May 2019

 Farhat’s artistic work acts as a whip and also as a crystal – it is a practice of immense strength which cracks, refracts and exposes. The exhibition title plays on the sound of the whip cracking and the crystal spinning. Working collaboratively with musicians such as Gnučči, Zhala and The Knife, Farhat acts as a refracting and reflecting force working between performance, film and music-video. Farhat brings a fierce feminist stance to each of her pieces. She is an artist who is unafraid and consistently steps up to address urgent political, social and cultural issues. This is the first major solo exhibition of the artist in Sweden and internationally.
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 Later this month the exhibition of Chris Kraus’s film works in connection with her books opens at Index. Chris Kraus will be at Index and will also present a talk with Index and Kulturhuset. Her books offer other ways to understand theory and practice, other methodologies to deal with the emotional and open possibilities for critical approaches to reality. Her films can be seen today to reformulate image culture regarding philosophical matters, emotions and the need for other ways to define content production, distribution and agency.
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 Artist Joanna Lombard presents her handmade book AAO. The publication AAO takes its point of departure from another book, The AA Model (1977) which is a kind of theoretical and practical handbook that was read and practiced in 1977-1978 at Ljusbacken, where Lombard grew up.
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 Welcome to a talk with Gasworks’ curator Sabel Gavaldon approaching questions of appropriation and identity, in connection to the exhibition Roxy Farhat: WUH-PSHHH! at Index. For this event, Sabel Gavaldon invites the audience on a journey through the history of the ballroom ‘Ha’.
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 Cal Cego is a platform without a physical space. Avoiding rigid categories, Cal Cego has been collecting works of art, creating a collection with complex items and artworks dealing with ideas related to identity and space. During the evening one of the films of the collection will be screened: Dérive Veneziane by Antoni Muntadas.
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 Welcome to the closing weekend festivities of Roxy Farhat’s exhibition at Index. The evening will focus on Farhat’s music videos and include a special listening set of the radio play Självporträtt, written by Dimen Abdulla, directed and scored by Roxy Farhat & Zhala. The play can best be described as a modern opera, or perhaps a new interpretation of a classic Greek drama with a boys choir, actors and a computerized voice.
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Applications open for 2019/2020
Index Teen Advisory Board
Call out now to apply for the 2019/2020 Index Teen Advisory Board, offering paid positions for young people aged 16-21. The board is an integral part of Index that actively evaluates, reflects on and takes part in the development of the organization. Bringing together a group of young people with differing cultural backgrounds and life experiences, the board meets with artists and discusses the role of art and culture in society at large. Apply by sending an email to info@indexfoundation.se. Applications due May 26.
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