September 2023
Info
Date: Friday, September 29
Time: 17: 00 - 20: 00
Location: Gallery West and Auditorium
Participants: Anastasia Ax, artist, Marja-Leena Sillanpää, artist, Maria W Horn, composer and Sara Arrhenius, honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Free admission, no pre-registration required.
The Academy of Fine Arts café is open in the evening.
Sound performance: at 17:30 PM
Artist talk: 18:30 PM
Memorabilia
In the audio event Memorabilia Remnants from previous works are used as musical components. Memorabilia has been erected several times, in different contexts and in different locations. The framework is constant, but the objects and materials used change in relation to the artist's ongoing work.
Memorabilia (Settlers) based on leftover materials from the installation Settlers which is currently on display at the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts. Pieces of lightweight concrete, plaster, iron oxide powder are reinstalled on plasterboards that function as sound-generating tables. Using contact microphones, Anastasia Ax investigates sound as a contact surface between her own body and the materials.
For Friday's sound event, the artist has invited composer Maria W Horn and artist Marja-Leena Sillanpää, who will contribute to a holistic experience.
PARTICIPANT
ANASTASIA AX
Anastasia Ax's art is characterized by a mix of performance, painting, sculpture and sound. She uses her body as a starting point in brutal or subtle collisions with physical materials. Ax explores deconstruction and transformation as a way to create new narratives, demolish given notions and break physical and imaginary boundaries.
MARJA-LEENA SILLANPÄÄ
In her art, Sillanpää wants to illuminate our connections to time and parallels between seemingly separate events. It is about history that has been or what is to come in a moment of “now”. In her works, she wants to show an underlying possibility of getting in touch with something beyond what we see. In addition to visual art, she expresses herself in text, sound, performance and installation.
MARIA W. HORN
Composer with a focus on minimalist music that highlights the inherent spectral properties of sound. Her focus is on electroacoustic formats, with a varied instrumentation ranging from analog synths to choir, strings, pipe organ and various chamber music setups. Maria's artistry combines an interest in human perception and spatiality with audiovisual components as tools to transcend boundaries of time and space, reality and dream.
SARA ARRHENIUS
Honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. On January 1, 2023, Sara Arrhenius took office as director of the Swedish Institute in Paris. In addition to her leadership role at the Institut suédois, Arrhenius is also cultural counselor at the Swedish Embassy in Paris. Arrhenius most recently served as rector at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She also has a long career as a cultural writer, art curator and author in Sweden and internationally.