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A conversation between artist Lisa Tan and Håkan Fischer, professor in human biological psychology on 29 November, 2024.

For the exhibition Dodge and/or Burn, Lisa Tan has looked at the intersection between the nervous system and interior life as a way to examine the operations of art, uncertainty and the formation of the self. As a professor in biological psychology this intersection is Håkan Fischer’s expertise and field of research. The focus of biological psychology is understanding and explaining psychological functions with the help of underlying biological processes, or, in other words how our experience of the world is connected to processes in the brain. Departing from the exhibition Dodge and/or Burn, Tan and Fischer discuss their respective methods and different considerations in exploring human inner life.

Samtal om armlängds avstånd mellan Susanna Dahlberg, vd för Riksteatern och Mårten Snickare, professor i konstvetenskap samt föreståndare Accelerator.

Susanna Dahlberg, vd för Riksteatern. 25 års erfarenhet som chef och producent inom scenkonstområdet. År 2019 publicerades Dahlbergs masteruppsats What is the length of an arm? om hur armlängds avstånd används inom konst- och kulturpolitiken i Sverige idag. Hon har varit en del av det offentliga samtalet kring konstnärlig frihet sedan dess.

Seminar with Nicole R. Fleetwood, inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Contemporary black diasporic art and the American carceral system are two focal points of Fleetwood’s research. In the seminar, she explores the multiple temporalities that impact the lives of incarcerated people and their loved ones. Carceral time is a broad framework that encompasses sentencing guidelines, the disparate temporalities that separate incarcerated and nonincarcerated people, the afterlife of imprisonment (such as parole and e-incarceration), and the long duration of racialized captivity and erasure in settler nation states. The seminar will focus specifically on how carceral time restructures Black intimacy and quotidian life.

Nicole R. Fleetwood is the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, and the author of a number of books: Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011); On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (2015) and the price winning Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020). In connection with the latter book, she also curated an exhibition on the same topic at MoMA PS1, New York.

A conversation presented as part of the Battle of Ideas Debate festival at Accelerator on November 16th 2022.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the return of war to Europe has shocked the world and appears to have upended many assumptions about how international politics operates. What are the roots of the crisis in Ukraine and what will be the implications for reshaping Europe? Is this a new moment of Western unity and a reassertion of ‘Western values’ or the return of History and deeper geopolitical tensions? If borders and nation states still need to be taken seriously, how can countries offer solidarity to others?

Speakers:

Alex Voronov, journalist and writer. Since Russia’s invasion he has done several trips to the Ukraine to report from the war zone. Voronov is a former political editor of Eskilstuna-Kuriren, and currently an editorial writer at Liberala Nyhetsbyrån.

Maria Nilsson, Associate Professor of Journalism at the Institute of Media Studies, Stockholm University. Nilsson’s research interests include the politics of representation; questions of power, credibility and agency in visual media practices; and visual journalism and journalism in various historical and current contexts.

Sabine Beppler-Spahl, author and journalist. Chair at the Freiblickinstitut, Germany correspondent for online publication Spiked.

Norska konstnären Tori Wrånes i ett samtal med Therese Kellner, curator och intendent på Accelerator.

I Tori Wrånes första soloutställning i Stockholm omsluts besökaren av marina världar där pälsklädda urvarelser rör sig till havets rytm. För Accelerator har Wrånes skapat BIG WATER som tar sin utgångspunkt på olika platser i världshaven: ovan ytan i Thailands kustland och under ytan i Norges arktiska vatten. De två platserna flätas samman i ett storskaligt video- och musikverk.

Tori Wrånes är en av Norges mest uppmärksammade konstnärer, och har haft soloutställningar och skapat beställningsverk för konstinstitutioner och biennaler över hela världen. Wrånes skapar surrealistiska världar med hybrida former och mutationer där varelser utför säregna ritualer. Med humor och värme utvidgar hon verkligheten bortanför rådande normer och kategoriseringar.

Artist talk recorded on 27 April 2022 at Accelerator, to introduce the work "PRE-EXODUS" and invite a conversation on its related themes.

Participants
Solenne Tadros, artist
Lina Aastrup, curator
Shahram Khosravi, professor of social anthropology, Stockholm University

Leila Khoury Nimry was thirteen years old when she fled her home in Haifa, Palestine during the Nakba in 1948. In "PRE-EXODUS" she shares the memories of her childhood bedroom, illustrated and developed into a virtual reality experience, created by artist Solenne Tadros. The work activates questions of memory, intergenerational trauma, forced displacement and loss of land.

Accelerator has a collaboration with the International Master’s Programme in Curating Art at Stockholm University. The students create events in connection to themes that Accelerator wishes to highlight in the exhibition programme. The exhibition "PRE-EXODUS" is part of Lina Aastrup’s degree project.