alt.SPACE: Malmö | The alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Groups

alt.SPACE: Malmö is an informal research group operating primarily out of Malmö in the south of Sweden. It forms part of an overall collaborative constellation working under the name The alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Groups. alt.SPACE Malmö semi-regularly organizes series of presentations, talks and lectures in different spaces around the city, both domestic, public and others, and additionally arrange occassional themed study retreats, often to the small village Kattvik, situated on the coast approximately 120km north of Malmö. All alt.SPACE events are free and run communally on a 'potlatch' basis.

If you'd like to join our mailing list, simply send an email to coregroup@altspace.info with the phrase 'mailing list' in the title. If you have any other questions or want more information about our activities, feel free to contact Ola Stahl on ola@altspace.info.

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alt.SPACE Research Trip / Retreat: John Cage, Organ2/As Slow As Possible (Halberstadt, Germany)

John Cage, Organ2/As Slow As Possible - a research trip to Halberstadt, Germany. On July 5, 2008, 3.33pm to be exact, a chord shift will take place in the Halberstadt 639 year long performance of the above mentioned piece by John Cage. For further information please see http://www.john-cage.halberstadt.de. The alt.SPACE Group organized a research trip to Halberstadt to coincide with the chord shift. The retreat also comprised short presentations by participants and informal discussion around selected readings by and about John Cage. See slideshow above for photos from the trip. The soundtrack comprises a recording of the actual chord shift itself.

"... presents..." (III) : Jesse Kauppila's Aquatint Explosions

Friday, June 13, 2008 Jesse Kauppila comes to Malmö to organize a series of explosive experiments in one of our parks. Contact us for details if you'd like to participate. Here's how Jesse described his project:

"Francisco Goya pioneered a revolutionary printmaking technique that he used to quickly produce half-tones and create his monumental “The Disasters of War.” This technique is called aquatint. To create an aquatint Goya used a box full of resin that he spun like a hamster wheel. After spinning, this agitated resin fell evenly on a metal printing plate placed in the aquatint box. When heated the resin adhered to the plate which was then be placed in acid. Acid would eat away at the parts of the plate not covered by melted resin. When inked, such a plate produced a halftone.

While quick and easy this technique did not come without dangers. The spinning of the aquatint box could create sparks that would ignite the volatile resin dust. This would result in a devastating explosion. Instead of an occupational hazard, I believe these explosions contain creative potential. A similar explosion can be created, the ignited aquatint particles directed towards the printing plate, these particles then immediately adhere to the plate.

In this experiment six different lengths of tube are used to direct the explosion towards six different printing plates. The effects of two of these tube lengths are then examined in more detail; three explosions from each of these tube lengths are then each projected onto a separate plate. All plates are then placed in acid All plates will be printed in black. The three plates from each repeated explosion will be superimposed in color. Further results may be analyzed through mapping and musical composition."

"... presents..." (II) : McCloud Zicmuse's Temporary Micro-Nations

McCloud Zicmuse's Temporary Micro-Nations. April 18-20, 2008. McCloud Zicmuse comes to Malmö to present and demonstrate his Temporary Micro Nations project. Following his introduction we will attempt to at least begin to construct a temporary micro nations somewhere in the city. You can follow the project and its development on the Temporary Micro Nations website.

The "... presents…" Series (I) : Franklin's VDC Copy Centre

"...presents…" is a series of informal talks taking place across the virtual space that is the Internet using Skype video-conferencing technologies that allows us to link spaces in Malmö, Sweden and Columbus, Ohio (USA). The project was initiated as a collaboration between the members of the artist collective C.CRED and the alt.SPACE Group in Malmö and the US based ar group Red76 as part of the project Franklin's VDC Copy Centre initiated by Red76, but we hope to find ways to keep the project going also once this exhibition is over.

For the VDC Copy Centre project we have invited one or more friend(s) to come and have some food and drinks with us each Wednesday evening, 8 pm Swedish time/1 pm in Ohio, and to present something – a project, a text, an idea, anything. The presentations will be streamed ‘live’ to the exhibition space in Columbus, Ohio. From the replies we received, we’ve come up with the following program:

Wednesday, April 2, 8pm/1pm: The group New Beginnings presents and demonstrates some of their recent experiments with volcano eruption and island formation. You can download a video of the presentation here.

Wednesday, March 26, 8pm/1pm: Carl Lindh talks about the Japanese phenomenon of the suikinkutsu. You can watch a video recording of the presentation here and listen to a sound recording here.

Wednesday, March 12, 8pm/1pm: Ola Stahl talks about his recent reworking of a small section of piano music by French composer Pierre Boulez. The presentation is followed by a performance of the piece by Ola Stahl and Carl Lindh. To see photographs from the performance click here. Listen to a recording of the performance here. Read a transcript of the presentation here. See a draft version of the score of the audio piece here.

Wednesday, March 5, 8pm/1pm: Peder Alexis Olsson talks about his forthcoming book, to be published with OEI in 2008. Watch a video of the presentation here (poor sound quality). Listen to a recording of the presentation here (reasonably good sound quality). Read a transcript of part of the reading here (in Swedish).

Wednesday, February 20, 8pm/1pm: Kajsa Thelin talks about C.CRED’s Counter/Cartographies project and reads from the second chapter of their forthcoming book 'Counter.Cartographies: Notes toward a Future Atlas', recently published in an issue of the journal Pequod. Watch a video of the reading here (poor sound quality). Listen to a recording of the reading here (reasonably good sound quality). Read a transcript of the text here.

Retreat III : Kattvik, March 17-19, 2008

Retreat III : Kattvik, March 17-19, 2008. Retreat will involve fairly walks, bunker visits, and reading groups (Michel Foucault's text 'Different Spaces' will be discussed). Screenings include Tarkovskij's film 'Stalker' and Haynes' recent Dylan biopic 'I'm Not There'.

Retreat II : Kattvik, August 2-7, 2007

Retreat II : Kattvik, August 2-7, 2007. Meetings will be held on the top of abandoned concrete defense bunkers constructed along the coastline in and nearby Kattvik. Texts have been chosen that relate to the bunkers and the issues they raise. Reading: Paul Virilio, ‘The Monolith’ in Bunker Archeology (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997). W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz (London: Penguin Books, 2002). Additionally, we screen Ingmar Bergman’s film Det Sjunde Inseglet (The Seventh Seal), which was shot at a nearby location.

Retreat I :Kattvik, March 15-17, 2006

Retreat I : Kattvik, March 15-17, 2006. Daily morning and afternoon sessions with breaks for walks. Reading: Alain Badiou, ‘The Ethic of Truth’ in Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (London and New York; Verso, 2001). In preparation for the reading, weuse a pdf version of the text to make notes digitally. Prior to the reading group the notes will be gathered into one pdf document that we'll use as a basis for the discussion. An overhead projector will be used to collaboratively and visually take note of the main points raised in the discussion.