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14.00 TALKS, Studio 3Filosofiska Rummet I evighetens vntrum

Filosofiska rummet bedriver filosoferande samtal i Sveriges Radio P1 sedan 1997. Nu gstar Filosofiska rummet SUPERMARKET fr ett liveinspelat existentiellt samtal, I evighetens vnt rum. Hur hanterar mnniskan tankar om evighet och nd

lighet r ett stt konsten? r konsten en out sinlig klla till evig kon templa tion?

Medverkande: Staffan Carlshamre (filosof), Lisa Jonasson (konstnr), Bengt Gustavsson (astro fysiker).Programledare: Lars Mogensen

Lngd: 60 min

14.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorElias Bjrn Mangrief

Elias Bjrns performance Mangrief is a part of a larger investigation into manliness and masculinity. Here is the body which functions as a confinement for an I that is being examined. Is a male a male just because of a certain anatomy? Or is the manliness situated somewhere else? In Mangrief the audience encounters a man in relation to its own body.

Duration: 15 min

15.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorThe Institute for Tricks and Arts invites you to a survey of the spaces in-between.Presented in cooperation with STOFF.

We will try to put our lives at risk in an entertaining study of the physical consequences of hesitation.The Institute for Tricks and Arts intends to bring theatrical

cracks under the microscope, and hope to find answers to questions we are all asking.After many years of awardwinning research in the outer waters, where presence, interactivity and mimic equilibrism rule, we now turn the magnifying glass on ourselves. In charge of investigations: Niklas Valenti and Andr Kaliff

Duration: 20 min (and can be painful).

17.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorZirkus Loko-Motiv The Old-ies Market a tribute to Boris Vians surreal world

The Oldies Market is a hysterical condensation from the critically acclaimed performance Hjrtkniparen, 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.

Duration: 20 min

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16.00 TALKS, Studio 3Konstnrer eller terrorister?

Vad vljer man fr strategi som konstnr nr man fr stark respons p sitt konstnrskap men samtidigt blir utsatt fr hot och trakasserier? r den personliga yttrandefriheten hotad? Hur ser framtiden ut? Tre korta presentationer fljt av ett efterfljande samtal om konstens grnser.

Medverkande: Dror Feiler (konstnr), Gunilla Skld Feiler (konstnr), Joakim Stampe (konstnr), Jakob Kimvall (doktor and i konstvetenskap vid Stockholms universitet).Moderator: Pontus Raud (SUPERMARKET)

Lngd: 120 min

Dror Feiler och Gunilla SkldFeiler uppmrksammades 2004 fr installationen Snvit och sanningens vansinne som vandaliserades av den israeliska ambassadren och som sedan gav upphov till en mindre diplomatisk kris mellan Israel och Sverige. Dror var med p Ship to Gaza som en av de drivande krafterna, och blev misshandlad och gripen av israelisk militr nr fartygskonvojen stormades den 31 maj 2010

Joakim Stampe r konstnr och projekt ledare fr Live Action Gteborg. Han har verkat som konstnr i ver 25 r, och har under senare r fokuserat sitt konstnrsskap p performance. En utgngspunkt fr Joakim var Gteborgs kravallerna 2001. Jakob Kimvall , doktorand i konstvetenskap p Stockholms universitet. Kommer inom kort ut med en avhandling om Nolltolerans som handlar om Stockholms stads klotterpolicy. Stockholm stad bedriver en hxjakt p en hel konstform, hvdar Jakob och ser frbudet som ett hot mot den personliga yttrandefriheten.

18.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorHP Process: Philippe Boisnard/ Hortense Gauthier ALPHA_LABPresented in cooperation with The French Institute.

HP Process (Hortense Gauthier and Philippe Boisnard) is an entity in the conjunction/disjunction which develops a digital practice of artaction. The basis of their work is poetry; they consider digital tech nology as tools for extension, intensification and deconstruction of language and poetic forms, or as a medium capable of reinvigorating

the writing, and give it new forms. They have essentially developed multimedia poetry performances where sound, image and text are generated in real time, to build a poetry in motion, and in perpetual reconfiguration.

Duration: 1525 min

19.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorPaul Dunca Incubus Crypt-mawPresented in cooperation with The Romanian Cultural Institute.

It is possible to gain eternity because you only want to

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Duration: 30 min

19.45 TALKS, Studio 3 The Naked (The Hague)

The Naked promotes a glocal understanding of the artworld today. (www.thenaked.nl)A global view from different local perspectives.

Duration: 30 min

please others?Yes, it is, say the most views of religions.Is it possible to only please while being an artist?Yes, if this pleases yourself too.In Incubus CryptmawPaul Dunca facilitates a meeting with a contemporary performing vampire.He sleeps all day long and only lives at night. Hes 269 years now, but he only does this since 241. He was like anyone else before and yes, now he really sucks. Blood and energy. After celebrating his 126th birthday killing 12 virgins, he decided its high time for a lifestyle change.We present you Incubus Cryptmaw. You shouldnt be scared of meeting him, because hes not afraid of that!

Duration: 40 min

20.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorMarkus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt TransitPresented in cooperation with STOFF.

Within Transit Stefanie Sixt and Markus Mehr are continuing their creative artistic development which started

with Synchron and Komo. Visuals and music patterns are set at eye level, equally influencing each other, combining sound and form to create a holistic piece of art. The artists interpretation of the diverse levels of physical death and the question for the spiritual afterlife is manifested in Transit. The visuals are most of the time based on animated photographs of light reflections. Unreal rooms are created and open up space for the viewers interpretation, due to her or his status of experience and knowledge.

Duration: 50 min

21.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorMusic: Jon Rekdal (trumpet) and Santiago Jimenez (violin)

Jon Rekdal will perform a piece called Call of the Sirens, an ongoing cinematic musicinstallation and addendum to MarklundRekdals piece Musical chair, Melody table, Sonic cabinet (seen at the Candyland exhibition stand). Rekdal blows organic trumpet over highly synthetic ambiences and intuitive strings by Santiago Jimenez, framing the end of the opening day.

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13.00 TALKS, Studio 3Approaching the contempo-rary art scene in the Western Balkans

A large number of the participating galleries from the Western Balkan region are exhibiting at SUPERMARKET 2012. This panel discussion aims to provide an insight into the complex region and the postYugoslavia, postwar and new nation building contexts. What are the characteristics of contemporary art in the Western Balkans today?

How does history influence the contemporary culture, and where do we find the potential for development today?

Participating: Alketa Kurrizo (Zeta Galeri, Tirana), Selman Trtovac (3d BGD, Belgrade), Dimitrije Tadic (Ministry of Culture Serbia), Pierre Courtin (Duplex 10m2, Sarajevo) and Johan Pousette (Swedish Exhibition Agency and curator October Salon 2010).Moderator: Helene Larsson (Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of Sweden in Belgrade) Duration: 60 min

15.00 TALKS, Studio 3 Art and Artists: Floating Values

Four short presentations followed by a panel discussion dealing with the perception of arts value in an era of revolutionary change. Perspectives on new strategies such as artistic communities, selforganised initiatives and new ways to gather in hybrid networking.

Participants: Kirse Junge Stevnsborg, Irene de Craen, Robert Stasinski, Ida Hansson.

Moderator: Johan Pousette, Riksutstllningar/Swedish Exhibition Agency

Duration: 90 min

Irene de CraenArt critic and curator based in Amsterdam. Contributing to websites and magazines, project manager at FUCK,

(Art collective in Amsterdam), editor art magazine Mister Motley, teaching art theory at Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

Kirse Junge StevnsborgArtistic Director at Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Previously at Gvle Konstcentrum, Dunkers Kulturhus, Gallery Nicolai Wallner and Tate Gallery. Holds a masters in Aesthetics and Culture.

Robert StasinskiCurator and art critic, contributing to international art magazines and an active debater regarding e.g. issues as art criticism and public funding with a special focus on political science and development in society.

Ida HanssonArtist and project manager at Galleri Verkligheten in Ume, an artistrun gallery with focus on exhibitions with international, national and local contemporary art, public dialogue and pushing the boundaries between art and reality.

Johan PousetteCoordinator of Contemporary art at the Swedish Exhibition Agency, freelance curator, lecturer, adviser to TCE Boston. Former adviser to the Nordic Council of Ministers / NCP and former director of the Baltic Art Center.

13.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorCirkus 3000 Ante portas

Ante Portas is a joint production of multimedial theatre / art / performance. The story tells the continually evolving saga and surreal adventures of two heroines, Mademoiselle Simonetta and Julie la Fleur, who, following their passionate impulses and desires, are travelling through space and time to semimythological places, encountering various legendary characters historical and fictional along the way, and undergoing profound changes both physical and psychological, from elephantwomanmutation and lycanthropy to involvement with Cold War secret agent plots and vampirism.

Duration: 60 min

15.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorJoakim Stampe & Chuyia Chia A Thread of Red Between Us

Chuyia Chias mapping project is about connections between people and place where her body works as an agent interacting, connecting and threading connections to different people from place to place. The performance will start together with Joakim Stampe for 1020 min, and both split in different directions, and continue in durational longer hours.Joakim Stampes art typically deals with social and political issues. With a philosophical critical attitude he gives the audience and the viewer a picture of the world that surrounds us. His performances / actions are highly visual, although he also works with

sound and significantly interactive with the audience.

Duration: 20 min + additional hours inside and around Kulturhuset

16.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorThe Institute for Tricks and Arts invites you to a survey of the spaces in-between.Presented in cooperation with STOFF

for information, see Friday 15.00

Duration: 20 min (and can be painful).

17.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floor Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt Transit Presented in cooperation with STOFF

for information, see Friday 20.00

Duration: 50 min

18.30 RED SPOT, 3rd floorHP Process: Philippe Bois-nard/ Hortense Gauthier CONTACTPresented in cooperation with The French Institute.

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18.45 TALKS, Studio 3Kimbal Bumstead Diagonally Upwards

Kimbal Bumstead is a performance artist from London. Diagonally Upwards is a performance journey diagonally upwards through

the European winter from Amsterdam to Lule via Stockholm. During this overland journey by bike and hitchhiking, the characters for the performance are the people who Bumstead meets and the protagonist is himself.

Duration: 30 min

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Paul Dunca, Incubus Cryptmaw

Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt, Transit

17.15 TALKS, Studio 3Activism and Contemporary art Activism has become a vital part of contemporary art, in line with the strategies of social criticism that has characterised contemporary art in recent years. We meet four artists with four different stories where their actions have influenced their lives. What kind of strategy do you choose as an artist when you become exposed to threats and harassment?

Participants: Bedri Baykam (artist and President of a+A), Li Gang (artist/curator), Marla Bendini (artist) and Paul Dunca (artist).Moderator : Pontus Raud (SUPERMARKET)

Duration: 120 min

Bedri Baykam: On April 18 2011, Bedri Baykam and his assistant Tugba Kartulus, were stabbed by a man in Istanbul. The attack is associated with Bedris action for a sculptural work, a work that is an attempt to heal Turkish Armenian relations, which was ordered to be destroyed by the Turkish Prime Minister.

Marla Bendini lives and works in Singapore. Born Ong Boon Kok Bendini Junior in 1986, Marla Bendini was created in 2007, as an ongoing process of the identity as the art form.The artists multidisciplinary and highly personal works have become her signature, expressing ideas about gender binaries and the dysfunction of social and cultural structures, particularly with her personal physical body as an articulation tool.

Li Gang was the originator of the famous studio district BIAC (Beijing International Artist Camp) in the village Suojiacun in Beijings northeastern outskirts. The village was demolished during the protests in 2010.

Paul Dunca is a performance artist, actor, dancer and trained as a choreographer in the National University of Drama and Film I. L. Caragiale, where he also graduated with a masters in playwriting.

an entity in the conjunction/disjunction which develops a digital practice of artaction. The basis of their work is poetry: they consider digital techno logy as tools for extension, intensification and decon struction of language and poetic forms, or as a medium capable of reinvigorating the writing, and giving it new forms. They have essentially developed multimedia poetry performances where sound, image and text are generated in real time, to build a poetry in motion, and in perpetual reconfiguration.

Duration: 2530 min

19.15 RED SPOT, 3rd floorMusic: Jon Rekdal (trumpet) and Santiago Jimenez (violin)

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15.00 TALKS Studio 3I tider av kris behvs konsten

I tider av allvarlig kris behvs konsten mer n ngonsin. Vi behver fantasi, vi behver rum och utrymme fr gemensam reflektion, annars kan inga problem lsas. Kulturpolitiken r bde ett politikomrde i egen rtt och samtidigt en frutsttning fr det politiska samtalet, och fr demokratin.

Fr att konsten ska kunna bidra till detta ndvndiga samtal mste den vara oberoende. Drfr r det en central kulturpolitisk uppgift att skra konstens autonomi. Frelsare: David Karlsson.

David Karlsson r frfattare till boken En kulturutredning: om pengar, konst och politik som diskuterar kulturpolitikens uppgifter mot bakgrund av de frndringar den nu genomgr.

Lngd: 45 min

16.00 TALKS Studio 3Vilket vrde har konsten idag, egentligen?

Ett miniseminarium om kultur/politik och samtidskonstens vrde i dagens samhlle.Med en ifrgasatt offentlig finansiering runt om i Europa, och en politik som arbetar fr kad andel privata insatser frn t ex nringslivet, vad hnder med konstens utveckling och politiska potential? Medverkande: Sinziana Ravini (konstkritiker), David Karlsson (kulturskribent), Patrik Liljegren (Kulturfrvaltningen Stockholm stad), Isabel Lfgren (konstnr).Moderator: Johan Pousette (Riksutstllningar)

Lngd: 90 min

Sinziana Ravini r curator, konstkritiker och redaktr fr Paletten. Med sin bas i Paris skriver Ravini fr tidskrifter som bl.a Artforum, Artpress, SITE och Glnta samt fr dagstidningar som DN och Gteborgsposten. Patrik Liljegren r chef fr kulturstrategiska avdelningen p Stockholms stads Kulturfrvaltning. Har tidigare arbetat vid Riksteaterns JAMprojekt och Sdra teatern. Han r utbildad p Kaospilotskolan i Danmark. David Karlsson r kulturskribent och idhistoriker. Han skrev boken En kulturutredning: om pengar, konst och politik som diskuterar kulturpolitikens uppgifter mot bakgrund av de frndringar den nu genomgr. Isabel Lfgren r konstnr, frilanscurator, skribent och doktorand vid European Graduate School i media och filosofi. Hon har deltagit i Konstfacks CuratorLab, gjort konst projekt i det offent liga rummet och bedrivit konstnrlig forskning p Residence Botkyrka samt Vision Forum. Johan Pousette r samordnare fr samtidskonst p Riksutstllningar, frilanscurator, frelsare, rdgivare till TCE Boston. Tidigare sakkunnig fr Nordiska ministerrdet / Kulturkontakt Nord och fd chef fr Baltic Art Center.

12.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorPulp Puppets Project genesisPresented in cooperation with STOFF.

Pulp Puppets Project genesis Presented in cooperation with STOFFPulp Puppets is a puppet theatre that creates liveanimated movies with various low and hifi techniques that together bring to life a story right in front of the spectators eyes. Several cameras, puppets, mannequins, green screens and overhead projectors are used to cut, edit and project the story on the silver screen in real time. Do It Yourself versions of American pop culture is what Pulp Puppets shows are about. Project Genesis is a science fiction with a dash of film noir.

Duration: 60 min

14.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorWhat is performance art?

What does performance mean today when it is now on everyones lips? Is there something that gets lost?Participants from SUPERMARKETs new performance stage RED SPOT join the final summarising talk about the valuating and meaning of performance art.

Participating: Joakim Stampe (artist), Bogdan Szyber (artist), STOFF (Stockholm Fringe Fest). Moderator: Izabella Borzecka (SUPERMARKET)

Duration: 60 min

16.00 RED SPOT, 3rd floorPulp Puppets Project genesis

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Duration: 60 min

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Pulp Puppets, Project genesis, photo: Sara Mac Key.

Acknowledgements:

Programming: Izabella Borzecka, Pontus Raud, Johan Pousette (Riksutstllningar) and STOFF, Stockholm Fringe Fest.

Many thanks to the staff of Kulturhuset and SUPERMARKETs team of volunteers.

Graphic Design:Andreas Ribbung

Language editing:Sheena Malone

The seminar programme is made in cooperation with Riksutstllningar Swedish Exhibition Agency and Swedish Radio and with generous support from Swedish Institute and Iaspis.

The performance programme is made in cooperation with STOFF Stockholm Fringe Fest and with generous support from the French Institute, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the participating artists.

HP Process, ALPHA_LAB, photo: Evelyne Goupy