Last chance and film evening
2/12 2007 Marabou Park Annex
Closing day and film evening Sunday, December 2nd 12-8pm
To sum up the exhibition and Marabou Park's time at Vasagatan 4A, we will be celebrating the first Sunday of advent with glüewein and gingerbread cookies.
We will continue the evening with the last of the series of films and discussions organised in collaboration with Olivia Plender and the Film Club (Petra Bauer and Michele Masucci) about television as a cultural form and political instrument.
Film programme (language: English)
17.00: The Politics of Colour, 18 min by Monika Marklinger and Johan Waerndt.
18.00: Ways of Seeing, ca 60 min by John Berger.
The programme Marabouparken/Filmklubben was made possible by Framtidens kultur, Iaspis and the Municipal Council of Sundbyberg
Read moreExcerpts from the film - "A Crime Against Art"
22/11 2007 Marabou Park Annex
Excerpts from the film - "A Crime Against Art"
The Film Club/Marabou Park
Thursday 22 November at 6.30pm
Marabou Park Annex, Vasagatan 4A, 172 67 Sundbyberg
What is the future possibility of artistic agency? How are art and its institutions instrumentalised? How can these questions be presented and discussed? Can a staged and filmed trial function like a publication? In what way can the entertaining and dramatised television format be used for critical inquiry?
Eco Day
3/6 2007 Marabouparken
Eco Day by Fia Backström is a corporate-friendly get-together with a touch of the green movement from the seventies, which relates ideas on recycling, life-style and "good" ideologies from a marketing perspective. This happening presents poetry, toilet paper, apples, music and much more. Among the musicians who will perform together are Vejde Gustafsson, Henry Moore Selder, Sara Lunden, Uje Brandelius, Niklas Korsell och Maria Eilersen, and others...
Sunday June 3rd between 1pm - 5pm
Marabouparken, Allén 9, Sundbyberg, Sweden
Bring picnic
More imagesHERD INSTINCT 360° - goes Sweden
13/5 2007 Marabou Park Annex
HERD INSTINCT 360° - goes Sweden, performance by Fia Backström, Sunday May 13 at 15 pm-22 pm
In HERD INSTINCT 360° (New York, 2005-2006), the darker sides of human collective behaviour are investigated, in the art world as well as in society at large. During three Sunday afternoons, Backström staged a situation with sacred undertones, including lectures, performances and common meals. In Marabouparken annex, this environment will be partially re-created. On Sunday May 13th Backström will enact her performance HERD INSTINCT 360° followed by a screening of the talks included in the initial gatherings.
Panel discussion organised by the Friends of Marabou Park, Jan 24 6.30 pm
24/1 2007 Marabou Park Annex
Have there been any attempts, through planning,
to either discourage or promote certain
patterns of behaviour in your
neighbourhood? Which/how?
Participants: Peder Alton (architecture critic, Dagens Nyheter), Catharina Gabrielsson (architect), Jerker Söderlind (researcher in city planning at the Royal Institute of Technology, debater) and others.
The talk will be held in Danish artist Jakob Kolding’s exhibition at Marabou Park Annex and take as its vantage point questions raised in Kolding’s art. The discussion will be held in Swedish.
Lecture by Lars Bang Larsen, January 18 6-7 pm
18/1 2007 Marabou Park Annex
"An art activist mass utopia: urbanity and the white cube in Palle Nielsen's 'The Model. A Model for a Qualitative Society'".
The Danish art critic and curator Lars Bang Larsen is currently running a research project on 1960's psychedelic art at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. On January 18 he will give a lecture at Marabou Park Annex about the legendary exhibition 'The Model. A Model for a Qualitative Society' by the Danish artist Palle Nielsen that was shown at the Moderna Muséet in Stockholm in 1968. The lecture will be held in English.
Palle Nielsen, The Model. A Model for a Qualitative Society, 1968
