During Forbidden Culture Week, Unicorn – Artists in solidarity propose a performance workshop open to everyone who is interested in strategies of social and political performance. The performance workshop will be held in English and consist of dialogic and material interventions in connection to the works of Lenke Rothman, featured in the konsthall’s autumn exhibition. The workshop examines what a cultural institution’s limits and possibilities to understand, listen and relate to an artist’s political engagement (or disengagement) are. Furthermore, it examines how censorship and institutional solidarity function in the contemporary art world.

Unicorn invites cultural workers and institutional representatives from Skåne and the general public to take part in a performative, partially scripted dialogue: between institutions and artists, between materials and words, between the past and the future.

Unicorn – Artists in Solidarity is a network of cultural workers, artists and researchers based in Sweden. Its current active members are Hanna Una Holmquist, Ramona Dima, Samaneh Roghani, Simona Dumitriu, Susanne Ovelius and Taylor Filrup Eliasen.

The event is part of Forbidden Culture Week, organized by the Cultural Administration of Malmö City. Forbidden Culture Week highlights artistic freedom and censorship through culture that, at some point, somewhere, and for some reason, has been censored, banned, or exiled.

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Program for Forbidden Culture Week 2024