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Last chance to experience Anna Berglind’s “Mörkrets Resonans II”

Saturday 8 March 11-17

During the event you will be able to meet the artist and take part of a live performance with musician Rikard Vilhelm Lindell.

13:00 - The exhibition in Engelska Magasinet opens

14:00 - Guided presentation of the exhibition with Anna Berglind

14:30 - Live music with Rikard Vilhelm Lindell

17:00 - Engelska Magasinet closes

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Mörkrets Resonans II, an exhibition composed for darkness, light, and the viewers own experience. Where subtle works faintly whisper light, surrounded an increasingly rare darkness. Anna Berglind (b. 1961) is a multidisciplinary artist active in Sweden and internationally. Berglind’s theme deals with existential questions about human existence on earth, how our way of living and working affects both us and other species. For several decades, she has explored light, as well as the absence of light, through her artistic practice. Thematically, her work moves in the field of tension between memory and oblivion; center and periphery.

The exhibition Mörkrets Resonans II in Engelska Magasinet examines ideas about how artificial light can be seen as something that pollutes, and affects the rhythm of us humans as well as animals, insects and plants. What dimensions and qualities does darkness have that are currently being lost in overlit cities and the age of light pollution? Through several works where darkness plays a central role, the visitor is invited to explore how light is absorbed, reflected or refracted in different ways. An exhibition where darkness has taken refuge, a haven to be, rest and dream. The exhibition also contains sound works by Rikard Vilhelm Lindell.

Christmas Market and open house at Rejmyre Art Lab!

⋆ Guidet tours of the exhibition MÖRKRETS RESONANS II. Come and see Anna Berglind’s exhibition in Engelska Magasinet.

⋆ Create with paper with Konstlabbet’s pedagogues. Together we make a Christmas mobile or maybe you want to make your own Christmas tree decoration? The workshop is held in Rejmyre Art Lab’s premises.

⋆ In the Refuge Pavilion, Konstlabbets participants have an exhibition of their creations from this fall.

In addition to the Christmas market, you should also take the opportunity to visit our neighbors in Hantverksbyn. Buy your Christmas presents at Smedjan och Glasbruket, or why not have a coffee with home-baked goods at Lill-Anna’s Café!

For those of you who come by car, the parking fee of SEK 40 goes directly to Rejmyre IF.

Opening: 2 November (All Saints Eve) 11am-7pm Hours: Saturdays & Wednesdays from 11 am to 4 pm between November 2nd to December 14th.

On November 2, our new exhibition Mörkrets Resonans II opens and you are welcome to a full day of activities at Rejmyre Art Lab!

We start with an open studio with the artists-in-residence Åsa Lockner and Hanna Stahle in the pavilion, after that we have the lighting of the paper lanterns that were made during the workshop on October 26. When darkness has fallen, we move into the art gallery for the opening of Mörkrets resonance II, where the borderland between light and darkness takes center stage. The artist behind the exhibition, Anna Berglind, is present and talks about her work and guides us through the exhibition. For those who want to linger a while longer, marshmallow grilling over an open fire is arranged in the courtyard outside and during the day we also have a drop-in workshop in the Art Lab where you can try making buttons with our popular button machine.

Times:

11.00-19.00: the exhibition Mörkrets Resonans II is open

14.00-16.00: Konstlabbet’s button workshop

15.00-16.00: open studio with Åsa Lockner and Hanna Stahle

16.00: lighting of the lantern

16.15: opening of Mörkrets Resonans II, speech by Konstantin Economou and Anna Berglind.

16.30-19.00: open fire in the yard with marshmallow grilling

COME AND MAKE PAPER LANTERNS!

Welcome to create colorful, brilliant, imaginative lanterns with Konstlabbet/Rejmyre Art Lab and Finspång’s congregation! We build frames out of wood and cover them with tissue paper. When the lanterns are ready and have dried – the following Saturday – we have the lantern lighting and they get to light up our pavilion in the autumn darkness.

Lantern workshop: Saturday 26 October, drop in at 13.00-15.00

Lantern lighting: Saturday 2 November at 4pm (Allhelgona Eve)

The workshop is aimed at both children and adults. Children from the age of 6 accompanied by an adult are welcome. The event is free of charge and we are responsible for the material.

Learn to dye naturally with plants, berries and other things you can find in nature!

Welcome to a plant dyeing workshop in Rejmyre with Annika Sandstedt, thanks to a collaboration between Rejmyre Art Lab and Hemslöjden in Östergötland

The workshop begins with an introduction where we talk about which fibers can be dyed, explain what pickling is and show books on the subject and several examples of different dyeing methods, including Bundle Dye and Hapozome, as well as the results.

A table with various ingredients will be laid out, both fresh and dried plants. All participants who wish are welcome to bring plants, leftovers from the kitchen or things that have been picked in nature, so we can include them in our coloring. You don’t have to be sure that it can be dyed with, we test together! All participants receive 3 pieces of fabric, approx. 30x30cm, but feel free to bring your own material, e.g. t-shirt, small towel, pillowcase or blouse. Please note that no synthetic fabrics can be dyed in this way. We finish by looking at each other’s results and go through laundry advice.

REGISTER ON HEMSLOJDEN’S WEBSITE

Date: 18 August 2024 Time: at 12 - 15 Price: SEK 795 Teacher: Annika Sandstedt

Annika is a trained graphic designer, but has always worked with textiles alongside her work. She discovered natural dyeing about 10 years ago and has been to California for two rounds taking courses where she has explored the subject. Today she holds workshops around Sweden and dyes clothes for companies. https://www.instagram.com/jaxtorp/

As a member of Hemslöjden in Östergötland, you have a 10% discount on our courses. Read more about membership here: https://www.hemslojdeniostergotland.se/medlem

Pay attention to the booking rules before registering for the course: https://www.hemslojdeniostergotland.se/kurser/bokningsregler-

Come and make your own designed button with Rejmyre Art Lab during Rejmyre Marknad June 24!

The button workshop will be located at market place 71, in the parking lot closest to Glasbruksvägen.

The exhibition in Engelska Magasinet has extended open hours this day: from 10am to 5pm.

Rejmyre Art Lab - Center forPeripheral Studies present:

TID OMSORG KAOS

An exhibition with nine of this year’s graduating students from the Master’s program “CRAFT!” at Konstfack.

GUIDED TOURS EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 14.00

Opening: Saturday 29 June at 2 pm

Opening speaker: Karin Jerneld

Music performance by Agnes Persson

Exhibition period: 29 June - 8 September 2024

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11-16 (until 18 Aug thereafter only Sat & Sun)

Exhibitors: Andreas Almebäck, Henrietta Elfström Berg, Jessica Westerberg, Johanna Bylén, Lovisa Hed, Malin Uhlén, Nanny Rådenman, Pia Alsell, Ting Wang

Curator: Tida Dalunde

Selection group: Tilda Dalunde (Former student at MA CRAFT!), Linda Maasing (Rejmyre Hantverksby), Viktor Söderberg (CEO Reijmyre Glasbruk).

About the exhibition

Rejmyre Art Lab presents nine of this year’s graduating students from Konstfack’s Master’s program CRAFT!. Common traces in the artists’ works are time, care and chaos. The passage of time and time to focus, care for the materials and their possibilities of expression and the ever-present chaos that belongs to life and always gets into what we try to control and sort. All the works in the exhibition are the result of two years of research and deepening into the artists’ chosen themes, materials and techniques and allow us to face the different perspectives on life that arise from careful encounters between humans and materials.

About the university program CRAFT! at Konstfack

Master’s program CRAFT! is an education where we see the arts and crafts as a relevant basis for questioning and challenging the contemporary world. We use different methods and tools for critical investigation about and through making and materialization. The program is characterized by a social commitment anchored in an art craft that positions itself between and beyond traditional boundaries.

About Agnes Persson

The guitarist and composer Agnes Persson, with roots in Östergötland, is a young musicians who have renewed the Swedish jazz scene in recent years. Her debut album In Collaboration With Flowers (Havtorn Records, 2021) stood out a little extra among the Swedish music releases that year, thanks in large part to its original compositions and arrangements made by Agnes herself. In 2020, Agnes was awarded the prestigious Albin Hagström scholarship for guitarists, as well as STIM’s scholarship for music creators. In the same year, she was part of Bohuslän Big Band’s annual project “Up & Coming Jazz Talents”, which resulted in two concerts with said professional big band. In January 2022, she was nominated for Best New Artist at SOM’s “Manifesto Gala”, just after being named “Jazz Guitar Album of the Year” by Lira Music Magazine.

Finissage for the exhibition Refuging Toolkit!

The exhibition ends with an artist talk with Anx Kupiainen and Samin Asri. Moderator for the talk is Rejmyre Art Lab’s research director Daniel Peltz.

During the day, the Art Lab will also hold an open creative workshop formal ages!

Schedule for the day: 11:00-16:00, Creative workshop with Konstlabbet 13:00, Artist talk with Anx Kupiainen and Samin Asri, moderator Daniel Peltz.

Participating artists in the exhibition: Beatrice Alvestad Lopez, Samin Asri, Sam Grabowska, Anx Kupiainen, Ilze Mazpane, Katarzyna Pagowska, Daniel Peltz

Curated by Anna Märta Danielsson

Welcome to celebrate the “Östgötadagarna” in Rejmyre with us.

Saturday & Sunday 18-19 May at 11.00-16.00 Konstlabbet invites you to a creative drop-in workshop for all ages and the exhibition in Konsthallen Engelska Magasinet is open. Guided tours of the exhibition and Refuge Pavilion at 2 p.m.

In addition to this, the glass museum opens for the season, the glass factory, the forge and other businesses in the craft village are also open. Warmly welcome!

Welcome to a lecture by the glass artist Justin Ginsberg from the USA, who, among other things, creates glass in the form of fiber optics.

Justin Ginsberg is a professor at the Art and Art History Department at the University of Texas in the USA and has extensive experience in teaching, lecturing and experimental creation in glass.

In connection with this, the Finnish ceramist Johanna Sten also presents her work that has been going on in the project studio in the Refuge Pavilion during the last few months. Anna Märta Danielsson also does a presentation of the current exhibition in Engelska Magasinet and Daniel Peltz talks about the project that created the Refuging Pavilion.

Coffee is served! Participation is free of charge, but please register your interest to: info@rejmyreartlab.org

Program: 13.00 Presentation of the exhibition Refuging Toolkit with Anna Märta Danielsson 13.15 Introduction to the Refuging Pavilion and the Refuging in Rejmyre project with the artist Daniel Peltz 13.30 Ceramicist Johanna Sten talks about her work in the project studio 14.00 Glass artist Justin Ginsberg lectures about his work (approx. 1 hour incl. q&a session)

Guidad visning av utställningen med curator Anna Märta Danielsson

Långfredagen 29 mars kl 14.00

Välkomna!

TILLFLYKT I REJMYRE & REFUGING TOOLKIT

Utställning i Engelska Magasinet, Rejmyre

Utställningsperiod: 16 mars - 6 juni

Öppet lördagar kl 11.00-16.00

Extra öppet: 29/3-31/3, 9/5-12/5, 18/5-19/5 kl 11.00-16.00

Deltagande konstnärer:

Beatrice Alvestad Lopez, Samin Asri, Sam Grabowska, Anx Kupiainen, Ilze Mazpane, Katarzyna Pagowska, Daniel Peltz

Curator: Anna Märta Danielsson

MAT-KONST-WORKSHOP

Långfredagen 29 mars kl 10.00-16.00

Konstlabbet erbjuder kostnadsfri familjeworkshop! I samband matmarknaden i Rejmyre Hantverksby 29/4 är hela familjen välkommen att leka med maten på Konstlabbet.

Vi skapar matkonst för ögat av potatis. Drop-in! Ingen förbokning krävs och alla oavsett ålder är välkommen att delta. I samband med workshopen är också Rejmyre Art Labs nuvarnade utställning i Engelska Magasinet öppen med guidad visning kl 14.00.

ATT GE COH TA TILLFLYKT I JORDEN

Workshop med Konstlabbet

lördag 16 mars kl 12-15.

Välkommen till en öppen kreativ workshop för både barn och vuxna med Konstlabbet! Gör ditt eget odlingskärl och blompinnar för att ge stöd och skydd till frön att gro och växa. Ta med dina egna frön eller få på plats. Drop-in! Ingen föranmälan krävs. Deltagandet är gratis. Människor i alla åldrar är välkomna! Barn under 7 år behöver medföljas av vuxen.

Workshopen sker i samband med öppningen av Rejmyre Art Labs nya utställning “Tillflykt i Rejmyre & Refuging Toolkit” i Konsthallen Engelska Magasinet, som har vernissage kl 13-14 lördag 16 mars. Konstlabbet ligger precis bredvid, till vänster om konsthallen.

REFUGING IN REJMYRE & REFUGING TOOLKIT

Exhibition in i Engelska Magasinet in Rejmyre

16 March- 6 June

Opening: Saturday March 16th at 13.00

Artists: Beatrice Alvestad Lopez, Samin Asri, Sam Grabowska, Anx Kupiainen, Ilze Mazpane, Katarzyna Pagowska, Daniel Peltz

Curated by: Anna Märta Danielsson

Over the course of the past five years, Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies has been exploring the theme of refuge. This exploration began with the work of the center’s artistic leader, Daniel Peltz, in the form of a ritualized architectural process, Refuging in Rejmyre. Following this initiation of the theme, a two-month residency program invited six artists to explore the idea of giving and taking refuge and to create a “Refuging Toolkit”. The exhibition on view from 16 mars - 6 juni in Engelska Magasinet, features artifacts from both of these processes. The works range from performance documentation, to videos and sculptures that feature personal practices and expressions of an expansive desire for acceptance and belonging.

In formulating the refuging project, Peltz asks us to reconsider the notion of refuge, not as a noun (a refuge, a refugee, etc.) but as a verb, a vital, inherently reciprocal set of actions. Rather than focusing specifically on refugees or current political crises, the works explore the concept of refuge as a subtle physical and social space.

The Refuging Residency was made possible by support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Nordic Culture Point and the Swedish Arts Council. Rejmyre Art Labs exhibition program is made possible by support from Swedish Arts Council, Region Östergötland and Finspångs kommun. The Refuging Pavilion has been financed by Kulturbryggan.

Välkommen till bildvisning, mörker-workshop och pizzakväll med Rejmyre Art Lab!

Lördag 17 februari kl 16.00-18.30 Rejmyre Art Lab Tillflyktspaviljongen & Engelska Magasinet Glasbruksvägen 42, Rejmyre

Ni träffar Anna Berglind som är konstnär och lärare inom media och kommunikation på Linköpings universitet. Ljus och mörker är centralt i hennes konstnärskap och under sin vistelse i Tillflyktspaviljongen hos Rejmyre Art Lab har hon arbetat med projektet ”Mörkrets resonans” och samverkat med Thilda Mörlid som är filmare och fotograf, Jan Boelhouwers som är geolog Majkel Kokocinski som är grafisk formgivare och Engjell Kasa som är kompositör och producent.

De har alla gemensamt att de brinner för att dela berättelser och kommer att vara i Rejmyre denna kväll för att mötas och dela erfarenheter. Att tillsammans titta på bilder och diskutera vad det innebär att arbeta med ljus, mörker, landskap och inte minst seendet som verktyg.

Två lokala fotoentusiaster; Mikael Waltersson och Jussi Sihvo, kommer också att delta i den inledande bildvisningen och diskussionen, där de visar tio bilder var på temat “ljus och mörker”. Därefter kommer Anna Berglind & Co att hålla i en workshop som utforskar mörkrets resonans. Sammankomsten avslutas med samtal och pizza.

Varmt välkommen! O.S.A. till: info@rejmyreartlab.org

Anna Berglind är konstnär och universitetslektor på Linköpings Universitet med lång erfarenhet av gestaltning i offentlig miljö, utställningar och performativa verk såväl i Sverige som internationellt. Hon arbetar med både fysiska och digitala material, med ljusmodellering, skulptur, video, foto och interaktiva verk, ofta i nära samverkan med musiker och tonsättare, ljus- ljudtekniker samt interaktionsforskare.

”Mitt konstnärskap rör sig i spänningsfältet mellan ljus – mörker, minne och glömska. Ett arbete som står i bjärt kontrast till en accelererande samtid och överbelysningens tidevarv med verk som snarare viskar ljus, hämtar andan och får sin lyskraft i ett alltmer sällsynt dunkel.” – Anna Bergling

Anna Berglind genomför en vistelse i projektateljén i Tillflyktspaviljongen under januari och februari månad 2024, som kulminerar i denna workshop.

https://annaberglind.cargo.site/

Saturday Dec 16th 15.00-16.00 Refuging Pavillion in Rejmyre

Olav Lunde talks about the artistic process together with artist colleagues. We offer glögg with snacks and look at the work of Olav and others.

Anyone who wants to is welcome to listen or participate in the conversation on Saturday 16 December at 3-4pm. Other participants include Sissi Westerberg, Daniel Peltz and Anna Märta Danielsson. If you are an artist and want to participate by showing some of your work, you can email info@rejmyreartlab.org or bring 2-5 pictures/files on a memory stick.

We discuss questions such as: What drives you? What does your process look like? what inspires you? Warm welcome!

Olav Lunde has been working in the project studio in the Refuging Pavilion since November 16 and ends his period this Saturday.

Olav Lunde is a local artist and writer who lives in Sandudden, near Finspång. Olav mainly works with metal sculpture for public design.

Saturday 16 dec 10.00-15.00 Konstlabbet in Rejmyre

During the Rejmyre Christmas Market, Konstlabbet is open and invites children and adults to create in paper and other materials.

Drop in! Stay as short or as long as you like. No pre-registration is required. All ages are welcome! Children under 10 need to be accompanied by an adult.

During this event, the results from the work that the children in the Art Lab’s afternoon activities created during the autumn semester are also shown as an exhibition in Engelska Magasinet.

Exhibition of selected works by textile artist Kerstin Hedman. Exhibition period: 28 Okt – 2 Dec Hours: Saturdays 11-16

Local artist Per Josefsson is showing what he has been working on during his time in the project studio in the Refuging Pavilion. At 14.00 there will be “fika” and a public conversation between Per Josefsson and Rejmyre Art Labs artistic director Sissi Westerberg.

Welcome to visit Rejmyre Art Lab during Östgötadagarna 2-3 september! Program Saturday 2nd September at 2pm

Artist conversation with Mari Juslin in the project studio

Presentation of Rejmyre Art Lab

Introduction to the Refuge Pavilion and the project Giving and taking refuge in Rejmyre

Finissage for the exhibition with Eyes as Big as Plates

We invite the public to join us in the Refuging Pavilion to see the new sunshade in the form of a textile art work, made by the artist Sahar Burhan together with local kids who were part of Konstlabbet camp.

Rejmyre Art Lab presenterar:

Eyes as Big as Plates - Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth

17 juni - 3 september (2023)

Vernissage den 17 juni kl 11-16 på Konsthallen Engelska Magasinet i Rejmyre. Invigningstal kl 14 med utställningspresentation och tårta med konstnären Karoline Hjorth på plats tillsammans med curator Louise Johansson waite

Välkomna till vernissagen av sommarens stora utställning Eyes as big as Plates - ett världsomspännande, pågående konstprojekt av norsk-finska konstnärsduon Riitta Ikonen och Karoline Hjorth!

Eyes as Big as Plates startades 2011 av konstnärerna Riitta Ikonen (Fi) och Karoline Hjorth (No). Projektets har sin utgångspunkt i att undersöka hur människan på olika sätt kan personifiera naturen och hur folklore kan förklara olika naturfenomen. Projektet har sedan fortsatt sitt sökande under åren genom att utforska den moderna människans tillhörighet i naturen och vår strävan efter att förstå vårt förhållande till vår omgivning.

Den norsk-finska konstnärsduon har sedan 2011 porträtterat personer i Norge, Finland, Frankrike, USA, Storbritannien, Island, Färöarna, Sverige, Sydkorea, Tjeckien, Japan, Senegal, Tyskland, Österrike, Yttre Hebriderna, Tasmanien och Grönland. Projektet fortsätter att korsa gränser och syftet har därigenom blivit att också skildra människor som på olika sätt arbetar med eller påverkas av klimatförändringar och genom dessa porträtt skapa nya perspektiv på vilka vi är och var vi hör hemma.

I maj besökte de Rejmyre för att skapa nya verk tillsammans med boende på orten och som kommer att bli en en del av deras pågående porträttserie. Den omfattande utställningen i Engelska Magasinet kommer att visa porträttbilderna från Rejmyre för första gången för en publik tillsammans skulpturer, tidigare porträttbilder från serien samt processmaterial.

Delvis genom skulptur, delvis installation och delvis fotografi, men framförallt genom att agera som en slags äventyrsklubb, samarbetar Ikonen och Hjorth från början till slutet av processen med sina olika kompletterande färdigheter. Fotografierna är producerade i samarbete med bland annat pensionerade bönder, fiskare, zoologer, rörmokare, operasångare, hemmafruar, konstnärer, akademiker och nittioåriga fallskärmshoppare. Varje bild i serien presenterar en ensam gestalt i ett landskap, klädd i material från omgivningar som varken anger tid eller plats. Här agerar naturen som både innehåll och sammanhang: karaktärer bor bokstavligen i landskapet med skulpturer de skapar i samarbete med konstnärerna.

Samarbetsprojektet Eyes as Big as Plates av Riitta Ikonen och Karoline Hjorth har tidigare visats på bland annat The Barbican Centre (London), Salamanca Arts Center (Tasmania), Pioneer Works (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Arts Kiasma (Helsingfors), NADA Miami, Bogota International Photo Biennale (Colombia), galleri FACTORY i Seoul Korea, Nordiska huset (Färöarna), Grönlands Nationalmuseum och som en del av PyeongChang vinter-OS (2018). Duon höll även ett TEDMED-föredrag våren 2020. Den finska konstnären Riitta Ikonen tog sin master från Royal College of Art 2008. Den norska fotografen, konstnären och författaren Karoline Hjorth tog sin master från University of Westminster (London) 2009.

Rejmyre Art Lab center för Studier i Periferin har som syfte att skapa en plattform för möten mellan konstnärer, samtidskonst och allmänheten, att testa och utveckla nya modeller för platsbaserad konstnärlig praktik, att utforska konstnärens roll i samhället, särskilt inom landsbygdskontexter och att stödja konstnärliga praktiker i skärningspunkten mellan samtidskonst, hantverk och sociala kontexter i samhället. Rejmyre Art Labs utställningsverksamhet genomförs med stöd av Kulturrådet, Region Östergötland och Finspångs kommun.

Rejmyre Art Lab Center för Studier i Periferin hälsar dig välkommen till

INVIGNINGEN AV TILLFLYKTSPAVILJONGEN

Lördag 6 maj 11-16 2023 Glasbruksvägen 42, Rejmyre (Sverige)

Utställning av Daniel Peltz - Öppen workshop med Konstlabbet - Öppna ateljéer - Plant Swap

Program: 11.00 Meditation i Tillflyktspaviljongen 11:00-16:00 Öppen workshop med Konstlabbet 12:00-15:00 Plant Swap - Ta med en växt till Tillflyktspaviljongen och få ett elefantöra i gengäld! 13.00 Invigningstal 14.00 Presentation av konstprojektet av Daniel Peltz 15.00 Presentationer av residenskonstnärer

Gratis buss ToR Norrköping - Rejmyre! 11:00 Avgång Från Norrköping Resecentrum 16:00 Avgång från Rejmyre Art Lab Förbokning krävs: https://rejmyreartlab.com/bussbiljett/

Lördag 6 maj inviger Rejmyre Art Lab en ny futuristiska paviljong i Rejmyre. Tillflyktspaviljongen, The Refuge, eller Tillflykten som vi kallar denna nya byggnad, är initierad av konstnären Daniel Peltz och ritad av den berömda danska arkitekten Kristoffer Tejlgaard, som bland annat ligger bakom ”Dome of Visions” som stod vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm.

Byggnaden kommer att användas som produktionsplats för lokala/regionala konstnärer och syftar till att prova ett nytt koncept för ateljéer, där utövare får möjlighet att ta plats i en transparent, innovativ arkitektur som ger möjlighet för nya möten mellan konstnärlig process och publik.

Byggnaden är skapade genom en rituell byggprocess, utformad av Daniel Peltz och koreografen Anna Asplind, där lokalsamhället, besökare och konstnärer gemensamt sammanfogat byggnadens yttre skal, samtidigt som de utbytt minnen som relaterar till känslan av trygghet, frihet eller att vara älskad. Denna byggnad, skapad av minnen, hoppas vi ska bli en fristad för konsten, där framtidsvisioner skall kunna få rum att utvecklas.

Läs mer om projektet och möjligheten att använda Tillflyktpaviljongen som ateljé och mötesplats här: https://rejmyreartlab.com/therefugingpavilion/

Projektet är finansierat av Kulturbryggan, Statens Kulturråd och generösa donationer av Arla Plast m.fl. Stort tack till Finspångs kommun och Region Östergötland, som stöder Rejmyre Art Labs verksamhet i övrigt.

REJMYRE ART LAB presenterar:

SPINDLE - en utställning av Oona Libens

Vernissage 25 februari kl 11-16 25 februari - 15 april, 2023 Konsthallen Engelska Magasinet i Rejmyre

I vår kommer den svensk-belgiske konstnären och musikern Oona Libens till Rejmyre med sitt senaste projekt där hon undersöker vävningens historia och den digitala teknologins framtid och spinner ett nätverk av samband och perspektiv däremellan.

VERNISSAGEPROGRAM 25/2: 14:00 Invigningtal av programansvarig Louise Johansson Waite 14:10 Nausea av Oona Libens Föreställningen Nausea är en expedition från havets yta ner till botten; en undervattensvärld av fantasmagorier och illusioner. Med hjälp av diverse objekt, gamla projektorer och hemmabyggda lampor illustreras olika marina livsformer. Föreställningen är på engelska och 18 min lång. Fri entré!

En allvetande spindel berättar om människans teknologiutveckling i vårens utställning SPINDLE i Engelska Magasinet. Oona Libens verk kretsar kring den (rörliga) bildens historia. I sina intima föreställningar – en hybrid mellan abstrakt objektteater och pedagogisk dokumentär – skapar hon ett universum som består av sköra mekanismer och analoga tekniker.

Utgångspunkten för SPINDLE (spinnslända) är kopplingen mellan två till synes motsatta domäner: digital teknik och vävning. Länken finns i hålkortet, en uppfinning som på 1800-talet utvecklade industriell vävning till att bli mer effektiv och komplex. Hålkortet var senare inspirationen till den första programmerbara datorn som delvis designades av matematikern Ada Lovelace som av många anses vara den första datorprogrammeraren. Vävning kan därigenom betraktas som den tidigaste binära tekniken. När en tråd går antingen över eller under varpen, bär den på nollor och ettor precis som det digitala språket.

I SPINDLE samtalar den arketypiska vävaren - en spindel - med en artificiell intelligens. De talar om teknikens historia och framtid, om vikten av mystik kontra information, om de förlorade spåren av textilhistoria – och med det om kvinnors arbete. Libens bygger ett intrikat universum bestående av trådar och diverse verktyg ur textilvärlden som metafor för att illustrera den digitala värld vi lever i. I utställningsrummet syns en stor vävstolsliknande konstruktion — eller är det en primitiv dator? Libens använder såväl gamla som nya projektionsmetoder, skuggspel och ljuseffekter för att skapa ett efemärt, taktilt och ibland vacklande universum.

SPINDLE är ett försök att genom den traditionellt kvinnligt kodade teknologin vävning visualisera det, ofta manliga kodade, digitala fältet. I utställningen utforskas och sker ett sökande efter ett nytt narrativ kring den digitala utvecklingen — en som är mer i symbios med naturen och som vi som användare har mer kontroll över. Vad kan vi idag lära oss av vävningens långsamhet och komplexitet?

PROGRAM UNDER UTSTÄLLNINGEN: 11/3 Workshop i spinneri med Ann-Sofie Svansbo, i samarbete med Hemslöjden Östergötland

15/4 Workshop i cyanotypi med konstnären Oona Libens, i samarbete med Konstlabbet

Våra workshops är gratis, föranmälan krävs och görs via formuläret: https://rejmyreartlab.com/anmalnings-formular-spindel/

Om Oona Libens Konstnären och musikern Oona Libens (Belgien/Sverige, 1987) verk kretsar kring den (rörliga) bildens historia. Hon arbetar ofta med skuggteatern som utgångspunkt - den mest primitiva formen av rörlig bild - men hon opererar och manipulerar också andra historiska och modernare projektionstekniker för att exponera dess mekanismer. På så sätt skapar hon en dialog mellan gamla och moderna mediefenomen – från laterna magica som pedagogiskt verktyg till dagens pekskärmar och virtuell verklighet. Med sina verk vill Oona Libens utöka åskådarens upplevelse av bilden och skärmen, skapa en analog virtuell verklighet och en underhållningsmaskin som är långsam, som tvekar, vacklar och misslyckas. Libens tog examen 2012 vid Royal Academy of Fine Arts i Gent, Belgien.

I SPINDLE har Libens samarbetat med musikerna Jürgen De Blonde och Vica Pacheco. Föreställningen Spindle som utställningen är formad ur har skapats med stöd från: Konstnärsnämnden, Helge Axelsson Johnsons Stiftelse, Region Skåne, Flemish Community Council.

Rejmyre Art Labs utställningsverksamhet genomförs med stöd av Kulturrådet, Region Östergötland och Finspångs kommun.

Lördag 18 februari, kl. 13-15, Westmanhallen.

Välkomna på en interaktiv workshop i utställningen Detox–Clean it up! Tillsammans med konstnärerna Sissi Westerberg och Kerstin Ribers får du möjlighet att bidra till konstverket Kadmium, kobolt, arsenik. Delta i en symbolisk glasproduktion, där bortkastade plastglas får ett nytt värde.

Ordinarie entréavgift. Alla är välkomna! Men barn ska ha en vuxen närvarande.

För mer information besök: https://ostergotlandsmuseum.se/kalender/workshop-i-utstaellningen-detox-182-1769/

Rejmyre Art Lab invites conceptual and contextual artists to participate in a funded eight week production based residency in Rejmyre, Sweden in the spring and summer of 2023. Rejmyre has since 2009 been the site for long-term place-based artistic research in the field of visual art, craft and cultural heritage, with a focus on site responsive-practice.

The residency will be open to international, Nordic/Baltic and regional artists.

THE APPLICATION IS NOW CLOSED.

For more information have a look on the open call page Please email louise.waite@rejmyreartlab.org if you have questions and/or would like to be added to the reminder list for the Rejmyre Art Lab Center for Peripheral Studies Open Call 2023.

The residency program is made possible through a collaboration with IASPIS, The Swedish Arts Grants Committees’ International Program for Visual and Applied Arts and funding from Nordic Culture Point, Kulturrådet, Region Östergötland and Finspångs kommun.

Konstlabbets Forskarteam bjuder in till Utställning Lördagen den 17 december klockan 12-15 i Engelska magasinet i Rejmyre.   Under hösten har konstlabbets forskarteam bestående av barn boende i Rejmyre med omnejd, genom olika konstnärliga tekniker, material och uttryck undersökt hur man bygger trygghet. I utställningen visas verk från deras process.    Konstlabbets Forskarteams undersökningar går parallellt med Rejmyre Art Lab i forskningsprojektet ”to Refuge / att ge och ta tillflykt i Rejmyre”. En central del i projektet är själva handlingen att ge och ta ’tillflykt’, ett begrepp som i barnens forskning har översatts med ordet ’trygghet’.   Alla är varmt Välkomna!   OM KONSTLABBET   Konstlabbet är en del av Rejmyre Art Lab som riktar sig till barn i Rejmyre och Brenäs med omnejd. Programmet bygger på tvärvetenskaplig grund där barnen får möta experter från olika områden, både konstnärer och forskare. Genom konst och skapande utforskar vi de frågeställningar som berör platsen. Syftet med verksamheten är att utveckla nya metoder för lärande genom konst. Projektet finansieras av Allmänna Arvsfonden.   Om Rejmyre Art Lab   Sedan 2009 har Rejmyre Art LAB arbetat för att etablera Rejmyre som mötesplats för konst och hantverk med fokus på plats-specifikt konst. Organisationen är konstnärsdriven och har som syfte att skapa utbyte mellan lokalsamhället Rejmyre och svenska och internationella kulturutövare samt att utveckla nya metoder för hur konst och samhälle kan samverka.

Lördagen den 3 december kl 10-16 Engelska magasinet och Konstlabbet, Glasbruksvägen 42, Rejmyre

Den 3 december är det julmarknad i Rejmyre! Som en del av julmarknaden håller Rejmyre Art Lab öppet i Engelska magasinet och visar utställningen “Studier i periferin - 13 år bakåt och 100 år framåt” samt bjuder in till öppet hus för Konstlabbets verksamhet.

Studier i periferin - 13 år bakåt och 100 år framåt Just nu visar vi en utställning i Engelska magasinet. Välkomna att ta del av inblickar och nedslag i konstnärliga forskningsprojekt, embedded installations, material från ensemble residency och alla de projekt och studier som gjorts av både lokala och internationella konstnärer och deltagare genom åren. Mer information om utställningen hittar ni https://www.rejmyreartlab.org/events

Konstlabbet har Öppet Hus Kom och besök Konstlabbet och se deltagarnas arbete från årets höstlovs-workshop, prova på vår verksamhet och julpyssla tillsammans med oss. Ni hittar oss i Konstlabbets lokal bredvid Engelska Magasinet.

All verksamhet under dagen är öppet för alla åldrar och är kostnadsfritt, drop-in.

Varmt välkomna önskar vi på Rejmyre Art Lab och Konstlabbet!

18 november, 2022 - 11 februari, 2023

Rejmyre är en liten bruksort centrerad runt Reijmyre Glasbruk, med en befolkning på cirka 1000 personer. Glasbruket grundades 1810 och fortfarande är i drift. Under 2009 startades en annan verksamhet, Rejmyre Art Lab, på orten som även den arbetade med platsen som utgångspunkt men utifrån ett annat perspektiv. Rejmyre Art Labs Center for Peripheral Studies grundades av Sissi Westerberg och Daniel Peltz för att de ville skapa en plattform för arbete med platsspecifik konst som som utgår från förhållandena på en mindre ort och ett icke-urbant perspektiv; ett centrum i periferin där de själva och andra kunde utvecklas, komma samman och lära sig av varandra och platsen.

“Vi såg att det fanns en plats för oss att fylla. Genom att skapa en konstnärsdriven experimentell plattform i Rejmyre kunde vi skapa ett utbyte mellan det historiska som Glasmuseet representerar, industrin som glasbruket utgör och det allra senaste inom konst och formområdet som vi har tillgång till genom våra nätverk och positioner som lärare på några av världens ledande konsthögskolor.” Sissi Westerberg

“Vi startade ​​Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies för att vi ville ha en egen plats där vi kunde samlas med kollegor för att tänka både komplexiteter och i enkelhet och bilda mikrogemenskaper för intensiva studier. Vi hade alla tidigare deltagit i flera internationella residensprogram och workshops. Vi hade också varit både studenter och lärare på ledande internationella konsthögskolor. Vi längtade efter något som saknades i alla dessa miljöer och såg en möjlighet att testa alternativa sätt att göra konst på och arbeta tillsammans som konstnärer här i Rejmyre.” Daniel Peltz

I utställningen presenteras ett antal nedslag från Rejmyre Art Labs programhistoria från starten 2009 fram till idag. Som besökare får man ta del material av residens och forskningsnoder genom åren där både färdiga verk och processarbeten presenteras och gestaltas genom foto, skulptur, publikationer, videos, skisser med mera. Rejmyre Art Lab har en gedigen process bakom sig, men med ett starkt driv framåt som också får ta plats i utställningen framförallt genom barnens perspektiv på platsen de bor på och genom det pågående konstnärliga forskningsprojekt Att ge och ta tillflykt i Rejmyre.

Medverkande konstnärer: Sophie Barbasch (US), Mette Colberg Jensen (DK), Sissi Westerberg (SE), Daniel Peltz (SE/US), Kristoffer Tejlgaard (DK), David Larsson (SE), barn och unga som deltog i Konstlabbets höstlovsworkshop 2022, deltagare i KUNO-kursen “Rural Contextual Practice: Everything you want was already here” för masterstudenter från Academy of Fine Arts i Helsingfors, Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design i Stockholm och Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts (hölls i augusti 2022).

Rejmyre Art Labs syfte är att vara en global samlingsplats för forskning inom platsbaserad, kontextuell samtidskonst och konsthantverk. Vår programverksamhet är sprungen ur en långsiktigt investering i och engagemang ur samhället Rejmyre i Östergötland. Som konstnärsdriven organisation har vårt gemensamma strävan varit att försöka skapa ett post-institutionellt utrymme för undervisning av experimentellt skapande och lärande. En icke-hierarkisk mötesplats för oss själva och andra, där vi kan fortsätta växa, tänka kritiskt och utforska frågor av kollektivt intresse. Härutvecklar vi nya modeller för hur konst och samhälle kan samverka genom självorganiserat, tematiskt skapande. Våra årliga forsknings-noder utgår ifrån det som kommit upp under vår tid tillsammans och följer därav en lös associativ linje från det ena året till det andra.

Utställningen är öppen alla lördagar kl 11-16 (förutom vid jul och nyår) samt vid bokningar.

Välkomna till releasen av andra utgåvan av tidningen Rejmyrebladet!

Torsdagen den 27/10 kl 17:00-18:00 Engelska magasinet i Rejmyre, Östergötland

Tidningen är gjord av konstlabbets grupp Redaktionen för 9-12 åringar. Redaktionen är en grupp på 8 barn som tillsammans med pedagoger och inbjudna konstnärer har undersökt Rejmyre som plats, dess historia och samtid. Under hösten 2021 och våren 2022 diskuterade och utforskade gruppen vad en redaktion kan vara. De arbetade utifrån Rejmyre som plats för dem och för andra som en plats för tillflykt i relation till Rejmyre Art Labs pågående forskningsprojekt “En tillflykt i Rejmyre”.

Vi firar att Rejmyrebladet nu skickas ut till Rejmyreborna genom att Redaktionen bjuder in till release i Engelska magasinet!

I tidningen får man ta del av gruppens arbete där de tillsammans med inbjudna konstnärer arbetat med fotografi både analog och digital, traditionella trycktekniker, intervjuer, animation, ljud och offentliga konstnärliga arrangemang.

Välkomna!

Om Konstlabbet Konstlabbet är en del av rejmyre Art Labs verksamhet som riktar sig till barn och unga i Rejmyre och Brenäs med omnejd. Programmet bygger på tvärvetenskaplig grund och barnen får möta experter från olika områden, både konstnärer och forskare. Genom konst och skapande utforskar vi de frågeställningar som berör platsen. Syftet med verksamheten är att utveckla ny metoder för lärande genom konst och att inkludera barnen som med-forskare i Rejmyre Art Labs projekt.

Om “Att ge och ta Tillflykt i Rejmyre” I projektet “Att ge och ta Tillflykt i Rejmyre” presenterar konstnären Daniel Peltz ett förslag för en osannolik grupp invånare i Rejmyre; arbetslösa skogsbruks-elefanter från teakskogarna i Myanmar. Peltz arbete skapar kopplingar mellan de arbetslösa elefanter och glasbruksorten Rejmyre, dess historia och framtid. Genom att undersöka elefanternas behov, om de faktisk skulle flytta till Rejmyre, frågar sig konstnären vad vi och andra behöver för att kunna ge och att kunna ta tillflykt.

Welcome to the finissage / closing event of the exhibition “Tyst kunskap: den skapande handen” Guest curated by Rasmus Nossbring

Sunday 4 September 18.00-20.00 Konsthallen Engelska Magasinet in Rejmyre

In August 2022, Rejmyre Art Lab is hosting the Master level KUNO course, Rural Contextual Practice: Everything you want was already here offered jointly by the the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design in Stockholm and the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts.

For more information on KUNO: https://www.kunonetwork.org/

Everything you want was already here is a two-week intensive, site-responsive course that takes place in Rejmyre. Participants explore issues central to making site-responsive art in rural contexts and create an artwork in response to the site of the course. Group exercises, collective meals, study visits in the area, shared and individual work time as well as evening presentations of participants’ past work are core components of the course. The workshop is funded under the Nordplus/KUNO framework.

The selected group of 15 participants are from: The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Vilnius Academy of Arts Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design Trondheim Academy of Fine Art
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Represented departments include: Site & Situation/Time and Space Arts Photography & Media Art Printmaking Painting Fine Arts Craft Spatial Design

Nationalities represented include: Finnish, Lithuanian, Swedish, Russian, Norwegian, Danish, U.S., Portuguese, Turkish, South African, South Korean

FACILITATORS

Daniel Peltz

Professor of Site and Situation Specific Practice, Department of Time and Space Arts

Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland

https://www.uniarts.fi/en/units/academy-of-fine-arts/

Dr. assoc. prof. Vytautas Michelkevičius

Head of Photography, Animation and Media Art Department and Head of Doctoral Programme in Fine Art, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

https://www.vda.lt/en/

Vitalij Cerviakov, PhD, artist

Doctoral Programme in Fine Art, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Sissi Westerberg

Senior Lecturer, Smycke & Corpus: Ädellab, Department of Craft

Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden

https://www.konstfack.se/en/

David Larsson, visual artist

Stockholm, Sweden

Come help build a monument to Rejmyre’s futures!

Dates: 27 June - 3 July Daily hours: 10.00-16.00

This summer, a large-scale, social art project by the American artist Daniel Peltz takes place in Rejmyre, Sweden. The public is invited to take part in a ritual construction process that aims to develop a practice that Peltz refers to as refuging and, in the process, to revalue the people and place of a small glassworks town in northern Östergötland according to other than economic logics.

Everyone is welcome to take part of the ritual build process.

THINGS TO BRING: your self, a friend (if you want to), a drill gun (only if yo have one), some childhood memories

Participation takes about one hour, or as long as you want

After two years of delays, due to the pandemic, building permits and other logistics, construction is now becoming a reality. But for Peltz, it is not the building that is important but the act of building itself. Peltz writes, ‘the building is a spectacular object sacrificing itself to the larger aim of effecting a transformation in Rejmyre’s understanding of itself.’ The project challenges conventional understandings of the value of architecture, claiming that sometimes, in some places, the act of a community building a new structure together, may be more important than what the building will be used for.

In dialogue with the Swedish choreographer Anna Asplind, Peltz has developed a ritualized, dialogic practice for how the act of building will be carried out. The construction ritual involves offering, inserting and affixing memories into the building, performed within a tightly choreographed space that redefines the norms of construction sites. The site is characterized by slowness, quietness, gentle touch and awareness of one’s own internal and external experiences, along with those of everything around you.

Inside of the project there is also a program of additional artist contributions. Meri Linna (FI) and & Anastasiia Sviridenko (UR) are contributing with food as a creative practice and aspect of refuging. David Larsson (SE) has created a system of colorful metal brackets, that can be used for quickly assembling furniture and props with available wood at the site. These brackets have been used for creating all furniture and props at the site that are needed, as the project evolves.

An invitation is sent to each household in Rejmyre inviting residents to come as they are. In the invitation Peltz writes, You are already part of this work; you are welcome in whatever state you arrive; skeptical, curious, depressed, excited, doubtful, wondering, despairing…you are welcome.

As you approach the site, you are met at the entrance by a member of the refuging group and given a felt bag with washers and nuts as well as three small, glass talismans, intended to remind you of the three guiding principles of the building site: curiosity, activity and passivity being equal and that nothing is unimportant.

As you enter into the build site, you are introduced to the refuging practice and offered a partner to build with you. You receive a box of carefully designed, mostly felted tools, to use in the act of building, as well as instructions for how to insert memories. You are instructed to work with memories of feeling safe, free or loved (as well as their opposing elements of feeling insecure, restricted or unloved, when they arise). Memories are offered and shared with your building partner and inserted into the structure with each bolt.

The architecture of the pavilion is by Kristoffer Tejlgaard (DK), who designed the Dome of Visions in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Copenhagen, as well as several futuristic pavilions for the Roskilde Festival and Folkemødet on Bornholm (the Danish equivalent of Almedalen Week on Gotland).

Peltz came across Tejlgaard’s creation Dome of Visions in Stockholm in 2016 while serving as a visiting professor of artistic research at Stockholm University of the Arts. The transparent dome was a temporary building on the Royal Institute of Technology’s campus with the aim of creating a visionary and inspiring meeting place for conversations about a sustainable future. From September 2015 to December 2017, research results, innovations and activities were shown in the form of exhibitions, debates, seminars and artistic events with over 45,000 visitors and 350 curated events.

Investing in new, large-scale architecture and extravagant meeting places in big cities is not unusual. We take it for granted that it is in these metropolises that visions are drawn up and that “investing” in the future of these places s worthwhile. Peltz began to imagine how this type of architecture and its symbolism would effect a rural, post-industrial society like Rejmyre, where confidence in the future and the feeling of being a “valuable place” is not as obvious. Peltz refers to the building as a “necessarily unnecessary” architecture. Namely; that its purpose is for it to be built, as a way to challenge and re-evaluate the position of sparsely populated areas and the people who inhabit them in contemporary society.

Daniel Peltz https://danielpeltz.cargo.site/ Anna Asplind https://www.annaasplind.se/ Kristoffer Tejlgaard https://www.atelierkristoffertejlgaard.com/ David Larsson https://www.davidlarsson.net/ Meri Linna https://merenlinna.wixsite.com/merilinna Anastasiia Sviridenko https://proartibus.fi/anastasia-sviridenko/

The project is made possible by support from: Kulturbryggan, Kulturrådet and Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse. Rejmyre Art Lab receives funding from: Region Östergötland, Kulturrådet and Finspångs kommun.

The Rejmyre Art Lab summer exhibit presents eight contemporary artists interpreting pieces selected by craftspeople associated with one of the oldest standing glassblowing businesses in Sweden; the Reijmyre Glassplant. The exhibit, guest curated by Rasmus Nossbring, presents eight beloved pieces by created by glassblowers outside of the production line, often during breaks or after hours, that serve as the muses for new creations in glass, ceramic, textile, and mixed media. The new pieces represent a disruption to traditional workflows in the production of glass art. This process is normalized as flowing from designers and artists to production, often mass-production, by the skilled hands of the glassblower. In this exhibit we examine a new space and idea directionality, with inspiration instead emanating from the craftsman towards the artist. The exhibit presents the interaction between the craftsman and the artist and serves as a stage for the loud but intangible conversation that occur between the two. The industrial complex and the metropolis, the crafts and the fine arts, the worker and the academic. Boundaries. Lack thereof. Come.

Daniel Peltz att presentera projektet “Refuging in Rejmyre” på Art Platforms seminarium “Shared Spaces” på Konstakademin i Stockholm. The seminar revolves around the role of public art in society. The day that Rejmyre Art Lab is presenting is focused on art and culture in rural areas. https://www.artplatform.se/sharedspaces

ÄR DU NYFIKEN PÅ KONSTLABBET? VÄLKOMMEN TILL ÖPPET HUS 9/9 KL 16-18!

Vi välkomnar alla som är nyfikna på vår verksamhet att komma till Konstlabbet torsdagen den 9 september. Vi kommer att ha drop-in med möjlighet att prova på olika konstaktiviteter. Vår lokal ligger bredvid Engelska Magasinet. OBS! Ingen föranmälan krävs, men målsman bör närvara.

OM KONSTLABBET Konstlabbet är en del av Rejmyre Art Lab som riktar sig till barn i låg- och mellanstadieålder i Rejmyre och Brenäs med omnejd. Programmet bygger på en tvärvetenskaplig grund där barnen får möta experter från olika områden, både konstnärer och forskare. Genom konst och skapande utforskar vi de frågeställningar som berör platsen. Syftet med verksamheten är att utveckla nya metoder för lärande genom konst och att inkludera barnen som med-forskare i Rejmyre Art Labs projekt. Projektet finansieras av Allmänna Arvsfonden.

Per Josefsson, Ulf Lundkvist & Nisse Sandström are three regional artists, showing works that spanns from painting and prints to sculpture in metal and wood. The exhibition is being inaugurated on Saturday September 4th at 13.00. Opening hours are Wednesdays & Saturdays 11-16

Rejmyre Art Lab presents: Frida Fjellman

Engelska Magasinet, Rejmyre

Exhibition period: 6 June - 15 Aug

Opening: 6 June, 14.00

Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11-16

Frida Fjellman is one of Swedens most celebrated glass artists. This summer Rejmyre Art Lab is showing some of her most sperctacular work in the exhibition space Engelska Magasinet in Rejmyre.

The exhibition program is supported by: Statens Kulturråd, Region Östergötland and Finspångs kommun.

Maja Bakken, Sandra Hiredal, Inga Tsernova, Anna-Kajsa Wikström

Exhibition period: 3 April - 16 May Hours: Saturdays 11-16, Wednesdays 13-18

Four artists who recently graduated from the Bachelor-program Ädellab at Konstfack are showing an extension of their degree-projects in Engelska Magasinet in Rejmyre. These young artists have developed individual projects that all have a relationship to the body, material dependent craft and fragility. The work is spanning from jewelry and sculptural installation to video and performance, featuring materials such as wood, metal, silicon, ice, grass and human hair. The installations will keep on growing as the artists are present, working in the space during the last five days of the exhibition (12-16 May).

View the recording of the seminar: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/11TJ3nevKf81LDqOA7cigmkf8ASdcZ7Vh

What happens when we include artistic investigation as a core competency in remediating a contaminated site? A clean up effort would often begin with consulting experts: soil scientists, geologists, etc. What if we positioned artists as part of this group of expert consultants? What kind of findings does art find? How do these findings alter the act of cleaning up? This seminar gathers artist participants in the “DETOX-Clean it up!” project along with artists, curators and thinkers who have engaged with related projects.

About the project: For the past three years, Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies has been working on the artistic research project DETOX - Clean it up! Together with a group of Swedish and Nordic artists, we have been conducting an investigation of the contaminated land underneath our feet in Rejmyre. We began by negotiating our position, as official members of the local government’s working group charged with studying, developing and executing a plan to ‘clean up’ this contaminated site. The soil around the glass factory contains pockets of concentrated lead, cadmium and arsenic, by-products of the 200-year-old glass industry in Rejmyre, that are now recognized as toxic materials. The local government inherited the land from the glassworks in 2015, in one of the multiple factory bankruptcy proceedings. In the process, the waste from the historic production processes transferred from the owners of the business to become a public responsibility. We are now the owners of a major environmental problem that the regional government has deemed so toxic that it must be ‘cleaned up’.

‘One of the propositions of artistic research is a repositioning of the artists’ role in society, as one who, through the making of artworks, engenders a process of public reflection and the consideration of contemporary complexities. The core work of this project is to think the act of ‘cleaning up.’ We began from an interest in the relationship between this project, i.e. the local government being called on to clean up the toxic waste behind the factory after the company has abandoned the site, and the ways artists and artworks are often called on to ‘clean up’ in the wake of destructive capitalist endeavors. If the directionality of this instrumentalized understanding of art’s work is ‘up’, what might it be to respond to the call to: clean it sideways? We approach what has been deemed ‘waste’ as ‘valuable material’, engaging ourselves as artists in the clean-up process allows us to tap into this latent socio-poetic value. In order to ‘clean it sideways’, we need to account for the potential of this waste, as a resource that allows us to consider who we were, who we are and who we might be becoming.’ – Daniel Peltz, research leader Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies

SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Part 1: DETOX- Clean it Up!

13.00-13.15 introduction to the Detox:Clean it up! project by Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies research director Daniel Peltz 13.15 - 13.30 Cecilia Jonsson (NL/SE), artist, presents her work “The forbidden garden” conducted in Rejmyre 2019-2020 13.30-13.45 Frida Hållander (SE), PhD artist, presents her work “Fabrikens lunga” conducted in Rejmyre 2018-2019. 13.45-14.00 Daniel Peltz (SE/US), artist and Professor of Site and Situation Specific Practices, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, presents his work “A refuge in Rejmyre”.

Paus 10 min

14.10-14.25 HarrieLiveart (FI), artist duo Meri Linna & Saija Kassinen, presents their work “Psyche of the land” conducted in Rejmyre 2018-2019 14.25 - 14.40 Sissi Westerberg, artist and co-founder of Rejmyre Art Lab gives a brief overview of the participants and projects from the three-year exploration. 14.40-15.10 Break-out groups / discussion

Pause 5 min

Part 2: Exploring kinships

15.15-15.35 Vytautas Michelkevicius, curator, Associate Professor of Photography and Media Art at the Vilnius Academy of the Arts and former artistic director of Nida Art Colony discuss Nida’s work in relation to Detox:Clean it up! 15.35-15.55 Per Nilsson, Archaeologist and researcher at Östergötland Museum discusses waste as cultural resource

Pause 5 min

16.00-16.20 Caroline Mårtensson, environmental artist discusses her practice

Part 3 : Closing the space

16.20-16.45 Taru Elfving, curator and writer, artistic director CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, Research affiliate Visual Cultures Goldsmiths University of London, respondent

The seminar is produced in collaboration with Konstfrämjandet Funders: Statens Kulturråd, Nordisk Kulturfond, Kulturkontakt Nord, Finspångs kommun

DeTox - Clean it Up! Rejmyre Art Lab presenterar forskningsprojektet DeTox – Clean it Up! Engelska Magasinet, Rejmyre Vernissage lördag 5 sept kl 14 Öppet: 5 September – 31 Oktober 2020, lördagar kl 11-16, onsdagar 14-19

Under de senaste tre åren har Rejmyre Art Lab genomfört det konstnärliga forskningsprojektet DeTox-Clean it Up! Tillsammans med en grupp svenska och internationella konstnärer har vi arbetat parallellt med kommunens arbetsgrupp som fått i uppdrag att hantera frågan om föroreningarna vid Reijmyre Glasbruk. Med platsen som utgångspunkt har konstnärerna utvecklat projekt som relaterar till och undersöker situationen och den historiskt kontaminerade marken. Resultat från konstnärernas undersökningar har under de senaste åren kunnat ses runt omkring Rejmyre i form av plats-specifika konst-installationer. I utställningen i Engelska Magasinet hösten 2020 får du ta del av delar av de projekt som kommit till under det senaste året.

Deltagande konstnärer: Ulla Ridderberg (SE), Nicolas Cheng (SE/HK), Stine Bidstrup (DK), BOOM! (SE), Ammy Olofsson (SE), Cecilia Jonsson (SE), Saad Hajou (SE/SY), Daniel Peltz (SE) & Kristoffer Tejlgaard (DK), Sissi Westerberg (SE) & Kerstin Ribers (SE)

Engelska Magasinet i Rejmyre Saturday 25/7

Rejmyre Art Lab is presenting a one-day event with the female separatist glass group BOOM! in Rejmyre, in collaboration with Östergötlands Museum.

13-16: BOOM! will blow glass in public with the portable glass furnace Spajsy

14.00: Guided tour of the exhibition and enactment of the mechanic installation “kvinnomaskinen” (the women machine).

The event is free of charge and there is no need to sign up in advance.

Rejmrer Art Lab is presenting the female separatist glass group BOOM! in Rejmyre, in collaboration with Östergötlands Museum. The exhibition is open in Engelska Magasinet Wednesday - Sunday from 11.00-16.00 until August 15th 2020

Public Event July 25th in Engelska Magasinet

13-16: BOOM! will blow glass in public with the portable glass furnace Spajsy

14.00: Guided tour of the exhibition and enactment of the mechanic installation “kvinnomaskinen” (the women machine).

The artist and cartoonist Saad Hajo is presenting a new video animation in Engelska Magasinet as part of the project “Detox-Clean it up!” which uses the contaminated grounds behind the glass factory as its starting point. Opening Friday 10 April at 14.00

Saad Hajo lives in Norrköping, born1968 in Damaskus and one of Swedens most prominent cartoonists. This is the second step on involving Saad Hajo in the project “Detox-Clean it up!” which started in 2018 and has involved over 20 artists so far.

Exhibition period: 10 April -24 May Hours: by appointment

Welcome to a presentation of the artist and cartoonist Saad Hajo in the hot shop of Reijmyre Glasbruk Saturday 7 dec at 14.00

Saad Hajo lives in Norrköping, born1968 in Damaskus and one of Swedens most prominent cartoonists.

Exhibition period: 7-20 dec Hours: mån-fre 10-14.30

Open studios and installations around Rejmyre. Rejmyre Art Lab is showing work by Tilda Dalunde, Frida Hållander & Kerstin Ribers.

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SITES AND ARTISTS

Kalbo: Galleri Skatan: Kerstin Hedman, Nisse Sandström, Åsa Larsson

Rejmyre: Linda Maasing, Michael Maasing, Mari Juslin, Irina Shujski Rejmyre Art Lab: Tilda Dalunde (outdoors from 18.00), Frida Hållander (Rejmyre Antik 11-16) & Kerstin Ribers (Rejmyre Turistinformation 11-16)

Ripperstorp: Skansens Krukmakeri, Kerstin Danielsson, Per Josefsson

Lämmetorp: Monica Andersson, Jessica JPM Concreate och Margret Mattsson

Tilda Dalunde’s piece “Longing for safety in the impossible” is a light installation that can be viewed after dusk. It consists of left over glass pieces form the glass production that glow in different rytms. The installation is placed inside the fence in the contaminated area, close to the depot where 200 years of toxic waste form the glass factory lies.

ÖSTGÖTADAGARNA i REJMYRE Lördag 7 sept 

Ljud-Workshop med Mattias Hofvendahl och guidad visning av Rejmyre Art Labs konstinstallationer

OBS! SISTA CHANSEN ATT SE KONSTVERKEN INNAN UTSTÄLLNINGEN PLOCKAS NED

PROGRAM LÖRDAG 7 SEPT

10.00-15.00 Glasblåsning på Reijmyre Glasbruk  

12.00 Guidad visning i hyttan 

14.00 Guidad visning av konst-installationerna med Rejmyre Art Lab (samling vid Rejmyre Art Labs forskningscenter mitt emot Turistbyrån)

15.00 Ljud-workshop i glashyttan för alla åldrar med Mattias Hofvendahl 

Som en del i projektet DeTox - Clean it up! har en första grupp konstnärer utgått ifrån situationen med 200 år av föroreningar bakom Reijmyre Glasbruk. Resultatet av deras efterforskningar och reaktioner visas som plats-specifika konstinstallationer i Rejmyre 29/6 - 8/9 2019.

Utställare 2019: Hasti Radpour (IR/SE), Mattias Hofvendahl (SE), Frida Hållander (SE), Harrie Liveart - Meri Linna & Saija Kassinen (FI), Sissi Westerberg (SE), Kerstin Ribers (SE), Daniel Peltz (US/SE) & Kristoffer Tejlgaard (DK)

Rejmyre Art Lab presents:

NOT FOR EXPORT – performance by Daniel Peltz and Ioana Yucan

RETENTION - installation by Erna Skúladóttir & Karin Blomgren Introduced by Annika Björkman from IASPIS/Konstnärsnämnden

NOT FOR EXPORT - as place, as time, as performed philosophy Daniel Peltz (US/SE) and Ioana Jucan (RO/US) present a lecture performance composed of miniature sculptures, live-animation, video projections and participatory moments. Together they offer a multi-layered narrative exploring how, within the context of a small factory town turned industrial tourist destination, we might craft a thing, a place, a way of being that is Not for Export. Peltz and Jucan have presented previous versions of this performance at Färgfabriken in Stockholm, the Norrköping Konstmuseum and at the 2019 Performance Philosophy Biennial in Amsterdam. We are happy to present this performance for the first time in Rejmyre. At the center of the performance is a proposal for A Refuge in Rejmyre, a participatory architectural proposal designed to give refuge to, and take refuge in, a small community of unemployed logging elephants from Myanmar. The first stage of this building process is scheduled for the culmination of the DeTox - Clean it up! project in summer 2020.

RETENTION – site-specific installation Artist-duo Skúladóttir & Blomgren have worked together for several years making site-specific installations. Their large-scale and sculptural work incorporates material information and impulses from the surrounding nature, local history and architectural features. Together they have presented large, spatial installations at institutions including Galleri F15, Moss; KRAFT, Bergen; Parcours Céramique Carougeois International Biennial, Switzerland and most recently at Kunsthall Stavanger. Erna E. Skúladóttir and Karin Blomgren studied together at Bergen Academy of Art and Design, graduating in 2014. The duo has spent the last month in Rejmyre and are now showing the first step of a two year project within the frame work of Rejmyre Art Lab´s current research strand: DeTox – Clean it up! which revolves around the contaminated waste site behind the glass factory in Rejmyre.

PROGRAM 14.00 Erna E Skúladóttir & Karin Blomgren in conversation with Annika Björkman from IASPIS. (Rejmre Art Lab Center for Peripheral Studies) 14.15 Introduction of Rejmyre Art Lab´s embedded installations by seven Nordic artists 14.30 Live music with Kristoffer Berg (Folkets Hus) 15.00 Performance with Daniel Peltz & Ioan Jucan (Folkets Hus)

WELCOME! We gather by Rejmre Art Lab Center for Peripheral Studies, opposite the Tourist Information. The event is free of charge.

Rejmre Art Lab Center for Peripheral Studies are supported by Statens Kulturråd, Kulturkontakt Nord, Nordisk Kulturfond, Finspångs kommun & Folkuniversitetet

Erna Skúladóttir’s och Karin Blomgren’s project is supported by: Nordic-baltic mobility program, Bergen commune, Icelandic artists’ salary fund, Muggur – SÍM Association of Icelandic artists & Norske Billedkunstneres Vederlagsfond

Information: phone: 0709-720306 mail: info@rejmyreartlab.org

Rejmyre Art Lab invites to an open dinner and discussion with this years artist-in-residence. Location: Rejmyre Art Lab artist-in-residence, Kalbovägen 121, 61272 Rejmyre, Sweden R.S.V.P. to: info@rejmyreartlab.org or +46 709-720306

Participants: Cecilia Jonsson (SE/NO), Erna E Skúladóttir (IS), Karin Blomgren (SE/NO), Stine Bidstrup (DK), Tilda Dalunde (SE), Nicholas Cheng (SE/HK), Ulla Ridderberg (SE), Saad Hajo (SE/SY), Sissi Westererbg (SE), Daniel Peltz (SE/US)

Embedded Installations - Nordic Ensemble

OPENING Saturday 29/6 kl 14.00

Guided tour of the installations, music performance Kenny Dolk Karlsson, presentations by the participating artists and introduction of this years new artist-in-residence. “Fika” will be served!

We are now showing the result of the first round of artistic investigations of the project DeTox - Clean it up! that uses the situation of 200 years of toxic waste behind the Reijmyre Glass Factory as it’s starting point. The projects are shown as site-specific installations in Rejmyre 29/6 - 8/9 2019.

Exhibitors: Hasti Radpour (IR/SE), Mattias Hofvendahl (SE), Frida Hållander (SE), Harrie Liveart - Meri Linna & Saija Kassinen (FI), Sissi Westerberg (SE), Kerstin Ribers (SE), Daniel Peltz (US/SE) & Kristoffer Tejlgaard (DK)

Artist-in-residence: Cecilia Jonsson (SE/NO), Erna E Skúladóttir (IS), Karin Blomgren (SE/NO), Stine Bidstrup (DK), Tilda Dalunde (SE), Nicholas Cheng (HK/SE), Ulla Ridderberg (SE)

The project is supported by: Swedish Arts Council, Nordic Culture Point, Nordic Culture Fund, Finspångs Kommun & Folkuniversitetet

SOUND AS MATERIAL A workshop in conjunction with Glasets Dag in Rejmyre Saturday May 4th 12.00 PM

Welcome to participate in an experimental workshop on sound and materiality. We will explore how sound responds to and can be played through different materials, using contact speakers.

Mattias Hofvendahl is a sound and video artist based in Linköping, Sweden. he is one of this years participants in Rejmyre Art Labs project ”DeTox Clean it up!” which takes itäs starting point in the contaminated waste behind the glass factory. om utgår ifrån föroreningarna vid Reijmyre Glasbruk. The result of Mattias investigations will be presented as a site-specific ssound installation in Rejmyre on June 29th 2019.

The lung of the factory an installation by Frida Hållander

The factory leaves behind contaminated land and contaminated bodies. We agree to public responsibility for the former but not the latter, revealing how the body and nature are linked, as industrial ‘disposal’ sites, though responsibility for them is not shared equally.

Opening reception: Sat 8 Dec 14.30 featuring a public conversation with Frida Hållander and the artist Ingela Johansson.

The lung of the factory is an installation by the craft artist Frida Hållander. It explores a contaminated site behind the glass factory in Rejmyre, where two-hundred years of waste have been left behind as a public inheritance. Hållander is, together with other participants in Rejmyre Art Lab’s artistic research project DeTox-Clean it up!, studying this contaminated site through the lens of her artistic practice. Hållander uses the image of the lung with reference to the human body but also to the factory itself, as the lung of the “community body”. Hållander’s contribution to this multi-year research project draws on an element of personal narrative; her grandfather worked, for part of his professional life, at Limmared Glass Factory in the southwest of Sweden, having previously worked in the textile industry. He died of the lung disease emphysema, which was likely work-related. His death was perhaps caused by the environment of the glass factory, the dust from the textile industry, or other circumstances – it has not been confirmed. What we can confirm are the traces of material substances that remain in bodies; land masses and human masses. Hållander sketches the narrative trajectories above on tissue wrapping paper. Through the fragility and vulnerability of the tissue, her work connects the hands that make: the hand and the lung that blows, to the workers (glasbinderskorna) who care for the fragile glass, wrapping each piece for protection against the forces of nature. On the tissue paper she depicts the contaminated site through stories of love and struggle. She also reflects on the lung, through text fragments from a 1980s scientific study: Mortality in the Swedish glassworks industry and incorporates the story of the 1920a Swedish Factory Workers’ Union. The work raises questions about how we might organize responsibility for our collective lungs, hands and nature. What might a new contract look like for our common bodies?

Frida Hållander is a craft artist and a PhD candidate at Konstfack in Stockholm and at The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg. Her forthcoming dissertation Whose Hand is Making? (spring 2019) is a study in artistic research that addresses craft, class, feminism and the will to contest. Hållander holds a bachelor’s degree (2006) and a master’s degree (2009) from Konstfack, Department of Ceramics and Glass. She has also studied at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, (2005). Among her publications is the article ”Homeless Practices” in The Journal of Modern Craft, 2013.

The exhibition is open Tue-Sat 11.00-16.00 (8-20 dec 2018)  and by appointment (2 jan – 3 feb 2019) 

http://www.fridahallander.se/

Hasti Radpour is showing the piece “Out of Mind out of sight” in the space that used to belong to the chandelier factory. The installation is one of the outcomes from the research project “DeTox-Clean it up!” that is investigating and responding to the contaminated site behind the glass factory in Rejmyre.

Exhibition period: 1 sept - 2 dec 2018

Hours (until 2/11) mon-fri 10-16, sat 11-15

Hours (from 3/11-2/12) sat 11-15

Opening: Sat Sept 1st 14.00

Hasti Radpor is born in Iran and currently living in Linköping Sweden.

The project is supported by “Konsten att mötas” (Sveriges Konstföreningar & Postkodstiftelsen), Swedish Arts Council, Finspångs kommun, Region Östergötland and Folkuniversitetet.

During two days we gather to explore the notions of site-dependent practice together with us, using Rejmyre as a point of departure

Timings:

Sat 31 June 10-16 at Norrköping Art Museum

Sun 1 July 10-16 in Rejmyre

Application is open to artists and craft practicioners form all fields. Regional artists from Östergötland can participate free of charge. Please contact us for more information!

Welcome to an introduction to Rejmyre Art Labs new research project DeTox – Clean it up! and a discussion about the contaminated land by Reijmyre Glasbruk on “Glasets Dag” in Rejmyre Saturday May 5th at 12 pm

Invited to the discussion is Sara Erjeby (Fil mag soil science) some of the participating artists as well as the local public.

“For hundreds of years, the Reijmyre Glasbruk has produced glass objects and sold the ‘finished products’ while keeping some of the leftovers in piles behind the factory. At first the piles were clearly separate from the surrounding landscape but with time they merged with and became the landscape. The focus of our work is on the current situation in Rejmyre, where the local authorities have been engaged in a process aimed at investigating and dealing with the piles of waste and the arsenic and lead contaminated soil behind the glass factory. We have proposed a cooperation with them, where we will investigate and respond to this situation as an artistic research. We are interested in the relationship between this project, i.e. the local government being called on to ‘clean up’ the toxic waste behind the factory after the company has abandoned the site, and the ways artists and artworks are often called on to ‘clean up’ in the wake of destructive capitalist endeavors. We are invested in reconstituting the ‘act of cleaning up’ as a contested demand and a site of research in and of itself, as well as exploring the socio-cultural value of that which is deemed waste and the subcategory of toxic waste.”

• Daniel Peltz, research leader

The Exhibition at Norrköpings konstmuseum is curated by Helena Scragg and developed in close collaboration with Daniel Peltz, who has run an developed the artistic research project Performing Labour where a group of 13 artists inhabited the role of “artist-guerst workers” at the Reijmrye Glassfactory, charged with making products of and about labour during 2016-2017. This exhibition is showing work from Daniel Peltz, David Larsson and Sissi Westerberg.

Visual artists, craft practitioners and art writers are invited to participate in this free 3-hour workshop facilitated by Ioana Jucan and Daniel Peltz, in conjunction with the exhibition Performing Labour at the Norrköping Art Museum. The workshop creates a space for participants to engage critically and creatively in what Peltz refers to as ‘the practice of giving and taking refuge’. Participants are asked to bring one object or artifact from their practice that they would like to ‘give refuge to’ or ‘take refuge in’ and a short reflective/theoretical text related to the object or artifact [texts can be in any language]. The approach to “refuge” that the workshop proposes connects to the current socio-political situation and conditions of the refugee. It also moves in different directions and registers in relation to how we might think of the notion of ‘refuge’, such as the proposition that art and craft under the present socio-economic conditions are in need of refuge. The approach engaged in the workshop refuses to think refuge as an abstraction and thinks through the refusal of certain (established) ways of constituting refuge. In this way, it enacts a kind of performance philosophy of refuge making, which insists on staying with historical complications and complexity.