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December 22 – January 22 (2013)
Each year around Christmas and New Years, KRETS shows different art projects in the big window facing Kristianstadsgatan. This year we have invited Andrew Martin Scott, who runs Needles & Pens in San Francisco (together with Breezy Culbertson). Scott publishes books and zines, and also works with drawing, photography and sign painting.
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Time: 17.00
Free admissionThose familiar with the avant-garde scene in Malmö will find a well-known chin behind the acronym DGK. Daniel Gylling Kacz was for around a decade active as a guitarist in the noise rock-/free improv-collective Fria Konstellationen. He has also been doing some acclaimed performances under the moniker Daniel Anka and as a bingo announcer at KRETS. DGK makes music mainly using guitars and different sound-generating devices. The result is a beautiful noise somewhere in between Keiji Haino and Florian Fricke. Expect more guitars and amplifiers than numbers of people on stage.
Newly dubbed cassettes in maximized cases will be for sale.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Time: 18.00
Free admissionKalligrammofon invites you to a release party for new EPs by Sternpost and Jonas Fust. Two strictly limited (only 99 copies of each) delux-singles with poster covers and hand-stamped labels. The evening will include mulled wine, listening to records, mingle and some live music.
About Sternpost:
“Sternpost is a dive into a crystal clear deep ocean grave, a journey on a trembling ocean, where the horizon has been erased and where the sky merges with the wave tops. A creeking ship, a wrecked sail.” Sternpost is Petter Herbertsson’s (Testbild!) new solo project.Listen here:
www.soundcloud.com/kalligrammofon/sternpost-sunken-ships-aheadAbout Jonas Fust:
Jonas Fust was born in 1988 and lives in Malmö. His musical expression has its methodological and aestethic roots in hip hop and dub, and contains experimental rhythms, harmonies and soulful voice arrangements. This is the bittersweet disco pop of the future, a dream state that catches the unordinarity of everyday life.Listen here:
www.soundcloud.com/kalligrammofon/jonas-fust-bulb-in-dustAbout Kalligrammofon:
Kalligrammofon is a label for pop music, experimental music and experimental pop music. Established in 2006 and based in Malmö. Previous releases include works by Testbild!, Death And Vanilla, V. Sjöberg New Jazz Ensemble and others.More information:
www.kalligrammofon.comThanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
Time: 19-22 (with the artist present)
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Time: 19-22 (with the artist present)
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Time: 18-00
KRETS will be open during Malmö Gallery Night. The gallery will be open as usual (12-15) as well as in the evening (18-00). Current exhibition is ZZzzzZZzzz by Shoboshobo (FR). Read more under exhibitions.More information:
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
Time: 18-21
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Time: 19.00
Free admissionSix streams of pure, immaterial information, channeled through one host. Performed in front of a local audience in Malmö, Sweden. Captured on video for remote viewing. Content providers:
Audun Mortensen, Magic for beginners
FAUX/real, after life: she ded
Femke Herregraven, Offshore shadows and other twilights
Linda Spjut, Turtles all the way downMartin Kohout, Useless Gestures
Press, skin deep
+ Dj Skype
Local presentation:
Thursday, August 30, 2012
19.00
KRETS
Malmö, SverigeRemote view:
From Saturday, September 1, 2012
www.pwr-hou.se”Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to witness a materialization. That means that you will see something appear in space that was not previously there. At first it will appear as a vaporous form, but finally it will be a solid body, which anyone present may feel and handle – and, for example, shake hands with. For this body will be in human shape. It will be a real man or woman – which, I can’t say – but a man or woman without known antecedents. If, however, you demand from me an explanation of the origin of this materialized form – where it comes from, whence the atoms and molecules composing its tissues are derived – I am unable to satisfy you. I am about to produce the phenomenon; if anyone can explain it to me afterward, I shall be very grateful… That is all I have to say.”
A project by PWR.
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August 22 – 26, 2012
Time: 17-20 (Wednesday), 14-17 (Friday) & 12-15 (Saturday-Sunday)This week, KRETS shows a collection of futuristic instruments created during last weekend’s workshop with the artists Tomas Adolfs, Staffan Björk and Monica Tormell. The exhibition is a collaboration between the following participants:
Rasmus Alkestrand
Karolina Arija
Marcus Bader
Olof Broström
Elin Brynås
Andreas Kurtsson
Thor Rasmussen
Anders WieslanderFörslag till nationalhymn ett tusen år från nu includes 15 different instruments and a video work. Come and play the instruments of the future!
Thanks to the Culture Department of Malmö, Skåne Regional Council, the Swedish Arts Council and Folkuniversitetet.
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August 18 – 19, 2012
Time: 11-19What will the national hymn sound like one thousand years from now? Will it be played on already existing instruments – which even today are over hundred years old – or will it be played on electronic, anatomic or mechanic instruments not yet invented? In the workshop, the participants will confront these questions, followed by a task to construct their own instruments. These will later be part of an ensemble-based installation in which visitors can perform and present their own suggestions of national hymns for the next millennium.
Day 1: The workshop starts with a short introduction and continues with instrument-making using found materials.
Day 2: The participants will present their constructions and collaboratively build an installation in the gallery space.
The workshop will be held in Swedish and English.
Thanks to the Culture Department of Malmö, Skåne Regional Council and the Swedish Arts Council.
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August 8 – 12, 2012
Time: 17-20 (Wednesday), 14-17 (Friday) & 12-15 (Saturday-Sunday)This week KRETS shows zombies made during last weekend’s workshop with Shoboshobo. For three days, body parts and different attributes were constructd in papier-mâché and other materials. Now, we will present the zombies in an exhibition made in collaboration with the following participants:
Hugo Hernqvist
Peter Larsson
Jacob Lindell
Linus Lindell
Antje Nilsson
Daniel Nilsson
Johan Sjöstedt
Ebba Tham
Anna Wagner
Nico Wagner
+ ShoboshoboThanks to the Culture Department of Malmö, Skåne Regional Council and the Swedish Arts Council.
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August 4 – 6, 2012
Time: 12-17Shoboshobo returns to KRETS to build zombies for three days. Together with the participants, he will construct characters in papier-mâché –pimped with ping-pong eyes, paint and clothes. A special zombie will also be made, with a built-in sensor that reacts to different sounds as someone approaches. These sounds will be recorded during the workshop, which will be followed by an exhibition made in collaboration between the participants and the artist.
Day 1: Short introduction of techniques and plans, after which the participants will construct arms, legs, heads and other body parts in papier-mâché.
Day 2:The body parts have dried and the participants will assemble their own zombies, and also paint and dress these.
Day 3: The participants will produce an exhibition at KRETS together with the artist.
The workshop will be held in English.
Thanks to the Culture Department of Malmö, Skåne Regional Council and the Swedish Arts Council.
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July 2 – 8, 2012
Time: 17-20 (Wednesday), 14-17 (Friday) & 12-15 (Saturday-Sunday)This week KRETS shows pop-up work from the weekend’s workshop. Come and discover three-dimensional paper worlds with imagery stretching from abstract futuristic skylines to modern fairy tales. The exhibition will also include two mechanical showcases presenting pop-up work made by the leaders Lena Ignestam and Christina Bredahl Duelund.
Thanks to the Culture Department of Malmö, Skåne Regional Council and the Swedish Arts Council.
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June 30 – July 1, 2012
Time: 10-16The artists Lena Ignestam and Christina Bredahl Duelund will hold a two-day workshop in pop-up – a paper technique that is used for e.g. birthday cards and illustrated books. The participants will also receive a folder with instructions, with texts and images, and a list of literature and helpful links.
Day 1: Introduction of the basic techniques, tools and materials used for pop-up making. Presentation of the different steps, where the participants will learn techniques such as folding principles, different angles, cut-outs, big V, pivots, the cube and floating layer.
Day 2: The participants will get a deeper understanding about the techniques and work under guidance to make their own pop-ups.
The workshop will be held in Swedish and Danish.
Thanks to the Culture Department of Malmö, Skåne Regional Council and the Swedish Arts Council.
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Juny 13 – 17, 2012
Time: 17-20 (Wednesday), 14-17 (Friday) & 12-15 (Saturday-Sunday)This week KRETS shows the experimental and colorful stamp portraits made by Daniel Frost and his workshop participants.
Thanks to the Culture Department of Malmö, Skåne Regional Council and the Swedish Arts Council.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Time: 12-17Together with illustrator and artist Daniel Frost from London, KRETS invites you to a workshop about stamp-making. The stamps will also be used to make portraits and characters on paper, which will be shown in the gallery the following week. It will be a little messy, so dress accordingly.
The workshop will be held in English.
Thanks to the Culture Department of Malmö, Skåne Regional Council and the Swedish Arts Council.
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Time: 19-21
Free admissionThe performance starts at 19.30. Also: books, cassettes and refreshments.
Performance:
Presentation and contextualization of Pär Thörn’s new book, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (alphabetisch).Playback and release of the cassette Inympningar i Göteborgs poesifestival 2011 with work by Peder Alexis Olsson and Pär Thörn, CO-OP, Hanna Hartman, In Edit Mode Press, Imri Sandström, Lina Selander and Andrzej Tichý.
About the book:
In Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (alphabetisch), Pär Thörn sorts all the words in Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s classic novel from 1774 in alphabetical order, and presents these in a fractured style. The result is a broken narrative order, a graphical score and a strictly bound visual text, that highlights the individual word and the typography’s materiality, rather than the actual content. This is a conceptual work thematizing readability, nationality, the legacy of typography and literary autonomy, in relation to the extended field of art.The cassette Inympningar i Göteborgs poesifestival 2011 is a documentation of a micro festival in Gothenburg in 2011, compiled by Pär Thörn and Peder Alexis Olsson, and containing audio work that were played prior to their performances at Gothenburg poetry festival (2011).
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Time: 19-22
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Time: 19.00
Free admission“Analog techno, digital folk music, Latin kraut, body soul… well, something like that. The Beast is back and has left its electric organ behind, but don’t worry, the grinding beats and the monotone loops are still there – but now we prefer synthesizers, effects, percussion and African thumb pianos. Put on your dancing shoes and dress comfy, or sit grumpy in a corner, everything works.” – Beast
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Time: 12-17
Last day for signing up is March 25KRETS arranges a one-day workshop with Canadian artist Amy Lockhart, who is currently exhibiting at the gallery. For one afternoon we invite you to explore the basic techniques of stop-motion animation. The workshop starts with a presentation by the artist, including a screening of some of her own animations. After this, the participants will be given an introduction of techniques and materials in order to start making their own collages, paperfigures and other objects, which will eventually be put together in a collaborative animated short film.
Last day to sign up is March 25 and the workshop charge is 100 SEK, which includes material, coffee and sandwiches. For questions and to sign up, contact us on krets@krets.info. Nb! Limited seats.
About the artist:
Amy Lockhart (b. 1975) is based in Canada where she works as a filmmaker, animator and artist. Ladies is her first solo exhibition outside of Canada and includes a series of paintings, drawings and sculptures that circles around mass-produced conceptions of body ideal and identity. Throughout Lockhart’s practice – from working processes to materials and aesthetics – there are clearly articulated hints to what is often referred to as low- or popular culture. Lockhart’s films have been shown on various international film festivals and received awards for its unique expression. Lockhart is currently working on her feature film Dizzler in MASKHERAID – a story about a superstar that can shoot laser from her eyes and who returns to her hometown for revenge, after having spent some time in rehab.Watch the trailer: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1352934276/dizzler-in-maskheraid
More here:
The Collagist (2009): www.vimeo.com/28058608
Walk for Walk (2005): www.youtu.be/t0u9m4DAuLE
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Saturday, March 23, 2012
Live: Death And Vanilla & Jonas Fust
Time: 20.00
Free admissionIn March, Malmö-based duo Death And Vanilla release their debut album on Kalligrammfon. We celebrate this with a party at KRETS!
About the bands:
Death And Vanilla’s dreamy pop music draws inspiration from the psychedelic pop music of the 60s, analog electronic pioneer work and more and less marginalized film music. Spooky samplings, vibraphonette and moog are central parts of the sound, always with an obvious fascination for the super natural and mystical.Jonas Fust has made music under various aliases and published a bunch of digital releases. With roots in hiphop and dub, Jonas moves freely between different musical expressions. Later this year he will release an EP on Kalligrammofon.
More information:
www.kalligrammofon.comThanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Time: 19-22 (with the artist present)
Read more under exhibitions.In connection to the exhibition, KRETS arranges an animation workshop with the artist. The workshop will take place on Sunday, April 1, and include screenings of Lockhart’s animated work. More information here: Animation workshop with Amy Lockhart.
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Time: 14.30-16
Free admissionThis Saturday, sound artist Per Svensson releases his new album on the Malmö-based record label Eter. This will be celebrated with an afternoon concert at KRETS! The album – The Forces of Nature & The Butterfly Effect – is a continuation of his installation in the exhibition Botanic Sounds II in Gothenburg (2009), in which he explored the butterfly effect and the dynamics of nature.
About Per Svensson:
Born in 1965 in Gothenburg and has a long history within performance-, installation- and sound art. Svensson’s work often deals with themes such as the unknown, alchemy and the ecological interaction between human and nature. He has been exhibited at e.g. L.A.C.E. (Los Angeles), Heliosturm (Cologne), The Modern Museum of Art (Stockholm), The Gothenburg Museum of Art (Gothenburg) and Lusaka National Museum (Zambia).About Eter:
Malmö-based record label with a focus on contemporary sound art, electron music and various experimentalia. With an aim to let the sound pieces extend into the physical room, Eter releases handmade records in limited editions.Thanks to Folkuniversitetet.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Time: 19-22 (with the artist present)
Live: Södra Innerstadens Strängorkester
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