| art.description.project | A five-month solo project as part of Marabouparken Konsthall Guestroom program consisting of a two-week intensive boxing training for self-defining women, two public talks at Marabouparken Konsthall, a one-day collage workshop, a set of printed T-shirts “Box me in? No thank you”, a set of four printed posters in Swedish, English, Arabic, Tigrinya, a poster addressing a set of questions.
This body of works responds to Marabouparken Konsthall Guestroom programme inviting collectives to develop new strands of practice in order to explore the struggle for collectivity and equality in an age of individualism - based on Leela Ghandi's book "The Common Cause".
Starting with a list of questions, such as “Who gives in?” “Who compromises?” “Who accommodates?” “Who cares?” “Who edits?” “Who organizes?” “Who translates?” “Do we need a new, less tired and exclusive language to talk about all of this?” “And how do you document laughter?” (see full set of questions on poster in appendix) this new body of works explores the question ”How can boxing, which is so focused on an individual fighting against another individual, survival of the fittest and fastest, be used as a feminist, and/or creative tool?” (Ar Parmacek, in ”Boxing and Unboxing Calendar”, London: AND Publishing, 2018)
To investigate these questions AND in collaboration with Jenny Richards (curator Marabouparken Konsthall Stockholm) organized two weeks of intensive boxing training for self-defining women in order to learn non-verbal negotiation, care, anger, dialogue, transgressions and defence; to learn to ‘relate’ and help to find a way to address the entangled conflicts and contradictions one has to negotiate. The boxing classes were taught by boxers Sofia Thorne and Airin Fardipour and hosted by Project Playground in Hallonbergen, Sundbyberg.
This work has been peer-reviewed by Ar Parmacek in “Boxing and Unboxing Calendar”, AND Publishing, 2018 | sv |
| art.description.summary | This body of temporal, performative, physical and dialogical work explores the question ”How can boxing, which is so focused on an individual fighting against another individual, survival of the fittest and fastest, be used as a feminist, and/or creative tool?” (Ar Parmacek) It is part of Marabouparken Konsthall Guestroom programme inviting collectives to develop new strands of practice in order to explore the struggle for collectivity and equality in an age of individualism - based on Leela Ghandi's book "The Common Cause". | sv |
