Tuesday 20th November the Friends of Moderna Museet visited Slakthusateljéerna, in the new space at Bolidenvägen 22. Coffee and sandwiches were served during an introduction to Slakthusateljéerna’s activities, in the association’s new project space. The introduction, in shape of a presentation and public conversation, was followed by open studios with 16 of the artists. In the entrance of Slakthusateljéerna a performance was held during the evening, and other art works could be encountered in different parts of the building.

Our new address is Bolidenvägen 22, 121 63 Johanneshov.

Link to map.

Air Drop: Where we are not
A one-day event with Onur Ceritoğlu, Ellakajsa Nordström and Ylva Trapp at 5533.

Saturday September 6, 14:00-18:00

Onur Ceritoğlu has been an artist-in-resident at Slakthusateljéerna in Stockholm during September 2012 and Ellakajsa Nordström and Ylva Trapp at 5533 in Istanbul. At the 5533 event, Where we are not, they will present work from their respective residencies.

15:00 reading by Ellakajsa Nordström and Ylva Trapp
15:30 Onur Ceritoğlu tries to answer the question Why do we have plants at home?

Homeplants, a plant-sculpture-decoration, took form in Onur Ceritoğlu’s studio at Slakthusateljéerna during his residency. The plants are propagated from leaf cuttings, some of them donated to the artist and some of them he grew himself. As the stay in Stockholm came to an end, the plants continued a nomadic life in Stockholm. They are now temporary guests in people’s homes as voluntary hosts take care of them for a maximum of three weeks before the plants continue to the next host.

Ellakajsa Nordström and Ylva Trapp have been collecting ways of measuring time, scales, rhythms and flow during their stay in Istanbul. During this one-day event they will launch a new blog called Scripts for a city. Blog titles include: To measure distances by trying to see each other from as far away as possible, To record sounds by using pen and paper, To experience time passing by repeating a selected movement, and To use the gaze as a camera to record a repeated walk.

Onur Ceritoğlu (b. 1983, İstanbul) lives and works in Istanbul. His work deals primarily with aspects of interior and furniture design, home environments and participation. He has a BA in architecture from Istanbul Technical University, MA in Visual Arts and Communication Design from Sabancı University. Selected exhibitions include: Park: Shared (2012, 5533-İstanbul); Burç Alaiye (2012, KABA HAT-Alanya); After Working Hours (2012, KABA HAT-Ankara); Thief (2011, Protocinema-İstanbul); Park: Probably (2010, İstanbul),

Ellakajsa Nordström (b.1979, Göteborg) lives and works in Stockholm. Ylva Trapp (b.1981, Uppsala) lives and works in Stockholm. In their collaborative work they transform their every-day surroundings by copying, repeating, scrutinizing and dwelling on small details, gestures and behaviors. Ylva Trapp holds a MA in Fine Art from Konstfack, Stockholm and a BA in Fine Art from Umeå Art Academy. Ellakajsa Nordström holds a BA from Central St Martins in Fine Art. Selected collaborative exhibitions include: In several aspects (Halka Art Project, Istanbul 2012); Open studios (IASPIS, Stockholm 2012); Hem ljuva hem (Konsthall c, Stockholm 2011); Holmgårdsvägen 34 (Konstfack, Stockholm 2010); Aspuddsbadet (Konstfack, Stockholm 2009).

About AIR Drop

AIR Drop is an artist-run residency program housed by Slakthusateljéerna Studio Association in Stockholm in collaboration with the artist run space 5533 in Istanbul. AIR Drop Stockholm/Istanbul gives artists based in Sweden and Turkey the opportunity to change environment for five weeks. The residency includes a public presentation and is funded by Framtidens Kultur. The project aims to provide space for individual practices and to create artists’ networks between individuals, locations, and organisations. Air Drop is run by Maria Andersson and Katarina Lundgren, artists and members of Slakthusateljéerna in collaboration with Nancy Atakan, Volkan Aslan and Nazli Gürlek at 5533. http://imc5533.blogspot.se/

In May, Hera Buyuktascian and Santiago Mostyn were AIR Drop’s first artists-in-residence: Hera Buyuktascian at Slakthusateljéerna in Stockholm and Santiago Mostyn at 5533 in Istanbul. After the residencies they had a one-night-exhibition at Slakthusateljéerna.

Become a host to this plant-sculpture-decoration.
Look after it for minimum three weeks and pass it on to another host.

If one takes the cutting without the gardener’s knowledge then success is certain.

These plants are propagated from leaf cuttings, some of them are donated to the artist and some of them he has grown himself during his residency period at Slakthusateljéerna. As the residency is now coming to an end these plants need new homes. As temporary guests, the plants will continue a nomadic life in Stockholm and its surroundings. As new hosts look after them, new cuttings can also be added.

The journey of the plants starts from Slakthusateljéerna and will then be passed on from host to host.

For further information and organization please contact the artist: onurceritoglu@gmail.com.

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Onur Ceritoğlu (b. 1983) lives and works in Istanbul. His work deals primarily with aspects of interior and furniture design, home environments and participation.

Onur Ceritoğlu has been an artist in resident at Slakthusateljéerna through AIR Drop. AIR Drop is an artist-run residency program housed by Slakthusateljéerna Studio Association in Stockholm in collaboration with the artist run space 5533 in Istanbul. AIR Drop Stockholm/Istanbul gives artists based in Sweden and Turkey the opportunity to change environment for five weeks. The residency includes a public presentation and is funded by Framtidens Kultur.  A public presentation of the works by Onur Ceritoğlu and Ellakajsa Nordström and Ylva Trapp will take place at 5533 in Istanbul in the beginning of October.

In September Slakthusateljéerna will host the exhibition Perspectivism, curated by the Brazilian curator Cinthya Oliveira. Perspectivism is Cinthya Oliveira’s degree project from the Curatorial Program for Professionals in Arts, Crafts and Design at Konstfack in Stockholm, and the project is carried out in collaboration with CuratorLab and Konstfack. Perspectivism is a group exhibition bringing together five emerging artists: Adrianna Palazzolo (b. 1982 in Toronto), Mark Leckey (b. 1964 in Birkenhead), Niklas Tafra (b. 1982 in Stockholm), Patrick Goddard (b. 1981 in London ) and Sanna Marander (b. 1977 in Helsingborg). Their works explore or propose a redistribution of the relations between humans and non-humans, subjects and objects, culture and nature. The categories are not explored by the artists in terms of dualistic or opposing systems, but they rather present them in another ordering, enchained in non-hierarchical relations. The project’s conceptual basis is grounded in the theory of perspectivism developed by anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, from ethnological studies of the concept of personhood and cosmological settings of the indigenous people in the Amazon. The collaboration with Slakthusateljéerna is organized by Malin Pettersson Öberg, in order to enable an exchange between Cinthya Oliveira, the participating artists and Slakthusateljéerna’s internationally active members. The exhibition introduces the participating artists to a wider audience in Stockholm, and brings together art professionals from Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Finland, Turkey and Sweden. Welcome!

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PERSPECTIVISM

Exhibition at Slakthusateljeérna from 19th to 23th September 2012
Opening on 19th September at 6pm, with performances by Patrick Goddard and Niklas Taffra

With the artists:
Adrianna Palazzolo
Mark Leckey
Niklas Tafra
Patrick Goddard
Sanna Marander

The exhibition Perspectivism is part of a long-term research on recent studies into indigenous cosmology, anthropological methods, and current practices in art. The term perspectivism was coined by Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro from an examination of certain indigenous practices – such as cannibalism, war of revenge, accumulation of names, shamanism – from which he attempts to render visible or transliterate a general philosophy of Amazonian indigenous people.

One of the principal aspects of this philosophy consists in how it conceptualizes the self, putting forward a model that would express a radical sense of incompleteness, a necessity of others, or an ‘unthinkability’ of a world without others. Yet, another key aspect of this philosophy consists in proposing a cosmological “coup” – that is, a radical change in the vision of the world and the place of humans in it. For perspectivism, objects and subjects are both part of the same classificatory order, and, therefore, their relationship would be exempt from any hierarchical attribute. By leveling objects and subjects, this theory diminishes the significance of human beings, and confers on objects the possibility to act in the world.

If from one side it presents an affinity with anti-humanistic thinking, from another it introduces a complex system of rationality, in which no essentialist definition of beings and things is possible. It proposes a mathematical scheme in which every meaning is suspended and re-arranged according to the position one occupies. A person or an object is unstably defined by the position it occupies, by its body and a set of affection it manifests.

Mark Leckey’s video Made in ‘eaven aesthetically performs the premise of non-hierarchal relationships between subjects and objects; inducing the viewer to take on the position of the object they are seeing. The video takes us on a tour of the artist’s flat through the reflective surface of the Jeff Koon’s Rabbit (1986). The camera circles the Rabbit giving a panoramic of the flat, however the artist’s image holding the camera is absent from the reflection. When one looks at the surface of the Rabbit, one is actually looking into the space assuming the point of view of the Rabbit itself. By removing the reflection of the artist, Leckey places the viewer in the body of the Rabbit. Rather than regarding the art object from the exterior, the viewer becomes its centre, and assumes its position.

In A Speaker Through Speakers Niklas Tafra endows self-consciousness to objects, the loudspeakers, seeming self-aware, describe to the audience all the electronic processes passing through them to render the sound audible. The voice that is allocated to them is the voice of themselves, channeling their own subjectivity. The agency of object is further explored though Adrianna Palazzolo’s End of the Night which features demolition vehicles destroying a bridge. The machines seem to act autonomously, with all human presence obscured. A soundtrack accompanies the images, underling some unsuspected anthropomorphic gestures of the machines.

Singling out certain objects from fictional writing, Sanna Marander explores the objects ontological status and its symbolic meaning within material culture and collective memory. For the exhibition, Marander transports blue roller blinds from the book Den Blå Rullgardinen, by Swedish writer Agnes von Krusenstjerna, to the exhibition space; allowing that object to exist awkwardly between its historical and present ontology.

Leaving objects behind and focusing of the subject Patrick Goddard devises an elaborate cinematic environment presenting a series of a videos which frequently drawn on anecdotal narratives, steeped in the literary tradition. The apparent minimal aesthetics of his videos conceals from sight different layers or ‘mash-ups’, digitally combined and synchronized, which the artist uses to spin a thread on the problematic notion of self in the present time. With an interest in the narrators ‘voice’ and its potential for falsification, his videos are often imbued with a sense of pathos. His videos hint at political disillusionment, nihilism and the absurdity of the everyday. Comedy overruns these themes with a self knowing ridicule – leaving the audience to draw their own conclusions as to the sincerity of the narrators’ voice.

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Curated by Cinthya Oliveira

Slakthusateljéerna
Hallvägen 21
121 62 Johanneshov

The exhibition will be open from Thursday to Sunday, from 12 till 6pm.
Free entry.

Contact information: cinthya.lana@gmail.com / +447572105799

The project is supported by Iaspis /The Swedish Arts Grants Committee´s International Programme for Visual Artists, CuratorLab and Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
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A one night exhibition with Hera Büyüktaşçıyan and Santiago Mostyn.

Thursday 7 June, 18.00 – 21:00
Slakthusateljéerna
Hallvägen 21, Globen
Hitta hit

Hera Buyuktasciyan and Santiago Mostyn will show work from their respective residencies in Stockholm and Istanbul. 

At 19:00, Santiago Mostyn will present a lecture based on his recent surveillance video recordings, and Hera Buyuktasciyan will introduce research material centered around distance bridging. 

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (b. 1984, Istanbul) is an artist based in Istanbul. Her works deal with notions of otherness, belonging, xenophobia, social identity and memory. She graduated from Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty Painting department in 2006. Selected exhibitions she participated in include: Scan Istanbul (2003, İstanbul); Going Public’06 (2006, Milan); The Other(2007, PiST///7-24); Changeables & Transformables (2009, İstanbul);Living and working in İstanbul (İstanbul, 2010); art.homes (2010-2011, Munich-İstanbul); Worthy Hearts (2011, Yerevan); The Afternoon Odyssey (2012, SALT).

Santiago Mostyn
Santiago Mostyn (b. 1981, San Francisco) is a photographer and writer working in Stockholm. He makes prints, videos, and books based on personal interactions with subcultural communities throughout the world. He received his BA from Yale in 2004, studied under Willem de Rooij at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt, and has collaborated with the artist Swoon on a series of raft-based performances along the Mississippi River. His first book, Excerpt: All Most Heaven, was published by T.V. Books in 2008 and is included in the collection of the MoMA Library, New York.

About AIR Drop
In May, Hera Buyuktascian and Santiago Mostyn were AIR Drop’s first artists-in-residence: Hera Buyuktascian at Slakthusateljéerna in Stockholm and Santiago Mostyn at 5533 in Istanbul.

AIR Drop is an artist-run residency program housed by Slakthusateljéerna Studio Association in Stockholm in collaboration with the artist run space 5533 in Istanbul. AIR Drop Stockholm/Istanbul gives artists based in Sweden and Turkey the opportunity to change environment for five weeks. The residency includes a public presentation and is funded by Framtidens Kultur. The project aims to provide space for individual practices and to create artists’ networks between individuals, locations, and organisations.

Air Drop is run by Maria Andersson and Katarina Lundgren, artists and members of Slakthusateljéerna.

In September Onur Ceritoglu will be the resident at Slakthusateljéerna and Ylva Trapp and Ellakajsa Nordström at 5533.

AIR Drop Stockholm/Istanbul

invites you to a public presentation of the Istanbul art space 5533.
With Nancy Atakan, Nazli Gürlek and Volkan Aslan.

Friday 25 May at 18.30
Slakthusateljéerna
Hallvägen 21, Globen
Hitta hit

The talk will be held in English
Cash bar

5533 is an independent non-profit contemporary art space in Istanbul that presents and produces exhibitions, research and debate. Emphasizing dialogue, networking, and interaction, 5533 aims to foster contemporary art projects based on intellectual and critical reflection.

5533 is Slakthusateljéerna’s collaborator in the artist exchange project AIR Drop. AIR Drop currently hosts its first artists-in-residents: Hera Buyuktascian at Slakthusateljéerna and Santiago Mostyn at 5533. In September Onur Ceritoglu will be the resident at Slakthusateljéerna and Ylva Trapp and Ellakajsa Nordström at 5533.

The evening will include a brief presentation of the aims and working methods of AIR Drop and focus on the activites of 5533.

Welcome!

About 5533
Nancy Atakan and Volkan Aslan founded this off-space inside an old store in the Istanbul Trader’s Association shopping center (IMÇ) together with the curator Marcus Graf. Since its founding, this independent space has established and maintained a library consisting of an archive of local artists’, curators’ and institutions’ portfolios including a new media and sound art section as well as a store front window for exhibitions. 5533 aims to create an interactive space to review art practice and theory through artist talks, studio presentations, round table discussions and readings as well as video screenings, performances and exhibitions. 5533 aims to establish a ‘contact zone’ to bring together people from different disciplines, occupations and backgrounds, IMÇ shop workers as well as the art community. In December 2010 Nazli Gürlek joined Volkan Aslan and Nancy Atakan at 5533 as an advisor. For more information about 5533 please visit the website.

Nancy Atakan
Co-Founder of 5533 (b. USA 1946), has lived and worked as an artist, teacher, art historian, and art critic in Istanbul since 1969.

Nazli Gürlek
Advisor at 5533 (b. Istanbul, Turkey 1981), lives and works in Istanbul as an independent curator.

Volkan Aslan
Artist and Co-Founder of 5533 (b. Ankara, Turkey 1982), currently lives and works in Istanbul.

About AIR Drop
AIR Drop is an artist-run residency program housed by Slakthusateljéerna Studio Association in Stockholm. AIR Drop Stockholm/Istanbul gives artists based in Sweden and Turkey the opportunity to change environment for five weeks. The residency includes a public presentation and is funded by Framtidens Kultur. The project aims to provide space for individual practices and to create artists’ networks between individuals, locations and organisations.

Welcome also to join us Thursday 7 June for a presentation by the AIR Drop artists Hera Buyuktascian and Santiago Mostyn. More information to come soon!

Air Drop is run by Maria Andersson and Katarina Lundgren, artists and members of Slakthusateljéerna.

This evening is made possible with support from Iaspis.