CLANDESTINO FESTIVAL

Clandestino Festival photos by Luján Marcos Gozalo, Karin Jantzen, David Márquez López, Gustav Ahlgren and Linda Hofvander.

We have just got the great news from Congo-Kinshasa: Konono N°1 has finally got their visa and are able to come to  Clandestino Festival this year. At the office we will celebrate with rhum and congolese rumba.  Cheers!!

More artists are now ready for the project The Göteborg String Theory that will make its first and very unique performance during the Clandestino Festival. In addition to previously announced artists (Jaqee, Midaircondo, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Pacific!, Warren Suicide, Hajen and Fox Machine) will El Perro del Mar, Jmy Haze and Silverbullit participate during the closing day of the festival Sunday afternoon 14th of July at Röda Sten.

In cooperation with Secret Garden we present a club night with Rickard Masip [Tropical Treats/Raw Fusion/Sthlm] at Styrbord Babord, Kungsportsplatsen 1. Welcome Friday 29 May 2009, 23-04 (free entrance before midnight).

Luján Marcos Gozalo, artist from Madrid, poet in miniature format – unclear what will happen around her. The only guarantee is that she wants things to appear here without the presupposition of something being here. The idea: to write thoughts across the city, no, do not write, but make use of vinyl tiles, materials which can be easily attached to a wall, a facade that peels, not graffiti, rather meta-graffiti, the material dissolving, words appear together, collapse.

Tape like cracks attached to building walls, things that make it seem like everything is falling apart. Maybe a megaphone and turntables. A disc with Lawrence of Arabia. “That’s just my imagination” confesses Lujan Marcos in an email. She says she would like the surrealism to spring out of her head. So yes, she is firmly of the idea of cracks from which the phrases appear as images of herself, and of course, a performance, an action of some kind. What does it mean to live authentic? Do I live authentic? In everything I do? Every day? Poetry? The arts? Love? Phrases on walls, on the sugar package found in the cafe, on the ground, on the sole which stamps the ground, in the river’s reflection, in the name of any street, all over, this one question. What is it to live authentic. Are we aware of reality. Who are we. What have we done to our environment – just as physical as intangible. Why do we avoid each other. Why do we shun we ourselves. What do we fear to discover.

VICTIMS & MARTYRS – POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS

Do we live in a victim society? Are marginalized groups too easily adjudicated the role of victims or martyrs? How does it affect their possibilities to
effectively change their own situation? The Conference Victims & Martyrs – Political Interventions cast light upon the concepts of victimhood and martyrdom from philosophical, theological, feminist, and juridical and artistic
perspectives.

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Keynote speaker: Trinh Minh-ha, professor of rhetoric and gender studies at Berkeley, world renowned postcolonial theorist, feminist and filmmaker.

Other speakers: Alyson Cole, Associate Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, she is the author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror; Henrik Tham, Professor of Criminology at Stockholm University, Christobal Bianchi, artist working at Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is an active member of Chilean collective ‘CasaGrande’ and the band ‘Los Muebles’; Annika Snare, criminologist, reader at the Department of Law at Köpenhamns universitet, Gudrun Nordborg, Naiti del Sante, Victoria Fareld,
Mikela Lundahl, Dariush Moaven Doust, Ola Sigurdson, Elisabeth Abiri, Sven-Eric Liedman, Mattias Gardell, Michael Azar and Susanne Dodillet.

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SCHEDULE:

WED 10 JUNE VÄRLDSKULTURMUSEET 14.00-17.00
TRINH MINH-HA

THU 11 JUNE VÄRLDSKULTURMUSEET 11.00-18.30
SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN
MICHAEL AZAR
MATTIAS GARDELL
VICTORIA FARELD
OLA SIGURDSON

FRI 12 JUNE NOVOTEL,  10.00-16.00
ALYSON COLE
SUSANNE DODILLET
TRINH MINH-HA
MIKELA LUNDAHL

SAT 13 JUNE NOVOTEL 10.00-16.00
ELISABETH ABIRI
HENRIK THAM
GUDRUN NORDBORG
NAITI DEL SANTE
ANNIKA SNARE

SUN 14 JUNE NOVOTEL 12.00-15.00
CRISTÓBAL BIANCHI
DARIUSH MOAVEN DOUST

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The Conference is organized by Bwana Club during Clandestino Festival in association with Museion, Glänta, Världskulturmuseet and Västra Götalandsregionen.

WARM UP AT KONSTHALLEN 20 MAY, 2009

When Filastine visited Clandestino two years ago, he made an acclaimed and beloved appearance inside the deep caverns of Bergrum 211, together with MC Subzero Permafrost. This time he brings Lyon-based cellist Amélie Bouard, and he is not hidden away in a cavern but performing at Göteborgs Konsthall.

Filastine is based in Barcelona, but touring constantly takes him around the world, which the brand new album Dirty Bomb – released in February this year on Jarring Effects – testifies to.

In total he made over 60 gigs last year, in various places: clubs in the world’s metropolises, at a ragged fleet on the Mississippi, at Shambhala Festival in Canada, at a tiny break core party in Osaka, and before 40,000 people at the hiphop festival Boulevards in Casablanca. Filastine remains in the moving center of events, to tow out a music somewhere between electronic clatter, acoustic percussion and amplified cart that has become his trademark. He fires off rhythms and synchronizes videos in real time.

Nota Bene. The concert takes place at Göteborgs Konsthall May 20, 2009 at 19.00. No admission.

WED 10 JUNE MUSEUM OF WORLD CULTURE :: TALKS

14.00-17.00 | TRINH MINH-HA

THU 11 JUNE MUSEUM OF WORLD CULTURE :: TALKS

11.00-18.30 | SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN :: moderator

11.00-12.00 | MICHAEL AZAR

13.00-14.00 | MATTIAS GARDELL

14.00-15.00 | VICTORIA FARELD

15.00-15.30 | JOHANNES ANYURU :: poetry

15.30-16.30 | OLA SIGURDSON

16.30-18.30 | PANEL DISCUSSION

FRI 12 JUNE NOVOTEL :: TALKS

10.00-16.00 | MIKELA LUNDAHL :: moderator

10.00-11.00 | ALYSON COLE

11.00-12.00 | HENRIK THAM

13.00-14.00 | SUSANNE DODILLET

14.00-16.00 | PANEL MED TRINH MINH-HA M FL

FRI 12 JUNE RÖDA STEN TENT AREA :: LIVE

18.00-19.00 | REINES D’ANGLETERRE

19.00-19-30 | SUBLIME FREQUENCIES

19.30-20.15 | GROUP DOUEH

20.15-21.00 | OMAR SOULEYMAN

21.00-23.00 | BUJU BANTON

FRI 12 JUNE RÖDA STEN CLUB STAGE :: DJS & VJS

20.00-22.00 | TRINH T MINH HA :: BODIES OF THE DESERT (video)

23.00-03.00 | DAITO MANABE :: VJ SET

23.00-00.00 | D WATTSRIOT

00.00-01-00 | LEILA

01.00-03.00 | KODE 9 & THE SPACEAPE

SAT 13 JUNE NOVOTEL :: TALKS

11.00-15.00 | ELISABETH ABIRI :: moderator

11.00-12.00 | GUDRUN NORDBORG

13.00-14.00 | NAITI DEL SANTE

14.00-15.00 | ANNIKA SNARE

15.00-16.00 | PANEL

SAT 13 JUNE RÖDA STEN TENT AREA :: LIVE

15.00-16.00 | DJ GAVANA

16.00-17.00 | MIDAIRCONDO

17.00-18.00 | WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS

18.00-19.00 | WARREN SUICIDE

19.30-20.30 | SPEED CARAVAN

21.00-23.00 | KONONO N° 1

SAT 13 JUNE RÖDA STEN CLUB STAGE :: DJS & VJS

23.00-03.00 | DAITO MANABE :: VJ SET

23.00-00.00 | D WATTSRIOT

00.00-01.00 | HIJO DE CUMBIA

01.00-03.00 | TIMEBLIND

SUN 14 JUNE NOVOTEL :: TALKS

12.00-13.00 | DARIUSH MOAVEN DOUST

13.00-14.00 | CRISTÓBAL BIANCHI

14.00-15.00 | DISCUSSION

SUN 14 JUNE RÖDA STEN TENT AREA

15.00-16.00 | DJ GAVANA

16.00-19.00 | THE GÖTEBORG STRING THEORY: FOX MACHINE, HAJEN, JAQEE, MIDAIRCONDO, PACIFIC! feat EL PERRO DEL MAR, QVARTIETT, WARREN SUICIDE, WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS, SILVERBULLIT, JMY HAZE

19.00-20.00 | DAITO MANABE :: FACE PERFORMANCE

20.00-22.00 | ORCHESTRA BAOBAB

Festival Passes for all three days: SEK 490 + fee. The Festival Pass gives access to all program points and lectures and is obtained at Pusterviks biljetter (phone 031-130680) or Ticnet. For updates on ticket sales and special offers, subscribe to the newsletter.