs within a group? And, at the same time – maintain their collective existence? Which is singular within the plural? The Individual and the Collective are mutually reinforcing concepts, but sometimes they seem to be the starting point of conflict. This multi-narrative format experience-sharing meeting will help with new ways to deal with conflict.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

15:00 AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
Zemrudia
Tom Porat (IL)
A live performance and video projection based on the exhibition Zemrudia by Tom Porat and Bar Faber, the title is borrowed from one of the cities appearing in Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities. Zemrudia is an immersive audio-visual installation consisting of short video clips taken during urban strolls and music compositions by the artists under the duo Robocof. They wandered the city streets of Tel Aviv as flâneurs, searching the light in different forms, scales, and textures, looking up and down to find new perspectives of the urban experience and space. It is the mood of the beholder which gives the city of Zemrudia its form.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

THURSDAY OFFSTAGE

16:00 TALK
Uncovering Darkness / Skymningssamtal (In Swedish)
Eva Asp, Lars Noväng och Maria Luostarinen (SE)
Samtalet består av en kort introduktion av tre konstnärer/curators som på olika sätt arbetat kring temat separation och behovet av ritualer i gränstillstånd mellan ljus och mörker. Lars Noväng, med sitt pågående projekt Avskedsbyrån, Maria Luostarinen, vars arbeten periodvis berört tillstånd mellan liv och död och Eva Asp kring lämnandets konst. Därefter sker ett samtal med publiken, där vi gemensamt bestämmer inriktningen.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Performance Room 

17:30 PERFORMANCE
Iceberg Movement by a Monument
Russell Giacosa performing through Alessandra Maoggi (IT)
The performance is a living sculpture that transforms the landscape and the view into another world. The body is hidden in a changing form of a golden mountain, an ephemeral sculpture that desires to be a monument, finds its essence precisely in not being located and continuing to move in its environment. The body interacts with light without seeing it. It crosses places, creating passing architecture. The performance is inspired by the story of Leonardo’s unfinished work for a bronze equestrian monument. It wants to evoke an iceberg, of which we see a small visible part that hints at a much larger phenomenon, preparatory to others.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Performance Room

 18:00 TALK
Men det är ju satir! Konst som förändrar världen (in Swedish)
Leonidas Aretakis (SE), chefredaktör Flamman; Rojin Pertow (SE), chefredaktör magasinet Galago
Samtalet leds av Paulina Sokolow (SE), konstvetare och kulturredaktör på Flamman.
För att få in Sverige i Nato har regeringen fördömt en dockprotest mot Erdogan, försökt hindra en minnesstund för folkmordet på armenier, och infört terrorlagar som gör det lättare att utvisa kurder. Plötsligt var yttrandefriheten villkorad. Flamman svarade med en satirtävling mot Erdogan som tog världen med storm. Kan satiren förändra världen?
Duration: 1 h. Location: Outside the Performance Room

18:30 PERFORMANCE
Deus Vult/God Demands It
Petr Dub (CZ)
Petr Dub’s performance processes the moment of emptying cultural patterns related to visual communication, in which we are inundated with an endless stream of information and visual stimuli. Self-identification thus becomes an increasingly complex process. The search for new cultural patterns often leads us down the path of alternative worlds. A knight resembling something between a magical levitating street sculpture and an (artistic) beggar opens a series of offers that refer to the workings of the art world.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Altán Klamovka booth

Friday 12 May

12:30 PERFORMANCE
Yevshan Zillya
Darja Lukjanenko (UA)
This is a performative archeology series exploring nomadic shared past and possible ways for collective memory activation. Inspired by the legend from the ancient Ukrainian historiography about the child of Polovtsy Khan, who was separated from the family and raised in Kyiv the way he forgot his origin. Neither the sound of Polovtsy’s song nor his mother tongue reminded him of his roots. But once he smelled a mythical herb called Yevshan Zillya, his memory came back. For Ukrainians, it states the hope to restore the lost heritage after centuries of repressions and wars.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

13:30 PERFORMANCE
His Fishies Friends Are Sticking Around
Kelvin Atmadibrata (ID/UK)
His Fishies Friends Are Sticking Around is a short performance currently on tour. The title is borrowed from a sea monster sidequest in Squarenix’s 2016 JRPG Final Fantasy XV as the performance was also developed from a cartoon narwhal shower cap as a child-like object – one that projects cuteness and arguably, phallic and erotic. At the same time, the work is also interested in exploring the notion of blood and injection through the images presented live and the remnants they leave behind.
Duration: 20 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

14:30 TALK
Punk, basketboll och den svarta femuddiga stjärnan – hur ska vi kunna skilja den rebelliska, den ortopediska och den militära estetiken åt? (In Swedish)
Björn Larsson (SE)
På 1960-talet bar nästan alla basketspelare i västvärlden en sko med en femuddig stjärna på hälen, men tjugo år senare började canvas- och gummiskorna i stället användas som en outsidermarkör av olika undergrupper – punkare och konstnärer. På 2000-talet har den generiska basketskoformen blivit populär i allt bredare kretsar. Canvas- och gummiskorna beskrivs ofta med hjälp av värdeorden original och kopia, men skillnaden mellan dessa två är inte är inte alltid lätt att fastställa.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

FRIDAY OFFSTAGE

16:00 TALK
Art Shots (In English)
Art Shots is a one-time session of short presentations in Pecha-Kucha format by artists from Supermarket 2023 exhibiting galleries. Each participant presents their practice in five minutes resulting in a fast-paced insight into contemporary Sweden-based art. The participating artists are: Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole (UK/SE), Channa Bankier (SE), Anna Karin Brus (SE), Kristina Frank (SE), Anton Lind (SE/DK), Christoph Mügge (DE/SE), Ljubomir Popovic (RS/SE), Anna Ridderstad (SE), Kasra Seyed Alikhani (SE), Tobias Sjödin (SE)

Introduced by Pontus Raud (SE), Meetings Expanded Coordinator and Creative Director of Supermarket – Stockholm Independent Art Fair.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Kroppens Hus Stage

17:30 PANEL DISCUSSION
IASPIS cooperation: The Significant Role of Art in Social Change (In English)
With: Vicenta Gómez (CO); Walid Aïdoud and Sofiane Zouggar Box24 (DZ); Hrachya Vardanyan, Galique Art Space (AM)
Moderated by curator Abir Boukhari (SY/SE)
Artists and art experts have always used creativity to express themselves and approach several subjects through art about society. They usually address important social issues, raise awareness, provoke thought, and stimulate conversation.

How can artist-run spaces create projects that use art to address social issues while also ensuring that the artwork has art value? What are some of the challenges that artists can face when creating work that addresses social issues? How as artists and art spaces can we use collaboration with the community to create a project that is more effective in addressing social topics?
Duration: 1 h. Location: Kroppens Hus Stage

18:00 TALK
Sustaining Networks of Support
Agnieszka Cieszanowska (PL), Joshua Plough (UK/PL) and Alicja Wysocka (PL/NL)
The discussion will focus on the relationship between artists and off-spaces by referencing an event called FRINGE WARSZAWA – an ever-growing group of independent/off-/project/pop-up spaces in Warsaw that joined forces to strengthen the cultural scene while showing the diversity and importance of alternative art spaces in the city.
Duration: 30–60 min. Location: Fundacja Ziemniaki i booth

18:30 PERFORMANCE
Echoes
Beatrice Alvestad Lopez (NO/SE)
Echoes: a performance including echoes and sound waves of the deep ocean. The mystery of the ocean’s twilight zone emanates through a collage of recorded sounds; meanwhile, the performer becomes a mythical creature.
Duration: 20 min. Location: Performance Room

19:15 PERFORMANCE
One Water
Chih-Lin Yeh (TW/SE)
The performance One Water is a ceremony for uniting the oneness consciousness, which for all things are one. There is no polarity, no right or wrong, and no disharmony-only identity. One identifies oneself as a part of the one. The ceremony consists of a 30-minute meditation on oneness with 30 breaths and sharing water after meditation with the audience. The performance is inspired by the movement of the One Ocean Flag from the freediving competition Vertical Blue 2022.
Duration: 45 min. Location: Glass Stage

19:30 AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
Zemrudia
Tom Porat (IL)
A live performance and video projection based on the exhibition Zemrudia by Tom Porat and Bar Faber, the title is borrowed from one of the cities appearing in Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities. Zemrudia is an immersive audio-visual installation consisting of short video clips taken during urban strolls and music compositions by the artists under the duo Robocof. They wandered the city streets of Tel Aviv as flâneurs, searching the light in different forms, scales, and textures, looking up and down to find new perspectives of the urban experience and space. It is the mood of the beholder which gives the city of Zemrudia its form.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Performance Room

Saturday 13 May

12:15 PERFORMANCE
Sword On The Coffee Table (demo)
Veera Lohiniva (FI)
Sword On The Coffee Table is a performance that seeks connections between the self and the other and between the present moment and emptiness. The performer is interested in the paradoxical experiences of separation and oneness. She is inspired by the idea that we are both seamlessly one with everything, the sum of our circumstances, and separate, bodily people. What does it mean? What does it look like and feel like? In the performance, the artist needs a little help from the audience.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Performance Room

12:15 PERFORMANCE
Performed hospitality inscribed in the body
Marija Griniuk (LT)
The performer will execute gestures of hospitality, drawing from various traditions and cultures. For example, the performer may create a soundscape using bread as an electronic instrument, while also using it as a symbol of hospitality. Additionally, during the performances, the performer will measure and visually represent inner bodily conditions to viewers through sound and animation.
Duration: 20 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

13:30 PERFORMANCE LECTURE
Underworlds: Techno-Mythology, Hybridity and Voice (In English)
Catalina Barroso Luque (MX) and Feronia Wennborg (SE)
Underworlds is a collaborative project which explores techno-mythology, hybridity, storytelling and the voice. The artists’ research looks into Mesoamerican and Nordic myths related to the sky, the underworld, death, and rebirth, focusing on cycles of transformation and the imaginary landscapes in which these stories take place. How myths were recorded orally and through drawing informs experiments in script writing, sound patterning and voice processing. For Supermarket, Catalina and Feronia will present recent developments in the project in the form of audio and spoken word, while reflecting on new perceptions sparked from their research and cross-continental collaboration.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

15:00 AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
The Sea We See is Not Blue (In English)
Sarah Kazmi (PK/NO)
Sarah Kazmi is an interdisciplinary artist. Her artistic practice represents an anthropological, social-scientific, and relational approach to the material and is often community and local environment-based. She often incorporates texts, poetry, audio installations, and image-based works to explore the circulation processes of food as a strategy for communication and knowledge production. The Sea We See is Not Blue is a poem – a minimalist yet dramatic layered composition – that presents the constant loading/unloading and movement of containers from under the sea, almost fictional yet real. The artist will contextualise her work and give an introduction.
Duration: 15 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

Berenice Hernández, ’Taco for two’, 2021, video performance developed in collaboration with Andreas Sjöblom.

15:30 VIDEO+TALK
Taco For Two (In English)
Berenice Hernández (MX/SE)
Berenice Hernández works with sculptures, video, photography, and performance. She focuses on the importance of spaces, their foundations, and the potential power they have over the individual and our society. For Supermarket, she will introduce a short film titled Taco For Two. The video was developed in collaboration with artist Andreas Sjöblom.
Duration: 15 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

SATURDAY OFFSTAGE

16:00 PERFORMANCE
Time To Shine part 1, the Arrival (with dialogue in English)
Maria Skeppström (SE)
”…She moves slowly from the forest to the city. She prefers to wander in the space between night and day, in the dawn from the past until now. She does this because she has understood that she does not want to take too much focus away from her message. She has realised her calling and pulled up her roots to get to the people. It is time now. She is the emissary of the forest and can communicate with everything that lives and moves. For the last century has been endowed with the gift of human language. You must excuse her if she is perceived as a bit angular and clumsy, she is several hundred years old…”
Duration: 20 min. Location: Long ramp between ground floor and first floor

17:00 PERFORMANCE
WOL exploring the Blue
WOL Wenche Tankred and Lovisa Johansson (SE)
Blue hour
Blue note
Is WOL feeling blue?
Or just being in the blue?
A blue note is a note that for – expressive purposes – is sung or played at a slightly different pitch from the standard.
WOL is an ongoing exploration of expressions slightly different from the standard. Thus the blue note is our sister – we are eager to meet her together with you!
Duration: 1 h. Location: Starting point at the Entrance

18:00 AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
The Sea We See is Not Blue (In English)
Sarah Kazmi (PK/NO)
Sarah Kazmi is an interdisciplinary artist. Her artistic practice represents an anthropological, social-scientific, and relational approach to the material and is often community and local environment-based. She often incorporates texts, poetry, audio installations, and image-based works to explore the circulation processes of food as a strategy for communication and knowledge production. The Sea We See is Not Blue is a poem – a minimalist yet dramatic layered composition – that presents the
constant loading/unloading and movement of containers from under the sea, almost fictional yet real. The artist will contextualise her work and give an introduction.
Duration: 15 min. Location: Glass Stage

19:00 WORKSHOP
Engraving in the mind (In English)
Ximena García (MX)
The idea of the performance is based on the origin of writing (writing on sand). The participants are invited to draw together on a cotton blanket. The blanket will be covered with two different layers of powder: the first layer is a colour powder in many different brilliant colours. The second layer is flour. The artist will guide the act of drawing by presenting the surface cotton blanket with powder as a blank sheet of paper to write with the wood sticks and the water. Visual art is brought to life in a similar way as neo-concrete artists (Brasil/Lygia Pape, Clark, and Hélio Oticia).
Duration: 30 min. Location: Performance Room

SUNDAY 14 MAY

12:10 PERFORMANCE
The Answering Machine (In English/Ukrainian/Swedish)
Tiny Festival Producers (SE/UA)
With: Galyna Dutka, Benedikte Esperi, Yuliia Rossoshko, Cia Runesson, Andres Skreia, Stella Shokotko, Annikki Wahlöö and Iryna Novikova aka Insomnia Taxxi
An electronic study circle performance concert based on the text The Answering Machine by Finn Iunker. A collaboration between Swedish performing artists and Ukrainian cultural workers in exile. The Answering Machine does not have one narrative but several narratives simultaneously. It is about making decisions, fleeing, meeting, knowing and understanding. It is a story about experiencing and recalling – and about the impossibility of both.
Duration: 50 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

13:20 TALK
The last breath (In English)
Alexey Layfurov (RU/SE)
The talk explores how political performance can be translated into the dramaturgy of a visual artwork using the example of The last breath, an artistic visual research conducted as a part of the Collective Practices a 2021–22 course at The Royal Institute of Art, which documented the rise of the decentralised anti-war movement in a dystopian reality of war censorship caused by a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Duration: 40 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

14:30 TALK
Notes on Walking (In English)
Sepa Sama (SE)
A talk on walking from a recently finished artistic research Ph.D. called Notes on Walking. The speaker used walking, writing, photography, and research methods to map the subject of walking. The subject of walking as artistic research is building a library on walking and discovering the vastness of this clandestine topic. This work shows us how far the topic of walking goes and how close it is to us, making us who we are as humans in our actions, thoughts, and languages.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

16:00 MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Winden (In Swedish)
Windy Fur Rundgren (SE)
Går ut i skogen i natt och rister ut min mammas tårar. Träden mellan Höghusen och Mälaren bär bokstäver vi är många som rör sig mellan stammar. Brustna vulkaner under ytan släckta för att sanningen är att välja döden. Men var går gränsen, att våga berätta, vara liten existerande bit av en bild. Att få finnas med sorg. Musikföreställning/poesiföreställning bidrag handlar om att ha förlorat en nära vän som blev brutalt mördad. De som utförde brottet går fortfarande fria.Hur kan vi se problemen som har djupare skåror i huden än tiden? Våra vackraste minnen, ligger i fosterställning.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

17:30 MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Graphic Futanari
Ronja Jóhannsdóttir, Sölvi Steinn and Kristján Thorlacius Finnsson (IS)
King og Bong will bring their house band Graphic Futanari for the complete Bong extended theatrical experience. The act is based on the intersection of performance art and experimental, improvised hip-hop freestyle music with heavy distortion and an emphasis on feedback. Band members will dress up in costumes and create the setting of a non-cochlear debate between the performers juxtaposed against the massive noise clouds – lo-fi opera is probably the aptest term of definition. The atmosphere will become the most moisty. You think you’ve seen it all, you think you’re safe, and Graphic Futanari kicks you in the face with their sound!
Duration: 30 min. Location: Talks & Performance Stage

DAILY PERFORMANCES

FridaySunday 1214 May – Every full hour    
PERFORMANCE
Passage
Axel Berger (SE)
Passage is a guided tour for one visitor at a time experienced with eyes closed.
The tour is a tactile and audial exploration of the art fair, its spaces, people, ambience and materials. You will navigate and be guided by holding or touching the arm or hand of your guide. To take part book your slot at www.axelberger.net
Duration: 40 min. Location: Entrance (ask at the info desk)

ThursdayFriday 1112 May at 12:30 and Saturday 13 May at 18:00  PERFORMANCE
She measures the space with her body
Chuyia Chia (MY/SE)
In 2022 the artist was experimenting and investigating the idea of interference, changes and disruption by spending time in different locations, measuring spaces and landscapes with her body and creating her own meaning about time and memory of the body and space. During three days at Supermarket 2023, one hour each day, the artist will perform in an open hall space, measure, and draw with her body/body parts. Traces of the performance will be left behind.
Duration: 1h. Location: Ramp Stage

Joakim Stampe, Performance Action ’I See Red’, 2023, photo: Naomi Ominey Pongolini

Friday 12 May at 18:00, Saturday 13 May at 16:00   
PERFORMANCE
I See Red 2023
Joakim Stampe (SE)
The artist will slowly pour red wine into his eyes. In addition, for the first time he will produce paintings by standing on a printed image, a watercolour paper sized 50 x 70 cm. The wine passes across the body and starts to become a picture in its own right on the floor below. Stampe will stand holding two bottles of red wine pressed against his eyes. The red content with the symbolism of sacrifice and blood as it drips down his cheeks and onto the floor, like in slow motion, slowly coloured red.
Duration: 1 h. Location: Ground floor – various locations 

Presented by Aura Krognoshuset

Friday 12 May and Saturday 13 May at 17:00 
PERFORMANCE

FLUX (a transformation)
Gertrud Alfredsson (SE)
Gertrud Alfredsson works with processes in painting, drawing, textiles and humorous rituals. She calls her performance Transformation – FLUX. FLUX is the forgotten memory where darkness and light unite. She spreads courage in moments of transformation. She extends her hand and empowers you to expand into a higher existence. Huxflux makes herself known with her fairy-tale wide smile wearing her magnificent and painterly dress. She is the muse of art, called queen by some and nothing is the same after meeting her wisdom.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Aura Krognoshuset booth

Presented by Ausstellungsraum EULENGASSE

Friday 12 May and Saturday 13 May at 16:00 
TALKS

Friday: The curator’s role on art in public space with Melike Bayık (TR)
What are the working practices of curatorial projects in public spaces? In what dynamics do artists, curators, municipalities and sponsors work? What is the role of the audience when it comes to public art? Alongside posing those questions we will also share specific experiences from working environments of projects carried out in the context of the public space.

Saturday: Curatorial praxis – Artist Residency with Cristiana Tejo (BR/PT)
What is special in the on-site experience of an artist residency in the city of Belo Jardim, Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil? How to get into a direct relationship with the local community? Will the residency encourage discussions around the sociocultural meaning of the term Northeast and the legacy of art in the region today?
Duration: 45 min. Location: Ausstellungsraum EULENGASSE booth

Presented by Best Before Collective

ThursdayFriday 1112 May at 18:00, SaturdaySunday 13–14 May at 15:00  PERFORMANCE 

We’ll meet on Broadway
Iris Nelly Matilda Bengtsson (SE)
Bengtsson works with the relationship between memory and the borderlands between seriousness and play. Her works are often poetic with a fragile and embarrassing side.

During the last few years, she has been working with scenography, narratives and improvisation of dialogues in an attempt to see how the vulnerability of our childhood penetrates one’s adult life. The musical presented at Supermarket 2023 is a personal timeline projected on the idea of the musical as a meditation on how life fails us in our search for the epic. Best Before Collective is a newly formed artist-run initiative based in Stockholm.
Duration: 30 min. Location: Best Before Collective booth

Presented by BiteVilnius AiR

Daily at 13:00 and 15:00 
PERFORMANCE
Performed hospitality inscribed in the body
Marija Griniuk (LT)
The performer will execute gestures of hospitality, drawing from various traditions and cultures. For example, the performer may create a soundscape using bread as an electronic instrument, while also using it as a symbol of hospitality. Additionally, during the performances, the performer will measure and visually represent inner bodily conditions to viewers through sound and animation.
Duration: 20 min. Location: Glass Stage (near BiteVilnius AiR booth)

Presented by E T A J artist run-space

Saturday 13 May and Sunday 14 May at 13:00 
TALK
Small Talk(s)
Ilina Schileru, Mircea Modreanu, Lucian Sandu Milea and Razvan Nastase (RO)
Four members of E T A J artist run-space from Bucharest are organising two small talk sessions for the visiting public, engaging in independent art practices in Bucharest today.

Saturday: Ilina Schileru on the independent art scene in Bucharest, Romania. E T A J’s 5th anniversary. Mircea Modreanu on why he founded E T A J and where it is heading.

Sunday: Lucian Sandu Milea on the VR experience, human and non-human. Razvan Nastase on his art practice: the Bucharest art experience from the street poster and vintage ads recycling into the studio experience.

Duration: 30 min. Location: E T A J booth

Presented by Flat Octopus

Every day at 16:00 
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Våbensliberen – The Weapon Grinder
Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen (DK)
The performance combines songs from the Middle Ages and the singing of the working class. It works with beats of working and the power of collective singing, nearly being a hypnotic act. The performance is a song in Danish by the Alter Ego created to navigate the current state of brutality in the war zones in economics and desires linked in a capitalistic society.
Duration: 7 min. Location: Flat Octopus booth

Presented by GALIQUE Art Space

Thursday 11 May–Sunday 14 May at 16:00 
Performance & Talks  

11 May: Armenian Jeans: Creation of social and abstract landscapes, performance by Karen Barseghyan (AM)
Presentation of his process of art creation through a transformation of worn jeans cloths.

12 May: Messengers of the Past and Future: Relation of the Books and Wisdom by Ralf Baecker and Avetik Vardanyan (AM)
About the perception of books in Armenian society. Historical- cultural books and contemporary bookbinding.

13 May: Fortune telling: Abstract art and Coffee-cup reading by Hrachya Vardanyan and Ralf Baecker (AM)
Traditional Armenian coffee ceremony in combination with coffee cup watching and storytelling. 

14 May: Spiritual Landscape by GALIQUE Art Space team
Sharing of ethereal outcomes of Armenian highlands 

Duration: 20–60 min. Location: GALIQUE Art Space booth

Presented by Gallery70 

Thursday–Saturday at 18:30 
COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE

Rebus By Inda Sela, Resina Mecani, and Kristanja Cene (Al)

Through the merger of two artistic videos made by Inda Sela, ‘Rebus’ will come as a controversial language, a performance where two different materials are connected, one strong, which is a bicycle, and the other, soft, which is made of wool. Both of these materials, which are completely opposite in terms of function, aim to create a social impact. 

Apart from being guided by the movement of the object, they will visually accompany the public in the corridors of the fair. This is an attempt to bring an important element such as the transformation of the human being into a matter outside of reality.
Duration: up to 30 min. Location: Off stage – corridors – Booth of Gallery70

Presented by Interface 

Every day at 12:00 and 15:00 
PERFORMANCE
Fakir
Noel Arrigan (IE)
The artist designed and made two pairs of Fakir Sandals. One pair of sandals is on display, and the other is used during the performance. Studded with nails, these sandals are worn by a Fakir, a Muslim or Hindu religious figure in India who lives a life of fasting, prayer, and abstinence. The sandals are worn to show the power of the fakir’s spirit to conquer physical pain. To the artist, the Twilight Zone conjures up thoughts of where light meets dark, where good meets evil, and where the veil to the underworld is thin.
Duration: 1 h. Starting point: Interface booth

Presented by Kyojima station

Every day at 13:00  
SOCIALLY ENGAGED PERFORMANCE
Stadsgården Fish Shop
Guy Hirose (ヒロセガイ)and Itachoko Rasho (イタチョコ ラショウ) (JP)

The fish we handle are in season and fresh from Saltsjön in Stockholm. We will communicate with our customers to select a fish of their choice, sometimes we will cut it into pieces, sometimes cook, and then we will serve it to them.
Duration: ongoing. Location: Kyojima station booth

SUPERMARKET 2023 TALKS AND PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME

PROGRAMME COORDINATOR: Tal Gilad
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Katharina Peter
EDITING: Alice Máselníková

All rights to the photographs belong to the artists if nothing else is specified. © Supermarket Art Fair ek. för. 2023

The programme is made possible with support from: Culture Ireland, Danish Arts Foundation, Embassy of Iceland in Stockholm, Finnekumla Dance & Artstage, IAM, IASPIS – the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts, Jumana Hamdani Architects, Konst i Blekinge, MDT, Mental Space Galerie  NKF – Nordic Art Association, Nordic Culture Fund, Polska Institutet Stockholm SWAN – Swedish Artist Residency Network and Artists at Risk,The Adam Mickiewicz Institute,The Culture Fund for Sweden and Finland, The Romanian Cultural Institute, The Royal Institute of Art, The Swedish Arts Council, The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Ulricehamn Municipality, VGR Kultur, Weld Stockholm