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................................................................................................................................................................................ The basics of SQUID When you enter the studio of practically any artist, or other professional in the cultural field, you may find yourself stepping into a world of ideas. A manifest work is often the tip of an iceberg. What is the complex of knowledge, interests, detours, and fascinations that amounts to it? Browsing the SQUID website you will find interviews, reportages, essays, reports and research, as well as scripts, prose and poetry. The subjects are as diverse as the participants. For example, you can read about disappearing homing pigeons, black magic in white media, aquatic aliens and Norwegian marines, the Japanese time/space concept of Ma, the University of the Forest in Brazil and much more. We continuously invite artists, musicians, writers, curators, philosophers amongst others, to write in relation to the engagement and driving forces that run through, or parallel to their own work. With SQUID we want to focuses on the local experiences derived from diverse individual and collective practices in the cultural field. The project isn't necessarily limited to being a discussion of art per se. Instead of using for instance art criticism or art theory as a starting point, SQUID wants to facilitates a space for what we call the parallel knowledge that emerges from an investigative, creative process. Public events One of several approaches to let an audience encounter the SQUID project is to arrange public events, including discussions, presentations and live readings. This is a way to create a physical "interface", a situation where experiences, knowledge and reflections can be shared generously across genre borders. We have carried out these events in cooperation with institutions, galleries and other cultural platforms and we actively search for new situations and contexts to work within. Some of our hosts and partners so far have been: Tensta konsthall, IASPIS and Ersta konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden, the Russian workgroup CHTO DELAT?/What is to be done? and Manifesta 6 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Activating the open archive The contributions to the SQUID archive are the point of departure for any activity we either initiate or engage in. We often find questions or issues surfacing from the archive that we feel require further elaboration. Therefore, we arrange activities such as round table discussions and artists presentations as a way to further discuss and explore them. These activities can function as feedback loops and often find their way back into the archive in the form of new contributions. We see this dialogical process as a motion where snowball effects can occur and in turn trigger off yet other discussions and actions. Under Activities in the main menu, you find documentation of the different activities we have carried out so far. SQUID is run by the artists Katja Aglert [SE], Martijn van Berkum [NL] and Janna Holmstedt [SE]. Please contact us if you have questions or want to know more.
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