LISTEN TO THE TALKS

8 hours sound recordings (both in English and Swedish) from SUPERMARKET TALKS are available at Riksutställningar's website!
“Artists or Terrorists”, Marja Viitahuhta - ”Spotlight”, The Naked (The Hague), “Approaching the contemporary art scene in the Western Balkans”, “Art and Artists: Floating Values”„“Activism and Contemporary art”, Kimbal Bumstead – “Diagonally Upwards”, David Karlsson - “I tider av kris behövs konsten”, Vilket värde har konsten idag, egentligen? LISTEN >>

Special Exhibition

Off Limits Madrid and the Spanish Embassy in Sweden present the special exhibition “6 EURO BUDGET – Artistic Practices and Precariousness”.
This Spanish/Swedish collaboration is a creative response to the increasingly precarious position of many artists. The task: to make an art work with the budget of 6 Euro. READ MORE >>
5th floor near the entrance

Performance

HP Process = Philippe Boisnard / Hortense Gauthier
The French duo Philippe Boisnard and Hortense Gauthier perform what they call “digital poetry action”, building a poetry in motion, creating virtual, visual, sound and body dimensions of language. SEE PROGRAMME >>
RED SPOT 3rd floor
Friday February 17, 18.00 with “ALPHA_LAB”
Saturday February 18, 18.30 with “CONTACT”

SUPER-TV

Artyčok.TV will cover SUPERMARKET 2012.
Artyčok.TV is a research institution focusing on the young and emerging contemporary art scene in an international context. Audiovisual features are published daily and freely accessible on the internet platform http://artycok.tv. with the latest news from the European art scene.
Presentation stand: 5th floor next to the entrance SEE FILMS

PERFORMANCE

Pulp Puppets - “Project genesis”
A puppet theatre that creates live-animated movies with various low and hifi techniques that together bring to life a story right in front of the spectator’s eyes. Do It Yourself versions of American pop culture. “Project Genesis” is a science fiction with a dash of film noir. SEE PROGRAMME >>
RED SPOT, 3rd floor
Sunday February 18, 12.00 and 16.00

Supermarket Talks

Activism and contemporary art
What kind of strategy do you choose as an artist when you become exposed to threats and harassment? Meet four different artists from different parts of the world reflecting and discussing their artistic conditions from a perspective of freedom of speech and gender issues.
Participating: Bedri Baykam (artist, Turkey), Marla Bendini (artist, Singapore), Li Gang (artist, China), Paul Dunca (artist, Romania). SEE PROGRAMME >>
TALKS 3rd floor
Saturday February 18, 17.15

Performance

Zirkus Loko-motiv: “The Oldies’ Market – a tribute to Boris Vian’s surreal world”
“The Oldies’ Market” is a hysterical ‘condensation’ from the critically acclaimed performance “Hjärtkniparen”, which played at Teater Giljotin in Stockholm in autumn 2011.
A ruthless market with oldies, a crucified horse, raw potatoes, running paint. A parallel world where everything is possible. SEE PROGRAMME >>
RED SPOT 3rd floor
Friday February 17, 17.00

Music

Jon Rekdal (trumpet) and Santiago Jimenez (violin)
Performing a piece called “Call of the Sirens”, Rekdal blows organic trumpet over highly synthetic ambiences and intuitive strings by Santiago Jimenez, framing the end of two hectic days. SEE PROGRAMME >>
RED SPOT 3rd floor
Friday February 17, 21.00
Saturday February 18, 19.15.
 

Performance

Markus Mehr & Stefanie Sixt
After last year’s well-visited performance at STOFF, Markus Mehr & Stefanie Sixt perform a new piece, “Transit” where diverse levels of physical death and the question for the spiritual afterlife is manifested. SEE PROGRAMME >>
RED SPOT 3rd floor
Friday February 17, 20.00
Saturday February 18, 17.00