Feb 20. Arkivet för Rosa Brus. Release: Imri Sandström + Christine Bylund
Release for Imri Sandström’s performance UMEQUEER and Christine Bylund’s sound work Collateral Sounds. Two works both part of a series of five commissioned works that in 2021-2022 will be made through Arkivet för Rosa Brus.
Imri Sandström
UMEQUEER
– Perfomance by Imri Sandström.
With Imri Sandström, Malin Arnell and Mar Fjell.
UMEQUEER is a map of site-specific queer memories from Umeå, a web of anonymous voices. The work is a composition on community and place and the differences and peculiarities of this community – a force, an always unfinished ”us” that over time has permeated Umeå in different ways. It is a tribute to the multitude of voices, memories, experiences and connections that are so much bigger and always, always moving.
Imri Sandström
is an artist and researcher. She works transdisciplinary with text, image and sound, often based on areas such as history, language and performativity. In 2019, she received her doctorate in artistic research, in the field of literary composition, with the dissertation ”Across Unquiet Times”.
Christine Bylund
Collateral Sounds (Sidoskada)
A collection of voices / sounds / stories from Swedes with norm-breaking functionality that has isolated themself during the global covid-19 pandemic. The work is based on a single space enclosed between four walls. Within this frame, a web of sound unfolds, a DIY collage that makes use of what is available indoors when the outdoors is not an option; daily routines, aids, pill maps, coffemachines and the time that passes, in a constant movement between an individual story and a collective experience.
Christine Bylund
is a doctoral student in ethnology at Umbejen Universitähta (Umeå University) and works artistically with performing arts, sound and text.
Arkivet för Rosa Brus
Arkivet Rosa Brus (AfRB) considers sound as a carrier of history and aims to collect, archive and publish queer cultural production in sound form. They do this in collaboration with other archives, cultural workers, activists and researchers. Through collection, archiving and public events, they explore with the participants what pink noise and a queer sound archive can be.
AfRB’s work is done in collaboration with the cultural association Tupilak with support from Kulturbryggan.