FUTURE LEGENDS

We want to thank everyone that participated, that came, that moved, that felt, that arted, that noised, that danced, that saw, that listened, that sensed, that played, that thought, and that talked during this amazing fall season of FUTURE LEGENDS. 

FUTURE LEGENDS as we know it has come to and end but please check out our Facebook page which has some amazing pictures from all five events. Palladium Malmö will continue to rock on with a broad program to fit all kinds of tastes and flavours for both children and adult!! Check out the webpage below. 

See you in the future!!! 

FUTURE LEGENDS: https://www.facebook.com/futurelegendsmalmo/

Name: Tara Transitory Age: 33

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? Malmö

Tell us about your artistic practice! My work focuses on trying to induce myself into a trace-like state through the performance of sound.

What ticks you!? Good food and doing absolutely nothing.

How do you come up with new work/topics? By doing nothing and hoping that something comes up by pure luck/chance.

Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to? Yes, namely gender, noise and rituals.

What Do You Do For Fun? Laying in bed with my partner.

Dance or Dinner? Dinner then dance no?

Audio or Visual? Audio definitely.

Rhythm or Bass? They are both of equal importance to me, I can't have one without the other.

What role does the artist have in society? One of the possible roles would be to present all that is wrong with their society to their society in the way that their society would somewhat understand.

What’s your favourite art work? Come on, too many to name!  

What should we talk more about? Nothing, I think we should try talking a little less.

What wouldn’t you do without? L.O.V.E

Name: Roxy Farhat Age: 31

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? Sitting on a bed in Malmö. It’s a glamorous life.

Tell us about your artistic practice! I work mainly with video and performance. Now that I think about it it’s been years since I included any kind of objects in my work. The topics are often political and somewhat autobiographical. Making people laugh is important, probably because I laugh at everything, even the things that make me cry can still make me laugh.

What ticks you!? Politicians. Aggravates me just thinking about them. And cops. Ugh.

How do you come up with new work/topics? Usually in conversation with my friends or from personal experiences, like things that bother me or are too stupid to be true but still are.

Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to? I guess you could say various experiences of dehumanization is a common denominator in my work.

What Do You Do For Fun? Sleep? I don’t know why my body is fighting me on this. But no, hang out with my friends, eat good food and chill with my plants.

Dance or Dinner? Both!

Audio or Visual? Audio-visual

Rhythm or Bass? Why the either or?

What role does the artist have in society? I actually feel like that’s very unclear. Artists are both supposed to be some kind of saviors of society and a promise for the future while we’re also seen as vermin and slackers. We’re expected to have all the answers and to get a job.

What’s your favourite art work? The universe.

What should we talk more about? I don’t know if talking more is gonna help. We should talk less and put our actions where our words are.

What wouldn’t you do without? My friends and my mother.

Name: John Willgren Age: 30

Royal Institute of Art, MA Fine Arts

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? Stockholm

Tell us about your artistic practice! I often have a quite clear idea what I want to shoot or capture. Recently it has partly involved the use of music and sound. The best reward is when it turns out different, in a good way.    

What ticks you!? great ideas for art works, but they are rare, so I would say people with a sense of humor, and cute dogs...

How do you come up with new work/topics? They just come, I try to be curious in things that interets me and that are close to me...

Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to? Musical topics

What Do You Do For Fun? Tennis.

Tell us a little about the work you are participating with on the FUTURE LEGENDS November 14th! In the video I perform the giutarr piece “Cavatina” with chance operations, using three dices that decide the tuning of the guitar as I play. The music originates from the 1970’s film “The Deer Hunter” in which a group of US soldiers are subjected to a game of “russian roulette” with a gun during the Vietnam war. In the movie, this tranquile guitar piece known as “Cavatina”, is a recurring motif. I wanted to subject the film music to chance and see what happened.

Dance or Dinner? dinner

Audio or Visual? must onw choose?

Rhythm or Bass? ryhthm

What role does the artist have in society? It’s up to every artist to decide, there’s no single role....

What’s your favourite art work? I have many, but one of them, “Box with the Sound of Its Own Making”, by Robert Morris.

What should we talk more about? Enough talking! (=

What wouldn’t you do without? musical instruments

Name: Liva Isakson / Niclas Lindgren Age: 25/25

Liva: Royal Institute of Art, master Niclas: Bachelor from Stockholm University of The Arts, 2015

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? Kitchen table

Tell us about your artistic practice! A to big sculpture in a room that deforms it, feathers that register asperities of a wall, movements of a stretched body that are lengthen to a lump of gelatine / Sculpturing logic of noise, and making chaos of logic. In search for the dramatic potential in the perception of sound.

What ticks you!? Taste of: Finger Needle Tongue Feather Stone wound wood Towel Glass Dust Rust Fur Fat / Häagen-Dazs

How do you come up with new work/topics? Movements /Stories, myths, records

Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to? Plastic, elastic, plastic-elastic/ Creating new or alternative rooms or spaces.

What Do You Do For Fun? Drivning big cars / Buying stuff online

Tell us a little about the work you are participating with on the FUTURE LEGENDS NOVEMBER 14! A concert. A mass of audiovisual material in transformation. A pendulous movement from tension to laxity, opened to closed and big to small.

Dance or Dinner? Dance/Dinner

Audio or Visual? Visual/Audio

Rhythm or Bass? Bass/Bass

What role does the artist have in society? Many roles/Creating alternatives

What’s your favourite art work? Richard Serra, Verb list/ The dramas of Elfriede Jelinek

What should we talk more about? How crazy it is that telephones work.

What wouldn’t you do without? SketchUp/Mom

Name: Jarmo Ilmari Somppi 

Age:  45

University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland,  MA

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? Helsinki

Tell us about your artistic practice! In my works rooms, apartments and houses absorb the characteristics of their inhabitants. The installations, emerging from the psychoanalytic tradition can often be experienced through many different senses — the sense of spatiality, the smell and haptic experience.

Tell us a little about the work you are participating with on the FUTURE LEGENDS NOVEMBER 14. I am participating to FUTURE LEGENDS with my work I Didn’t Act , which consists of wooden floor and sound. I have recorded my own speech where I try to explain and analyze my own and theoretical background of the work I Didn’t Act. When it`s played through subwoofer, whole speech broke to non-verbal bass sounds which resonate even into viewers body and shakes the wooden floor. Floor react with human presence. Shaking and shivering of the floor is getting stronger when people are approaching it.

What role does the artist have in society? I appreciate artists whom have passion to give a critic and point out of problems of society, but in my artistic practice I try to look inside to my individual and personal issues and through that I try to reach some general levels of humanity. And we all, as an individuals, are part of the society and we make it what it is going to be.

What should we talk more about? I think people (including me) should Act more and talk less.

Name: Jan Moszumanski Age: I'm 24. My dog is 13.

Kunstakademiet i Oslo, MA

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? Arakawa-ku, Tokyo

Tell us about your artistic practice! It's so bold, there's no way it fits in an elevator. I use variety of media and material, trying to combine things which at first glance seem not to go very well together - exemplary set: square meter of flat surface painted IKB, hex colour #0000ff, Keke Geladze, 1.6 MB of Super Mario, and the concept of anxiety (in lower case).

What ticks you!? Clocks tick me off.

How do you come up with new work/topics? Gradually.

Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to? Blue, landscape, migration, motor oil

What Do You Do For Fun? Leave home

Tell us a little about the work you are participating with on the FUTURE LEGENDS NOVEMBER 14. Death Wind is a Sturm und Drunk, anti-singularitarian, new-not-so-romantic, multisensory black noise show.

Dance or Dinner? Both simultaneously.

Audio or Visual? Both simultaneously.

Rhythm or Bass? Bass, I use to play contrabass for quite a few years.

What role does the artist have in society? Depends from artist.

What’s your favorite art work? Derek Jarman's Blue.

What should we talk more about? Kevin.

What wouldn’t you do without? Bono.

////and we start of with our very talented participating students////

We meet Makode and Kyoka for an interview in Malmo. It is only their third day at Inter Arts Center and things are just about to get started :)

Hi Makode and Kyoka!

How are you approaching this collaboration? M: Enthusiastically!! K: Yeah Nice!! M: We are having fun and I like what Kyoka is doing, it is very different. We are from two different planets. K: Yes, and we are both very independent but at the same time we can neighbor  attack each other, it’s a nice combination :)

Where are you right now in your collaboration? M: We just got into the studios basically and started connecting to the toys and starting throwing up some tracks and mixing them and I like it. K: Yeah I also started connect with IAC environment and starting to understand the machines, the place and Palladium. I’m getting relaxed with the place and preparing for the basic setting. I’m want to create a flexible playground for both of us so I’m preparing my own sound with the collaboration in mind. Now we work half and half and later we will merge. M: Yes, we haven’t set the date for it but I guess in a day or two we will start merging. K: Our different efforts will bring us to another dimension.

MAKODE LINDE Dance or Dinner? With who?!?! Audio or Visual? Hm.. Can’t you rephrase as; no ear or no eyes?! - I would chose one ear and one eye!!! Rhythm or Bass? Im not going to choose What Do you do for fun? You can’t print thaaat!!!

Name: Fuji, David, Marlene, and Jens Age: 28, 26, 25, 24

The Danish National School of Performing Arts, BA/Diploma

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? Third Planet from the Sun.

Tell us about your artistic practice! We all have really different practices, therefore we are the Moot Points: An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found: Originally, one to be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.

We have different interests and approaches to our own individual work, and when we work together we gather our experiences and thoughts, and share them equally between each other. In that sense we believe that our work, in the long term, gets more honest and diverse.

What ticks you!? French science fiction, 1960’s comics, poetry, beats and bodies.

How do you come up with new work/topics? Our question is “how do we NOT come up with new topics?"

Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to? Our discussions and worries are always circling around the utopia/dystopia world picture, or at least as long as we have worked together in this group constellation. By discussing different issues and tendencies in society, new ideas and research points arise. From there we try to manifest these ideas into a body expression.

What Do You Do For Fun? Laughing, eating cake, drinking coffee, and solving each others problems.

Tell us a little about the work you are participating with on the FUTURE LEGENDS OCTOBER 3. With the springboard from the idea of the utopian body we have investigated how different utopias (and inevitably dystopias) are manifested and suggested through different medias:

By studying several science fiction movies from U.S. and USSR dealing with the imagined leap of human society living next to or confronted by the apocalypse, space travel, and the human robot hybrid, we have been led to the philosophical reading of Michel Foucault “Utopian Body”, artistic understanding of the ancient civilization by Tito Lucretius, and beyond to the ideas of the Post-Human in an imagined future where humans are starting to co-exist with cyborgs. Through these studies we have had the body as the central focus point; the body as the constant living organism that transforms into different states of being depending on the current situation. Inner and outer relations, with the body being the entity, have played a huge factor in our research.

“Chill out, we have already been reborn” is an invitation to our utopian proposal. Being aware of the fact that there is no such thing as a utopia, that we are not interested in creating statements, only suggestions, we would like to take the audience on a journey. Through questions and celestial noise our bodies will transform into all that is reachable in the imagination of the audience.

Dance or Dinner? Dince!!!

Audio or Visual? Headphones?

Rhythm or Bass? Rhythm is a dancer.

What role does the artist have in society? We somehow see art as a moot point (go back to question 5 for details)

What’s your favorite art work? “Music for 18 musicians” Steve Reich. Nils Frahm “Spaces”. Early works from Marina Abramovic. two-woman-machine-show “Mass Hysteria”. "This is concrete" by Jefta van Dinther. Lars Von Trier “Antichrist”. “På Israels Plads” by Henrik Nordbrandt.

What should we talk more about? Several things: How to let go. How to be more aware of our choices in general. How to be clear. How to treat each other. How to gain empathy. How to deal with online life/real life. How to navigate in a system that doesn’t include you.

What wouldn’t you do without? I really should go to sleep now…

Name: Ívar Glói Gunnarsson Age: 23

Malmö Art Academy, MFA 1

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? On a sofa.

Tell us about your artistic practice! Usually one or more objects involved in a recording (audio, video, photograph etc), with something happening within a certain set of rules or environment.. the outcome is a sculpture videoprojection sound/work with the logic of the object/environment/set of rules/recordingscenario-space…

What ticks you!? I am almost done reading the Blue Book and then I might read the brown one.

How do you come up with new work/topics? I read, scratch my head, possibly misinterpret/don’t understand anything, stay in the studio until late and once I leave the studio and the doing nothing/struggling (with doing nothing) part was earnest, some idea might pop up.

Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to? Yes.

What Do You Do For Fun? Watch food programs, follow F1, play GeoGuessr, find obscure subreddits(on reddit) and more. Also the usual things people do for fun (concerts, movies, dinners etc).

Tell us a little about the work you are participating with on the FUTURE LEGENDS OCTOBER 3. It’s The Stereo-Conscious Drum, a musical performer, a snare-drum with two ears. It has performed before in Boekie Woekie, (legendary) artist bookstore in Amsterdam!

Dance or Dinner? D&D

Audio or Visual? AV

Rhythm or Bass? R&B

What role does the artist have in society? I googled it, “role of artist” and this dog kept popping up… His name is Uggie and he was an actor.

What’s your favorite art work? I could curate the exhibition: “Ívar Glói’s favourite art works”, so if someone wants me to do it e-mail me!

What should we talk more about? Let’s talk about it later.

What wouldn’t you do without? I really should go to sleep now…

Name:  Agnieszka Gołaszewska Age: 26

Student at Kunstakademiet in Oslo - KHIO, MFA 1

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? Oslo

Tell us about your artistic practice! Film

What ticks you!? Space and time

How do you come up with new work/topics? Naturally

Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to? space, time, film

What Do You Do For Fun? Raving

Tell us a little about the work you are participating with on the FUTURE LEGENDS OCTOBER 3. NEED MORE SPACE THAN TIME Brainwave cinema.

Film is a visual and sound journey through the non-linear story set. Mix of images is the exploration of the grammar of film montage and meditative role of cinema. Using different sound spectrums and visual keys, strongly interacting with brain, film creates hypnotic state.

Film refers to the James Joice´s idea of the Chaosmos (chaotic set of subconscious stream) and Guilles Deleuze´s concept of joining together scenes which are not meant to be together from the first look. Final effect is brought by subliminal decoding the scenes and building up meta levels, what brings the center (subconscious understanding) on the end.

Panpsychism, New Buddhism, self-awareness, electromagnetic waves, philosophy of the mind, neuroplasticity, contemporary religion and understanding of present time and space are just a few keys of decoding the film.

Dance or Dinner? Dinner

Audio or Visual? Audiovisual

Rhythm or Bass? Rave

What role does the artist have in society? Guru

What’s your favorite art work? None

What should we talk more about? Spacetime

What wouldn’t you do without? Non existance

Name: Hanni Kamaly Age: 27

Student at Malmö Art Academy, MFA2 

Where in the world are you in this exact moment? Shawarma City X

Tell us about your artistic practice! A sculptor with interest in humanization/dehumanization, trying to transform ideas into physicality.

What ticks you!? Reality

How do you come up with new work/topics? Watching democracynow.org

Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to? Subject / object relations

What Do You Do For Fun? Quizzes like these

Tell us a little about the work you are participating with on the FUTURE LEGENDS OCTOBER 3. A monumental metal creature somewhere in the space, inspired by Michaux’s mescaline drawings, Mimic the movie and Franz Fanon “The Wretched of the Earth.”

Dance or Dinner? Dance

Audio or Visual? Audio-visual

Rhythm or Bass? R’n’B

What role does the artist have in society? Writing non-verbal reflections.

What’s your favorite art work? Sandra Mujinga’s “When I Stopped Playing Hard to Get”

What should we talk more about? Alienation

What wouldn’t you do without? Internet

At our latest FUTURE LEGENDS event we had some brilliant participant! For you whom unfortunately happen to miss it here is a chance to get to know them a bit better. First out we start with our students!

Artists in Residency: Kyoka (JP) and Makode Linde (SE)!!!

Future Legends Nordic’s Open Call is now over.

It exceeded our expectations and we’re happy to announce its great success and a new record in the number of applications, as well as receiving contributions from a wider range of art and music academies compared to last season.

It is time for the jury´s deliberation and we will keep you posted HERE on the FUTURE LEGENDS BLOG as well as on the FUTURE LEGENDS NORDIC Facebook page.