September ssions

Programme

THURSDAY 19/9

TBA

FRIDAY 20/9

Evening programme Rouge Ravager curated by Yaby, at Skandia

FURTHER DETAILS TBA

SATURDAY 21/9

Evening programme Rouge Ravager curated by Yaby, at Skandia

FURTHER DETAILS TBA

SUNDAY 22/9

TBA

Rouge Ravager

The second edition of September Sessions presents Rouge Ravager – a specially curated program by Yaby (Madrid). It will unfold at the curious setting of Skandia, a cinema inaugurated in 1923 with an imaginative design by one of the leading Swedish architects of the time, Gunnar Asplund. The deep red, dimly lit interior of Skandia draws attention to the instancy of felt space, its here and now. But like any other cinema, this is a place of representation where experience is taken from one situation to another. Asplund’s desire was to create an atmospheric environment for film projection that followed the prevailing style trend of the United States: the indoors was conceived to evoke the outdoors environment. Velvet, the screen and an invocated elsewhere intermingle and set the tone for the curated program Rouge Ravager.

Rouge Ravager looks at the performative side of visual art through a series of offsite pieces that engage with “liveness” —they happen, they do something, they conjure up time and respond theatrically to the narratives staged by a particular space. Like in the architectural and cinematic demeanor of Skandia, notions of here and elsewhere underlie the works of the selected artists, pulling the audience to different settings and pointing their attention to different places or moments where a sense of meaning or at least completeness might be located. Presentness gets boosted through anticipation and spark, charged with conjecture, tropes, wariness and hanging emotions.

Hereness, thereness and presentness bring up questions about the import of different sensory planes, social adjustments, how instants of engagement happen or last, and how closeness and distancing shape those collective feelings that will become significant. If performance names an “actualized sphere,” we can see this group of dispersed and ephemeral artistic gestures as contending with the palpability of certain situations or atmospheres, pondering their materiality, textures, chemistry, their entry points and the conditions of life that they afford.

Artists within Rouge Ravager include Alex Margo Arden, Sam Cottington, Craig Jun Li, z.No scott, Cara Tolmie, among others.

Beatriz Ortega Botas and Alberto Vallejo founded Yaby in 2017, at that time an independent art space in Madrid which stayed open until 2022. There, they programmed readings, performances and exhibitions. After closing their own space, they continue working together as an independent team, and have curated projects at Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona), EACC (Castellón), Vleeshal (Middelburg), ARCO (Madrid), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), and Hangar (Barcelona).

Artist Bios

Alex Margo ArdenAlex Margo Arden (1994, based in London) whose work uses theatrical methodologies to interrogate the production, interpretation, restoration, and restaging of histories. Through her conceptual research projects she often employs remaking and reperformance to question authority, authenticity, and labour. She has been thinking about the strength of liminal moments before performances and preparing a new commission in which she will elaborate on this idea of thresholds, on the barriers between audience and representation and the potential of activating both collective “safety” and the possibility of danger.

Sam CottingtonSam Cottington (1993) is an artist and writer based between London and Frankfurt. His written work takes form as plays, novellas and short stories and his artistic work spans painting, sculpture, video and installation. He studied Art and Art History at Goldsmiths University in London and is currently studying Fine Art at Städelschule in Frankfurt. His first novella People Person was published by JOAN in 2023. Recent exhibitions included zaza’, Milan (2023), Ginny on Frederick, London (2022) and Yaby, Madrid (2020).

"CJ" Craig Jun Li “CJ” Craig Jun Li (1998, China) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York (Munsee Lenape land). Driven by research interests in circulation and semiotics, Li’s work often configures as inconstant installations utilizing perishable materials and architectural elements. Their practice aims to investigate the osciation between a given subject and how it’s perceived in relation to image and material production.

z.No scottz.No scott. is the benign ghost

behind the guidepost

disguised in guy’s clothes;

a rhizome [comprised of rhinestones]

crying in tritones.

A poet by origin, z.No’s work thrives off the page, in the undercommons. Turning colonial language against itself, z. works to forge phonetics into a weapon of creation — exposing the spectacle of Self like/as a dirty joke.

z.No performs wherever and whenever he can, always taking it too far.

A recent graduate of the CalArts’ Writing & Performativity MFA, z. won the 2022 Emi Kuriyama Thesis Award for his manuscript, ynglytch. z.No’s work can be found in Archway Editions, SPOIL (Hilo Press), second factory (Ugly Duckling Presse), Broken Lens Journal and, soon, in The Journal for Dominican Writers.

Cara TolmieCara Tolmie (1984, born in Glasgow, based in Stockholm) spends much of her time oscillating between contexts as an artist, musician, performer, DJ, pedagogue and researcher. Her works have been performed and exhibited widely at art galleries, music festivals, biennials, conferences and in the public space – both as solo presentations and collaborative projects. Her practice at large centers itself upon the voice, the body, and the complex ties between the two. All at once subjective as well as socially determined, she explores voice and body as two co-dependent entities able to confirm as well as contradict one another. Within this she often explores performative techniques that dis/reorient the listening relationship between the singer and her audience through live uses of the defamiliarised, uncanny and sampled singing voice. Cara Tolmie is currently a PhD candidate in Critical Sonic Practice at Konstfack, Stockholm.

Locations

ACCELERATORFrescativägen 26A, 114 18 Stockholm
https://acceleratorsu.art
Opening hours:
Thursday: TBA

Friday: TBA

Saturday & Sunday: TBA

BIO SKANDIADrottninggatan 82, 111 36 Stockholm

bioskandia.se

BONNIERS KONSTHALL

Torsgatan 19, 113 21 Stockholm

bonnierskonsthall.se

FILMFORM
Svarvargatan 2, 112 49 Stockholm
https://www.filmform.com
Opening hours:
Friday: TBA

IASPIS
Maria Skolgata 83, 118 53 Stockholm
www.iaspis.se
Opening hours:

Thursday: TBA

Friday: TBA
INDEXKungsbro strand 19, 112 26 Stockholm
https://indexfoundation.se
Opening hours:
Thursday: TBA

Friday: TBA

Saturday & Sunday: TBA
INSTITUTE FOR FUTURE STUDIES

Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm

Link
KONSTHALL C
Cigarrvägen 14, 123 57 Farsta
https://www.konsthallc.se
Opening hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday: TBA
LILJEVALCHS
Djurgårdsvägen 60, 115 21 Stockholm
Opening hours:
Thursday: TBA
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: TBA
MDT
Slupskjulsvägen 30, 111 49 Stockholm

https://mdtsthlm.se
Opening hours:
Saturday: TBA

MINT
Sveavägen 41, 111 40 Stockholm
https://m-i-n-t.se
Opening hours:
Friday: TBA

Saturday & Sunday: TBA

About

CONTACT
info@septembersessions.se
COLOPHON
Founders: Emily Fahlén (Director Mint) and Marti Manen (Director Index)
Curators Rouge Ravager: Yaby
Producers: Alice Söderqvist and Isabella Tjäder
Coordinator: Nora Pollak
Graphic Design: Aron Kullander-Östling
Web Development: Robert Fransson

With generous support from the City of Stockholm, The Swedish Arts Council, and the Region of Stockholm