One of the reasons why FLOCK was created was to encourage exchanges of methods, ideas and critical thinking between artists working with participatory practices. This spring we will host sessions where this will happen! First out is Vague Research Studios with a session where they will present their practice followed by a Q&A.

The talk will be on zoom on the 16th of February, at 17:00 - to participate please send an email to info@flockprojects.se

Vague Research Studios is an independent artistic research studio specializing in material as technology/culture and in experimental art outdoors, as part of the commons and public spaces. Our practice is environmental and socially engaged and emerges out of everyday life where collective methods, feministic perspectives and approaches are used in the fields of visual art, design, pedagogy and material technologies. Our vaguing methodology is described as “performing exploration”, (exploring situations without dividing the knower from the known), and “vague technology” (enabling a fluid relation between people and technology) (Eriksson, 2010) (Berglin, 2008). VRS is founded by designer, Ph.D. Lena TH Berglin and visual artist, Ph.D. Kajsa G. Eriksson.

Current project is a series of short films with the working title “RITUAL – Technology Use through Industrial Historical Sites”. We seek to find connections between the analogue and the digital. Our bodies and selves become the link that connects the both. Memories of spending time outdoors listening to trains passing in a distance. Recent and future bodies with traces of screen time, scattered minds and constant connectivity. Technology is a doing, an art, a ritual, energy is the phenomena at stake; electrical energy, body energy, movement energy, sacred energy. A Vague event, set up by an abandoned railway track somewhere deep into the Swedish forest.

LINKS: 

www.vrstudios.se

instagram@vagueresearchstudios

The talk is organised by FLOCK in partnership with PUBLICS (wwww.publics.fi) and is presented with support from Nordic Culture Fund and Nordic Culture Point.