Pre-register
Pre-registration is needed due to limited seats.
About the event
To Perform Body is the sixth seminar in the series that was initiated by the program Textile – Body – Space at HDK-Valand, Campus Steneby. This year the seminar is a collaboration between HDK-Valand, AgeCap, IASPIS/The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Konsthantverkscentrum, and with support from Göteborgs Slöjdförening.
What is old? And how do we work with ageing in the fields of art, craft, film and performance? On Thursday March 31st the seminar To Perform Body will discuss ageing in relation to artistic design with some of the most prominent researchers, scholars and artists in the field. The seminar provides examples of how artists worked with ageing as a theme - the transience of material, and its significance
for memories and stories. The older body’s capability and the view of ageing and the importance of culture for healthy ageing are other aspects that are addressed.
The seminar discusses how art and culture perform body, but also discusses and makes visible the bodies that perform, make and participate in art and culture. The seminar to Perform Body is free but pre-registration is needed due to limited number of seats. There will be a free bus to Dals Långed for you who travel from Gothenburg. Email tpb@gu.se to register and please write if you want to join the bus. You will receive a confirmation email with all the details. We kindly ask you to register asap and latest March 27th.
Program
07:30 bus departures Gothenburg*
09:45 Registration at Samlingssalen, Campus Steneby
10:15 Introduction by Maja Gunn
10:30 Ingmar Skoog
11:00 Suzanne Osten
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Amir Parsa
14:15 Marja-Leena Sillanpää
15:15 Takao Momiyama
16:00 Discussion
Speakers
- Suzanne Osten, award-winning director and writer of theatre and film.
- Amir Parsa, Founding Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Curator of Individualized Learning at Pratt Institute in New York.
- Ingmar Skoog, director for the Centre for Ageing and Health AGECAP.
- Takao Momiyama, textile artist.
- Marja-Leena Sillanpää, interdisciplinary and process-oriented Swedish artist.
Moderator: Maja Gunn
Find your way
There will be a free bus to Dals Långed for you who travel from Gothenburg.
It will leave Gothenburg at 7:30 and will arrive in Gothenburg again at 19:30.
If you want to drive yourself, you will get directions in the confirmation email.
Simpler lunch is available for sale.
