Sal Reis Trouxa

Sarasvati Shrestha

Ar Utke Ács

a guttering + MWF Talks

A guttering

Photo: Dalia Alfaghal

Sa 7.9.2024, 17:00-19:00, MDT

a guttering investigates encounters around the dinner table in order to nurture queer community and our interdependence. The title is a word play on ‘gathering’, ‘gut’ and ‘gutter’. The work is exploring and exploding the format of a dinner and its making. In this gathering, community meets fermentation meets queer meets somatic meets access needs meets food sovereignty meets working condition meets social choreographies meets decolonial practices meets storytelling. a guttering is founded in participatory practices and during My Wild Flag it will manifest as a collective food preparation and a shared dinner. The group works to uplift visibility of labour behind food production and the resources need it, by subverting traditional methods and values of the dinner table, in order to seed awareness.

MWF Talks

My Wild Flag (Karina Sarkissova and Pontus Pettersson) have invited Runa Borsch Skolsteg from the new dance festIval in Oslo Mind Eater and Julia Celejewska from the queer feminist collective Kem in Warsaw to Stockholm. In conjunction with a guttering, we will continue to talk and share ideas, experiences, needs, and dreams. in a continuously shrinking cultural climate we ask ourselves, as well as the local queer and cultural community:


-How do we organize? 


-How have we organized, and how do we want to continue organizing in the future when our conditions for making art are continuously shrinking? 


-What are the possibilities for art and artist-run spaces? 


-Is art needed? How? 


-Can we think about alternative ways to produce art when there's no cultural money left for queer spaces and fringe proposals?


- How to inspire each other to continue self-organizing?

Sal Reis Trouxa

Sal Reis Trouxa is a plant-based chef working with sustainability, zero-waste and fermentation. They are especially interested in the politics and social aspects around food and culture. Growing up in a self-sustaining community made by their grandparents in rural Portugal, Sal’s roots continuously inspire them to work with food both as a necessity and as a point of connection and togetherness. In the recent years they have worked as an assistant cook for artist Mirna Bamieh in her project Palestine Hosting Society and choreographer Samah Hijawi. Whilst working professionally as a chef, they have also done catering for multiple artist projects and festivals. Meanwhile they are developing their own ferments from grains sustainably produced in Scandinavia.

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Sarasvati Shrestha

Sarasvati Shrestha is an artist and horticulturist working at the intersection between art, design and horticulture. Through intermedial works, gardens and farm work, sculptures, installations, education, social and performative practices, the work is often driven by issues around value systems, food, circularity, access to land and health. Through cultivation and primary production of vegetables, she has expanded her work to collaborate with social movements, artists, activists, farmers, friends and family, by raising questions around working conditions, ownership, geopolitical conflicts and accountability. Guided by queer ecologies and strategies that resist colonial and binary logics, her work centers around tracing routes to nurture a societal transition towards food sovereignty, agroecology and solidarity.

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Ar Utke Ács

Ar Utke Ács is working as an artist within contemporary dance and an expanded understanding of choreography. They work with the poetics and politics of the body in the seams of performance, dramaturgy, text, installation, social choreographies and the imaginary. In particular, they are busy with counter-hegemonic strategies and organising from queer and crip writing and lived experience. They are based in Stockholm and Copenhagen, hold a BA in Dance Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts and are a part of the studio cooperatives Dance Cooperative and höjden studios (SE). Ar has co-produced works in collaboration with Dansehallerne, MDT (SE) and BIT Teatergarasjen (NO) and presented their work at contexts such as Baltic Circle (FI), Open Out/Tromsø Kunstforening (NO), Index Art Foundation (SE) and Charlottenborg (DK). More info here.

Fryd Frydendahl is a Danish visual artist and photographer who divides her practice between Hvide Sande and Copenhagen. Frydendahl graduated from Fatamorgana in 2006 and The International Center of Photography in 2009. Frydendahl has published several books and has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at V1 Gallery, Politikens Galleri and Baxter Street Gallery at The Camera Club New York. Frydendahl is represented by V1 Gallery in Copenhagen and LINKDETAILS in Stockholm. Selected works are included in the collections of the Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Photo Collection, the Royal Library, Kunstmuseum Brandts and the Ny Carlsberg Foundation. Until summer 2025 Frydendahl has been the headmaster at Fatamorgana, Denmark’s School of Photography.

Sofie Winther is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, performance and video. Drawing on personal experiences as a mother and her fascination with themes of kinship, labour and power she blends traditional craftsmanship with innovative technologies. Winther’s practice challenges conventional boundaries between art and function, creating works that provoke dialogue about our societal structures and global consumption. Puer Parasitus, founded in 2021 by Sofie Winther is a project at the crossroads of fashion and sculpture, emerging from an intuitive, three-dimensional approach to textile materials and recycled objects. It challenges conventional boundaries by deconstructing and reconstructing everyday items into immersive works that question consumption, empowerment and the roles of gender and power in society. Winther is based in Copenhagen and holds degrees in visual art from Gerrit Rietveld and The Royal Danish Art Academy.


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