Minerva: The Miscarriage of the Brain
Book Launch with Johanna Hedva
Join Johanna Hedva for a presentation and discussion on their new book, Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain. The first in a series of events accompanying the group exhibition A Careful Strike, at Mint konsthall, ABF Stockholm.
Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain collects a decade of work from artist, musician, and author of On Hell, Johanna Hedva. In plays, performances, an encyclopaedia, essays, autohagiography, hypnagogic, and hypnopompic poems—in texts whose bodies drift and delight in form—Minerva tunnels into mysticism, madness, motherhood, and magic. Minerva gets dirty with the mess of gender and genius. She does the labour of sleep and dreams. She odysseys through Los Angeles, shapeshifting in stygian night and waking up to wail in the light.
The event will take place in English with BSL interpretation and live captions.
Watch it online here
Medverkande:
Johanna Hedva is a Korean-American writer, artist, musician, and astrologer, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. Hedva’s practice cooks magic, necromancy, and divination together with mystical states of fury and ecstasy. There is always the body — its radical permeability, dependency, and consociation — but the task is how to eclipse it, how to nebulise it, and how to cope when this inevitably fails. Ultimately, Hedva’s work, no matter the genre, is different kinds of writing, whether it’s words on a page, screaming in a room, or dragging a hand through water.
The event accompanies the group exhibition A Careful Strike*, opening fall of 2021 at Mint konsthall located in the former Sveagalleriet in the basement of the Workers Educational Association Quarters in Stockholm and is organised as part of Bodies of Care a course at Konstfack University exploring the effects of work and the work injuries, illness and sickness, that the unhealthy structures of work produce.