Pepp March For Art 29th May kl.16 @Nytorget

Pepp-March For Art is an annual event that was initiated in 2009 as a reaction to the so called "Konstfack scandal" and the debate that tried to criminalize the freedom of artistic activity. The event is public and everybody is invited to be apart of it. This year the event will be something different: we will give meaning for art, that is to say the space of activities related to creativity. It is going to be a day to celebrate all the people that work with creativity and culture and to remind our city how important for Stockholm these people are. The march will be preceded by a meeting / seminar about the role of creativity in society and will retain the same form as last year: an urban happening that consist of a walk through the city, performances and dances. This year is organized by a network of dancers, free lance workers in the field of communication, researchers, musicians, and artists. ART IS WORKING AND SO ARE YOU
~ Saturday, May 29 ~
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Today’s March and Baptism

It happened! Today Saturday 29th may more than 100 persons marched in the streets of Södermalm to remind to its inhabitants how important for Stockholm creative workers are. A colorful crew of artists, dancers, video-makers, djs, musicians, researchers, actors, students, stylists, editors and so on walked with a very spirited and pepped attitude. The signs that were carried had slogans like, art is working and so are you, your creativity is free labour, your free-time became work, reclaim your money, because I’m worth it too and so on. The march started from Nytorget with a dance and the carrying of the immaterial flags and it ended with the celebration of the baptism of the child of art and life, the result of the successful marriage that has been celebrated during past year’s pepp march. See you later tonite at crystal gallery and Bastard.



THE BAPTISM

För ungefär ett år sedan fick jag det ärovördiga uppdraget att viga Konsten och Livet in i det äkta ståndet, ett äktenskap som visat sig vara så lycklig att de båda har kommit att bli oskiljaktiga och en och densamma. Konsten och Livet har sammanfallit. Poesin har blivit livets modersmål, poesi – här i den grekiska betydelsen av ordet förstått som frambringande. Poesin och Konsten är varje liten veckning på Livets kropp – varje liten rörelse som får den att framträda.  Men detta äktenskap mellan Konsten och Livet resulterade inte enbart i deras bådas förening och uppgående i varandra – för liksom Konsten frambringar livet, så skänker Livet av sig själv till konsten och det är detta dubbla skänkande som vi ska fira idag – födelsen och dopet av deras dotter.


Innan vi börjar ceremonin vill jag att vi åminner oss innebörden av denna handling. Att döpas är ingen dramatisk handling, med dopet avser man inte att förändra något utan bara att uppmärksamma det faktum att vi alltid redan uppgår i något, att vi inte rör oss ensamma i världen utan alltid i förhållande till något annat, till de andra. Dessa andra är alltså den gemenskap som vi inte kan avsvärja oss – en gemenskap som på en gång föregår och utgår ur var och en av oss, en gemenskap som alltid verkar underjordiskt som rötter i den fuktiga, svala och mörka mylla ur vilken våra enskildheter springer fram som knoppar om våren. Denna gemenskap är själva konstitutionen av vår omvärld – det allmänna intellekt som skapar den näring som världen lever av.

Och å barnets vägnar skall ni, Konsten och Livet, som barnets beskyddare, affirmera denna nödvändiga gemenskap genom att överlämna henne åt det allmänna intellekt som hon alltid redan är en del av, det allmänna intellekt som är den kognitiva kraft som konstituerar det värde som denna värld vilar på, och ni [till församlingen] ska fira denna förening med ett fyrfaldigt leve:

HIPP HIPP! (HURRA! HURRA! HURRA! HURRA!)

Vattnet som jag häller över ditt huvud är tecknet för den näring, blodet som rinner genom denna gemenskaps ådror, det blod och de ådror – den kropp som du själv är. Och härmed skänker vi dig – i ditt, mitt och den heliga gemenskapens namn – det namn du alltid har burit  – A-nomos den utan namn, den utan lag.

Förra året innan Anomos ännu var född krävde vi av Stockholm att ta sitt ansvar inför henne – att förse henne med ett barnbidrag – en garanterad inkomst, men för att göra klart vad detta innebär måste vi visa vem hon egentligen är: Anomos är varje blinkning eller viftande på höften; varje ord som föds vid varje människas läppar och varje tanke som tänks i det tysta, Anomos är det dolda prekära arbete, den underjordiska aktivitet, det diffusa sociala samarbete som skapar det ekonomiska värde som denna värld vilar på, ett värde som hon ännu inte har någon del i.


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IMMATERIAL QUESTIONNAIRE
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IMMATERIAL QUESTIONNAIRE

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~ Tuesday, May 25 ~
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CONFERENCE/MEETING @ Iaspis/Konstnärsnämnden, Maria skolgata83 (28th May, Friday, 16:30)

In recent years the very ideas of material production and work as creation
of value have undergone changes that have influenced the boundary between
work and the sphere of language and creativity.  Social, affective and
cognitive skills are constantly put to work, thus placing creative and
cultural workers in a priviledged field within the process of production
and transforming the figure of the consumer into a more productive and
creative role. Lately, cultural, artistic and creative labor are often
identified as elements leading the transition towards an “innovative”
economy. Western economies are now reorganizing in an attempt to escape
the current economic crisis by developing new ways to appropriate the
value of diffuse creativity and intellectual property.

This means that anyone participating in the circulation of ideas, the innovation of styles and the experimentation of language is at the center of a new productive
paradigm, one which is rapidly replacing the Fordist model of production that has
characterized most of the history of modern capitalism. As the role of
creativity has expanded, we have also witnessed a transition from the mass
worker to the individual freelance model of working.

Paradoxically this scenario has not brought about an improvement in the working conditions of those engaged in creative and artistic practices. Creative work is often
precarious, individualized and poorly remunerated. Income now becomes
multi-sourced, leaving creatives coping with two or three jobs at once.
Here we speak of a mass of individuals who are unrepresented, unorganised,
and highly mobile, engaged in work ranging from art, music, film and
writing, to acting, fashion and graphic design. Each of these individuals
invests significant time and energy cultivating social contacts and
networking to avoid being left ”out of the loop”, and to ensure that no job
opportunities are missed. This situation results in a deterioration of the
conditions in which creativity is developed and reproduced. Where culture and art have
traditionally been open spaces for thinking and reflection, today’s
collaborations are often fast-paced, and research is confined to the
requirements of isolated, short-term projects.

In this seminar we would like to explore the landscape of concepts, words,
histories and ways of thinking that explain the present situation for
creatives and art workers. Together we would like to reflect on where we
stand today and where we would like to  be in relation to the new
“creative” economy. How can our voices be heard? How can our positions be
strengthened as freelance workers, designers, musicians, writers, poets,
dancers and artists in relation to the multitude of employers and
contractors who can often be identified as our friends, and sometimes even
ourselves?What does creativity mean, where is it employed and by whom in
contemporary modes of production? Can creativity be isolated to individual
subjects, or is it a collective process by nature?  Finally, why is the
legal, political and economic structure of creativity organized as it is?

Adam Arvidsson, sociologist
Francesca Bria, researcher
Sinziana Ravini, writer, curator
Måns Wrange, artist, rector Mejan
will discuss with us

A representative of konstnärsnämnden will introduce the meeting


~ Sunday, May 23 ~
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~ Friday, May 21 ~
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Pepp March Benefit @ Marie Laveau

kl.18-03 60kr

Check out that amazing lineup!

We’re thinking of having a press conference,workshops, and even an action to decorate the hell out of the basement. But as the video shows we’re working on having a clean surface so we can make our magic.

Please contact us if you wanna help out. We need all the help and support possible!


~ Wednesday, May 19 ~
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The March

This is a call to arts, join the annual celebration of art on may 29th at
16.00.

This year we will start at Nytorget the heart and soul of the creative
capital of scandinavia.

We will stumble over and unplug macbooks as we go, passing the latte-mamas
and the surdegs-papas,

At Nytorget we will start with pepp speeches to affirm the value of creative
activity, in opposition to the commonly mediated image of art as something
outside of “useful labour”. We will do this to claim art as a necessity in
any society.

We will then march out of sofo through the highly hip and attractive parts of
Södermalm, which we nowadays only can visit, since no one can afford living
there.

During the march we will walk backwards, wave the immaterial flag and
close our eyes to make visible the invisible production of the immaterial
worker.

The march travels over the top of Götgatan and down Hornsgatan to
Mariatoget where we will perform a baptism of the children of last year’s
marriage between art and life; the artisan of the sensuous - all-inclusive!


~ Tuesday, May 18 ~
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Pepp Schedule


12th may wednesday 15:00 - 19:00 iaspis reading group session 1

19th may wednesday 17:30 - 21:30 weld reading group session 2 

20th may thursday 14:00 - 18:00  weld Reading group session 3 

CONCERT

@ MARIE LAVEAU (26th May, Wednesday, 18:00–03:00):

LIVE:

Love Is A Burning Thing (http://www.myspace.com/liabt)

Taxi Taxi! (http://www.myspace.com/taxitaximusic)

The New Age (http://www.myspace.com/saralunden)

Svenska Flickan (http://www.myspace.com/svenskaflickanswedishgirl)

Roxy Farhat (http://www.roxyfarhat.com/)

Omne 13

Diggapony (http://www.myspace.com/diggapony)

The Energy Group (http://www.myspace.com/theenergygroup)

DJs:

Ellen von Zweigbergk

Lina Goldman (Kommittéen)

Philly Bee

towLie

+ more!

CONFERENCE/MEETING @ Iaspis/Konstnärsnämnden, Maria skolgata 33 (28th May, Friday, 16:30):

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Sinziana Ravini

Adam Arvidsson

Francesca Bria

Måns Wrange

THE PEPP MARCH! Starts @ Nytorget ends @ Mariatorget (29th May, Saturday, 16:30–18:30)

Speeches!

Performances!

Surprises!

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