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The first edition of International Encounters of Community and Environmental Sociology, New forms of contemplation for a new society, is intended to generate a plural space of conversation where different ideas about how to increase a new approach in the models of the auto sustainable infrastructures immersed in cultural policies will be discussed. The event will take place in Sweden, in the rural village of Uddebo, where the local art and cultural productions can be contemplated during the gathering. An international program with non-activities, experiences and participation in a local context and social involvement belonging to Uddebo and its surroundings will be carried out.
This first edition of International Encounters is focused on Nordic professionals specialized in the field of art and culture. Various actors of the independent cultural framework will be involved. These actors are artists / thinkers / academics / gallery owners / curators / architects.
The project raises the confluence between the actors involved in the meeting and the members belonging to the Uddebo community as an opportunity to get involved in the exchange of experiences related to the development of art and cultural projects that are integrated in community and environmental sociology. The goal of the project is to develop in the public-private space a collective thought destined to serve as an important tool in the function of improving the idea of the quality of culture associated with sustainable development and social integration. The project will help to develop and improve the quality of art and culture by contrasting other possibilities of thoughts through the idea of channeling the collective intelligence of the participants.
The project aims to create a cultural and artistic ecosystem where a very active link with the non-state public culture is proposed, in which the various actors are engaged in a social system outside of the practice of consumption. More specifically, we want to reflect on the systematic dimension of building a sustainable culture in communities where societies can develop in a direction towards a post-human perspective; An opportunity for a meeting place and exchange of experiences of the participants whose objective will be the discussion and participation on thinking about the future of this great independent cultural framework.
Our capacity as producers of the event is contrasted by several previous projects developed in the local context and social involvement. More specifically, our last work has been to create a nonprofit organization whose work focuses on promoting research in science and humanities aimed at improving the quality of interaction in the participation of all living beings that are part of the same social ecosystem. This gathering is presented to share projects, meet potential collaborators and find the inspiration to work collectively to consolidate a base for a future network of collaborations between the participating actors and the inhabitants belonging to the Uddebo community.
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Carlota Mir
Carlota Mir is a curator, researcher, translator and cultural agent currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work, of a multidisciplinary and multilingual nature, interrogates the relationship between gender, sexuality and space in visual culture, design, curating and architecture from a feminist and queer perspective. She has curated exhibitions, conferences, and public programmes for Moderna Museet, EUNIC Stockholm, KTH/KKH, Kulturhuset, Index Contemporary Arts Foundation, Global Challenges Foundation, or Matadero Madrid, amongst others.
Jesper Aabille
Jesper Aabille is a visual artist who works with performance, mural, intervention and sculpture in the public space, preferably in combination. His works arise in an open and dialogue-based work metode and the focus point of his practice is the attempt to introduce poetry in an everyday life dominated by rational structures, conventions, rituals and invisible rules.
Aabille involves the people who use and know the place. It may be in the initial process, in the finished work, in a temporary performance or in permanent works. The point is that the works come true in the meeting with people. The unpredictable open process for the creation of the work ensures that the work, the viewer and the environment get a part in the process and the opportunity to interfere with each other so that synergy occurs.
Zofia Cielatkowska
Zofia Cielatkowska is an independent researcher, philosopher, writer, editor, and curator. Her research and writing focus on social contexts in philosophy and culture with special emphasis on visual and performing arts. Doctor of Humanities in Philosophy (Embodiment of the Subject: Philosophy and Performance within the Context of Contemporary Critique of Culture, 2013), a graduate of Philosophy (2006) and Curatorial Studies (2008). She received a scholarship from The University at Buffalo (Department of Visual Arts, 2010). She is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), and affiliated researcher at The French Civilisation Centre. Zofia regularly collaborates with various magazines; she has published more than 50 texts including academic papers, articles, reviews, and interviews.
Anto Lloveras
Anto Lloveras is a Madrid based architect, artist and curator. He is main Curator at LAPIEZA International Art Series. He has curated 75 exhibitions since 2009, presenting 1000 artworks in collaborations with artist run spaces, museums, festivals and online platforms. The exhibitions are based on the always unstable and hybrid onsite-online shows, with artist from all over the world, since 2012 with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Previously, he co-founded KIWI Innovation, an internationally rewarded architecture office for innovation in TRANSDISCIPLINARY DESIGN. In parallel to his independent curatorial work and DESIGN WORKS, he is fouder of CAPA, a council on new hermeneutics and research at UCR3. His work has been exhibited and published in different journals and he is editor of two forthcoming publications. Lloveras was trained as an architect at ETSAM Madrid and the MSc in Advanced Architectural Design at Delft University of Technology. Lloveras has co-curated the ENVIRONMENTAL science series “HUMAN LIFE AND BIODIOVERSITY” at UAM Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and several symposiums with the CREP Interdisciplinary Networks on Science Culture and Art Labs. Lloveras has taught studios and seminars at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology and UCR3 Universidad Juan Carlos III de Madrid. His current interests include the structure of philosophical hermeneutics in relation with SOCIOPLASTICS, the device he develops in epistemology and narratives to address conceptual relational art processes.
Anna Viola Hallberg & Marie Norin
Hallberg and Norin uses IECES as a way of forming a specific collaboration. Both facillitate documentary approaches to intervene with contingencies in society from a personal stance. Norin is text based and is a well published poet as well as author of children books in addition to working as a psychodynamic therapist. Hallberg is a socially and politically engaged and often converge the role as artist and curator, occasionally collaborating with other artists and scholars. The work spanns from video-based exhibitions to initiatives in public space. Hallbergs artistic practice is informed by the notion of in-betweeness, as personal experience and geopolitical position. She brings forward a discussion on the documentary in relation to existential matters and social justice.
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annaviolahallberg.se
Emille de Blanche
Emille de Blanche (1981, Sweden), live and work in Stockholm. MFA from Konstfack University College of Art Craft and Design. Two main axes of research define her sculptural practice: the urban environment and its impact on the individual and the search for the ambiguous dualities and opposites.
www.emilledeblanche.com
Nikolay Evdokimov
Nikolay Evdokimov (1978, Russia), live and work in Stockholm. Musician, sound engineer and tattoo artist. Main practice evolve around storytelling and finding personality in every meeting. Focusing on the weird side of reality and always aiming to find alternative techniques and solutions for common problems.
Instagram/evdokimov_ink
Kjell Caminha
Kjell Caminha is an artist with growing interest in curatorial strategies as means for furthering decolonial dialogues within his artistic research and practice. He holds a MFA from Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg (SE) where he runs a course on public art and lectures in the bachelor and master fine art programs. Among other projects, Caminha curated a series of seminars fostering discussions on hospitality practices, diversity and migration knowledge and politics: _Practices and Notions of the Migrant Image_ (May 2015); _On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial Approaches_ (January 2016); and worked as art educator with focus on public programming for_Wheredoiendandyoubegin – On Secularity_, Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2017). Lately he co-organised the exhibition _Setting the Table _at Baltic 39 (April 2018) as part of coordination of research project _Stretched – Expanding Notions of Artistic Practices through Artist-led Cultures_ (2015-2018) led by artist Jason E. Bowman. Together with artists Andreas Engman and Rose Borthwick, Caminha is part of the collective Afterworks that, through hosting, food and discussion, aims to address normative historic structures and to rethink and reframe approaches to being together via specifically framed encounters.
Linnéa MF Larsson
She was born in Eskilstuna 1980 to a saxophone playing socialist nurse and a writing anarchist socialist welder, both active in international solidarity movements and local community projects. Linnéas main obstacle in career is her reluctance to hierarchical structures and preference towards emancipation. She is a selfproclaimed autodidact artist with a strange biography that leads to a fusion of maybe-titles thrown into a hat, from which we could pick a choice. She landed on the rooftop of a squat in Zürich, where creating a collective life was entwined with culture, art, architecture and politics outside the box, d.i.y. She became involved in houseprojects focused on women/lesbian/trans-issues and studied social anthropology. She returned to Sweden as an Uddebo inhabitant since 2016.
Orestis Nikolaidis
Orestis Nikolaidis is an architect, editor, and cultural agent based in Stockholm. He is currently working at Stockholm based studio OOAK Architects and he is developing a participatory-based design project on the threshold between art and architecture in Soderhamn. As a member of the Royal Institute of Art course: Research Lab, he conducted a research-based project addressing issues such as digital memory infrastructure and contemporary image. He has been a board member of the architectural experimental platform 255 since 2011 and was the director in 2016. He is a co-founder of the architectural collective Madstock and has been organising the interdisciplinary architectural festival Bellastock for three consecutive years. He was part of the curating team of the exhibition Ni Arte Ni Educación in Matadero Madrid in 2016. He also curates and broadcasts Lalibela, an independent music radio show on prominent Greek web radio Paranoise Radio.
Lill Yildiz Yalcin
Lill Yildiz Yalcin, currently based in Oslo, is an artists and activist with focus on Art in public space, feminism / class struggle, environment / gentrification, communication / social anthropology. She has been part of underground and squatter movements both in Oslo and Barcelona. She regularly exhibits since 2009 and is currently student at Oslo National Academy of arts.
Where Do You Find Us
GULA HUSET, Långgatan 26, 514 92 Uddebo, Sweden
By bus:
from Nils Ericson Terminal in Gothenburg via Borås, Svenljunga or Kina. https://www.vasttrafik.se/
By car:
from Gothenburg: via Route 40 to Borås, then Route 27 to Tranemo and route 157 to Uddebo.
from Stockholm: via E4 to Jönköping, then follow Route 40 and Route 26 to Route 156 in Västra Götalands län.
from Malmö: Follow E6 to Route 26 in Halmstad and then Route 27 to Route 156 in Västra Götalands län.
by air:
Jonkoping Airport (distanced approximately 59 km)
Goteborg Save Airport (distanced approximately 89 km)
Visingo Airport (distanced approximately 98 km)
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