Master of Fine Arts in Artistic Research. Exam Exhibition 2024.

Contributions by Ida Brottmann, Line Kallmayer, and Tjelle Esrom Raunkjær.

We are pleased to announce this year’s exam exhibition by a group of graduating students from the Master of Fine Arts in Artistic Research (MFAAR) programme at Malmö Art Academy. The exam projects are the conclusion of two years of thinking through the visual and developing large-scale research projects and research proposals. The exhibition at IAC is a unique possibility to engage with each of their findings as potential new beginnings.

Opening:
Tuesday, 21 May, 17:00–20:00.

Performances: 
Tuesday, 21 May, 18:00 (Ida Brottmann), 19:00 (Tjelle Esrom Raunkjær).
Saturday, 25 May, 14:00 (Tjelle Esrom Raunkjær).

Opening hours:
22 May to 28 May, 12:00–18:00 (weekdays, Monday closed), 12:00–16:00 (weekend).

Ida Brottmann

Disrupting Hierarchies – The Apology Project.
What does it mean to create and collaborate with children? To let children have creative authority in a collaboration. “What would you apologise for, if you were the prime minister?,” I ask. “I am sorry for the problems you caused,” they answer. Through questions of time, positionality, and translations between speech and choreography, The Apology Project has been developed in a five-weeks program, together with the children of Kulturpiloterne-Amager and educator, dancer and choreographer My Lindblad Szlavik.  

I will as prime minister say/As prime minister I will say, 2024. Performance, video, text on paper, sound.

Performance: Tuesday, 21 May, 18:00.
Location: Red Room, Inter Arts Center (IAC), 4th floor, Bergsgatan 29, Malmö.

Tjelle Esrom Raunkjær

A hope was broken is a research project asking the question, how to deal with the collective loss, that is, the broken hope of a defeated revolution. It is focusing on the anarcho-syndicalist revolution in Spain starting in 1936 and the Carnation Revolution and following PREC period in Portugal 1974–75 as not only a part of a local but also internationalist history. Moments in time, where hopes and dreams of a far more egalitarian way of living together, were briefly realised. To hope today, for the ones who long for a world built on solidarity and freedom, equality and without hierarchies, we may ask; what about all the times we tried and were defeated? Is there a learning to do? A learning without romanticising and nostalgia. Is something to be gained from a broken hope to bring into resistance today? 

As part of the exhibition, the performance Fragments of broken hope will be presented on two occasions. 

The project is a part of Tjelle Esrom Raunkjær’s larger research on the relation between art, resistance and mourning. Earlier work within the research project includes the performance lecture aesthetics of rebellious mourning: aids activism and the performance Sometimes I feel I grieve more than I love. Both were shown in 2023 for the first time.

Performance: Tuesday, 21 May, 19:00 and Saturday, 25 May, 14:00.
Location: Red Room, Inter Arts Center (IAC), 4th floor, Bergsgatan 29, Malmö.

Line Kallmayer

(Re)turning
/a practice of attention

Line Kallmayer attends to the question of how something begins, how something comes into form. Is this even a viable question? (Re)turning to when she first “picked up a camera,” she muses over the role of the “lens” and some old material tucked away under her old bed at her mother’s house.

(Re)turning is a first step into a longer investigation on the concept and mechanics of Attention, approaching a preliminary question from within a series of probes, initiated as part of her work on the MFA program in Artistic Research.  

Line Kallmayer uses writing as a tool to reflect on a lens-based practice, which is essentially at the core: engaging with, (re)working narrative structures explored over longer periods of research, attempting to push and exploring the borders of language, of our imagination. With that gesture she tries to approach and make sense of an ever-changing context wherein images and our relationship to images reside –where stories are written and told.

Line Kallmayer, (Re)turning (top left).
Tjelle Esrom Raunkjær, A hope was broken, photo by Karen Esrom Christensen (top right).
Ida Brottmann, Det Talte Ord gælder (2023), film still, photo by Kamilla Krøier (below).