2007 startade Elin Lundgren och Petter Pettersson världens första performancestudio för bildkonstnärer. Performancen har sedan dess gått från att vara en marginell till en central konstform, och till höstens 10-årsjubileum bjuder Malmöstudion in till ”tio högst annorlunda performancemiddagar av 5 älskade konstnärer ur Liliths historia”. Middagskonceptet får konstnärerna tolka precis som de vill.
Through September to December Lilith will celebrate 10 years as the only performance studio for visual artists in the world.
Since the inception in 2007, Lilith Performance Studio has created over 45 large-scale solo commissions and been engaged in numerous inspiring collaborations and curator missions worldwide. Lilith wants to celebrate this with 10 very unique performance dinners – all with the same starting point: An intimate dinner for 150 people – of 5 beloved artists from Lilith’s past!
Each artist is completely free to interpret what a dinner may be: A social experiment, a colorful ceremony, a magical circus evening, or a preparation for a big anniversary. The expectations is high for what can happen within the frame of a dinner party offered at Lilith Performance Studio this fall.
The invited artists are: Einat Amir (Israel) – 22-23 September Myriam Laplante (Italy) – 12-14 October Odun Orimolade (Nigeria) – 24-25 November The Icelandic Love Corporation (Iceland) – 14-16 December
All artists the studio collaborated with since 2007 is all well documented under archives on Lilith’s website.
Each invited artist will hold 2-3 dinners in a row. The dinners are open to everyone, depending on space. Tickets will be released here on our website and through Lilith’s Newsletter on the 21st August 2017.
In April, 20 -23 Lilith Performance Studio did a major collaboration with the London based artist Oreet Ashery, the doom/sludge band Pyramido and 40 fantastic local knitters.
Here is the video documentation ready to be seen. Enjoy!
For the duration of two hours the audience was invited to pass through the sound of metallic rain produced by eighty metal knitting needles, each attached to a pick-up microphone, and occasionally interrupted by Pyramido’s heavy sonic wall of growling doom. Moving continuously through the architecture of the space, the public became part of the rhythm, as there is no safe spot to be found.
Fin recension skriven av Anders E Larsson i den finlandssvenska tidskriften Presens nr 2 2017, av det storskalig performance Passing Through Metal som visades på Lilith 20-23 april, 2017 i samarbete med Oreet Ashery.
Imorgon tisdag den 25/4 kl 12-13 kommer Liliths konstnärligaledare Elin Lundgren & Petter Pettersson samtala om kreativa processer under Skissernas Museums samtalsserie Brown Bag Lunches
Dags för Brown Bag Lunches (#6) – samtalsserien där vi var annan vecka bjuder in gäster med helt olika yrkesbakgrunder och diskuterar kreativa processer! Du serveras en god lunchmacka paketerad i en klassisk Brown Bag samtidigt som du lyssnar på ett inspirerande samtal – så simpelt är det.
Veckans gäster: Elin Lundgren & Petter Pettersson grundare och konstnärliga ledare för malmöbaserade Lilith Performance Studio – en oberoende arena för praktisk konstnärlig forskning. Varje år bjuder Lilith in konstnärer från hela världen, för att ge dem möjlighet att utveckla och presentera ett nytt performanceverk inför publik. Lilith öppnade 2007 i Malmö och har sedan dess skapat 45 soloproduktioner, flera curatoriska samarbeten, gästspel och festivaler. Som renodlad produktionsplats och arena för performancekonst är studion den första i sitt slag i världen. Både Petter och Elin är dessutom själva utövande konstnärer och var senast aktuella i deras produktion Island in the Sun, 2016.
Samtalet varar i ca 30 min och leds alltid av vår Host Paola Pellettieri. Insläpp kl 12:00, start kl 12:15, kom i god tid, begränsat antal platser!
Evenemanget kostar 65kr och då ingår den smarriga vegetariska mackan från restaurangen På Skissernas, samt bubbelvatten.
Väldigt fin recension i Sydsvenskan skriven av Boel Gerell. Glad, varma och ikväll kör vi igen. Bra två tillfällen kvar att uppleva ”Passing through Metal” Varmt välkomna mellan 20 -22 ikväll och imorgon!
Very Nice Review in the newspaper Sydsvenskan written by the art critic Boel Gerell. Tonight we are on again. Only two more times to experience ”Passing Through Metal” Warmly Welcome between 8pm – 10 pm
Translation of the review.
” – Heartbreaking beautiful metal rain in the anticipation of death!
Beautifully folded in a chest of drawers are tablecloths and lace-up lace, baby clothes, hand-woven linen and potholders. Generations of women’s hands have created a treasure that today lost its practical function. Who has a knitted cloth on the coffee table today? Who draws on its child a babygro in itching wool?
Nevertheless, there are plenty of women (for they are almost always women) who continue to sew and knit. Forty of them attend Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö this weekend. On the hard chairs, they work, so that it flashes and sings. Yes, singing, because each needle is a microphone that amplifies the clipping sound, a sound best described as ”metallic rain”.
The light from the spotlights is green and reminiscent of a glass veranda, if it wasn’t for the floor that slopes so troubling. And the sizzling bass runs that intensify as the musician in front of me takes a more firm grip on his guitar. Then it breaks out, a heavy thundering in triple time with singer Ronnie Källbacks growling voice as an engine.
The knitting women don’t move a muscle, raising at the most the glasses on the nose. In the ears they have plugs, some even have big headphones. Past the rows of working women Ronnie Källback strides, knocks his chest and pushes out the chin and in the peripheral crowd, some supporter swings along.
The musicians in the sludge metal band Pyramido are abandoned to themselves, in the same way as the women close in their parallel universe.
Behind Passing Through Metal is the Israeli artist Oreet Ashery, who is currently living in London. In her later works, she has chosen to explore the deaths and preparations for this and it is no coincidence that we are on a sloping plan.
Had it been possible to distinguish the text in Källback’s song, the lyric had given additional weight to the descending apocalypse. Now the words do not go out, but the meaning is so clear in his expressive mini-play. The vibrations in the rhythm settle in the floor and walls and turn the whole room into a sounding resonance box.
A room was clad with plastic walls, on which visitors were invited to paint to thus recite the title of the work: ”The space for freedom is getting smaller and less transparent.”
The apocalyptic roar drowns out in brief moments the sound of the knitting, but the work still continues unabated, and on the floor the knitting is growing. The process is apparently unstoppable and although the vibration from the doom penetrates right into the marrow, life goes on in some way. It’s heartbreaking beautifully so.
Lyssna på dagens 19/4 Kulturnytt i P1 om ”Passing through Metal” Mycket fint inslag av SRs Karin Arbsjö.
– Undergångsmetall möter handarbete i nytt verk på Lilith!
I konstnären Oreet Asherys performanceverk ”Passing Through Metal” sammanförs doom-metalbandet Pyramido med ljudet av 40 personer som stickar. Att gå in i verket ”Passing Through Metal” som visas på Lilith Performance Studio i Malmö i veckan är att omslutas av det förstärkta ljudet av handarbete. I varje sticka finns en mikrofon.
– Tanken är att förstärka kvinnors ofta osynliga arbete – och att föra samman det med ljudet av metal-musik, med ett band som sjunger om undergången, säger Oreet Ashery.
De 40 stickande personerna sitter med huvudena nedböjda – var och en i sin egen värld. Långsamt smyger en gitarrslinga igång, innan Pyramidos sångare Ronnie Källbäck ställer sig mitt bland dem och börjar growla. Ett intressant maktspel uppstår. Ronnie Källbäck hoppas att verket kan ge publiken ett slags rensning som han själv uppskattar. – Det är så det fungerar för mig – musik kan rensa bort känslor eller göra dem djupare.
Last Night what a great feeling – Doom / Metal / Knitting
Now we are on the road to making ”Passing through Metal” magic. Very good focus, very good participants! 40 knitters joint with the doom/sludge metal band Pyramido for the first time.
Tonight we will continue explore and on Thursday we open the doors for the audience to our new performance by Oreet Ashery!
