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Dafna Maimon’s work can be described as a series of rebellious emotional landscapes; something they depict, but also something that they are. Her works ranging between performance, video and installation scrutinise the ways in which we handle recollections, stereotypes, and traumatic experiences into narrative settings that render—and allow for a vivid experience, while sketching out possible strategies of subversion and self-empowerment. Maimon’s work, in particular, deconstructs patriarchal structures and plays with them through exaggeration, substitution, and re-contextualization. The study of diverse forms of community and belongingness is characteristic of her work; as is the realization of time-consuming, collaborative, and immersive creative processes. Selected exhibitions and performances include Kunst-Werke (Berlin, DE), Kim Center Contemproary Art, (Riga, LV), PS1 Moma (NYC, US), Jewish Museum (Paris, FR), Gallery Wedding (Berlin, DE), 1646, (Den Haag, NL), Lilith Performance Studio (Malmö, SE), SPACE Gallery, (Portland, Maine), Kunstverein Braunschweig (DE), CCA Uzajdowski (Warsaw, PL) SIC Space (Helsinki, FI).
Olav Westphalen
Is a German-American artist living in Stockholm. His work often looks like games, entertainment or experiments. He usually aims at the contradictions and cultural blind spots of his own tribe. His output occupies both sides of the HI-LO divide, producing mass-media comedy and cartoons while showing in museums and galleries such as The Whitney Museum, ICA London, The Swiss Institute NY, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein. His work is collected by the Dallas Museum, Centre Pompidou, Moderna Museet, MoMA, New York and others. Book publications include: “Helden und Geschichten,” Carlsen, 2009; “Ü” (with Dan Graham), OCA, 2009; “24 Artworks,” Shelf, 2010, “Dysfunctional Comedy” (with Livia Paldi), Sternberg Press, 2016. He is a professor of Drawing at Hochschule für Künste, Bremen. Together with Marcus Weimer he publishes cartoons and comics under the pseudonym Rattelschneck.
Lars-Erik Hjärtström Lappalainen is a philosopher and art critic living in Skarpnäck, Sweden.
Lydia Röder
Leben und Sterben
Palliative Turn Art
Since the beginning of my professional career, I have been working with individuals at the end of their lives. My experience comprises basic medical care as well as psychosocial and spiritual support.
What I learnt about live at the end of live, about becoming and then passing away, I try to communicate in workshops, courses and as a grief counsellor. Through the use of spiritual practices, such as Mindfulness, meditation, Yoga and playing the body tambura, I would like to introduce unfamiliar experiences, beyond our everyday perceptions.
What are the possibilities to transcend boundaries and to set things in motion?
Can we find beauty again and again and can we learn to understand ourselves better through misfortune? Can there be deep encounters even in a state of suffering? What pathways open up to us, connecting and uniting different worlds? I have been preoccupied with these questions all my life, but they are still new to me.
This existential search guides me and the participants through all my courses. It often starts with questions like “where do we find sources of strength in our everyday?” and leads to thoughts about what spirituality might look like at the end of life.
In each of my workshops, whether it is “Chair Yoga” or “Dying, Death and Grief”, it is important to me that the individuals with whom I work get the sense that they are more than they think they are. There still is human beauty alongside human suffering, yet they are both somehow transformed.
I believe that it is foremost a connection with something larger than myself that unites what I do. Something related to transcendence. The gong, the body tampura and the singing bowls appear to not be entirely from this world. Their sounds rather seem to come originate from the entire universe. In meditation and mindfulness, we can enter states that I would not locate here, in this reality.
Dying, too, is a transition from one world to another. Maybe I am somewhat of a traveler from one world to another.
John-Luke Roberts is an absurdist comedian, writer and performer. He has performed his solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, and around the UK, where he is based. His latest show “It Is Better” is being released on vinyl later this year.
Photo © Natasha Pszenicki
Kasia Fudakowski, Born in London, UK 1985, lives/works in Berlin. Fudakowski’s diverse and playful practice, which includes sculpture, performance, writing and film, explores social riddles through material encounters, surreal logic and comic theory. Her participation and interest in the Palliative Turn centers around the role of humor in reaching a greater understanding of the concept of The End, and finding a new artistic language and behavior, which mitigates suffering, gives pleasure, and generates joy wherever possible, while sharing the horrors of darkness.
Photo © Ayami Awazuhara.
Simon Blanck, born 1986 in Trollhättan Sweden, lives and works in Stockholm Sweden. Working mainly with photography and the favourite subject is monuments of death especially mausoleums. He is editor in chief of and sole contributor to the magazine Nekrofilt läckage (Necrophiliac Leakage), a magazine on death culture.
Sascia Reibel is a graphic and product designer. She is part of the Shortnotice Studio, which she co-founded in 2019. She is committed in projects in the field of culture, art and education. She understands her role as a graphic designer as that of a curator of content, and tries to work in the group with to be redefined for each subsequent project.
Mathias Lempart is a Polish-German artist living in Berlin. He is co-founder of the graphic design studio Shortnotice and currently docent at the Karlsruhe University of Education. His practice is highly collaborative and was recently exhibited at Badischer Kunstverein, MAK Vienna, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and Nida Art Colony.
Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography and public projects. Her video “Accent Elimination” was included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. In 2016 Katchadourian created “Dust Gathering”, an audio tour on the subject of dust, for MoMA. A traveling solo museum survey entitled “Curiouser” opened in 2017 at the Blanton Museum of Art, with an accompanying monograph. Katchadourian is Full Professor of Practice on the faculty of NYU Gallatin. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery and Pace Gallery and lives between Berlin and Brooklyn.
Annemarie Goldschmidt is the owner of the Danish School of Pedagogical Kinesiology. She is a specialized Kinesiologist; DK Kinesiolog RAB, experienced Kinesiologist with a demonstrated history of working in the alternative medicine industry. Skilled in Bodywork, Holistic Health, Healing Touch and Chakra Balancing.
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