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Where is FOLK08?

The project is a Swedish follow-up of the international art project FOLK-05, arranged by Galleri Lista Fyr, Norway, in cooperation with TCG Nordica, China, and the ArtsNordica Network during the summer of 2005 (www.gallerilistafyr.com).

Contemporary art. Exhibitions, seminaries, workshops, video art, poetic documentary film, poetry nights, outdoor cinema, youth project, music, dance performances…

Where?

In Mariannelund, strategically located 300 km from Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö; on the border of Kalmar-, Jönköping- and Östergötland counties.(check the map)

For whom?

For everyone who lives in Astrid Lindgren’s native district. For tourists travelling through, visitors with a special interest in art and culture or just curious FOLK in general. For young people from Kiruna in the north to Malmö in the south, who have been involved in international culture exchange projects in Kunming, China. For especially invited Chinese young people… For invited artists and culture personages from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, China, Cambodia and England…

About what?

About life and love in different cultures and different languages. About global responsibility and influencing the environment. About consumption and identity. About how the small things we do can make a big difference! FOLK-08 local global invites to communication and understanding among people through the arts.

Programme

Friday 27.6
20:00 Music Concert !
Singersong writer Ingemar Olsson, Sweden and others.
Centrumkyrkan, Mariannelund

After the concert special welcome party for former Culture Course students and participators in Young Poetry!, Young Music! and Young Dance! (Rhythm of Language)

Saturday 28.6
The railway station, Mariannelund
14:00 Opening Ceremony of FOLK-08.
TCG Nordica GM Wu Yue Rong, Kunming, Stefan Torssell, Mariannelund Culture Academy, and Alfred Vaagsvold, artist/curator, Norway, introduce artists Li Ji, Luo Fei, Dou Yu, Wang Han, Sha Sha, Shi Zhijie and Chen Lingjie. A special welcome to Fan Jinhua, from the Yunnan Province Culture Department…Dance! by Liu Minjia and Chen Jia, previous students at Yunnan Arts Institute Dance Department, Kunming, together with dancers from dance company Avensis. Musician Huang Shan, from Kunming, plays Erhu.

15:00 Mariannelund Exhibition Tour.
Introduction to the exhibitions by Cecilia Nelson, art pedagogue and for 20 years director of the Art Exhibition Hall in Lund. Alfred Vaagsvold introduces the outdoor installation “Tsunami”. Göran Sahlberg introduces “Sustainable Love!”. Chun Lee von Gurt introduces “Xylon!”

17:00 and onwards: Sofia Restaurant in Mariannelund serves Chinese food

21:00 Concert in Herrgårdsparken (we do not count on rain!) Per-Erik Hallin and young musicians from Malmö, Stockholm and Gothenburg who took part in the 2005 Nordic-Chinese Music Festival in China, as well as by dancers from the Chinese-Swedish Young Music! project.Internationally renowned Emil Svanängen, alias Loney Dear, contributes!

Sunday 29.6

11:00 Poet Ylva Eggehorn, Sweden, Soprano Marianne G Nielsen, Denmark and Chinese Dancers Liu Minjia and Chen Jia.
Hässleby Church, Mariannelund.Fair Trade coffee is offered in the churchyard.

17:00 “T as in Tomas Tranströmer!” Tomas Tranströmer (and other poets) attends a poetry reading in Kulturmagasinet, at the railway station. An afternoon full of surprises!

Monday 30.6

19:30 Railway station, Mariannelund.
Local global: Sustainable Fashion? Seminary, open to the public. Seminary leader: Alfred Vaagsvold, Norway. Discussions based on the installation Tsunami, which Alfred Vaagsvold will arrange in the Mariannelund Railway station area. Two tonnes of second hand clothing is to be used…

Monday 7.7

19:00 KAFE KAIM
“Freedom of speech and democracy in Cambodia”.
Discussion with Koh Tararith, Phnom Phen, invited to Sweden by Waltic (www.waltic.se), together with author Anna Mattson, Gothenburg.

Sunday 20.7
Three weeks’ exchange project: Young Consumption! local global. See special program. Lasts until 10.8

Saturday 9.8
New exhibition at TCG Nordica Gallery Sweden (the Yellow House)

14:00 Opening Ceremony: Ion Pana, Sweden/Rumania, Paintings.

Curator Janeric Johansson, Malmö

Wedensday 13.8
22:00 FOLK-08 Outdoor Cinema in Mariannelund, in cooperation with Jönköping Film Festivalwww.filmfestival.nu

Wednesday 27.8 – Sunday 31.8
Chinese film!

Jönköping Fim Festival shows movies at Mariannelund’s Cinema, one of the oldest cinemas in Sweden.Info about the films is coming soon…

Video
RAILWAY STATIONS IN CHINA
A poetic documentary film by Chinese poet, Yu Jian.
Every day at Kafé Kaim (the Railway station)

Photo
Black and white photos by Chen Li, Kafé Kaim.

The program for FOLK-08 local global will be updated continually.

FOLK -08 local global Art Exhibitions

1. The Railway station 28.6-31-8
Tsunami , Installation
Alfred Vaagsvold, Norway

2.TCG Nordica Gallery Sweden (The Yellow House) 28.6-31.8
Chinese & Nordic contemporary Art
Lei Yan, Sun Gou Juan, Liu Lifen, Guo Peng, Luo Fei, Liu Deng, Ning Zhi, Chat Piersath, Ion Pana,
Christina Wassberg, Morten Viskum, Meggi Sandell, Kaarina Ormio, Maria Angkvist Klyvare and Gao Xiang.
Curators: Anna Mellergard/Cecilia Nelson

Contagious Love. Paintings
Chat Piersath, Cambodia
A Survivor of Khmer Rouge Genocide.; an accomplished artist, poet and social worker. He has worked at a Cambodian orphanage and dreams of building a school in his Cambodian hometown; his focus is on the needs of Cambodian children.

Killing fields, Installation
Morten Viskum, Norway
www.viskum.com/viskum2.html

China Girl, Army of Unblessed souls
Maria Ängkvist Klyvare, Sverige
www.chinagirl.se/image.php?subsection=2&imgid=6

My Chinoiserie, Installation
Kaarina Ormio, Finland
http://www.galleriahuuto.net/kaarina/

X-text, textile
Meggi,Sandell, Sverige
http://hem.bredband.net/sandell/xtext2.html

Made in China, paintings
Janeric Johansson, Sweden

I Chin - Tomas Tranströmer
Christina Wassberg, Sweden

3. Local Global

Cecilia Nelson

Visiting Mariannelund for the first time in May this year, I looked upon the community with curious eyes; the Herrgård park with its ponds, Julles workshop where the work appears to have been abruptly cancelled, the unique store BESAM with its great display windows filled with exciting objects…

The idea for Local/Global came to me instantly!

An installation in Jules workshop with the gnomes from BESAM!

To take the already existing white gnomes, ready made objects, and to let them leave their display windows and give them another meaning in a new context. To create an unexpected meeting between two already existing units.

The meeting would have been impossible without the large venture of Folk -08, Lokal/Global.

The gnomes were the most local objects i discovered in Mariannelund.

Now they have been given a global context.

4.Young art
Maria Forsling, Josefine Alm, Olivia Lindsmyr, Christina Henrysson, Carola Grahn,Samuel Ottosson,Jon Holm, Oscar Furbacken and Elisabet Thostrup
Organizer/Coordinator: Oscar Furbacken

5. The Square 28.6 – 31.7

Sustainable Love ! Arts In Process
Verdandiggatan, Torget, Mariannelund
(Örebro Castle 3.8- 17.8)

6. END/BEGINNING
Lennart Alves, SW, photo&video

Jonathan Kearney, GB, video

Jonathan Kearney is a British artist who lived for 3 years in China. In this piece called 'uncover (揭开 jiē kāi)' he explores the intersection between his own practice of pouring glue with the flow of the calligraphers pen. This is an experimental interactive video where the movement of the audience directly effects what is seen on screen. Jonathan asks the audience to use their movement to uncover the never repeated visual fusion between 2 layers of film.

Jonathan Kearney - Artist Statement:
Having lived in China for 3 years (2004-7), working as an artist and trying to learn the language, I was exposed to China in a way that was simply impossible with a short visit. The impact of this time continues to influence my work and in this piece I explore the connections I uncovered between 2 different expressions of movement.
For a number of years I have poured coloured glue over surfaces and observed the movement and patterns that occur. In China I would watch calligraphers at work and noticed a connection between both the movement and the direction of the flow, always from above onto a flat surface.
In this interactive video I hand over the uncovering to the audience. It is the audience's movement that reveals another surface to the video but it is fleeting glimpse, quickly fading away. The 2 layers of video, one flowing glue, the other the flow of the calligrapher's brush, loop out of sync and therefore the intersection uncovered is never the same. The technology used allows the fusion of movement to reveal greater depths to both while at the same time they maintain their full integrity.

8.Installation: The Gordian knot
Janeric Johansson,Sweden

(Art Installation with 400 photos, rope and an eight meter high ladder in bamboo, Kunming, China 2005)

The story of the Gordian knot traces back 2.300 years. Someone had constructed a complicated knot of rope that connected a chariot with a building at Acropolis in Athens. Following the story, the one who could untie the knot, would become emperor of Minor Asia. Despite many attempts the knot remained untied, until Alexander the Great in 133 BC. came and cut the knot into pieces with his sword. Surely, this was not the intended way to do it, but today it’s used as a metaphor for an intractable problem. If you find an easy solution to a difficult problem, you’ve cut the Gordian knot.

Most of the photos, showing hard labouring poor people who are working for their daily bread, are taken in Kunming, China, in the same intersection during three hours. These people possess a great creativity and the sense of what is possible goes way beyond a Swedish perception of reality. If these people stopped their work for one day, China is very likely to collapse. But these people are left behind in the fast developing China, where the gap between the rich and poor grows wider for each day. So the question is: How will the Gordian knot be cut for these people?

To the installation belongs an eight meter high ladder in bamboo. It constitutes an opening to the problem, something like a ladder to heaven. The delivery was made a few days later by a man who came with the ladder on his bicycle. Eight metres long, and very heavy. It’s still a mystery how he could manage it through the traffic. But through this the ladder became an even greater part of the installation.

May 2008
Janeric Johansson

Participating artists

Visual Artists

Dance

Music

Poetry/Literature

KAFÉ KAIM

28.6-1.9

Ecological sandwiches, Fair Trade coffee and tea

Atmosphere from the Swedish 1950s with a flavour of China, in the railway station’s waiting hall…

Wireless internet, use your own laptop!

Opening hours: Every day 12:00 – 19:00

Youth Project, Mariannelund Railwaystation :
Young Consumption! local global

Through various creative expressions, young people from Sweden learn more about sustainable development, fair trade, democracy and human rights together with 10 young Chinese.

Organizer: TCG Nordica Kunming in cooperation with KAiM. Sponsor: Forum Syd’s Youth Fund.

From July 23 to August 1, 10 young Chinese and Swedes will together take part in seminaries, artistic interpretations and creative expressions in the project “Young Consumption! local global”. The purpose of the project is to raise questions and create awareness about the consumption society, which is already established in Sweden and rapidly growing in China, with its booming economy. Three main questions during these ten days are:

- How does this situation influence us, as individuals and as a collective (fashion and identity)?
- How do we influence the surrounding world by our local consumption choices (sustainable development, environment and human rights)?
- Are we, as consumers, only victims of the market forces or can we lead the development in new directions (fair trade, ethical consumption, ecological products)? If so, why would that be desirable?

Interested to join? Please send email to here:

FOLK -08 FILM FESTIVAL

Wednesday 13.8
22:00 Folk -08 Outdoor Cinema in Mariannelund in cooperation with Jonkoping Fim festival www.filmfestival.nu

Wednesday 27.8 – Sunday 31.8
Chinese films!
WE show movies at Mariannelunds Cinema (one of the oldest Cinemas in Sweden) in cooparation with Jönköping filmfestival
Info about the films coming soon…
　

CAMBODIA

28.6-31.8
Painting exhibition “Contagious Love” by Artist Chat Piersath, Cambodia in TCG Nordica Gallery Sweden (the Yellow House). Chat Piersath is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge Genocide and an accomplished artist, poet and social worker. He has worked at a Cambodian orphanage and dreams of building a school in his Cambodian hometown; his focus is on the needs of Cambodian children.

Monday7.7
19:30 KAFE KAIM

“Freedom of speech and democracy in Cambodia”. Discussion with Koh Tararith, Phnom Phen, invited to Sweden by Waltic. He will join FOLK-08 together with author Anna Mattson, Gothenburg.

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Contact/Info

For more information , please contact
Anna Mellergård, International culture coordinator

- 46 (0)703 16 02 40
- + 46 (0)496 10911

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