RESONANT FIELD – A CuratorLab Festival Celebrating the 25th anniversary of CuratorLab

-No One and Eleven Million
Sound installation
15:00-17:00

All hand-clapping in the Greek Parliament from the announcement of the country’s resort to the European Stability Mechanism on April 23, 2010, until the official conclusion of the program on August 20, 2018
with Orestis Mavroudis
Curated by Viktoras Iraklis

The Greek financial crisis unfolded through a series of sudden reforms and austerity measures that led to widespread impoverishment among the population, loss of income and property, and a humanitarian crisis. As a result, the political system was upended, social exclusion increased, and hundreds of thousands of Greeks left the country. This video presents every plenary session of the Hellenic Parliament from April 23, 2010, when the country announced its resort to the European Stability Mechanism, until the official end of the program on August 20, 2018. The archival footage is arranged in chronological order, with all content edited out except for the hand-clapping. The speakers at the podium and the parliamentarians in the amphitheatrical layout of the main chamber, engaged in this self-congratulatory ritual, make politics appear as a show in progress.

-Gaming the Archive: Replaying Robert Rauschenberg’s Open Score (1966)
Curated by Sara Szostak
17:30-18:30

This lecture-performance introduces a playable game that reimagines Robert Rauschenberg’s Open Score (1966) from 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering. In this version, archival audio and visual elements are restructured into dynamic sound mechanics: tennis racquets become virtual instruments, light and darkness form spatial cues, and surveillance-era infrared vision is reborn as a game mechanic. Participants explore a reimagined environment shaped by both historical fidelity and playful distortion of memories. As they navigate the space, sound and light become interface and narrative, translating the technical mishaps and successes of the original into a sonic-driven gameplay. This is not a reenactment, but a reinterpretation that treats technological failure and historical memory as active materials. Though digitally rendered, the work becomes site-specific to Stockholm through its echoes of Swedish avantgarde traditions and experimental media art, inviting players to embody history through play.

-True to Life – an echo
With Gunvor Nelson and Felicia Sjögren
Curated by Lucie Gottlieb
19:00-20:00

Screening of True to Life (2006) by Gunvor Nelson, with a live sound performance by Felicia Sjögren. In True to Life, Nelson’s camera enters a quiet yet vibrant dialogue with the flowers in her garden — creafng a drama of colours, rhythm, life and death. Approaching the film as a score and acuned to the original noises, silences and in-betweens, Sjögren weaves its original sonic fabric into her live composition. An intimate audiovisual conversation on decay, return, and the fragile persistence of life unfolds.

Thanks to Filmform.

Gunvor Nelson
Gunvor Nelson (1931–2025) was a pioneering figure in American avant-garde cinema. Born in Kristinehamn, she moved to California in 1953, studying and later teaching at the San
Francisco Art Insitute. Her work, often described as “personal cinema,” merged intimate experiences with universal questions. Exploring feminism, family, memory and transformation,
Nelson left a lasting legacy in experimental film.

Felicia Sjögren
Felicia Sjögren is an artist working with sound and the camera. She has a background in ecoactivism where she spent over a decade working in different constellations of anarchist projects. She is currently studying Electroacoustic Composition at Royal College of Music in Stockholm. A deepened listening and the relafonship to place/space and time is a central aspect of Sjögren’s practice. FELICIA SJÖGREN

Datum och tid: 30 maj kl. 15:00-20:00
Plats: ABF Stockholm, Sveavägen 41, Zäta-salen, plan 1