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Saturday, December 15, 2018
Time: 7 PM
Free admissionWe celebrate Testbild!’s new record Stad (released by Kalligrammofon), with live music by Testbild! and Sonores.
Testbild!’s new album was recorded at Sonores Studios in Gothenburg, deep inside a hidden shelter where saxophones and mellotrons may howl and buzz as much as they want without the rest of the city hearing. Van Der Graaf Generator and Nürnberg 47 are lurking behind the facades, the flashing and crackling of stars falling down into a dark pond at night.
Sonores is a trio based on the west coast of Sweden as well as the west coast of the United States of America. They play deconstructed Swedish psych rock, based around tape collages and sample techniques rather than classic rock instrumentation. ‘Dance‘ is their first album in thirteen years, recorded in their own studio in Gothenburg. It straddles the previously unexplored line between oddly dense and dark foundations and light vocal pop sensibilities.
Thanks to Skånes konstförening for technical support
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Friday, November 9, 2018
Time: 5–8 PM (with the artist present)Read more under exhibitions
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Saturday, September 29, 2018
Time: 6 PM–midnight (Malmö Gallery Night 2018)Read more under exhibitions
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Invanda mönster och överklivningar (accustomed patterns and oversteps)
– new sound pieces and texts by Pär ThörnSaturday, June 9, 2018
Time: 3.30–5 PM (performance at 4 PM)
Free admissionWriter and musician Pär Thörn performs a set of mainly collage-based text/sound works for voice, electronics and objects. Obvious influences are: Dadaism, H.P. Lovecraft, Negativland and the Internet. Length: circa 30 minutes.
Pär Thörn is generally considered one of the most interesting and influential contemporary writers in Sweden. He often works conceptually with found material, but this approach is put aside for a more associative mode of storytelling. In his music, he combines radio, noise, field recordings and sinus tones.
The event also includes the release of Pär Thörn’s new fanzine Den yttersta dagen (Judgement Day). A publication with, among other things, unpublished short stories, interviews and poetry.
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Friday, May 4, 2018
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KRETS is closed during Easter. Welcome back on April 4!
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Friday, March 23, 2018
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Saturday, February 10, 2018
Time: 2–4 PM
Free admission× Tina Carlsson
× Ockie Basgül Dogan
× Mari LagerquistRelease of Tina Carlsson’s book Ellerine sağlık, which revolves around the figure of mother, or anne in Turkish. With words and images, Carlsson illuminates the repetition and quiet of the everyday chores and shared family life of the home. Readings in Swedish and Turkish by Tina Carlsson and Ockie Basgül Dogan.
Mari Lagerquist presents her book Native Plants, Invasive Plants, which revolves around an herbarium in Cairo, a community garden in Gothenburg, and the question “Cannot a plant become native with time?”
Conversation between Tina Carlsson, Mari Lagerquist and Matilda Plöjel (Sailor Press) about the books, and subjects such as belonging, categorizations and their potential dissolving.
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Saturday, February 17, 2018
Time: 2–3.30 PM
Free admission× Maria Hedlund
× Ida Börjel
× Carl Lindh
× Magnus ThierfelderMaria Hedlund talks about her work with Hyttödammen, a project whose point of departure is a collection of insects from the early 1960s. Together with Some Kind of Knowledge and Dissolve, Hyttödammen forms a triptych of books that revolve around collecting, registering, and categorizing – but also around the states of transition and the shifting of layers of time and narrative. Reading from the book Hyttödammen by the poet Ida Börjel.
A listening exercise called Ten sheets of paper will be led by Carl Lindh, Magnus Thierfelder and Matilda Plöjel, together with seven volunteers. An exploration of the material and immaterial aspects of a book, and at the same time a book production in real-time.
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Saturday, February 24, 2018
Time: 2–3.30 PM
Free admission× Anna Nordquist Andersson
× Johanna LewengardAnna Nordquist Andersson has in many of her works explored the photographic gaze and gender coding, which is also the case in her new book Black Chamber. In a conversation with Johanna Lewengard, Professor of Graphic Design at Konstfack (the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm), the artist will discuss issues of power and gaze, visual symbols and codes, and strategies for how feminist theories can be put into practice.
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Saturday, January 27, 2018
Time: 7–10 PM
Free admissionDomino Compass is a new work by Malmö-based artist Maria E Harrysson (b. 1979). The work will be on view at KRETS for three hours, and will be ritually activated by the artist before the visitors. Afterwards there will be no traces left in the room.
As in many of her previous works, Harrysson explores the relation between human and nature based on notions of a forthcoming apocalypse. Domino Compass is a temporary sculptural installation that consists of organic shapes and processes revolving around opposites such as light and darkness, the natural and the articifial, the controlable and the non-controlable. By studying and manipulating scientific experiments and different ages’ conceptions of the world, metaphorical chain reactions and chains of consequences are created, which set the solid in motion. How does our perception of the world affect the world?
