Performing the Fringe at Konsthall C

Artist: Lara Almarcegui, Kipras Dubauskas, Valentina Karga, Flo Kasearu, Michèle Matyn, Andrej Polukord, Asbjørn Skou, Urban Fauna Lab, Jon Benjamin Tallerås, Eero Yli-Vakkuri

Exhibition title: Performing the Fringe

Curated by: Jussi Koitela, Inga Lāce

Venue: Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden

Date: March 13 – June 14, 2020

Photography: Johan Österholm / All photographs courtesy the artists and Konsthall C, Stockholm

Performing the Fringe is a group show featuring works by international artists, curated by Jussi Koitela (FI) and Inga Lãce (LV). The exhibition is the first chapter of exhibitions series. Subsequent editions will take place in Pori Art Museum and CAC Vilnius.

Individual art works as well as the exhibition itself are the culmination of hikes in Sweden last year, but also excursions in Finland and Lithuania.

Consequently, the exhibition is an attempt to capture ‘hiking’ as curatorial and artistic process-oriented strategies. The discursive frame of the exhibition is based on anthropologist Anna Tsing’s theories of ‘pericapitalism’, focusing on potential futures growing out of the fringes of consumer society. The works on display at Konsthall C refers to concepts such as non-human narratives, alternative forms of production and gentrification of urban and rural areas.

Research hikes were organized in collaboration with Erik Annerborn, Managing director, Konsthall C, Anni Venäläinen, director, Pori Art Museum and Ūla Tornau, curator, CAC Vilnius.

Further iterations of the project will be presented in collaboration with Pori Art Museum and CAC Vilnius.

Exhibition design: Kaisa Sööt
Graphic design: Nerijus Rimkus

Kipras Dubauskas, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is not _ _ _ _ _ _, mixed media, 2019, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Lara Almarcegui, Mineral rights, Tullinge II, Botkyrka, Stockholm, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Andrej Polukord, Roofs of Vilnius, installation, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Flo Kasearu, Client’s Day, video, 8’15”, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Urban Fauna Lab, Study of Zyme Relic, bacterial cellulose made with medusomices gisevii (tea mushroom), 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Performing the Fringe, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Pierrebollen, folk game, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Aubergine Walking Stick, multifunctional sculptural element in the environment, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Michèle Matyn, Rocktattoos, polaroid scans printed on newsprint paper, 2019, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Asbjørn Skou, Fringe Ecologies, graphite on wall, size, variable, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Valentina Karga, CIRCLE #1: A Storytelling Infrastructure, engraved stones, microphone, cotton textiles, natural dyes, earth pigments, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Eero Yli-Vakkuri, Our Great Culinary Survival, kitchenware, minerals and a performance, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm

Jon Benjamin Tallerås, Impressions of Topography, HD video, installation, 15’30”, dimensions variable, 2020, exhibition view, Konsthall C, Stockholm, photo: Johan Österholm