In the closing week of Madeleine Andersson: SHOCK VALUE, Index presents a two day symposium organized by Andersson and Mandus Ridefelt. The symposium brings together voices with different positions, roles and approaches to a reimagined relationship between art and science.
With Bassam El Baroni, Giulia Bini, Joakim Forsgren, Lars Bang Larsen, and Stina Nyberg. Introductory lecture performance by Mandus Ridefelt and Madeleine Andersson.
The symposium explores perversionism, anomalistics & disruptology within science and artistic research. Its point of departure is Andersson’s exhibition, where she questions the result-based practice of scientific research and instead explores its experimental, absurd and almost artistic nature. In the symposium Ridefelt and Andersson, together with the invited guests, asks questions like; What does placing perversion as a fundamental driver to epistemic practice tell us about data and its anomalies? How can we disrupt the institutional scripts arranging art and science? Which assumptions are holding us back from a release of the potentials we so much like to talk about?
More information about the event, lectures and the schedule for the two days will be announced in the beginning of August.
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This is the second iteration of our new feature in the Index Newsletter, where we as an institution look back at our history and bring forward something from the vast archive of Index.
In 2019, Index organized The Defying Parrot, a summer festival which gathered the poly-vocal voices of Index’ learning program. The festival functioned as a platform to test out the learning related temporalities of the institution and celebrated the artistic work happening throughout that year at Index. The festival was part of a larger initiative called The Parrot, which took on multiple formats and recognized art as something messy, glitchy, always entangled and dependent on collective sharing. The Defying Parrot was one part character, one part mimesis, one part festival. As stated in the text about the festival, “In the festival format, we have invited the character of the parrot – one who can mimic and defy political, social and artistic forms – to help us to understand ways of approaching social responsibility, group dynamics and the core activities of learning with contemporary artistic practice”. Participating artists: Ina Hagen and Sol Archer together with Index Teen Advisory Board: Daniel Murisima, Ida Ippolito, Hannes Schelin, Mika Sundell, Maria Muhoza, Isabella Gillborg, and Niko Erfani, Celine Manz together with Amina Seid Tahir and Leo W O Silkeberg, Pontus Petterson together with The Hosts and The Ghosts, and Tyler Coburn. Producer and Curator: Emmeli Person More On view at Index 
Madeleine Andersson: SHOCK VALUE runs throughout the whole summer. The exhibition is open every week, Thursday to Sunday until 24 August. An excerpt from the exhibition text:
“The exhibition sheds light on the paradox of the so-called scientific method, where on the one side science must be constantly questioned to further evolve whereas on the other it must be considered a fact, to not fall into conspiracist or reactionary thinking. In the post-truth times we’re living in, the importance and societal implications of science is in free-fall. From this contemporary state Andersson’s exhibition questions the inherent idea of objectivity and the result-based practice of scientific research and instead explores its experimental, absurd and almost artistic nature.” More Index in press
Frieze: Interview with Claudia Pagès Rabal
Dagens Nyheter: Milou Allerholm about Madeleine Andersson Frieze: Elmer Blåvarg about Madeleine Andersson, Best Shows in the Nordics Kunstkritikk: Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl about Madeleine Andersson Exhibition
Current: Madeleine Andersson: SHOCK VALUE
3 April–24 August 2025 Preview: Claudia Pagès Rabal: ALJUB 11 September–19 October 2025 |
