THE AREA

Meteor International:The Area The artist group Meteor International will work in collaboration with youngsters, mostly young women  from Tjejer Kan (Hidde Iyo Dhaqan ) that live in the area Sofielund in Malmö. Built on the experiment model Cybermohalla a network on internet and a hybrid space possibilities are opened to discuss and present one´s projects. In the early stage the artists will visit art exhibitions with the young girls, discussing art and art projects .With social media as a tool the young women will write about art  “Art Critic from the street” and in this way voices that are usually not heard in the art debate will come forward . They will as well send live on social media from projects they do and create digital art.

Plats: Garaget, Sofielund Tid: 6 maj, kl 16:00 – 20:00

http://meteorinternational.weebly.com

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Some earlier projects left us with these images and fond memories

©Seved is an Art Gallery specialising in photography, located at the very center of THE AREA. Images from their recent inauguration of a public dark room.

Srinagar (city) is anywhere, everywhere, nowhere. Nothing happens in Srinagar. Something always keeps happening in Srinagar. It is unpredictable. It keeps growing. In Srinagar ideas are tasted and encountered differently. Hospitality and hostility play out an even game. The boundaries between ideas, affects and effects shift constantly and get challenged endlessly. This is a true plane to invigorate practice; a plane that can enrich and remake our sense of contemporaneity, simultaneity and multiplicity. 

Members of Srinagar Biennale core group, Syed Mujtaba Rizvi & Showkat Katju introduce the first ever attempt to bring together artists from around the world to a grand event. "Srinagar Biennale sees itself as a RHIZOMATIC composition. With a node in Srinagar, it is best served by the appearance of other nodes, in other places, ranging from the most unpredictable and inhospitable landscapes, to the most enlightened and hospitable of locations. It dances to multiple frequencies with an expansive movement. Srinagar Biennale forsakes claims to attention as a single event, and instead stretches across time — breaks its banks, overflows, and demands a different, non­rivalrous order of consideration. It sees itself as an eruption that transmits possibilities and interactions, to keep disturbing and re-positioning the partition of the sensible."

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Read more about the "Night on Rasmusgatan” project 2007

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Originally named Culture means Farming, this project aimed at adressing the joblessness issue from a different angle, striving to find new ways for immigrants, primarily from the Middle East, to participate in the development of local agriculture industry. The project was later renamed Empowerment Farming. In the spring of 2008, Right to Farm the Land was staged in collaboration with the art and agriculture group Kultivator and the art initiative Public Globality Gardens. This was a land claim, where a large number of immigrant families were offered 100-200 sqm farming land each, at no cost.