The Parrot School is a school learning to unlearn, rehearsing how to do things wrong, missunderstanding the brief, copying what your friend did and dare to call ourselves one of plenty.
During two weekends The Parrot School flocks at Index, working through Lagnuage adn Txet and beginning a battle with the wonderful but sometimes moody printer Canon iR-ADV C5235 in a zine workshop. The weekends are co-hosted by the Index Teen Advisory Board and invites everyone interested to come and bounce sentences off of big sculptures in a play with language, text, sounds, and its distribution.
The Parrot School is a continuous voicing of the thoughts gathered at Index Summer Festival The Defying Parrot. As a character recognized for it’s ability to seamingly repeat and mimic human sounds – The Parrot has become a critical metaphor for the construction of a school where missunderstandings, misscommunications, glitches and wrongdoings are equal with A+.
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November 2019
Are you interested in language, writing and the gaps that appear between what is spoken and what is spoken of? During a full day at Index, Parrot School hosts a set of workshops dealing with art-writing and everything that goes wrong in-between. Together we write about the art we see, the art we don’t see, we read the wrong text, missprounounce hard words and confuse the AI running Google Docs. All welcome, no RSVP required. More |
This two day workshop will share some examples of what a zine can be and how they can look. Artist duo Hanna Andersson & Björn Engberg will give practical information about different print- and binding techniques to help and encourage each participant to visualize and produce their own zine. The zines will later be presented in Index bookshop. Limited places RSVP by sending an email to office@indexfoundation.se. More |
Welcome to the release and conversation about Active Art. The 1923 manifesto ‘Active Art’ by Latvian philosopher Andrejs Kurcijs triggered a series of responses by writers, artists and curators on the notion of activism, past and present: art for political purposes, art for its own purpose or art with no purpose. The texts collected in the book ‘Active Art’ aim at considering the active part of writing according to the definition given by Kurcijs. Present for the launch are the editors; writer and curator Barbara Sirieix and writer and artist Joachim Hamou.More |
For today’s artists and curators exploring the possibilities of virtual space and new immersive technologies, Lyotard’s pioneering curatorial project offers a rich theoretical toolbox. In their newly published book Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the idea of the exhibition (Sternberg Press, 2019), Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olof Wallenstein discuss Lyotards pioneering exploration of virtuality in exhibitional matters.More |
Index Foundation is looking a person to work with communication and administration together with the core team at the institution. The selected candidate will be responsible for the external communication and administrative tasks linked with the everyday work at Index and will share conceptual planning with the staff members. Applications due 1 December 2019.More |
Index is offering internship opportunities for current art and curatorial students who want to broaden their education and professional experience. This position will be the fourth in a series of internships working specifically with the Index archive and questions concerning distribution of archival material. Applications due 1 December 2019. More |
Teresa Solar works with objects and the space in between them, with narratives and broken information. Solar experiments with textures and physicality understanding art as a situation to discover, feel and think. Her exhibited objects can be sculpture and also set material, can be produced or found but is in the conjunction that the whole group becomes a para-linguistic structure with internal dialogues in several timelines.
RIDE RIDE RIDE continues until the 26th January 2020.
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RIDE RIDE RIDE continues until the 26th January 2020.
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