Bugs & Metamorphosis - Performancekväll i samarbete med Hasselbladstiftelsen

Name: Bugs & Metamorphosis - Performancekväll i samarbete med Hasselbladstiftelsen
Start: 2025-03-28T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-28T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Masthuggsterrassen 3, 413 18 Gothenburg, Sweden

Schedule

Fri Mar 28 2025 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Masthuggsterrassen 3, 413 18 Gothenburg, Sweden | Gothenburg, VG

Bugs & Metamorphosis: Performancekväll
I samband med utställningen Bugs & Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography på Hasselblad Center välkomnar Hasselbladstiftelsen och Skogen er till en kväll med performance där glitch, insekter och teknik står i fokus.
Bugs & Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography utforskar "buggar" i två bemärkelser: både som tekniska glitchar och som insekter. Grupputställningen på Hasselblad Center visar exempel på hur glitchar kan störa och ifrågasätta system för kunskap, klassificering och kontroll. I verken representeras buggarna både som verkliga insekter—som fjärilar, flugor, bin och andra insekter—och som tekniska fel, med teman som svärmar, nätverk, symbios och rubbade ekosystem. Projektet lyfter fram samspel och brytpunkter mellan människa, natur och maskin: hur de påverkar och ibland tar ut varandra.
Under kvällen på Skogen kommer konstnärerna Clare Strand, Sheung Yiu och Olle Essvik, som alla medverkar i utställningen, att genomföra varsin performativ presentation. Dessa relaterar på olika sätt till den dubbla betydelsen av buggar som både tekniska glitchar och insekter.
Efter performanceprogrammet erbjuder Skogen en gemensam middag, där såväl publik som medverkande kan fortsätta samtalen och dela tankar om kvällens händelser.
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TID: Fredag 28:e mars, 19.00 – ca. 22.00 (inkl. middag)
PLATS: Skogen, Masthuggsterrassen 3
MEDVERKANDE:
Clare Strand (UK)
Sheung Yiu (FI/HK)
Olle Essvik (SE)
Fri entré. Evenemanget hålls på engelska. Boka gärna på skogen.pm; platser är begränsat

PROGRAM
Clare Strand
Clare Strand is a UK-based artist who works with, but mostly against the photographic medium. Over the past 25 yrs, she has made work with found imagery, kinetic machinery, web programmes, fairground attractions and most recently, large-scale paintings and chamber music. She often rejects the default settings of the photographic medium and instead and without apology, welcomes a subtle, slow-burn, approach. Her practice is situated somewhere between control and a willful acceptance of chance.
In this performance, Strand will explore the concept of "the glitch" through a collection of short stories. These informal narratives will examine how malfunctions both intentional and accidental, have manifested in her work, shaping not only her artistic practice but also her life outlook.

Sheung Yiu
Since 2019, Sheung Yiu has been working with remote sensing researchers in Finland — following them on field trips to forest plots, and interviewing them about their 'forest reflectance model' — a statistical model used to interpret satellite imagery. Researchers use this model to retrieve information from low-resolution satellite imagery, inferring details about the landscape beyond what is immediately visible on the image. This entails a statistical and probabilistic way of seeing where the task of interpreting an image is increasingly deferred to the machine.
In this performative lecture, How to see something when there is nothing, Yiu will take the audience on a desktop tour through folders of scientists' datasets. Interweaving archives, photographic artworks, and exhibition documentation, the talk will explore how to see the invisible while reflecting on a computer-aided vision that is becoming ever more abstract.

Olle Essvik
Olle Essvik is an artist and teacher working and living in Gothenburg. He works with themes relating to the digital and technology in a human context, touching on notions of everyday life, repetition, and time. The outcome could be a book, a publication, or a sculpture in which traditional materials and techniques like wood and bookbinding converge with programming and code.
In a number of artworks, the visual artist Olle Essvik has taken an interest in insects, bookworms that eat books, electronics as anatomy, and robots whose actions in a way resemble the apparently primitive abilities of insects. In this performance/lecture, The Silverfish Ballet, Essvik will focus on the Silverfish and its life, history and relation to humans. The lecture will be a mixture of animation, text and physical exploration.
Bild: Ground Truth, 2019-2024. Sheung Yiu. Courtesy of the artist.
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ENG
Bugs & Metamorphosis: Performance evening
In connection with the exhibition Bugs & Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography at the Hasselblad Center, the Hasselblad Foundation and Skogen welcome you to an evening of performances where we focus on the glitch, the bug and technology.
Bugs & Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography is an exhibition that explores "bugs" in two intriguing ways: both as technical glitches and as tiny creatures, insects. From digital mishaps to insect-inspired art, the works challenge our understanding of photography and technology. The group exhibition at the Hasselblad Center reveals how glitches can disrupt and question systems of knowledge, classification, and control. Bugs appear both as real creatures—moths, flies, bees, and other insects—and as technical malfunctions with themes like swarming, webbing, symbiosis, and extinction.
During the evening at Skogen, Clare Strand, Sheung Yiu, and Olle Essvik, all of whom are part of the exhibition, will each do a performative presentation. These relate in different ways to the double meaning of "bugs" both as technical glitches and as insects.
After the performance program, Skogen invites everyone to participate in a communal dinner, where the audience and participants can continue the conversations and share their thoughts on the evening's events.

TIME: Friday March 20, 19.00 – ca. 22.00 (inkl. dinner)
PLACE: Skogen, Masthuggsterrassen 3
PARTICIPANTS:
Clare Strand (UK)
Sheung Yiu (FI/HK)
Olle Essvik (SE)

The event is free of charge and will be held in English. Spots are limited, so please book your spot on skogen.pm