Luleåbiennalen 2020 | Till slut finns bara vinden

Luleå Biennial 2020:
Time on Earth
21.11.2020~14.2.2020

Information regarding Covid-19

Last chance The Luleå Biennial 2020: Time on Earth

Wednesday February 10, 16~20 and Saturday February 13–Sunday February 14, 12~16
Galleri Syster is open. Group show with Augusta Strömberg, Susanna Jablonski and Ana Vaz.

Thursday February 11–Sunday February 14, 12~16
Havremagasinet länskonsthall in Bodenis open. Group show with Beatrice Gibson, Susanna Jablonski, Birgitta Linhart, Fathia Mohidin, Charlotte Posenenske, Tommy Tommie and Danae Valenza.

Saturday February 13–Sunday February 14, 14~18
The former prison Vita Duvan is open with an electro acoustic installation by Maria W Horn.

Saturday February 13, 15~19
The artist Markus Öhrn and the poet David Väyrynens sound installation "Bikt" is exhibited on the ice by Residensgatan in Luleå. Listen to older generations of Tornedal women and their testimonies.

Book your visit via Billetto. Drop in is possible as far as space allows.

For those of you who do not have the opportunity to physically visit the Luleå Biennale on site, a radio show including artist talks, sound works and specially written essays will be on stream on Saturday February 13–Sunday February 14. Visit our radio page here.

The exhibitions at Norrbotten's Museum, Luleå konsthall, Välkommaskolan in Malmberget and the Silver Museum are unfortunatly closed.

2018~2021

Lulu is how Luleå first appeared in writing in 1327, a name of Sami origin that can be translated as “Eastern Water”. This is the title of the Luleå Biennial’s journal, fiirst published in conjunction with the Luleå Biennial 2018. For this years edition of the biennial readers are offered different points of entry to the biennial’s overall theme: realism today. The Lulu journal is made by the biennial’s artistic and invited guest editors. It is published here on the biennial’s website and can be downloaded for printing. Design: Aron Kullander-Östling & Stina Löfgren.

ISSN: 2003~1254

2020

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Pernilla Fagerlönn et al

In an improvisation by local musicians an ode to Malmberget, and the harmonies and tones it has given us, is assembled.

Eight musicians with connection to Malmberget together create an elegy to the society that is now being dismantled piece by piece. In the background you can hear the labour of the expansion of the mine that has been ongoing continuously since the 60’s.

The particular conditions of the current moment made it impossible to gather and perform live communally. Hence the piece had to take another direction. The musicians have made their improvisations only to the background noises of the working machines, completely free and without knowledge of the other’s musical efforts. All the individual contributions have then been joined together into what hopefully can convey some of all of the feelings harbored by the people affected by the community being leveled with the ground.

Participating musicians:
Alessandra Bossa – electronics, voice
Luigi Bozzolan - piano
Pernilla Fagerlönn - voice
Johan Karlsson - guitar
Markus Larsson - percussion
Simon Lundmark - voice
Mirja Palo – kantele, voice
Torbjörn Ömalm - guitar