Residency Pussy Riot members
Curation Artist residency
Role: Curator residency and public interventions/conversations
Funded by ABF Skåne and ABF Nordvästskåne and co-produced with Region Skåne, Kulturföreningen Akustik, Konsthallen Röstånga, Mobilitet Röstånga, Stationen and Röstånga Tillsammans
Artists: Lusiné Djanyan, Alexej Knedljakosvski, Jimmy Alm, Ida Börjel, Soundz of the South, Damali Young
With Cecilie Möllmann Lundberg, Hannah Folkemark Ellborg, Carl Bratt, Andreas Kurtsson, Nils Phillips and Tigran, Levon and Anna-Maria.
A three-week artist residency at Röstånga Konsthall with Russian artist-activists in exile and former Pussy Riot members Lusiné Djanyan and Alexej Knedljakosvski. Together with the Swedish workers education association ABF, Röstånga Konsthall invited the artists and their three children to spend time in the village of Röstånga, produce work for the local arts space and share their experiences both about creating art under a dictatorship and working in exile in Sweden. The art residency explored how the popular education movement can engage collaboratively to highlight and address issues of democracy and freedom of speech through art.
This resulted in the exhibition Pussy Icons, which has since travelled to five venues in the region, as well as public workshops in the village, recorded conversations and the public event ‘Röstånga Skapar’ with contributions by and public conversation with poets Jimmy Alm and Ida Börjel, visiting feminist HipHop Collective Soundz of the South from Southafrica and Damali Young.