Welcome to Konstepidemin open studios in the presence of current residency artists, for an evening of artist presentations, lecture, performance, informal meetings, socializing, food and music. Our international artists will present their practices and upcoming projects in Gothenburg.

Invitation is open for all, no registration needed.
Lecture and presentations in English

Arranged by: Konstepidemin international group together with
Kultur i Väst, Artist-in-Residence/AIR VGR and Iaspis.
Contact: Meira Ahmemulic, International coordinator Konstepidemin meira@konstepidemin.se

PROGRAMME TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER
16.30–16.50 Gueststudio 1
Bibbi Forsman in conversation with Residens Angered scholar Mattias Elftorp
17.00–17.20 Gueststudio 2
Maria Magnusson in conversation with guest artists Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo
17.30–17.50 Gueststudio 3
Carina Fihn in conversation with Iaspis scholar Karo Akpokiere
18.00–18.20 Grindstugan
Cecilia Lagerström in conversation with guest artists Vera Berzak Schneider
18.30 The evening continues in Hus 10
Food by chef & artist Estrella V L Rydman
(Indian vegan stew with yogurt and mint sauce and focaccia)
19.00 Lecture with Sandra Sterle Residens Angered scholar 2017, introduction by Meira Ahmemulic
21.00 Performance Sandra Sterle: ”Oxygen”
”Oxygen” is the iteration of the recent project performed this summer at the Naked Island, Croatia. It deals with fantasy and factography connected with her grandfather’s life.
DJ and surrounding: Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo & Dj Bruce Leenus and Frk Magnusson

Lecture: Sandra Sterle

Sandra Sterle (born in 1965 in Zadar, Croatia) is a visual artist who works with film, installation, interventions, photography and performance. Currently she is associate professor of performance and video at the Arts Academy in Split. Sandra Sterle applies different strategies and exhibiting formats in her work; often starting with the performative act or staging in front of the camera she develops scripts for films and derive impulses for performative work from her personal experiences and the environment that surrounds her. In the process of creating work she uses the concept of archetypes, also analyzing the nature of remembering and memories, both personal and collective.

Participating Artists in Residence

Karo Akpokiere

Karo Akpokiere’s work focuses on fusing experiences and observations gotten from the minutiae of everyday living with his interests in the visual and written aspects of popular culture. His work blurs the line between fine art and graphic design; it can be political, social, humorous and anything else it wants to be. Akpokiere’s work is marked by the embrace of a spontaneous and where necessary, a research based approach. His work is an exercise in progress and self-discovery, always changing as new interests and attitudes are formed.

 Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo

Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo are filmmakers, educators and community cinema activists whose work is a catalyst for creative collaboration and positive social change. Originally from Canada and Italy respectively, they currently live and work in Los Angeles where they run the Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit neighborhood media arts center with a focus on analog film education and resources. In 2008, they launched the EPFC Filmmobile, an old schoolbus transformed into an eco-friendly cinema and film school on wheels. As The Here & Now, Marr and Davanzo travel the world, bringing handmade movies and music to the masses.
www.sellyourtvandcometothecinema.wordpress.com

Vera Berzak Schneider

Vera Berzak Schneider is a theater and performance artist. She was born in Russia in 1987 and lives and works in Israel. She graduated from The School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem and Performance Studies in Tel Aviv. She creates works both for stage and alternative venues. Her artistic language is diverse and constantly evolving, making use of different types of texts, performance art, and visual theatre. She is currently working with research and documentary sources in the creation of an interactive theatrical event.

Mattias Elftorp

Comics creator in Malmö, writer/artist of the postapocalyptic cyberpunk comic Piracy is Liberation, angrily political Arg Kanin (Angry Animals) and other books such as Me & my Daddy & Zlatan, Transgressions, After the ends of the world and The Troll, etc. Active in various constellations: the art & comics collective Wormgod, CBK (publishing CBA, an international anthology of art comics) and Tusen Serier, working to make the Swedish comics scene a bit less ”Swedish”. Also organizer of the alternatrive comics festival AltCom in Malmö.
www.elftorp.com

For more information please contact: meira@konstepidemin.se