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This Aural Exhibition titled “Leave a Message” by the collective Editorial Board, takes the Exquisite Corpse as a starting point, and activates the process through recorded phone messages that describes one single artwork.The final result of this game makes up the exhibition you are about to listen to.

The Editorial Board collective is inspired by the genre of the book-as-exhibition and utilizes editorial processes as a method to explore and challenge the parameters that exist between texts and exhibitions. An additional question of interest is how to engage and apply the collective voice to text and exhibition meaning and production while maintaining focus on process and sharing creatively. Editorial Board consists of nine artists and curators: Beatrice Alvestad Lopez, Tal Gilad, Lucija Grbic, Joanne Grüne-Yanoff, Emily Mennerdahl, Anne Klontz, Alina Rentsch, Ernesta Simkute, Isabella Tjäder.

“The Aural Exhibitions” are a series of sound only exhibitions produced by Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation.

Artist Nils Norman and curator Samantha Lippett brainstorm a citywide exhibition and urban plan, titled ‘The Model: A City Reimagined’. The exhibition draws inspiration from public playgrounds as a site for imagination, collaboration and activism. Nils Norman is an artist working across the disciplines of public art, architecture and urban planning. Samantha Lippett is a curator and educator working across the disciplines of arts education, social practice and independent radio.

“The Aural Exhibitions” are a series of sound only exhibitions produced by Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation.

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A Scenario is an exhibition inspired by the science fiction book “Mother of Invention” by the Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor. From this story, Swedish curator Susanne Ewerlöf positions the story’s main character, Anwuli, as the focal point from which the exhibition is built around. Anwuli, a young, soon-to-be mother is kept safe in a high-tech house prepared for her by her lover, but the narrative soon turns into a story of survival and loss as the end of the world draws closer. A Scenario includes works by Linda Lamignan, Fanny Ollas and composer Tomas Nordmark.

“The Aural Exhibitions” are a series of sound only exhibitions produced by Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation.

A podcast made by Index Teen Advisory Board. In January of 2021, the members of ITAB joined an online conference with their sibling advisory board connected the Oslo based art institution PRAKSIS. During the conference, participants split up into smaller groups to discuss different questions relating to the theme of In Character.

With voices from Emil Pita, Jose Velasquez, Simon Sjöberg, Felix Krausz Sjögren and Adina Edfelt (ITAB), as well as Nellie Barazandeh and Mikkel Inchley (PTAB). Sound mixing and script writing guidance by Linda Kidane and Sofia Neves. 

It’s November 2021 and Kristian Vistrup Madsen is visiting Stockholm to meet some students at the Royal Institute of arts. One evening, Vistrup Madsen is at Index to present his book Doing Time: Essays on Using People.

In a conversation with the writer Mara Lee, Kristian Vistrup Madsen observes words and moments, people and stories, ways of writing and thinking.

While still in a pandemic world, the beginning of September 2021 was the month whenIndex openedPauline Curnier Jardin’s exhibitionWAITING FOR AGATHA, SEBASTIAN AND THE REST OF THE HOLY CHILDREN — UNFOLDING A FILMIC RESEARCH.

An opening in these times means an assumed performativity of social distancing and hand sanitzer, however a public talk with Pauline was also organized with a focus on her presented films and their production and possibilities —  all of which contributed to the desire to be together talking about art and artistic practices.

In early June 2021, against the backdrop of Hanni Kamaly’s exhibition THE MIGHT THEY HAVE, the Index team were the intimate audience for a conversation between Kamaly and researcher and writer Rebecka Katz Thor, whose research focuses on the aesthetics of commemoration, image production’s and contemporary art’s relation to historical, ethical and political claims.

The discussion centred around monuments, memory and time, unpacking acts of commemoration and of acknowledgement. This talk now unfolds and opens up for a wider audience through the Index podcast series.

In spring 2021, C-print first physical number was presented at Index. During a long evening we recorded some informal conversations and public presentations with Sara Kaaman and Emma Löfström, Edith Ekström, Olivia Ekelund and My Hasselgren, Shaon Chakraborty, Hannes Ferm and Emma Dominguez.

C-Print is a platform based in Stockholm observing and following artistic practices. With a desire for new voices, C-print has had an intense digital life and a curatorial approach with a specific sense for new artists. C-print team is composed by Ashik Zaman, Koshik Zaman, Corina Wahlin and Ella Saar. "C-pirnt, The Future Watch Issue" is edited and produced by C-print in collaboration with Konstfack’s BA2 in Graphic Design and Illustration course, led by Sara Kaaman and Emma Löfström.

This podcast is the third in a series of three recorded during publication releases at Index. With focus on specific publications, now we release them in another format.

The slow release of Silon took place at Index throughout an evening in late spring 2021, within Hanni Kamaly’s exhibition THE MIGHT THEY HAVE.

Silon volume one is a collection of readings by curators, artists and architects on decolonizing the white cube, exploring questions around education and land and a meditation that brings feminine awareness to the complex phenomena and philosophy of Frantz Fanon. Silon is a production of The Mirror Institution which seeks to mirror, reflect and expand ideas and programs of existing art institutions. The Mirror Institution is an initiative of curator Joanna Sandell, journalist Steuart Wright with architecture by Tor Lindstrand.

We recorded reflections and interviews with some of the contributors to Silon Issue 1. Conversations in space with Joanna Sandell, Tor Lindstrand, Rami Khoury, Mmabatho Thobejane, Amina Zoubir. Excerpts from the publication have been selected by and are read by Ella Saar and Martina Sara D’Alessio.

This podcast is the second in a series of three recorded during publication releases at Index. With focus on specific publications and editorial processes, now we release them in another format, and listen together.

As the exhibition Editorial Thinking came to its close during spring of 2021, Index hosted the release of Delta - an ocean call, a publication on water histories, narratives and practices published and co-edited by Pontus Pettersson and Izabella Borzecka of PAM Stockholm. The slow release of the publication took place at Index throughout an entire day, with workshops, conversations, performances, readings and other activations of the works in the new publication.

The artists and writers who contributed to the publication are Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Paul Maheke, Axel Andersson, Sindri Runudde, Vibeke Hermanrud, Elly Vadseth, Daniela Bershan, Sabrina Seifried, D.N.A. (Dina El Kaisy Friemuth, Neda Sanai and Anita Beikpour), Every Ocean Hughes, Adham Hafez, Pontus Pettersson and Alice MacKenzie. The publication’s graphic designer is Sara Kaaman.

This podcast is the first in a series of three recorded during publication releases at Index. with focus on specific publications and editorial processes, now we release them in another format, and listen together.