Please join us this Sunday, 24th of September at 12 noon for tea and a conversation between artist and composer Armin Lorenz Gerold and experimental gardener Barbara Urbanic moderated by Mint’s artistic director Emily Fahlén. Gerold and Urbanic will discuss Mint’s upcoming exhibition ‘Many ways to now’ – an audio-visual system of ceramic sculptures, vibrating devices, sounds and screens, transforming the exhibition space into a sensory acoustic landscape –their collaborational installation ‘Verstärkung (amplification), 2021’, sound vessels, melancholy and their approaches to finding strategies against time.

Barbara Urbanic (*1982) studied History of Religion in Vienna, where she lives and grows an experimental cut flower garden. In her practice, semi-jokingly referred to as ”The Politics and Aesthetics of Flowers”, she brings both a theoretical cultural studies approach and a creative process reflecting her historical research to floral and botanical designs. Beyond the garden, she co-organizes the literature format „Linkes Wort“, held since 1975 at the Austrian Communist Party’s annual summer fair.

Armin Lorenz Gerold (*Graz/Austria) is an artist and composer based in Berlin. His work has been presented at Halle für Kunst Steiermark, KW Berlin, LambdaLambdaLambda (Kosovo); fluent (Spain), mint (Sweden) and the Gothenburg Biennale for Contemporary Art (in a collaboration with Doireann O’ Malley). In 2021, the artist published his first artist book including his most recent play Manuel or A Hint Of Evil, alongside a collection of essays and texts. The publication was published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, supported by the Ruisdael Stipend. In November 2022, Manuel or A Hint Of Evil premiered as a live audio play at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Välkommen till det tredje och avslutande framträdandet i Cara Tolmies utställning Cascade Bend Chamber på Mint. För detta tillfälle har Cara bjudit in musikerna och kollegorna Em Silén och Rian Treanor till ett gemensamt ljud- och röstexperiment som äger rum i utställningen.

Tillsammans kommer vi också att lyssna på ett stycke av konstnären Nakul Krishnamurhty vars sång ansluter till Caras textil- och ljudinstallation i Cascade Bend Chamber.

Affective Infrastructures: Chronic Film and Decolonial Image Artefacts
Lecture performance and meeting with artist Alexandra Anikina

June 12, 17:00-18:00
Mint, Sveavägen 41

Alexandra (Sasha) Anikina is an artist and media theorist whose work focuses on image politics, algorithmic imaginaries and myth-making, feminist STS, and technological conditions of governance, labour, and affect. She is a Senior Lecturer in Media Practices at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton). Anikina works with moving image, computer simulation and lecture-performances, investigating affect, image politics, labour and temporalities in digital culture. The persistent themes in her practice involve procedural animism, algorithmic imaginaries, digital folklore and post-socialism.

During the meeting Alexandra will talk about her practice and present the lecture performance Chronic Film. Chronic Film (2019) is a generative algorithm that plays all possible images or all combinations of pixels that can be generated on a screen of a certain resolution. With the current resolution, the film will last for billions of years.

The lecture performance takes the mythology and the history of the colonial archaeology of the museum island of Delos, Greece, as a starting point, engaging in parallel thinking of images as archaeological and as technical artefacts. Sprawled between screensavers, game landscapes and documentary footage, it approaches the issue of commodification of images caught in the loop of attention economy and draws connections to the intent and distracted modes of seeing. Finally, using the algorithm of Chronic Film, the lecture performance breaks the consumerist model of spectator-screen relationship, entering, instead, a hallucinatory state of mental imagery and image-word sensing.

The exchange program was initiated by Mint and after_red in 2021. As a continuation of the project, six artists and one curator from Russia are invited to residencies in Stockholm during the period of October 2022–November 2023. This residency aims to support individual artistic practices, encourage collegial conversations in two different art contexts, and discuss the condition for contemporary art and thought today within dramatically shifting cultural and civil environments.

In this event at Cascade Bend Chamber, Stine Janvin and Cara Tolmie respond to the environment of the exhibition through their ongoing explorations with explorative ‘hand to mouth’ vocality and ASMR inspired intimacy. This responsive ‘functional’ music further expands their previous vocal explorations into the repeated, fragmented and extreme voice set within the uncanny setting of fabrics, unreliable echos and curious small sounds found at Mint.

Stine Janvin is a vocalist, performer, and sound artist based in Stavanger, Norway. Janvin works with the extensive flexibility of her voice, and the ways in which it can be used to channel physicality of sound. Often drawing from electronic music, folk music, and contemporary media, she creates audio visual works for variable spaces from theaters, to clubs and galleries, and more recently websites and digital platforms. Recent presentations include Performa Telethon, New York; Munch Live and CADS, Munchmuseet, Oslo; Deutschlandradio Kultur, Daadgalerie, and CTM Festival, Berlin; Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger; Rokolective, Bucharest; Wiener Festwochen, Vienna; ISSUE Project Room, New York; and INA GRM, Paris.

Välkomna till ett samtal och lyssningssession med Tentative Transmits och Meira Ahmemulic.

Under eventet kommer plattformen Tentative Transmits att introducera sitt arbete och forskning om minnespolitik, arkiv och berättande, samt post-socialistiska övergångar.

Lördagens program inkluderar ett samtal och lyssningssession med konstnären Meira Ahmemulic med premiär av det nyproducerade ljudverket När moster gav SKF fingret.

När moster gav SKF fingret handlar om ordens hemsökande kraft och förbannelsen som motståndshandling. Ahmemulic inspireras av förbannelser från byarna Gusinje och Plav i Montenegro, som ligger i skuggan av Prokletije – De fördömdas bergskedja.

Samtalet och lyssningssessionen kommer att vara på svenska.

Meira Ahmemulic är konstnär och författare. Hon har studerat vid Konsthögskolan Valand i Göteborg och vid Konstakademin i Colombo, Sri Lanka. Hennes verk har ställts ut på flera konstinstitutioner i Sverige, senast på Blå Stället (Angered),  GIBCA (Göteborg International Biennal of Contemporary Art) och Moderna Museet. Som författare har hon publicerats i tidskrifter som Ord&Bild, Glänta, OEI och Paletten.

Tentative Transmits: the Radio as G/Host är en diskursiv ljudplattform som undersöker minnespolitik, radiohistoria, solidaritetsrörelser och post-socialistiska övergångar kring Central- och Östeuropa. Genom begrepp som hauntologi, postminne och off-modern, reflekterar Tentative Transmits och inbjudna gäster över förhållandet mellan minne, arkiv och berättande. 

Tentative Transmits drivs av Olivia Berkowicz och Marianna Feher.

Medverkande: Merima Dizdarević & Ivana Đida, Jörgen Gassilewski, Iris Smeds och Isak Sundström med L.M Klan.

Välkommen till en scenkväll och en performativ studie på Mint där Iris Smeds presenterar sitt nyskrivna performance Det tusenåriga riket , Merima Dizdarević och Ivana Đida framför ljudverket The Bosnian Sigh 2, Jörgen Gassilewski läser från sitt kommande bok Leken och Isak Sundström premiärläser Essä om filicid med komp av L.M Klan!

Kvällen arrangeras av Andjeas Ejiksson, Emily Fahlén och Iris Smeds som en del av det pågående projektet Det isolerade benet, om staten, kroppen och deras olika iscensättningar.