https://amovementtohold.com amovement Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:01:47 +0000 https://amovementtohold.com en https://amovementtohold.com/About Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:26:51 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/About About Let’s think of a storage room as a place where we keep different objects, where we also leave memories and knowledge, a place where unexpected things can appear. How could we make that stuff available to many? Could we apply workers’ principles of self-organization, solidarity and resistance to cultural creation? A movement to hold is an open archive of artistic representations, which focuses on revisiting immaterial, critical and non hegemonic experiences. Through a series of performances, interventions and presentations we share different creative processes with the aim of rethinking collective creation and criticality. A movement to hold is thus an archive for art in movement and for social movements, a storage room to which it is possible to go in search of ideas and knowledge. A movement to hold is a project inspired by workers’ self-organization and solidarity strategies. Its objective is to promote social and creative networks, while contributing to the democratization of culture and knowledge. Its structure also requires of multiple collaborations, as those established with IASPIS, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala Konstnärsklubb, Uppsala Stadsbiblioteket, Ateljéföreningen Hospitalet, Grafikens Hus, MDT and Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus. Presentations and activations of A Movement to Hold take place in very different places. Both, international and local projects are presented. ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ &nbsp; Production and development 2024/25: Köttinspektionen Dans (Karina Sarkissova and Kajsa Wadhia) &amp; Konst. Project leader: Alba Folgado Visual Identy: Paloma Mariné, Nito Vega Photos: Miguel Martinez, Lyktan, Sam Hultin, Sandi Hilal, Ulrika Flink, Johnny Chang and more. Collaborations: IASPIS, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala Stadsbibliotek, Ateljéföreningen Hospitalet, Uppsala Konstnärsklubb, MDT (Stiftelsen Moderna Dansteatern), Samlade Tankar / Collecting Thoughts (Grafikens Hus), Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, SLU University. The 2024/25 edition has counted with the support of Kulturrådet, IASPIS and Köttinspektionen through Uppsala Kommun.&nbsp; <img width="2089" height="213" width_o="2089" height_o="213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13956baf97bd0dbcd75a6c2ec44c85d6bdb8f70f9c830cd6b8de724f2b191a35/kulturradet_logo.gif" data-mid="158731002" border="0" data-scale="34" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13956baf97bd0dbcd75a6c2ec44c85d6bdb8f70f9c830cd6b8de724f2b191a35/kulturradet_logo.gif" /> https://amovementtohold.com/Calendar Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:27:08 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/Calendar 2025 29 April School of Aging - Ana Gallardo &amp; Alejandra Gatti IASPIS, Maria Skolgata 83, 118 53 (Stockholm) 2024 15 November - 18:00 to 20:00 Rebellbrodöserna Köttinspektionen,&nbsp; Strandbodgatan 3 (Uppsala) 16 November&nbsp; &nbsp;- 14:00 - 15:00 Afrang Nordlöf Malekian &amp; Åse Richard - 15:30 - 16:30 Antoni Hervàs - 17:00 - 18:00 Elena Novakovits &amp; Nefeli Gioti Köttinspektionen,&nbsp; Strandbodgatan 3 (Uppsala) 2023 8 June - 17:00 to 20:00Moving through the archive - Johnny Chang &amp; MayDay RoomsHägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, Riksdalervägen 2 (Stockholm) 25 March (closed session)Diversorium in coversation - With Ar UtckeMDT, Slupskjulsvägen 30, 111 49 (Stockholm) &nbsp; 24 MarchDiversorium - Maria Oliver &amp; Veronica Valentini MDT, Slupskjulsvägen 30, 111 49 (Stockholm) 18 March - 16:00 to 18:00Vård och värde - Gunilla Lundahl, Nawroz Zakholy, Ulrika Flink &amp; Jenny RichardsUppsala Konstnärsklubb, Sysslomansgatan 1 (Uppsala) &nbsp; 18 March - 12:00 to 14:00Al-Madhafah - Sandi Hilal Uppsala Konstnärsklubb, Sysslomansgatan 1 (Uppsala) 17 March - 18:00 to 20:00Eva-Lisa’s Monument - Sam HultinUppsala Konstnärsklubb, Sysslomansgatan 1 (Uppsala) 2022 26 March - 14:00 to 16:00Lyktan - Lars lovén &amp; Ava Rasalpour Ateléföreningen Hospitalet, Ulleråkersvägen 40A (Uppsala) 19 March - 13:00 to 15:00The Non-Functional Library - Mireia RocherUppsala Stadsbibliotek, Svartbäcksgatan 17 (Uppsala) https://amovementtohold.com/Contact Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:27:08 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/Contact Presentations and activations of A Movement to Hold can take place in very different places within Sweden and abroad. Both, international and local projects are presented. Do you want to know more about A movement to hold or host an activation in your space? get in touch:&nbsp; E-mail: folgadoalba@gmail.com https://amovementtohold.com/Storage Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:33:44 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/Storage <img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/211548bad70f067a7c1662936cfc07f405b87b99a86503eb04e229547d012daa/Escuela-de-Envejer_-Museo-Exteresa_-Cdmx_-2016-4.jpg" data-mid="236331985" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/211548bad70f067a7c1662936cfc07f405b87b99a86503eb04e229547d012daa/Escuela-de-Envejer_-Museo-Exteresa_-Cdmx_-2016-4.jpg" /> School of Aging On the violence of growing old and collective resistance. <img width="1710" height="1366" width_o="1710" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/342bb843292c9af0ad2a062dd5ce7fec395fde47f82250dcec43d28053564da5/photo-Elena---Nefeli.jpg" data-mid="229268759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/342bb843292c9af0ad2a062dd5ce7fec395fde47f82250dcec43d28053564da5/photo-Elena---Nefeli.jpg" /> Elena Novakovits and Nefeli Gioti On side-jobs and the broader performance-art-field. <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/087664dfab75e98856b9febba4e89ae8b0a4269ae97cbe16cde180fb0d72428c/Antoni-Hervas-1.jpg" data-mid="229268596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/087664dfab75e98856b9febba4e89ae8b0a4269ae97cbe16cde180fb0d72428c/Antoni-Hervas-1.jpg" /> Under the firelight, the ash shines like glitter A lecture-performance by Antoni Hervàs on shooting starts from Barcelona’s undergrund and sexual equality claims.&nbsp; <img width="3136" height="2055" width_o="3136" height_o="2055" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/706c81814b30783db7e2ca2875aa51bbfd73b99dc02910886c411b502e0abe58/Vy-fran-balkong.jpg" data-mid="229266498" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/706c81814b30783db7e2ca2875aa51bbfd73b99dc02910886c411b502e0abe58/Vy-fran-balkong.jpg" /> The Garden Grieves My Heart A performance and discussion about roots and renovictions. With Afrang Nordlöf Malekian &amp; Åse Richard. <img width="3648" height="2698" width_o="3648" height_o="2698" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c1356a700318ea2df45b6bb010c6f908b54028e9441fb585b0e0c156d59dd27/Brodera-din-solidaritet.jpeg" data-mid="229264419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c1356a700318ea2df45b6bb010c6f908b54028e9441fb585b0e0c156d59dd27/Brodera-din-solidaritet.jpeg" /> Rebellbrodöserna A group of textile creatives, meeting to embroider, informed by reflections on society. <img width="1756" height="642" width_o="1756" height_o="642" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5b0294e07cd8bc8c76385e0c0b8d2c3085d3c3c39fb86a02f7205232c405d4f/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-19.26.18.png" data-mid="191155670" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5b0294e07cd8bc8c76385e0c0b8d2c3085d3c3c39fb86a02f7205232c405d4f/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-19.26.18.png" /> MayDay Rooms An archive, resource and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90db9c1fce861b615f24f3bb409968dd94eeda2f269ff514ff91f04c8d68c08b/IMG_1505.JPG" data-mid="191152605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90db9c1fce861b615f24f3bb409968dd94eeda2f269ff514ff91f04c8d68c08b/IMG_1505.JPG" /> Johnny Chang On situated archives and libraries. An investigation around aesthetics of gathering, and terms and methods of access. <img width="1920" height="1005" width_o="1920" height_o="1005" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5bae484ec9ec2d154a6a918ea83233833b956051aba870d3688ad2af7b39f1c/346278762_221942987240832_854558600185549751_n.jpg" data-mid="178811696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5bae484ec9ec2d154a6a918ea83233833b956051aba870d3688ad2af7b39f1c/346278762_221942987240832_854558600185549751_n.jpg" /> Moving through the archive&nbsp;- Johnny Chang &amp; MayDay Rooms A look into critical archiving and organizing access. Including perspectives on how social movements and marginalised communities can benefit from using disident collections. <img width="3360" height="4704" width_o="3360" height_o="4704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c44ac7636aea621859eada925f08e0020d2d69cc5bfb1b652b7f4d3215c29f02/Half-body_Marta-Thisner.jpg" data-mid="178810975" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c44ac7636aea621859eada925f08e0020d2d69cc5bfb1b652b7f4d3215c29f02/Half-body_Marta-Thisner.jpg" /> Ar Utke &amp; Fake Daughter On collectivity, queerness and creativity as forming elements of a club scene.&nbsp; <img width="5503" height="3669" width_o="5503" height_o="3669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85e9f81f246dfaceb7b7fa456a18cd6f6e0197c6a5dd4c2ad5e245dac0fe919a/cf0a5760_52405836046_o-copia.jpg" data-mid="169865583" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85e9f81f246dfaceb7b7fa456a18cd6f6e0197c6a5dd4c2ad5e245dac0fe919a/cf0a5760_52405836046_o-copia.jpg" /> Diversorium - Maria Oliver &amp; Veronica Valentini A space in which to come together celebrate, and "move" beyond the discrimination that separate our communities. <img width="1988" height="1382" width_o="1988" height_o="1382" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b2c0ab89e112c30f999301fc09acd67e7089c2d6fc0b4c8e34407b86877ad12/Vard-och-Varde_tidkrift.png" data-mid="169032290" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b2c0ab89e112c30f999301fc09acd67e7089c2d6fc0b4c8e34407b86877ad12/Vard-och-Varde_tidkrift.png" /> Vård och Värde - Ulrika Flink Exploring the conditions of care work from a feminist perspective, focusing on different generations, groups, backgrounds and experiences. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc4760aea36757992c2493a3a6f26f218851bb63109e999782bc3eb4ff435135/Sandi-Hilal_Al-Madahfah.jpeg" data-mid="169034296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc4760aea36757992c2493a3a6f26f218851bb63109e999782bc3eb4ff435135/Sandi-Hilal_Al-Madahfah.jpeg" /> Al-Madhafah - Sandi Hilal&nbsp; A work activating the rights of temporary people to host and not to be eternally a guest <img width="626" height="621" width_o="626" height_o="621" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b99df4aeb910a9349d0a4ec9e4d5ab16003e293a07c7c289227af70a75a87ac/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-02-20-a-las-11.27.13.png" data-mid="169028201" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/626/i/5b99df4aeb910a9349d0a4ec9e4d5ab16003e293a07c7c289227af70a75a87ac/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-02-20-a-las-11.27.13.png" /> Eva-Lisa’s Monument - Sam HultinAn ongoing memory work about the lesbian activist and trans pioneer Eva-Lisa Bengtson (1932-2018). <img width="1191" height="591" width_o="1191" height_o="591" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d438a3a79a4bd1c6fc38c8956842c6fa7c1f6e169f3ca855393c97eb4f1179a/Captura-de-pantalla-2022-11-01-a-las-15.21.13.png" data-mid="157583780" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d438a3a79a4bd1c6fc38c8956842c6fa7c1f6e169f3ca855393c97eb4f1179a/Captura-de-pantalla-2022-11-01-a-las-15.21.13.png" /> LyktanAn online magazine reflecting on:&nbsp;Multilingualism, culture, comunication, journalism, social issues. <img width="5184" height="3291" width_o="5184" height_o="3291" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b569dec47a25438e203b376cada0b9389b29dce3d118fcab4d91285a7245f63/2022_Mireia_39.jpg" data-mid="157588119" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b569dec47a25438e203b376cada0b9389b29dce3d118fcab4d91285a7245f63/2022_Mireia_39.jpg" /> The Non-Functional Library - Mireia Rocher An ongoing intervention about: Books, communication, understanding, language, barriers. https://amovementtohold.com/School-of-Aging Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:01:47 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/School-of-Aging <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3403e5f8af0177fb700224b37a285cfb55c2da78335200a4e0a0ad781377975/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-30-at-20.00.23-9.jpeg" data-mid="236329114" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3403e5f8af0177fb700224b37a285cfb55c2da78335200a4e0a0ad781377975/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-30-at-20.00.23-9.jpeg" /> One of the activities around “School of Aging” at IASPIS, Stockholm. School of Aging - Ana Beatriz Gallardo &amp; Alejandra Gatti School of Aging is a project by Ana Gallardo&nbsp;in which the artist explores the violences that society imposes on old people, but also how elderly women have overcome them by collectively engaging in learning, caring, and support activities. She engages in long-term work and conversations with elderly women from different backgrounds, and together they develop activities that relate to their unrealized dreams and life goals. Activations: 29 April 2025 at IASPIS, Stockholm&nbsp; (EN) Workshop: Drawing Through the Other – Copying as a Point of DepartureWith Ana Gallardo &amp; Alejandra Gatti This workshop aims to reflect on the relationship between the original and the copy. We propose to question the concept of originality as a notion that denies collective memory and what has been transmitted or learned through it. What happens when we walk a path already travelled by others? What remains from that experience? What do we take? How do we transform it? The workshop emphasizes “the copy” as a legitimate and meaningful act of creation, while questioning the notion of originality. What does it mean for something to be “original”? What value do we place on origin when every stroke, every form, is inevitably influenced by our past experiences and references? We will also challenge the idea of individual creation, opening up the possibility of thinking and learning as a collective act where copying does not deny creativity, but rather expands it. Because every new creation carries fragments of others—whether visible or not. <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e482559e91b17305c1110c8e1fae1b7a7a61cfbbf6e906b15e6735a471561b2/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-30-at-20.00.23-4.jpeg" data-mid="236329109" border="0" data-scale="41" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e482559e91b17305c1110c8e1fae1b7a7a61cfbbf6e906b15e6735a471561b2/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-30-at-20.00.23-4.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e7e2196f0a28060b1aa62551bf53e2ed67c92ffeffd7df3139aa5473c72ba59/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-30-at-20.00.23-7.jpeg" data-mid="236329112" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e7e2196f0a28060b1aa62551bf53e2ed67c92ffeffd7df3139aa5473c72ba59/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-30-at-20.00.23-7.jpeg" /> Performative reading around School of Aging&nbsp; Ana Gallardo and metaninfas (Alejandra Gatti) Departing from the book that metaninfas have written and edited around School of Aging, Ana Gallardo and&nbsp;Alejandra Gatti&nbsp;will host a performative reading. They will read various excerpts around the word AFFECT and the stories contained in it.&nbsp; Based on this experience, we will talk about the word affect—about having an effect on others, about being affected, about influencing one another. Informally, through the book, they will also talk about School of Aging, about the experience we’ve shared (Ana – metaninfas), about Ana’s work and practice. <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80bcfed68f2ee41c01b8505603d7a04dd819356fff250fc565b9c9d3e9e40825/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-30-at-20.00.23.jpeg" data-mid="236329110" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80bcfed68f2ee41c01b8505603d7a04dd819356fff250fc565b9c9d3e9e40825/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-30-at-20.00.23.jpeg" /> Ana Gallardo is an argentine artist based in Mexico. She addresses with her practice different levels of gender violence and the violence of growing old. In her work she proposes urgent and unique processes that move between invisibility and psychological depth; desperate words and helplessness; discretion and the exposure of the taboo. Gallardo is lecturer at Soma and runs various independent initiatives, such as Imán and La Verdi. Alejandra Gatti is an argentine independent writer, curator and editor. Together with Lorena Fernández she directs metaninfas. Her current work investigates collective writing processes and practices that focus on open, displaced and constantly moving dynamics. She uses editorial work as a tool for action to circulate artistic projects and practices. More information here. https://amovementtohold.com/Elena-Novakovits-and-Nefeli-Gioti Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:20:38 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/Elena-Novakovits-and-Nefeli-Gioti <img width="1710" height="1366" width_o="1710" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5df9fc8dfd34b12874f8632a40d6520b6d9c6cb2d414d58f51b1135d6ee6e6b1/photo-Elena---Nefeli.jpg" data-mid="229268764" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5df9fc8dfd34b12874f8632a40d6520b6d9c6cb2d414d58f51b1135d6ee6e6b1/photo-Elena---Nefeli.jpg" />Bicycles by the entrance door of Köttinspektionen during Nefeli and Elena’s residency. Residency sharingElena Novakovits and Nefeli Gioti A gathering of embodied narratives, anecdotes and photographic imprints of side jobs from or by professionals in the field across divergent geographical contexts, generations and positions. Activation: 16 November 2024 at Köttinspektionen, Uppsala (EN) Elena and Nefeli do not always have the chance to work together. Geographical locations and the need to mantain side-jobs prevent them from meeting and thinking together in a regular basis. It is precisely the struggles for survival intrinsic to their practices, as well as the possibilities of transforming them into embodied narratives, that they have decided to present at Köttinspektionen during a public workshop. Elena Novakovits and Nefeli Gioti share in a playful presentation fragments from their residency period in Köttinspektionen Dans. Starting from the question ‘what dance can and cannot do’, they navigate through different angles towards more explicit forms and modes that this broad question can take. Spending time together to come up with common challenges, they focused on the role, the meaning, and the urgency of side jobs within the precarious dance and the broader performing arts field. A gathering of embodied narratives, anecdotes and photographic imprints of side jobs from or by professionals in the field across divergent geographical contexts, generations and positions. Elena Novakovits is a cultural worker in the fields of dance, choreography and performance: dramaturg, researcher, writer, and curator. She collaborates with independent artists in the context of their artistic trajectory and works in cultural event production. She curates performative, discursive, and educational encounters and platforms. She co-runs the independent curatorial platform undercurrent. She has been selected as a fellow in the fourth cycle of Critical Practice (Made in Yu), where the collective systering was formed. Her research interests focus on ecologies of work, politics of labour, curatorial and dramaturgical practices, and cultural models. Nefeli Gioti (she/her) is a dance researcher, choreographer and dancer who works between Greece and Sweden. She has completed her MA in choreography at the University of Arts in Stockholm as well as her BA studies in Environmental Science in Greece. Her work delves into the narrative operation in the fields of dance and choreography by exploring discursive practices. Website: More information here and here. More information about the activation and the collaboration with Köttinspektionen Dans here. <img width="3468" height="4624" width_o="3468" height_o="4624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2eff0811bd2b3463ecd2471e90c0b7bc59c6c8fbbe54e1ca3fb851bd3a2eaad/20241116_175844.jpg" data-mid="229268913" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2eff0811bd2b3463ecd2471e90c0b7bc59c6c8fbbe54e1ca3fb851bd3a2eaad/20241116_175844.jpg" /> https://amovementtohold.com/Under-the-firelight-the-ash-shines-like-glitter Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:11:55 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/Under-the-firelight-the-ash-shines-like-glitter <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7d453d049ee384cf1584e665e01947adb53180b4b9a92b3bc5f8755f3b9fdf8/Antoni-Hervas-1.jpg" data-mid="229268710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7d453d049ee384cf1584e665e01947adb53180b4b9a92b3bc5f8755f3b9fdf8/Antoni-Hervas-1.jpg" /> Under the firelight, the ash shines like glitterAntoni Hervàs Every night, just before dawn, a humming voice would creep up from the street and enter the room whispering a beautiful song that woke me up. I liked to lie in bed, listening to that voice that lurked in the doorway flickering the flame of a lighter on a piece of foil. The dimmer it got, the more I wished it would never fade. Activation: 16 November 2024 at Köttinspektionen, Uppsala (EN) Antoni Hervàs delves into Barcelona's underground and follows the trail of a group of shooting stars during the 70s and 80s. A time when the pressure of the current political system forced them to withdraw from the stages where they forged their legend while demanding sexual equality. Instead, they took up a continuous (silent) struggle for survival and resistance to disappearance. This passionate story avoids nostalgia, claiming the construction of memory from the current practice of its protagonists. By recomposing vestiges of past actions, an archive of multidisciplinary resistance emerges and just like the people it refers to, it must face a constant struggle for survival. This is an eternal story of love and desire, of strength, life, laughter, wounds, scars, ashes and fire. The construction of a myth that is both local and universal. Antoni Hervàs (Barcelona 1981) studied Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona (2006). His solo exhibitions include “Time Machines. Redrawing the Past and Fabulating the Future in Prison” at Centre d’arts Santa Monica, Barcelona (2024); “The Awakening” at Human Resources, Los Angeles (2023) and at The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2022); “Copacabana” at The RYDER Projects, Madrid (2021); “Sausages” at OKELA, Bilbao (2021); “The Rubbery” at 1646, Den Haag (2017); and “El Misterio de Caviria” at La Capella, Barcelona (2016). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions such as Halfhouse, Barcelona; CCCB, Barcelona; MACBA, Barcelona; Botín Centre, Santander; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; or Fabra I Coats, Barcelona. In addition, he has curated shows and performative events like “La pintura del futur” at MAC, Mataró (2018); “GIMMICK I” &amp; “II” at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona (2017); “Cuero amanecer” with Clara Lopez Menendez at Human Resources, LA (2024); “Mercuri Splash” with David Bestué, for Miró Foundation (2015). Hervàs is currently a fellow at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2024-25) and has been resident at Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles; La Escocesa, Barcelona; Gasworks, London; the 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles; Hangar, Barcelona. In 2016, he won the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona d’Arts Visuals. More information here. More information about the activation and the collaboration with Köttinspektionen Dans here. <img width="915" height="1373" width_o="915" height_o="1373" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bff7cec1875d92bb4625607de99f11907d954add5fcbb1065df1dbe94f263a7/Antoni-Hervas-2.jpg" data-mid="229268711" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/915/i/2bff7cec1875d92bb4625607de99f11907d954add5fcbb1065df1dbe94f263a7/Antoni-Hervas-2.jpg" /> <img width="3468" height="4624" width_o="3468" height_o="4624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/faaf4be17ae9c47f9e12c23b1a48600d9add3fa8954450f69b9046117c3987f8/20241116_153935.jpg" data-mid="229268923" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/faaf4be17ae9c47f9e12c23b1a48600d9add3fa8954450f69b9046117c3987f8/20241116_153935.jpg" /> https://amovementtohold.com/The-Garden-Grieves-My-Heart Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:23:34 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/The-Garden-Grieves-My-Heart <img width="3136" height="2055" width_o="3136" height_o="2055" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/706c81814b30783db7e2ca2875aa51bbfd73b99dc02910886c411b502e0abe58/Vy-fran-balkong.jpg" data-mid="229266642" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/706c81814b30783db7e2ca2875aa51bbfd73b99dc02910886c411b502e0abe58/Vy-fran-balkong.jpg" /> A view of Gränby from the balcony of one of their neigbours. The Garden Grieves my Heart - Afrang Nordlöf Malekian &amp; Åse Richard For many years, residents of Gränby and Kvärngärdet in Uppsala have fought against sharp rent increases and renovictions*. This is also the case in the work “The Garden Grieves my Heart”, where flowers, juniper bushes and other vegetation in the city break the silence to depict tenants’ urban living conditions. Afrang Nordlöf Malekian presents a performative revision of his work and discusses its creative and social background with researcher Åse Richard. *To significantly raise rents, by renovating rental properties, resulting in forced relocation. Activation: 16 November 2024 at Köttinspektionen, Uppsala (EN) During the performance at Köttinspektionen, Afrang Nordlöf Malekian holds a dramatic reading of three fiction stories that he wrote inspired by Åse Richard’s research on renovictions in Uppsala and by the style of Iranian poet&nbsp;Forough Farrokhzad. The stories use personification of bushes and garden elements to connect with the struggles of Gränby’s residents. Both fiction and research are combined in this work. The subsequent discussion between Åse and Afrang analysed the artistic methods that were used for the creation of this sound work and how academic research and art can help each other in connecting critical research with a wider public. Afrang Nordlöf Malekian (b. 1995) is an Iranian-Swedish artist, and in his practice he listens to the dreams and aspirations of silenced, muted, or unnoticed creators, actors, and makers of history. Nordlöf Malekian’s work seeks to explore how the language of these unrealized utopias reappears, returns, and transforms into an evasive, flexible, and scattered force that advances collective endeavors. Through performances and installations grounded in archival research, he creates works that provide a space for these quiet dreams to be heard, expanded, and, ideally, realized. The border between fiction and history blurs as Nordlöf Malekian strives to create documents and performances that he wishes had existed in a specific historical context, and through which he aims to generate alternative futures. Afrang Nordlöf Malekian is represented by Moderna Museet, the Public Art Agency Sweden, Botkyrka municipality, Uppsala Art Museum, and the Arab Image Foundation Library. He has previously conducted artistic research at the Arab Image Foundation and was artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Åse Richard currently holds a position as a PhD candidate in Human Geography at Uppsala University. In her dissertation, she engages with the ongoing renovation of the Swedish so-called Million Program. Based on quantitative and deep ethnographic material collected throughout the renovation of the multifamily rental housing neighbourhood of Gränby in Uppsala, where she also lives, her work engages in the gap between lived experiences of large-scale renovations of rental housing and its representations in Swedish policy and debate. In her thesis, she argues that to attain a just housing renewal, the active inclusion of the knowledge and experiences of people directly affected by housing policies, or the lack of housing policies as it is in the processes of housing renewal, are required. Based on her research, Åse frequently arranges city walks with interested groups. She is a co-publisher of the handbook Renovräkt! and is part of the research collective Fundament, which recently published the book Kris i Bostadsfrågan (Verbal 2023). More information here. More information about the activation and the collaboration with Köttinspektionen Dans here. <img width="3468" height="4624" width_o="3468" height_o="4624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57f80439254dff2bd6b39690196566b187208ba421a9a173f8ee1c82f7ff8b40/20241116_125547.jpg" data-mid="229267215" border="0" data-scale="36" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57f80439254dff2bd6b39690196566b187208ba421a9a173f8ee1c82f7ff8b40/20241116_125547.jpg" /> <img width="3468" height="4624" width_o="3468" height_o="4624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e06b2cbb5b00b50afe7e081a1be65cc4e05d2d33fba738be23d6a41d7d708a16/20241116_142608.jpg" data-mid="229267218" border="0" data-scale="36" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e06b2cbb5b00b50afe7e081a1be65cc4e05d2d33fba738be23d6a41d7d708a16/20241116_142608.jpg" /> https://amovementtohold.com/Rebellbrodoserna Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:44:09 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/Rebellbrodoserna <img width="3648" height="2698" width_o="3648" height_o="2698" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c1356a700318ea2df45b6bb010c6f908b54028e9441fb585b0e0c156d59dd27/Brodera-din-solidaritet.jpeg" data-mid="229264890" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c1356a700318ea2df45b6bb010c6f908b54028e9441fb585b0e0c156d59dd27/Brodera-din-solidaritet.jpeg" /> One of the embroderies in support of Palestine shown at Köttinspektionen. Rebellbrodöserna A group of textile creatives, meeting to embroider informed by reflections on society, democracy, climate-, species-, and environmental crisis, from an ecofeminist perspective. We value community building and care, for each other and all life on our planet. We are no embroidery virtuosos, but we want to challenge and reshape the world using thread and needle. Activation: 15 November 2024 at Köttinspektionen, Uppsala&nbsp; (EN) Rebellbrodöserna invited the public to a workshop where they wanted to embroider their solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Embroidery allows space both for processing emotions and expressing different messages. Gathering around embroidery, allows to create a safe space for collectivity and reflection. The aim of the workshop was not to learn advanced embroidery, but to engage in political and justice conversations with peers while embroider.&nbsp; More information here. More information about the activation and the collaboration with Köttinspektionen Dans&nbsp;here. https://amovementtohold.com/MayDay-Rooms Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:14:36 +0000 amovement https://amovementtohold.com/MayDay-Rooms <img width="1756" height="642" width_o="1756" height_o="642" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5b0294e07cd8bc8c76385e0c0b8d2c3085d3c3c39fb86a02f7205232c405d4f/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-19.26.18.png" data-mid="191155103" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5b0294e07cd8bc8c76385e0c0b8d2c3085d3c3c39fb86a02f7205232c405d4f/Screenshot-2023-09-18-at-19.26.18.png" /> One of the protest-documents rescued and kept by MayDay Rooms. MayDay Rooms MayDay Rooms is archive, resource and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories. They are based in London.&nbsp; Activation: 8 June 2023 at Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus (Stockholm) in collaboration with Grafikens Hus (EN) During this session Lamya Sadiq (from MayDay Rooms) and Johnny Chang discussed how knowledge can be collected from informal, critical and dissident perspectives. MayDay Rooms aims to safeguard histories and documents of radicalism and resistance by connecting them with contemporary struggle and protest, and by developing new free forms of dissemination and collective self-education. Their building contains an archive of historical material linked to radical history. Alongside their material archives, they create and maintain digital archives and databases of these histories, with the hope that these traces of the past might freely be taken up and put to use in present struggles. As well as housing an archive, their building functions as an organizing space for activists, social movements, troublemakers and radicals. They also run a full programme of events including film screenings, poetry readings, archiving workshops, historical talks, discussions, reading groups and social nights. More information here. More information about the activation and the collaboration with Collecting Thoughts (Grafikens Hus) here. <img width="3468" height="4624" width_o="3468" height_o="4624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b42932fe298078dee515eaa7ea2d2a1c221e1728f72ee4e5c444a881c98b6c2d/20230608_180922.jpg" data-mid="191155437" border="0" data-scale="76" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b42932fe298078dee515eaa7ea2d2a1c221e1728f72ee4e5c444a881c98b6c2d/20230608_180922.jpg" /> Lamya Sadik during the presentation at Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, 2023.