Boundless Diffusion of Trans-Local Knowledge Production Map

. Pelin Tan


Boundless Diffusion of Trans-Local Knowledge Production Map

Ordinarily, we believe that knowledge is very near to us, sometimes we think knowledge is attainable and stable. Or we walk near it but don’t realise its movement and reflection. It is a kind of movement and a journey. It is personal but collective. It is boundless. It is emotional. In some cases it is a total, unstoppable experience. It exists and moves trans-locally. It is a representation. It is not presentable. Makes you feel alone as a singularity. Makes you feel near to something. Makes you feel like the Other. It is filled with space and love. You feel you are near it but it is always far away.

The mobile archive presents my trans-local production of knowledge. People think I travel a lot. No. I am mostly in Istanbul, in Tophane. Realities, objects, ideas, fly in the air that you can catch and reproduce. With people.

Iaspis Open House 13 – 14 February 2009
Iaspis, Konstnärsnämnden
Maria skolgata 83, Stockholm

Participants: Igor Antic, Eva Arnqvist, Maja Bajevic, Linnea Carlsson, Anna Kindgren & Carina Gunnars, Alevtina Kakhidze, Erik Olofsen, Daniel Peltz, Pratchaya Phinthong, Azat Sargsyan, Karin Seufert, Patrik Söderstam, Pelin Tan, Alexander Vaindorf, Steina Vasulka, Tris Vonna-Michell, Kristoffer Zetterstrand

Welcome to the Open House at Iaspis. This is one of Stockholm’s recurring open meeting-places for contemporary artists and their audience – a unique opportunity to gain an insight into a number of exciting Swedish and international artists’ work. During Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th of February, we will present 17 Iaspis grant recipients. The artists will present their projects in the open studios and in a programme of lectures and video screenings.

The Open House will include: a lecture by Patrik Söderstam covering a fictitious fashion company and his time as an Iaspis grant recipient in Tokyo in 2008; a comment on the Swedish IKEA culture by Igor Antic; a lecture on consumption and desire by artist Alevtina Kakhidze; the sound installation Detroit Dream by Tris Vonna-Michell; an exhibition of Kristoffer Zetterstrand’s paintings which he has created by a computer animation process; a screening of experimental video works by the electronica artist Steina Vasulka, and much more.

Guest producer: Lisa Rosendahl, Baltic Art Center, Visby