Participate in the exhibition The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies at at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin.
Contributors to PARSE Journal, issue 15 —September 2024, Violence: State Practice.
Exhibition: ATTRAKTIONSKAMPANJ
Place: TEGEN2, Bjurholmsgatan 9B, Stockholm
Time: 20 January to 12 February 2023
Conversation between Cecilia Järdemar, Björn Larsson and Carl Johan Eriksson about challenges and conditions in artistic research.
On 22 April at 5pm, the book Portraits of Young Men and the video work Serious Personal Conviction - on measurements of conscience will be presented.
Venue. Royal Institute of Art, Rutiga Golvet, Flaggmansvägen 1, Skeppsholmen.
Time: 22 April, 16:00 - 19:00. The exhibition runs until 29 April, 2022.
2021-11-19, Guthenburg, Carl Johan Erikson and Björn Larsson participate in the conference PARSE which has the theme Violence and State Violence as Practise.
Welcome to the exhibition Love, Body and Work – Artistic Research in Uncertain Times, 27 March–9 May 2021 at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm
VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research issue 3 is published 2 March 2020. The Issue features eight expositions with the theme “History Now”. Release at the Historical Museum in Stockholm. Read VIS
Januari 23rd at 18:00 there will be a presentation and book release of Handledning för utredningsmän (Guidance for Investigators) by Carl Johan Erikson and Björn Larsson. Invited guest for this occasion is Bengt Andersson, a former strict conscientious objector. The event is part of Royal Institute of Arts Researchweek 2010 and the video installation Intervjuer: Våld mot människor (Interviews: Violence against People) will be exhibited on Rutiga golvet throughout the whole period.
Location: Rutiga golvet, Royal Institute of Art, Main building, Flaggmansvägen 1, Stockholm
Performed by Dror Feiler at Faithful Festival in Berlin
On 21 November 2019 at 18:00, at FG2 (Föreningsgatan 2) in Gothenburg.
Iman Hassan / Staff Attorney, Center on Conscience & War, Washington DC, USA
Thursday 24 January
11.00-12.00 Presentation and film screening, Direct Award Contracts for a Short Film about Medical Age Assessment, Carl Johan Erikson and Björn Larsson. Invited guest: Zanyar Adami, Film-director, shares a response to the book and film presented. Location: Muralen (English)
Book release: Direct award contracts for a short film about medical age assessment
The publication Direct award contracts for a short film about medical age assessment, was released on the 5th of September at Filmform on Kungsholmen, Stockholm. In this book, the project leaders and the artists Carl Johan Erikson and Björn Larsson have compiled public documents that concern the public procurement and production of a “Short film about medical age assessment”, ordered by Rättsmedicinalverket[1] (RMV) in November 2016 and completed in the winter of 2017. The film is available on Youtube, Vimeo as well as on the web site of RMV. Rikard Heberling is responsible for the design and layout of the book.
[1] The National Board of Forensic Medicine Sweden
Thank you for coming to our collection seminars and shared your experiences as a non-combatant.
Place: Tegen 2, Bjurholmsgatan 9B, Stockholm
Dates: 20th of Januari 09-13 and 3rd of februari 09-13
Exhibition: The Muscle Chair – An apparatus for measuring men.
Place: TEGEN2, Bjurholmsgatan 9B, Stockholm
Dates: 19th of January until the 18th of February
Seminar. Refuse to Kill: Stories of the Conscientious Objectors
Where: Audiorama, Stockholm
When: 19 June 2017
Participants: Strict conscientious objectors Åke Lundin, Bengt Andersson and Tobias Hübinette in conversation about their own standpoints in relation to their enlistment and draft into military service. The strict objection of the three men covers three decades: 1970s, 80s and 90s.
Selection of testimonies from the seminar:
Link to Åke Lundin’s testimony.
Refuse to Kill: Stories of the Conscientious Objectors at the Royal Institute of Art’s Research Week.
Exhibition:
Where: Skeppsholmen, Royal Institute of Art, Galleri Mejan
When: 23 January, 5 p.m.
Opening with a performance by Carla Garlaschi (6 p.m.); Olav Westphalen (7 p.m.). Exhibition runs until 29 January. Participants: Louise Blad, Carl Johan Erikson & Björn Larsson, Maryam Fanni+Elof Hellström+Sarah Kim, Carla Garlaschi, Goldin+Senneby, Jan Matsson, Lucia Pagano & Igor Pisuk, Olivia Plender, Paula Urbano, Olav Westphalen.
Presentation:
Where: Skeppsholmen, Royal Institute of Art, Building 28
When: 25 January, 1 p.m. ‒ 1.45 p.m.
Presentation of the new research project funded by the Swedish Research Council: Refuse to Kill with Björn Larsson and Carl Johan Erikson.
