ON LANGUAGES OF MOBILISATION RESIDENCY
Artist and writer, Kalle Brolin, has started a two-year long artistic research On Languages of Mobilisation. During his residency at Baltic Art Center, he will be mapping historic and current peace movements on Gotland. In May, Kalle Brolin is also joined by artist, performer and researcher, Danae Theodoridou who will be joining his research on Gotland, following, reflecting and exchanging over the artistic process and the methods.
Kalle Brolin is an artist and writer based in Malmö, Sweden. He works with video installation and performance, and in large scale and research-heavy projects. A series of works concerns the effect of two industries, coal mining and sugar factories, upon the inner and outer landscape of Scania (Skåne). Kalle Brolin has also written and has been published widely about contemporary art, mainly focussing on social practice projects and on a definition of the term ”political art”. He is one of the initiators of the solar powered "Sunshine Socialist Cinema".
Danae Theodoridou is a performance maker and researcher based in Brussels. Her artistic research focuses on social imaginaries, the practice of democracy and the way art contributes to the emergence of socio-political alternatives. She teaches at Fontys University of Applied Sciences (NL) and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR), curates practice-led research projects, and presents and publishes her work internationally. She is co-author of "The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance" (Valiz, 2017) and the author of "PUBLICING: Practising Democracy Through Performance" (Nissos, 2022).
Authors of the project wp Zimmer (Helga Baert, Dusica Drazic), Baltic Art Center (Helena Selder), Studio ALTA, (Petr Dlouhy, Ludmila Vackova), Lavanderai a Vapore (Chiara Organtini, Carlotta Pedrazzoli)
