| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-07T14:14:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-01-07T14:14:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/41454 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
| dc.subject | Gesture | sv |
| dc.subject | Defiance | sv |
| dc.subject | Performativity | sv |
| dc.subject | Political | sv |
| dc.subject | Art and Activism | sv |
| dc.subject | Time | sv |
| dc.subject | Queer | sv |
| dc.subject | Resistance | sv |
| dc.subject | Archive | sv |
| dc.subject | Sexual Politics | sv |
| dc.subject | Homo-normativity | sv |
| dc.subject | Body | sv |
| dc.subject | Artistic research | sv |
| dc.subject | Moving Images | sv |
| dc.subject | Humor | sv |
| dc.subject | Nervousness | sv |
| dc.title | Spaces for Resistance | sv |
| dc.type.svep | artistic work | |
| dc.contributor.creator | Coble, Mary | |
| art.typeOfWork | Artistic Work (Curation of the Spring Season 2015 of exhibitions at the Vita Kuben Contemporary Art Exhibition Space, NorrlandsOpera Umeå, Sweden) | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Vita Kuben Contemporary Art Exhibition Space, NorrlandsOpera Umeå, Sweden | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 1. Exhibition Website for Whaled Women by
Ewa Einhorn och Jeuno JE Kim | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 2. Whaled Women Image, Ewa Einhorn och Jeuno JE Kim | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 3. Whaled Women Image, Ewa Einhorn och Jeuno JE Kim | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 4. Exhibition Website for Seroquel XR, Sidsel Meineche Hansen | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 5. Seroquel XR Image, Sidsel Meineche Hansen | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 6. Seroquel XR Image, Sidsel Meineche Hansen | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 7. Woodcut Block Print, Sidsel Meineche Hansen | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 8. Woodcut Block Print, Sidsel Meineche Hansen | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 9. Gestures of Defiance Installation Shot, Mary Coble | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 10. Gestures of Defiance Installation Shot, Mary Coble | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 11. Gestures of Defiance Zine, Mary Coble | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | 12. PDF File of Gestures of Defiance Zine, MaryCoble | sv |
| art.description.project | Exhibition Schedule:
30.1 – 7.3 Ewa Einhorn & Jeuno JE Kim: Whaled Women
13.3 – 2.5 Sidsel Meineche Hansen: The Manual Labor Series
8.5 – 25.7 Mary Coble: Gestures of Defiance
“Jeuno JE Kim and Ewa Einhorn's short film Whaled Women (2013) is a satirical critique of current demands for assimilation. It takes place in the fictional town of Krabstadt where the Nordic countries place their 'unwanteds': immigrants, long-term unemployed and criminals. A group of women wash up on Krabstadt's shores after fleeing an ecological disaster, and the following integration process reveals the system's hypocrisy, intolerance and xenophobia. Appropriating the form of the typically U.S. male dominated animated sitcom with the incision of a queer feminist, European perspective Whaled Women insist on the need to resist the Nordic self-image as non-colonial and all-inclusive.
Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s series of woodcut block prints with titles such as Toxic Institution, 4ever mortgage, Torture me so I can learn and OCD.CBT.OD. (2013) is part of her ongoing inquiry exploring nervousness as a form of institutional critique and as resistance towards becoming human capital through professionalization. She describes each print as a micro-political diagram. Meineche Hansen’s focus expands in part through her latest video work Seroquel® (2014) where she considers the pharmaceutical industry as an "emotional-industrial complex that allow capitalism to enter our relationship to ourselves.” Her work can be seen as a critique of society's bio-political normalization and disciplining of the individual.
Kim/ Einhorn's and Meineche Hansen’s works are insistent with humor, mimicry, institutional critique, poetry and critical unruliness. According to Coble these qualities have the power to resist the dominating narratives of mainstream society, such as standards of success, adaptation to the norm and fear of failing. Coble’s own works add a focus on explicitly queer strategies of resistance.
In Coble’s Gestures of Defiance (2015), attention is on the raised, clenched fist as a symbol of resistance. Historically activated in various political protests, Coble considers images of the fist in connection with contemporary events such as LGBT Pride marches, which initially grew as social activist movements with the desire to claim space and create visibility. Coble questions both the heteronormativity and homonationalism that in part is seen through the commercialization of marches such as Pride today. Using banners and flags from various contexts in the installation at Vita Kuben the artist calls for a reclaiming of the raised fist as a sign of solidarity with those who are not in a position of privilege or visibility today. In the live piece for MADE 2015 Coble re-appropriates the raised fist as an embodiment of repeated defiant gesture.” | sv |
| art.description.summary | Coble curated the Spring Season of the Vita Kuben Contemporary Art Exhibition Space, NorrlandsOpera Umeå, Sweden. The curatorial frameworks was based on “Coble's current artistic research project on manifestations of resistance called “Gestures of Defiance”. The artist invited were collaborators Jeuno JE Kim and Ewa Einhorn as well as Sidsel Meineche who also engage in critiques of and resistance to power, privilege, normativity and categorization. For the final exhibition Coble will show work at Vita Kuben in dialogue with a live performance as part of MADE 2015, Umeå’s performing arts festival.”
Gestures of Defiance is an artistic research project evolving around the histories of queer activism and related political protests. Questions are asked such as: How can resistance be formulated from a queer or marginalized position in consideration of/with power, privilege, categorization and normalization? What are the tactics, props and gestures used in the history of queer activism related political protests? How can they be archived and activated and re-performed? Is “tactical frivolity” a viable strategy of protest? | sv |
| art.description.supportedBy | Vita Kuben Art Space | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://www.norrlandsoperan.se/sve/evenemang/0130-vernissage_whaled-women/7405 | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://www.norrlandsoperan.se/eng/events/0313-vernissage-2_sidsel-meineche-hansen/7855 | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://www.labourpower.co.uk | sv |
| art.relation.uri | www.norrlandsoperan.se/eng/about-norrlandsoperan/vita-kuben/vita-kuben,-spring-2015 | sv |
| art.relation.uri | www. marycoble.com/solo-exhibitions-installations/-gestures-of-defiance-at-vita-kuben-ume-sweden-2015 | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://gesturesofdefiance.blogspot.se | sv |
