OBS Första performance börjar kl 19, men det finns soppa och dryck från kl 18

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.

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

Cooking for a silverfish

A few years ago, I was invited to create an artwork about bugs and glitches for an exhibition at Hasselblad Center located in the same building as the Gothenburg Museum of Art, to be held in the summer of 2024, before the museum closed for renovation. One of the reasons for the renovation was an invasion of silverfish, which ate the artworks and left traces of material glitch.

I decided to create edible paper images to attract insects. The idea was to make the insects consume the artworks in a slow process throughout the exhibition period. I made paper from food such as pasta, flour, sugar and old paper from books. I set up surveillance cameras to follow the process as the insects slowly ate the artworks. As the summer turned to fall, the insects disappeared, and I watched the images slowly decay. The insects were gone. The exhibition date was moved to February 2025, a time when the insects are less active. I altered my idea. The uneaten prints were archived in three books and the artwork became a performance and cooking show for silverfish.

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