SEPTEMBER SESSIONS
—A Contemporary Art Festival in Stockholm

Collaborating art organizations:
Accelerator, coyote, Filmform, IASPIS, Index, Konsthall C, Liljevalchs, MDT, Mint, Tensta konsthall

An initiative by Mint and Index including a performance and music program curated by Cathrin Mayer.

September Sessions – A Contemporary Art Festival in Stockholm is launching its first edition this autumn with a four-day programme spread over various art organizations in the city as well as public spaces in Stockholm. It hosts exhibitions, performances, concerts, film screenings, IASPIS Open Studios, readings, and social gatherings. We want to consciously celebrate the diversity of the Stockholm art scene to highlight local artistic productions in an international discourse.

The inaugural edition of September Sessions will present Echoes, curated by Cathrin Mayer—an ephemeral performance and music programme inspired by the unique landscape of Stockholm, bringing together a number of new commissions and existing pieces, exploring the intersection of artistic practices in music, performance and writing.

Artists include, among others: Adam Christensen, Reece Cox, Constance Debré, Armin Lorenz Gerold, Suze Ijó, Hampus Lindwall & Ellen Arkbro, Hanne Lippard, Nat Marcus, The Neighbourhood Character and XTC in the XIV.

Echoes aims to utilize its scenic environment of water and islands, connected and disconnected areas within the city geography to create unrepeatable experiences: A church, a boat and a listening room among others will become vessels to celebrate the fleeting and fragile nature of time-based media:

Sometimes we try to separate ourselves from the world through physical isolation, architectures, substances, or daydreams. We seek a place of denial of the knowledge that our presence is losing its volume. We aim to separate ourselves from the last echoes, the ultimate reflections of the final sound wave. But instead of leaving this ship, we will pleasurably gather inside of it. Instead of boycotting the church, we will occupy and celebrate it with the highest tones. Instead of becoming islands, we will unite with our voices.

A series of exhibitions and events will be organized by Accelerator, coyote, Filmform, Index, Konsthall C, Liljevalchs, MDT, Mint and Tensta konsthall with Catti Brandelius, Armin Lorenz Gerold, Oscar Lara, Morgan Quaintance and Lisa Tan among others. IASPIS international residency programme in Stockholm opens its doors with the seasonal Open Studios including the artists coyote, Obaro Ejimiwe, Sara Elggren, Heike-Karin Föll, Jonna Kina, Luzie Meyer, Nicole Neidert, Iris Smeds, Lotta Törnroth and Luke Ching Chin Wai.

Programme

THURSDAY 21/9

17–20: Opening of Armin Lorenz Gerold: Many ways to now
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18–22: Opening of Catti Brandelius: MISS UNIVERSUM 1997–2005 (2023), with a concert led by Catti Brandelius
Location:


18–00: Déjà vu, bar installation by coyote
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Exhibitions:

11–17: Dodge and/or Burn. Location:

12–17: Efforts of Nature. Location:



FRIDAY 22/9

9.30–17: Open House and Breakfast for curators and art professionals Location:

13–18: IASPIS Open Studios Autumn 2023
Location:

18–20: Echoes performance programme with Hampus Lindwall, Hanne Lippard and Ellen Arkbro.
Location:

18–00: Déjà vu, bar installation by coyote
Location:

Exhibitions:

11–17: Dodge and/or Burn. Location:

11–18: Armin Lorenz Gerold: Many ways to now. Location:

12–17: Efforts of Nature. Location:

12–18: Catti Brandelius: MISS UNIVERSUM 1997–2005 (2023). Location:

SATURDAY 23/9

12–18: Looped film programme Video Life – Performative realism from the Swedish DV-era 1995–2010 (and one historical exception), with Ann-Sofi Sidén, Tobias Bernstrup, Annika Eriksson, Axel Petersén, Magnus Wallin, Annika Ström and Peter Geschwind
Location:

12–13: Artist-led tour of exhibition Dodge and/or Burn by Lisa Tan
Location:

14–15.30: Artist talk with artist Oscar Lara preceding the exhibition Mining Life and guided walk through the late modernist suburb of Tensta
Location:

19.30–22.15: Echoes performance programme with Hanne Lippard, Nat Marcus, The Neighbourhood Character, Suze Ijó, Rip ME, Adam Christensen, and a film by Gunvor Nelson
Location: , departing from Klara Mälarstrand
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22–1: Performance SWEET & STICKY by choreographer Lisa Janbell, with a ritual led by the performance duo Dos Oké, and party
Location:

Exhibitions:
11–16: Armin Lorenz Gerold: Many ways to now. Location:
12–16: Dodge and/or Burn. Location:
12–16: Catti Brandelius: MISS UNIVERSUM 1997–2005 (2023). Location:

Efforts of Nature. Location:

SUNDAY 24/9

12–13: Talk and tea with Armin Lorenz Gerold and Barbara Urbanic
Location:

12–13.30: Curatorial introduction to the exhibition Efforts of Nature.
Location:

14–16: Echoes performance programme with Reece Cox and Constance Debré.
Location:

16.30–18: Performance by Valeria Montti Colque
Location:

Exhibitions:

11–16: Armin Lorenz Gerold: Many ways to now. Location:

12–16: Dodge and/or Burn. Location:

12–16: Catti Brandelius: MISS UNIVERSUM 1997–2005 (2023). Location:

12–17: I Shoved and I Dug and I Hacked Away. Location:

ARTISTS


Adam Christensen
Ann-Sofi Sidén
Annika Ström
Annika Eriksson
Armin Lorenz Gerold
Axel Petersén
Barbara Urbanic
Catti Brandelius
Constance Debré
coyote
Dos Oké
Ellen Arkbro
Gunvor Nelson
Hampus Lindwall
Hanne Lippard
Heike-Karin Föll
Iris Smeds
Joanna Kina
Lisa Janbell
Lisa Tan
Lotta Törnroth
Luke Ching Chin Wai
Luzie Meyer
Magnus Wallin
Morgan Quaintance
Nat Marcus
Nicole Neidert
Obaro Ejimiwe
Oscar Lara
Peter Geschwind
Reece Cox
Rip ME
Sara Elggren
Suze Ijó
The Neighbourhood
Character
Tobias Bernstrup
XTC in the XIV

COLLABORATORS




Accelerator

Accelerator is an exhibition space where art, science and societal issues meet. It is part of Stockholm University. The mission of Accelerator is to engage actively with society, producing exhibitions presenting international and Swedish contemporary art.

Accelerator organises a public program of presentations and talks with artists, researchers, students and the general public. Accelerator’s programme is driven by an ambition to contribute towards a transparent and empathetic society by opening up opportunities for art to spark discussions and interdisciplinary dialogue.


Accelerator. Photo by Christian Saltas
Accelerator. Photo by Christian Saltas



OPENING HOURS
Thursday: 11–17h
Friday: 11–17h
Saturday & Sunday: 12–16h


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Artist-led tour of Dodge and/or Burn (Saturday 23/9, 12–13h)

For September Sessions, Accelerator hosts an exhibition tour of Lisa Tan's

Dodge and/or Burn led by the artist. The tour is followed by a Q&A.

(event duration: approx. 1 hour)
Exhibition Dodge and/or Burn

This autumn, Accelerator presents the first institutional solo exhibition in Sweden by Stockholm-based artist Lisa Tan. For the exhibition Dodge and/or Burn, Tan looks at the intersection between the nervous system and interior life as a way to examine the operations of art, uncertainty and the formation of the self. Tan’s underlying interest is in the transformative potential that arises when one’s awareness is marked by a crisis.



https://acceleratorsu.art

Frescativägen 26A, 114 18 Stockholm

coyote

coyote is a multidisciplinary collective who test the bounds of possibilities and order through exhibitions, artworks, events, and interventions in public space. United since 2017 as an ambulatory and amorphous enterprise, their communal identity is that of a trickster who rebels against convention and crosses territories. Their projects often are fragmentary and dispersed events that explore urban and social space as a locus of collective memory and redirect literary and historical sources to confront the here and now. Above all, coyote parasitically feeds off context, drawing their energy from the convoluted stories embedded in curious locations, intervening into social routines, and hijacking channels of mass distribution. Their practice is one of radical hospitality, where other artists and voices are regularly smuggled into the narratives and situations they build, thus confusing boundaries between disciplines and divisions of the individual and the collective.

Image: Anders Edström
Image: Anders Edström


DURING THE FESTIVAL



Bar installation déjà vu (Thursday 21/9, Friday 22/9, 18–00h)
Location:

Déjà vu is a bar where everybody knows your name. It resembles a familiar place, a place you may or may not have been to before and at any given moment a customer might start telling a story, which you may recognize. What seems to be a place of daily life and daily routine, where social life and oral stories are still being performed is at Déjà vu made into a stage-like spectacle.

www.deja-vu.se

Filmform

Filmform is one of the oldest organizations in the world devoted to video art and experimental film and was founded in 1950 in Stockholm, Sweden, originally as an independent film co-op. Later it was re-organized into a foundation and is now the most important driving force for artists' films and videos in Sweden – working with archiving, distribution as well as dissemination of knowledge and information. Filmform is further an important intermediary between independent filmmakers and governmental agencies and is often engaged as an advisor to museums, galleries, universities, and festivals. Constantly expanding, the distribution catalogue spans from 1924 to the present, including works by Sweden’s most prominent artists and filmmakers within the field of moving images.

Filmform has its origin in the post-war generation of artists that experienced the cinema as a new and expanding creative field. In film – personal expression, free from the regulations of convention, could maintain its independence. Artists' films – as well as videos later on – made it possible to connect to the world and to modern times. Filmform has been the hub of artists' films and videos since several decades. Artists like Viking Eggeling, Peter Weiss, and Gunvor Nelson have been important in this process, and new names are merging continuously. It is a beautiful coincidence that the first film that was planned when the association once formed in 1950 was called Vision. The vision of artists moving images is under constant review. Works from Filmform are available to rent for public screenings and exhibitions as well as for educational purposes.

Gunvor Nelson, "Frame Line", 1983, 22 min. Courtesy of Filmform
Gunvor Nelson, "Frame Line", 1983, 22 min. Courtesy of Filmform


OPENING HOURS
Friday: 9.30–17h

DURING THE FESTIVAL


Open House for curators and scholars (Friday 22/9, 9.30–17h)

Location:

Welcome to an exclusive presentation of Filmform’s collection and resource for curating and learning on Friday, September 22nd. The organization as well as the distribution catalogue will be presented in detail and a few newly acquired works from the collection will be shown. The presentation is first and foremost intended for you who is working as a curator, writer, producer, programmer, scholar, or teacher.

Doors open at 9.30. The presentation will take take place between 10–12 AM. Afterwards, between 1–5 PM there will be a chance for spontaneous drop in meetings at the office for those who can’t make it to the presentation. A light breakfast will be served. Please RSVP to info@filmform.com in order to secure a seat and make a reservation to the presentation.

If you are interested in previewing the full length films and videos from the catalogue (https://www.filmform.com/catalogue) – please contact andreas.bertman@filmform.com in order to receive screeners link to specific works or suggestions what to see in relation to your research and field of interest. Finally, feel free to contact Filmform for separate physical or online meetings if you can’t make it to the Open House


Looped film programme Video Life – Performative realism from the Swedish DV-era 1995–2010 (and one historical exception) (Saturday 23/9, 12–18h)

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Filmform’s latest edition – the essay VIDEOLIFE, written by Emily Fahlén, will be available to read and for sale at Zita Folkets Bio during the entire festival. In connection to the essay a looped programme with video works from the Filmform collection has been curated by Fahlén and will be looped at Zita Folkets Bio in Salong 3.

The film programme and essay sharing the same name have been produced within a digitization project in which over 200 works on analogue and digital video tapes have been migrated and restored digitally, a crucial effort for continuing to make Swedish cultural heritage available. The project was realized in 2022–2023 with Återstartsstöd from the Swedish Arts Council. The physical edition of the essay will be available for sale at the ticket office at Zita during the entire festival.

Video Life.
Performative realism from the Swedish DV-era 1995–2010 (and one historical exception)

Ann-Sofi Sidén, QM at NK (a Queen of Mud Action) 1989, 4:37 min
Annika Ström, All My Dreams Have Come True, 2004, 1:40 min
Annika Eriksson, Stockholm Postmen’s Orchestra, 1996, 12:53 min
Tobias Bernstrup, Tonight Live, 2000, 4:30 min
Axel Petersén, Close to God / Far from Home, 2009, 10:47 min
Magnus Wallin, Roll On, 1996, 5:48 min
Peter Geschwind, Sound Cut, 2002, 1:06 min

Running time: 42 min

Annika Eriksson, Två män och ett får (Two Men and a Sheep), 1995, (Berlin), 231 min. Shown in a separate monitor.



Screening during Echoes (Saturday 23/9, 19.30–22.15)
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For the festival’s city tour, Filmform will be presenting Gunvor Nelson’s film Frame Line in a 16mm screening as the boat sets sail towards the Stockholm Archipelago. Frame Line is Nelson’s first collage film. The film that inaugurated her remarkable series of animated films, all made at the Filmworkshop in Stockholm. It is a reflection on Stockholm and Sweden, on Nelson’s return to her native country and a place that is both familiar and distant, both beautiful and ugly at the same time. Frame Line begins with images and glimpses of Stockholm that Nelson has collected, this audio-visual material develops into new image work in which animation becomes a way of discovering, alternating between randomness and structure.

Read more about the film and Filmform here


www.filmform.com

Svarvargatan 2, 112 49 Stockholm

IASPIS

IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts. The programme is aimed at professional artistic practitioners within, for example, visual arts, crafts, design, illustration, architecture, spatial and urban practice.

IASPIS programme include residency programmes in Sweden and abroad, public programmes in Sweden and internationally, publications, expert visits programmes, regional and international collaboration programmes, and an archive.

IASPIS programme aims to contribute in various ways to developing and deepening international contacts between practitioners, organisations, audiences and markets and in this way contribute to artistic development and improved job opportunities.


OPENING HOURS
Thursday: 18–00h
Friday: 13–00h


DURING THE FESTIVAL


IASPIS Open Studios Fall 2023

Each seasonal event of Open Studios invites the audience to a constellation of practices that will probably not share a roof ever again, making the occasion something truly unique. It is a moment in time, a conversation, and an exchange of current thoughts and events, situated in the traces of past events and past encounters stretching over several decades. In the corridors of IASPIS, contributions of former artists in residence can be found everywhere, even in the kitchen.

Let me guide you through the corridor of IASPIS September 2023, and present to you the artists behind the doors: In studio 1 – Heike–Karin Föll, in studio 2 – the artist collective coyote, in studio 3 – Jonna Kina, in studio 4 – Luke Ching Chin Wai, in studio 5 – Luzie Meyer, in studio 6 – Obaro Ejimiwe, in studio 7– Lotta Törnroth, in studio 8 – Iris Smeds, in studio 9 – Sara Elggren, and in the Dance Studio – Nicole Neidert.

On this particular day of September 22, the corridor is dimmed down in blue, and with some lights in motion, creating a contrast to the bright daylight of the studios, as well as the spotlighted stage in the foyer dedicated to performances, readings and music. Artist and architect Jonathan Berglund has been invited to create this special light setting for the occasion. Also present is chef and designer Una Hallgrímsdóttir, creating a table landscape of bite food using salt and sugar as a visual and sensory element for the visitors.

(Text by Emily Fahlén)


www.iaspis.se

Maria Skolgata 83, 118 53 Stockholm

Index

Index – The Swedish contemporary art Foundation has a history of more than 40 years behind it. Firstly, with a focus on photography and publishing, and for the last 25 years with contemporary art as its cultural sphere.

Index has multiple public roles as an art institution: We are a platform for artists and for audiences. We understand that the role of an art institution like Index does not begin and end with an exhibition – instead there is an ongoingness to the activities, research processes, learning programs and relationships between Index, artists and audiences. Index works with an artistic conceptual approach that aims to carve out space and time for criticality, dialogue, curiosity and building discursive situations that develop the role of art today. The size of Index is “human” and the contact with its visitors is defined as a permanent dialogue. Being placed at the center of Stockholm helps Index to be understood as a key institution and node within contemporary art networks.

Index Foundation. Exhibition with Pauline Curnier Jardin: WAITING FOR AGATHA, SEBASTIAN AND THE REST OF THE HOLY CHILDREN — UNFOLDING A FILMIC RESEARCH. September 2021
Index Foundation. Exhibition with Pauline Curnier Jardin: WAITING FOR AGATHA, SEBASTIAN AND THE REST OF THE HOLY CHILDREN — UNFOLDING A FILMIC RESEARCH. September 2021


OPENING HOURS
Thursday: 18–22h
Friday: 12–18h
Saturday & Sunday: 12–16h


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Opening of exhibition Catti Brandelius: MISS UNIVERSUM 1997–2005 (2023) and concert by Catti Brandelius (Thursday 21/9, 18–22h)


From 1997 to 2005, Catti Brandelius – performing as her alter ego Miss Universum – produced films, pamphlets, poems, fanzines, events and songs with specific feminist content. Index presents an exhibition attending to the multiplicity of Brandelius’ character from perspectives in 2023, inviting in a spectrum of voices and opinions from Katarina Bonnevier, Maryam Fanni, Anna Kinbom, Johan Lundin and Andria Nyberg Forshage. The exhibition presents an exhaustive approach to what Miss Universum meant during the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s, creating a documentary setting and a platform to observe the work from contemporary perspectives.

During the opening of the exhibition Catti Brandelius: MISS UNIVERSUM 1997–2005 (2023) a concert led by Catti Brandelius re-staging some of the hits and songs from Miss Universum will take place at Index


https://indexfoundation.se

Kungsbro strand 19, 112 26 Stockholm

Konsthall C

Konsthall C is a public work of art, an urban renewal project and an art institution located in a former communal laundry in Hökarängen. The objectives of Konsthall C are to lead socially engaged practices, support new curatorial and artistic experiments, and contribute to discussions on justice, democracy, and urban development. Ulrika Flink, the Artistic Director, presents a program that delves into the influence of voice and language on personal and collective expressions of rights. The program emphasizes the importance of interconnectedness recognizing oneself in others. It brings together practitioners who engage in collective thinking, incorporating powerful language, poetry, and listening tools.

Through this combination, the program sheds light on the consequences of structural violence and advocates for alternative forms of resistance and radical liberation.


OPENING HOURS
Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 12–17h

DURING THE FESTIVAL


Exhibition Efforts of Nature

In his first solo-show in Stockholm, London-based artist Morgan Quaintance debuts two new film works unseen in Sweden alongside an installation of still images and printed fabrics. Centering on work that uses the devices of repetition, circularity, and inversion to illicit affective and emotional audience responses, the exhibition Efforts of Nature considers one of the defining existential dualities of contemporary life: the psychological push and pull in awareness and concern between individual mental states and planetary shifts in environmental conditions. Time’s passage, employment rights, the dissolution of the body and the disintegration of polar ice caps are explored through provoked states of expectation, hypnotic sequencing and recursive loops.

Curatorial introduction to the exhibition Efforts of Nature (Sunday 24/9, 12–13.30)

https://www.konsthallc.se

Cigarrvägen 14, 123 57 Farsta

Liljevalchs

Liljevalch's exhibition program is aimed at both the really broad audience and those who are particularly interested in certain artists or art and form directions. Each new art year begins with the well-known jury-judged Spring Salon.

Liljevalchs belongs to the City of Stockholm and was inaugurated in 1916 as the first independent and public art gallery for contemporary art in Sweden. The original building was designed by architect Carl Bergsten and is located on the scenic Djurgården in Stockholm. The new extension Liljevalchs+ was completed in autumn 2021, designed by architect Gert Wingårdh in collaboration with glass designer Ingegerd Råman.

Photo: Blå Porten
Photo: Blå Porten


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Demons Stomp & Flores, Ängar and the Vamperra på Picknick, performance by Valeria Montti Colque, with Rossana Mercado-Rojas, Sarai Alvarez Riveras, Carlos Martinez and Ida Lod


Nature dialogues with us through her different elements: the Mountain Santa Ekeka carries her children on her back, on her lliclla with flowers since the beginning of the past future times. Times is not linear, but ciclic, what was in the past stays with us to guide us through the present. We don't walk forward, we dance across times.

We are all gathered here in this picnic that resembles the vivid rhythms of our hearts. We are shaped different and complementary in this multiverse where we decided to build our homes. Las Flores, Ängen, Helgondjuren, La Vamperra, y Las Santa Ekekas inhabit this land while they build it, layer by layer.

(text by Rossana Mercado-Rojas)


https://liljevalchs.se


Djurgårdsvägen 60, 115 21 Stockholm

MDT

MDT is one of Sweden’s leading venues for contemporary choreography and performance and a co-production platform. We are situated in a reconstructed torpedo workshop on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm and our facilities include one main stage and two studios. We co-produce, host and present both international and Sweden-based dance artists with the aim of providing space for both artists and audiences to develop, discuss and experiment within contemporary dance and choreography.

"Sweet & Sticky". Photo: Sebastian Berthold
"Sweet & Sticky". Photo: Sebastian Berthold


OPENING HOURS
Saturday: 21–1h

DURING THE FESTIVAL


Performance SWEET & STICKY by choreographer Lisa Janbell, with a ritual led by the performance duo Dos Oké (Saturday 23/9, 22–1h)

Honey, let SWEET & STICKY sweeten your lips, wet your skin, then move you slow and fast into the underworld. Three dancers will move in slow flow, where freshwater slips through their veins in symbiosis with a live electronic landscape.

SWEET & STICKY is a dance, a ritual and a state that seductively licks your wounds and vulnerabilities, where performers and audiences enter a site of pleasure together, through tension and seduction. Like buds on trees in the spring, they open their fertile wishes to the singing of larks, into a dance that will move through and with spaces.

Ritual: Dos Oké
Choreography, concept & artistic direction: Lisa Janbell
Co creating dancers: Ama Kyei, Cecilia Rehde, Marie Mazer
Music (live): Dos Oké + TBA
Costume: Anita Falk
Light design: Lisa Janbell
Artistic advice: Karina Sarkissova

Saturday 23 September
22:00 MDT's foyer opens
22:30 SWEET & STICKY by Lisa Janbell with a ritual led by Dos Oké
23:30 DJ sets by Suze Ijó & The Neighbourhood Character


Echoes performance programme ticket holders for Saturday have first priority to this event. Other visitors; first come first serve. Limited access, free entrance.

Tickets for Echoes performance programme at M/S Mälar Victoria can be found here

https://mdtsthlm.se

Slupskjulsvägen 30, 111 49 Stockholm

Mint

Mint is a non-profit exhibition space situated in the Workers' Educational Association in central Stockholm, initiated in 2019 by curators Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari. Focusing on contemporary art and poetry, Mint is embracing experimental practices, cross-generational encounters and site-specific interventions. As the practice of a museum relates to – and is in dialogue with – its collection, Mint allows its program to be inspired and directed by the history of the building and its events, struggles, organisations and cultural expressions.

Installation view, "Third Eye Butterfly", Mint 2022
Installation view, "Third Eye Butterfly", Mint 2022


OPENING HOURS
Friday: 11–18h
Saturday & Sunday: 11–16h


DURING THE FESTIVAL


Opening of exhibition Many ways to now – Armin Lorenz Gerold
(Thursday 21/9, 17–20h)
On the first day of the festival Mint will open the doors to the exhibition Many ways to now – a new commission by the Austrian artist and composer Armin Lorenz Gerold. The artist invites visitors into an audio-visual system of ceramic sculptures, vibrating devices, sound and screens, transforming the exhibition space into a sensory acoustic landscape.

Working across a multitude of media, Gerold primarily focuses on voice and sound, making audio plays, live-performances, broadcasts, and installations. For the exhibition at Mint, Gerold has invited a range of artists and poets to contribute texts that negotiate questions about time and temporality through a variety of cultural, political and poetic angles that disrupt, alter or shape the present. The artist draws inspiration from Anne Boyer’s work The Fallen Angel of the Senses, in which the author and poet maps the decay of the minor senses; touch, taste, and smell, in our “present arrangement of the world”, hyperextended or fractured from “capitalism’s distortions and pressures”. With contributions by: Lori E. Allen, Jay Bernard, Anne Boyer, Reece Cox, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Mara Lee, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Alex Turgeon and James Schuyler.


Talk and tea with Armin Lorenz Gerold and Barbara Urbanic (Sunday 24/9, 12–13h)


For September Sessions, artist and composer Armin Lorenz Gerold will be in conversation with the experimental gardener and historian of religions Barbara Urbanic.


https://m-i-n-t.se

Sveavägen 41, 111 40 Stockholm

Tensta Konsthall

Throughout the years, Tensta konsthall has made itself a name as an art space devoted to an international outreach taking place in dialogue with programs and activities with local resonance. Tensta konsthall was founded in 1998 as a grass root initiative, partly realized thanks to a special bid for the more remote Stockholm suburbs, and partly at the occasion of Stockholm Capital of Europe that same year.

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger, 2021
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger, 2021


OPENING HOURS
Saturday: 14–15.30h

DURING THE FESTIVAL


Artist talk with artist Oscar Lara preceding the exhibition Mining Life and guided walk through the late modernist suburb of Tensta
(Saturday 23/9, 14–15.30h)
Oscar Lara engages in social practices with the aim of finding ways to structural change. By trying out new contexts for culturally charged objects, following people or coveted raw materials in their various routes, processes are set in motion that give rise to new stories. Global patterns begin to emerge through local phenomena. The exhibition, which opens on October 6, is curated by Lisa Rosendahl and will be Lara's most comprehensive to date.

What role do street comedians play in the struggle between authorities and the mining industry? Who are the winners and losers in the tug-of-war with looted art? How did the work with the play (Las seis) comadres de dios come about, a manuscript based on women absorbed in the trafficking industry that arose in connection with the development of the mining communities? What will the audience experience in the exhibition? Moderator: Paulina Sokolow.

For those who wish, there will be a short walk around Tensta Centrum and an introduction to the neighborhood constructed in the mid 1960s as the first step of the Million Dwelling Program. The principles and ideas behind the late modernist housing project in Sweden.


https://www.tenstakonsthall.se

Taxingegränd 10, 163 04 Spånga

Echoes

Echoes aims to utilize its scenic environment of water and islands, connected and disconnected areas within the city geography to create unrepeatable experiences: A church, a boat and a listening room among others will become vessels to celebrate the fleeting and fragile nature of time-based media:

Sometimes we try to separate ourselves from the world through physical isolation, architectures, substances, or daydreams. We seek a place of denial of the knowledge that our presence is losing its volume. We aim to separate ourselves from the last echoes, the ultimate reflections of the final sound wave. But instead of leaving this ship, we will pleasurably gather inside of it. Instead of boycotting the church, we will occupy and celebrate it with the highest tones. Instead of becoming islands, we will unite with our voices.


1.

Echoes at Uppenbarelsekyrkan
(Friday 22/9, Doors open 18h, performance starts 19h)
Free of charge, no ticket needed

Timing by Hampus Lindwall, Ellen Arkbro, and Hanne Lippard
The centerpiece of the performance is an adaptation of a piece called Timing, composed by Phil Harmonic (a.k.a. Kenneth Werner). It is for voice and keyboard and was recorded by "Blue" Gene Tyranny on an album called Just For The Record (1979 Lovely Music). Additionally, they will perform music by Ellen Arkbro, Hanne Lippard, and Hampus Lindwall, and they will premiere a new piece composed especially for the occasion.


2.

Echoes at M/S Mälar Victoria Boat
(Saturday 23/9, 19.30–22.15h)
Get your tickets here

Stream by Hanne Lippard
Hanne Lippard will be reading a series of (mostly) new poems, somewhere between 10-15 poems in total. They mostly deal with dreams, memories, the body both virtually and viscerally, object vs subject, transits and passages… The title refers to the stream of voice and words, as well as the stream of water where the reading will take place.
Poetry reading by Nat Marcus

DJ sets by The Neighbourhood Character and Suze Ijó


I'm not sure, yet
by Adam Christensen

Performance by Rip ME


3.

Echoes at Kungliga Konsthögskolan’s Listening Room
(Sunday 24/9, 14–16h)
Free of charge, no ticket needed.

Applications by Reece Cox
Reece Cox presents Applications, a series of recent texts read by the artist to a soundtrack of spatialized electronics composed especially for the Listening Room.
A reading by Constance Debré
Passages from the novel Love Me Tender (2022) resonate with a captivating swiftness, offering an intimate portrayal of the period during which Debré transitioned from marriage to a dedicated pursuit of writing and a same-sex relationship. Within its pages, Love Me Tender immerses readers in themes of custody struggles, transience, and unreserved dialogues about desire and yearning, reminiscent of the literary spirit found in punk-era luminaries. Through this narrative, traditional notions of motherhood are transformed, revealing the multifaceted expressions of love.


Artist Bios

Hanne LippardHanne Lippard (NO/DE), born in 1984 in Milton Keynes, Great Britain, lives and works in Berlin. Lippard’s practice explores the voice as a medium. Her education in graphic design informs how language can be visually powerful; her texts are visual, rhythmic, and performative rather than purely informative, and her work is conveyed through a variety of disciplines, predominantly sound-installations and performance. Her most recent performances and exhibitions include The Myths and Realities of Achieving Financial Independence at CCA, Berlin (2022); Le langage est une peau, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (2021); Contact, Mood, Share at MHKA, Antwerp, (2021); X, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2020); RIBOCA2, Riga (2020); ART 4 ALL, Hamburger Bahnhof, (2020); Our present, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (2020); Parades for FIAC, Palais de la Découverte (2019), Art Night London (2019); Goethe in the Skyways, Minneapolis, (2019), n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, (2019); Nam June Paik Award 2018, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2018); Ulyd, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger and FriArt, Friboug (2018). Lippard has also recently been awarded with the Preis der Nationalgalerie for 2024. www.hannelippard.com

Nat MarcusNat Marcus (born in 1993, New York City) is a poet, designer, DJ and co-editor of TABLOID Press, a publishing house and media imprint founded in Berlin in 2014. Her poetry, art criticism and lyric journalism have recently appeared in Arts of the Working Class, The Ransom Note, and Edit. Marcus has participated in readings and performances in a variety of venues across Europe and the US, and in the last years has exhibited visual works at Mint (Stockholm, SE), Kunstverein München (Munich, DE) and Felix Gaudlitz (Vienna, AT). Aside from the collections of silkscreened clothing Marcus designs and releases under the TABLOID imprint, she has produced graphics for numerous record labels and collectives including Uzuri, West Mineral Ltd., 3XL and Morph.

The Neighbourhood CharacterYour favorite "Berlin deejay"’s favorite DJ. A selector for everyday people and true heads alike, The Neighbourhood Character’s style can be best described like an iron fist in a velvet glove. They are known for bringing their unique sense of funk, sensuality, intimacy, and depth to their vinyl sets and electronic productions. In addition to their role as an educator leading creative collaboration modules for BA and MA programs at BIMM Institute Berlin, The Neighbourhood Character also holds a position as a cultural writer-researcher in the dance music realm. Their insightful contributions have graced reputable platforms like Technomaterialism and Norient, solidifying their presence in the scene.

Suze IjóSuze Ijó is a house DJ. She works in the lineage of that word not just as a name for a genre of dance music, but a mood, a way of moving, an ethic and cultivation of spirit. Ijó grew up in Rotterdam, Europe's largest seaport, and was surrounded by hip-hop, Caribbean music and Eurodance - products of cultural import and synthesis from the house sounds of Chicago and New York. Among the genres she often plays out are: deep-cut RnB, warm and pulsing soul house, interlocking waves of polyrhythms and vocals and timbres all speaking to a profound transhistorical groove. She curates the podcast series for United Identities along with Carista, and is playing gigs full-time. However close to the heart, her sound has been ringing out in industry-lauded European venues such as Panorama Bar, De School, Lux Fragíl, Kaiku and regular slots at Dekmantel Festival; additionally, the last years have seen Ijó make tours of Oceania and South America.

Hampus LindwallHampus Lindwall is an artist active in many fields ranging from contemporary music to experimental and electronic sound / music. He has released many albums, as a soloist and in collaborations. Hampus Lindwall is the Titular Organist in Saint-Esprit, Paris, and professor of improvisation at IMEP, Namur in Belgium.

Ellen Arkbro
Ellen Arkbro (b. 1990) is a composer, musician and sound-artist from Stockholm currently living and working in Berlin. She works with precision-tuned intervallic harmony. Her work includes compositions for acoustic instruments and for synthetic sound, and for combinations of both, as well as installation work. She has presented her site-specific work at Barbican in London, Kölner Philharmonie, Serralves in Porto, Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, KW in Berlin, Ina GRM in Paris and Tempelaukkio Kirke in Helsinki to name some places. In all of her work, Arkbro focuses on the qualities of harmonic sound that reveal listening as an active process of creative participation, inviting the listener to gradually transform into the sound itself.

XTC in the XIVXTC in the XIV started as a sample based project using time stretching, pitch shifting and club music narrative conventions on early vocal polyphony: it saw first release on Cease 2 Exist in September 2022. Today XTC in the XIV is a vocal ensemble recreating the sampled loops through a combination of song and live electronics. The group has performed at Nonagon festival, in Hemse curated by Gotlands Konstmuseum, in Visby Cathedral and at Ställbergs Gruva as part of a residency with Örebro Län. Material has also been presented at Assemblage saas*fee pavillon in Frankfurt. The group is currently recording an album for Supertraditional records. For September Sessions the group consists of Walter Berge (b. 1992), composer and sound technician with background in mathematics and club music; Em Silén (b. 1994) improvisational musician and artist also performing under the name rip ME with a BA in electroacoustic composition from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and; Siri Anna Flensburg (b. 1993), vocalist with a background in classical choral music with a BA in folk music from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

Reece CoxReece Cox is an artist and writer based in Berlin. His work entails image-making, performance, writing, and sound. He has exhibited and performed internationally and recently presented a new work ‘Poser’ at Sara’s, NY and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. In 2018 he founded INFO, a label and curatorial project focused on exhibiting and distributing exceptional sound works by contemporary artists.

Constance DebréBorn in Paris, Constance Debré worked as a defense lawyer for a while, but has been a writer for 5 years. She has published four books: Play boy (2018), Love me tender (2020), Nom (2022), and Offenses (2023).

Rip ME
In a restless and experimental outcome, rip ME is the musical project of Em Silén. Carried by the love of combination, rip ME’s artistic ideals are the result of her larger objective of channeling an endless generosity. Effortlessly and neverendingly moving in between styles, genres and modes of expression, rip ME resigns any final definition, resulting in a soundscape that is both unmistakably strange and familiar; all-consuming and intensifying. In the midst of disparate circumstances, rip ME remains nothing but her own.

Locations


AcceleratorFrescativägen 26A, 114 18 Stockholm
https://acceleratorsu.art
Opening hours:
Thursday: 11–17h

Friday: 11–17h

Saturday & Sunday: 12–16h
FILMFORM
Svarvargatan 2, 112 49 Stockholm
https://www.filmform.com
Opening hours:
Friday: 9.30–17h

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

Thursday: 17–00h

Friday: 13–00h
INDEXKungsbro strand 19, 112 26 Stockholm
https://indexfoundation.se
Opening hours:
Thursday: 18–22h

Friday: 12–18h

Saturday & Sunday: 12–16h
KONSTHALL C
Cigarrvägen 14, 123 57 Farsta
https://www.konsthallc.se
Opening hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 12–17h

LILJEVALCHS
Djurgårdsvägen 60, 115 21 Stockholm
Opening hours:
Thursday: 11–19h
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 11–17h

MDT
Slupskjulsvägen 30, 111 49 Stockholm

https://mdtsthlm.se
Opening hours:
Saturday: 21–1h

MINT
Sveavägen 41, 111 40 Stockholm
https://m-i-n-t.se
Opening hours:
Friday: 11–18h

Saturday & Sunday: 11–16h


TENSTA KONSTHALL
Taxingegränd 10, 163 04 Spånga
https://www.tenstakonsthall.se
Opening hours:
Saturday: 14–15.30h

M/S Mälar Victoria Boat
Departing from Stadshuskajen, Klara Mälarstrand
Opening hours:
Saturday: 19.30–22.15h

Kungl. Konsthögskola's Listening Room Slupskjulsvägen 30, 111 49 Stockholm
Opening hours:
Sunday: 14–16h

Zita Folkets Bio
Birger Jarlsgatan 37, 111 45 Stockholm
Opening hours:
Saturday: 12–18h

Uppenbarelsekyrkan
Bäckvägen 34, 126 47 Hägersten
Opening hours:
Friday: 18–21h

About


CONTACT
info@septembersessions.se
COLOPHON
Founders: Emily Fahlén (Director Mint) and Marti Manen (Director Index)
Curator Echoes : Cathrin Mayer
Producers: Alice Söderqvist and Isabella Tjäder
Coordinator: Victoria McCarthy
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