More about HISTORY WILL BE KIND TO ME FOR I INTEND TO PERFORM IT – a project that examines and challenges historical narratives


History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It examines performative and collaborative ways knowledge is embodied and performed. It is a collaborative project with New Performance Turku Festival, Performance Art Links /Fylkingen Stockholm, Performance Art Bergen and RAVY Biennial, initiated by the artists and curators Márcio Carvalho and Leena Kela. It consists of artist residencies, performances, talks and symposiums taking place in 2018 in Turku, Stockholm and Bergen. Artists and thinkers will travel and perform in the Nordic countries, ultimately developing a series of up to 24 performances as exercises to demythologise and decolonise knowledge and its hegemonic singularity.
The project title History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It comes from Winston Churchill's quote “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”. This quote reveals how the complex layers and events of the past have been reduced to dominant, one-sided narratives - for the benefit of the ones who have the power to create it. The project finds it crucial to replace “to write it” with “to perform it” to be able to re-analyse knowledge formations and meaning makings with the body in performance. History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It will rely on the body as a site of discourse and will use performance as a tool to exercise counter-knowings and perform and embody forms of individual and collective remembrance.

All participating artists:
Maryan Abdulkarim (Finland), Elias Björn (Sweden), Christian Etongo (Cameroon), Serge Olivier Fokoua (Cameroon/Canada), Sasha Huber (Finland), Kirsty Kross (Norway), Nathalie Mba Bikoro (Gabon/Germany), Valeria Montti Colque (Sweden), Anthea Moys (South Africa), Mekdes W Shebeta (Ethiopia/Norway), Diana Soria Hernandez (Finland/Mexico), Gitte Sætre (Norway), Gøril Wallin (Norway) and participants of the workshop An archive of my own/ Performing Historyled by artist Shiva Anoushirvani(Sweden).

Overall project schedule:
Residency week in Turku, Finland 27.8.-2.9.2018
PALS Festival 6.-8.9.2018 in Stockholm, Sweden
Performance Art Bergen 14.-16.9.2018 in Bergen, Norway
New Performance Turku Festival 21.-23.9.2018 in Turku, Finland

More information and press requests:
New Performance Turku - Leena Kela & Anni Sundbacka: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /+358 400510730
PAB Berformance Art Bergen - Kurt Johannessen
The participants are curated by Performance Art Links Stockholm (PALS), Performance Art Bergen, New Performance Turku Festival, RAVY Biennale and Márcio Carvalho.
Thank you: Fylkingen; Umeå Academy of Fine Arts / SWEDEN; University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design / NORWAY; Tehdas Theatre, the City of Turku and Pro Manilla Foundation / FINLAND

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Thursday 6 September: 19.00 Panel discussion: End Point For Beginners

Guest speakers: -Abir Boukhari -Macarena Dusant -Serge Olivier Fokoua -Elena Agudio

Moderator: -Márcio Carvalho

Friday 7 September: 19.00–24.00 performance programme

19.00 Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro - A History On Lateness (A Kosmos Dictionary on Swedish Emotion)
20.10 Christian Etongo - What’s Love? (3) / Performances series
21.10 Göril Wallin - The stone contains the story: part I
22.30 Collective performance. Workshop An archive of my own/ Performing History led by artist Shiva Anoushirvani
Angelica Falkeling, Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Elena Victoria Pastor Suarez, Jakob Niedziela, Karolina Oxelväg, Louise Blad, Luanda Carneiro Jacoel, Mariusz Mateusz Andrzejczyk & Gabriella Novak, Rebecka Pershagen, Sara Sheikhi, Tanja Andersson
23.15 Diana Soria Hernandez

Saturday 8 September: 19.00–24.00 performance programme

19.00 Valeria Montti Colque - Molnskogen. With: David Heikkinen: live- electronics, Ida Lod voice/violin, Safiye Bahadir performance/song, Carlos Martinez performance/dance, Edwin Nordlund performance, Andres Arango Lopez performance, thanks to: Silvana Olivares, Jorge Montti who helped with the costumes
19.45 Serge Olivier Fokoua - Save our soul
20.30 Performance landscape, individual works by:

Tanja Andersson - Duodji - or the act of core carving
Luanda Carneiro Jacoel - Kalunga entities
Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole - HWBKTMFIITPI
Jakob Niedziela - Contra
Rebecka Pershagen - Your responsibility as a woman
Angelica Falkeling - Elastic Seam
Mariusz Mateusz Andrzejczyk & Gabriella Novak - Personal space
Elena Victoria Pastor Suarez - Borders

22.15 Anthea Moys - Just Follow These Instructions And You Will Be Fine (on the night) -*
23.00 Gitte Saetre - Green Hijab Movement

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Extra info

*- 8/09 22.15 Anthea Moys - Just Follow These Instructions And You Will Be Fine (on the night)

Instructions courtesy of the “History Will Be Kind To Me For I Intend To Perform It” artists and curators:
Leena Kela (Finland), Márcio Carvalho (Portugal), Christian Etongo (Cameroon), Serge Olivier Fokoua (Cameroon/Canada), Diana Soria Hernandez (Finland/Mexico), Gøril Wallin (Norway), Hiroko Tsuchimoto (Japan)
Performed by Anthea Moys

Moys, a South African artist well-known for performing her failures across the globe, will now attempt to perform, with you, a set of specific instructions given to her by her fellow artists. For the “History will be kind to me for I intend to perform it” project, Anthea has recorded various instructions from each artist/curator in order to learn more about their performance practice. The instructors could choose to give instructions for any of the following provocations:

How to prepare for a performance
How to do a performance
How to recover from a performance

From these recordings, she has created a score, which she will herself attempt to perform with you on the night. The work aims to reveal the process of listening and learning through laughter and play, with and from the other. It also experiments with trial and error and practical performative exchange as a playful way to practice decolonization.

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6.–8.9 2018

HISTORY WILL BE KIND TO ME, FOR I INTEND TO PERFORM IT @ PALS, FYLKINGEN

An international festival of performance art and a public discussion at Fylkingen in Stockholm on 6–8 September 2018.
The project invites artists and theorists from African and Nordic countries to use performance as a means to deconstruct knowledge and examine the power relations of today.

Can performative artistic processes challenge the dominating historical narratives? If the fixed history of the west used to be the reference to revisit and remember the past, now it is crucial to bring performance to the forefront of meaning making.

Participating artists:
Christian Etongo (Cameroon), Anthea Moys (South Africa), Serge Olivier Fokoua (Cameroon/Canada), Diana Soria Hernandez (Finland/Mexico), Gøril Wallin (Norway), Gitte Sætre (Norway), Nathalie Mba Bikoro (Gabon/Germany), Valeria Montti Colque (Sweden) and workshop participants.

Program

Thursday 6 September: 19.00 Panel discussion: End Point For Beginners

Guest speakers: -Abir Boukhari -Macarena Dusant -Serge Olivier Fokoua -Elena Agudio
Moderator: Márcio Carvalho
more info here.

Friday 7 September: 19.00–24.00 performance programme

19.00 Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro - A History On Lateness (A Kosmos Dictionary on Swedish Emotion)
20.10 Christian Etongo - What’s Love? (3) / Performances series
21.10 Göril Wallin - The stone contains the story: part I
22.30 Collective performance. Workshop An archive of my own/ Performing History led by artist Shiva Anoushirvani
Angelica Falkeling, Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Elena Victoria Pastor Suarez, Jakob Niedziela, Karolina Oxelväg, Louise Blad, Luanda Carneiro Jacoel, Mariusz Mateusz Andrzejczyk & Gabriella Novak, Rebecka Pershagen, Sara Sheikhi, Tanja Andersson
23.15 Diana Soria Hernandez

Saturday 8 September: 19.00–24.00 performance programme

19.00 Valeria Montti Colque - Molnskogen. With: David Heikkinen: live- electronics, Ida Lod voice/violin, Safiye Bahadir performance/song, Carlos Martinez performance/dance, Edwin Nordlund performance, Andres Arango Lopez performance, thanks to: Silvana Olivares, Jorge Montti who helped with the costumes
19.45 Serge Olivier Fokoua - Save our soul
20.30 Performance landscape, individual works by:

Tanja Andersson - Duodji - or the act of core carving
Luanda Carneiro Jacoel - Kalunga entities
Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole - HWBKTMFIITPI
Jakob Niedziela - Contra
Rebecka Pershagen - Your responsibility as a woman
Angelica Falkeling - Elastic Seam
Mariusz Mateusz Andrzejczyk & Gabriella Novak - Personal space
Elena Victoria Pastor Suarez - Borders

22.15 Anthea Moys - Just Follow These Instructions And You Will Be Fine (on the night) -*
23.00 Gitte Saetre - Green Hijab Movement

free entrance



The festival is preceded by a two-day workshopAn archive of my own/ Performing Historyled by artist Shiva Anoushirvani.

The project is funded by Kulturkontakt Nord, Nordisk Kulturfond, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Statens Kulturråd Sverige, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond, Bergen Kommune, Norsk Kulturråd. Supported by Umeå Academy of Fine Arts.

 

Contact:
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Phone: +46 (0) 73 919 83 89 (Lovisa Johansson)

HISTORY WILL BE KIND TO ME, FOR I INTEND TO PERFORM IT @ PALS is organised by Performance Art Links (PALS) in collaboration with New Performance Turku Festival, Performance Art Bergen and RAVY Biennial, initiated by the artists and curators Márcio Carvalho, Leena Kela and Serge Olivier Fokoua. PALS is run by artists Hiroko Tsuchimoto, Denis Romanovski, Lovisa Johansson, Erik Wijkström and Alice Máselníková.

HISTORY WILL BE KIND TO ME, FOR I INTEND TO PERFORM IT @ PALS at Fylkingen,Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2, Stockholm on 6–8 September 2018.
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