The platform Tentative Transmits invites you to a film screening by artist Delaine Le Bas, as well as a poetry reading by poet and musician Channa Riedel. The program will be followed by a conversation between Riedel and Tentative Transmits, organized by Olivia Berkowicz and Marianna Feher. The event takes its starting point from Lenke Rothman’s exhibition “Life as Cloth”. The reading and conversation will be held in Swedish.

The program begins with a screening of Delaine Le Bas’ films “Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding” (2024) and “St. Sara Kali George” (2020–2021). This is followed by a poetry reading by Channa Riedel and a conversation between Riedel and Tentative Transmits. The invited guests’ work intersects with Lenke Rothman’s practice through a focus on the textile as a bearer of stories and poetry as a way to process complex family histories.

Delaine Le Bas is a British artist whose multifaceted practice explores issues of belonging, identity, and her Romani heritage. Through embroidery, painting, performance, film, and sculpture, she creates works that navigate the personal and the political. The films shown during the evening occupy this borderland where migration, language, and mythologies intertwine. In her work, she challenges contemporary and historical stereotypes of Roma and Traveller communities from a feminist and experimental perspective.

Poet and musician Channa Riedel will read from her poetry debut “Karlsbad” (2023, Albert Bonniers Förlag). The book is based on her Sudeten-German-Jewish family’s escape from Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic) during World War II. Karlsbad was nominated for the Katapult Prize 2024 and attempts to write a family history when family ties have been severed or spun in uncontrollable directions.

The poetry reading will be followed by a conversation between Channa Riedel and Olivia Berkowicz & Marianna Feher, organizers of Tentative Transmits. Tentative Transmits is a curatorial and artistic sound platform that explores memory, radio history, solidarity movements, and post-socialist transitions around Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Read more about the platform here.

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Delaine Le Bas (born 1965, Worthing, UK) studied at St. Martins School of Art in London. Over the past decades, her work has been showcased at several prominent biennials and international art festivals. Le Bas is one of the four nominees for the 2024 Turner Prize for the exhibition “Incipit Vita Nova”. Her work is currently exhibited at Tate Britain, running until February 2025. She is represented by Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix.

Channa Riedel is a musician, composer, and poet. In 2024, she received a working grant from Albert Bonniers Stipend for Younger and Emerging Writers. Riedel also contributed with vocals and lyrics to the album Georg Riedel’s Jiddischland, which was nominated for Best Children’s Music at the Manifest Gala 2024. She composes music for the prog-jazz septet Beloveds, who released their album Amen, Amen, Amen (Mark the Music) in the fall of 2024.

The event is supported by the Swedish Arts Council and Nordic Culture Fund.