We invite you to join us Apr 25th at Frölunda Kulturhus in Göteborg (SWE) for the coming SQUID event, which is hosted by BVK (Bild och Visuell kultur) / HDK (Högskolan för konst och Design), in Göteborg. During the event the SQUID text archive will be on display and you are welcome to sit down and read, print your favourites and listen to a selection of readings of the texts.

The new text contribution which will be released and available online the 25th of Apr is:
#51 How To Prevent The Apocalypse With Performance Art, by Daniel Ladnar and Esther Pilkington (random people), with predictions by Steve Greer, Maria Hetzer, Isabel Jones, Gareth Llŷr and Pablo Pakula.

Daniel Ladnar and Esther Pilkington (random people) are based in Hamburg, Germany and will be present at Frölunda Kulturhus during the event. Their text contribution to SQUID is based on the 10-year project 2020, which they will introduce in the form of a public presentation during the event. 2020 is a project in which every year, random people gets together to look into the future. They invite people to share their ideas about the future and collect objects in a time capsule that will not be opened before 2020.

This SQUID event is part of the BVK/HDK yearly network meeting for teachers of the arts field, which is open to the public and takes place at Frölunda kulturhus, from 17.00 - 22.00 hrs. The SQUID archive will be on display during the entire event.
19.00 - 19.30 hrs presentation of the SQUID project
19.30 - 20.00 hrs Esther Pilkington and Daniel Ladnar present their project 2020: a performance time-machine – the future of performance art (in English).
For more information about the rest of the programme click here.

Please RSVP by Apr 24 to:
fredric.gunve@hdk.gu.se

We look forward to seeing you Apr 25 at Frölunda kulturhus in Göteborg:
Valthornsgatan, Västra Frölunda

Best regards,
Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

The SQUID project will be presented as part of LIVE ART LIVE BLOG, which will be launched at Chapter Arts Center’s annual performance festival Experimentica 2011 in Cardiff, Wales. The presentation, Performing SQUID, will be carried out by two of the artists and initiators of the LIVE ART LIVE BLOG project.

LIVE ART LIVE BLOG is run by the performance platform random people and aims to increase the visibility of performance and live art events through the medium of a live blog. Its launch is scheduled for the 12th of October at 7 pm. and will consist of a series of short presentations and performances by invited artists and researchers that in different ways explore the relations between knowledge production, technology and performance. You are welcome to attend the event live at the Chapter Arts Center, or online at: http://liveartliveblog.net

Furthermore, you are also welcome to visit the Experimentica performance festival at Chapter Arts Center:
12 - 16 October
Address: Market road, Canton, Cardiff

For more information on the festival: http://www.chapter.org/24305.html

The entire festival will be covered live on the LIVE ART LIVE BLOG website.

For more information on random people:
http://random-people.net

Enjoy!
/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

We are proud to release four new texts at SQUID:

#50 Knowing You, Knowing Me: An Appendix for Why We Cannot Speak, by Barrie James Sutcliffe (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Barrie James Sutcliffe’s contribution to SQUID uses a modernist grid as the center of the argument. The text attempts to describe the ways in which we cannot know another person, and focuses on the almost impossible difficulty of honest speech, the hindrance to which is our own ignorance and stupidity, both of which we are sometimes not conscious of.

#49 OPERATION: Sagan om den Stora Datan – Akt II, by Anna Lundh (Stockholm and NYC)
Anna Lundh is contributing with the second act of her OPERATION: Sagan om den stora Datan, in which she takes the role of a private investigator, detecting from her office at Front Street in NYC. Lundh's contribution uncovers complex and intriguing histories, hard facts and connections affiliated with the source of her investigation, the book ‘The Great Computer’ from 1966.

#48 Technology Of The Voice, by Johan Landgren (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Johan Landgren’s contribution takes us on a reflective journey through the dream factory of the production of the voice of the pop singer. In a humoristic, dry and poetic manner the text guides us through the chain of effects behind the construction and aesthetic identity of this particular voice and discusses this transformative phenomenon from a variety of perspectives.

#46 The Boy, by Meira Ahmemulic (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Meira Ahmemulic tells a story about the perfect picture. It takes a lifetime to experience, but also a lifetime to preserve. The observer has to devote her/his life to its care and at the same time s/he is becoming increasingly provoked by it. There has to be something behind the surface – a personal expression, a voice, something.

We also invite you to join us tonight, from 7-9 pm at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art in Vasa (FI) for a SQUID event, which is hosted by artist-run initiative Platform. Invited guests for the evening are artist Anna Lundh and musician Johan Landgren.
For more information about the event, please click here.

Enjoy the new contributions and we hope to see you tonight!

/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

We invite you to join us Sep 2nd, from 7 until 9 pm, at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art in Vaasa (FI) for the coming SQUID event, which is hosted by the artist-run initiative Platform. During the event the text archive will be on display and you are welcome to sit down and read texts, browse the website, print your favourites and listen to sound files. Invited guests for the evening are artist Anna Lundh and composer/sound artist Johan Landgren who both individually will conduct live performances thematically and conceptually deriving from their text contributions, which will be released the same day.

Johan Landgren will perform one of his experimental voice acts, and he comments the performance with the words: The voice is false. False like a bad copy, a hybrid, an impostor. Lend me your ear and I will tell you why. And show you how.

Anna Lundh takes as starting point her investigation of composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl’s unfinished opera project ‘Sagan om den stora Datamaskinen', and specifically one of the remaining documents (dating 1967) – a list of concrete sounds to be used in the opera. Through Lundh’s performance she problematizes the relationships between concepts as time, history, ‘the now’, technology, sound and text.

The new contributions, which will be released and available online the 2nd of September:
#50 Knowing You, Knowing Me: An Appendix for Why We Cannot Speak, by Barrie James Sutcliffe (Gothenburg)
#49 OPERATION: Sagan om den Stora Datan – Akt II, by Anna Lundh (Stockholm and NYC)
#48 Technology Of The Voice, by Johan Landgren (Gothenburg)
#46 The Boy, by Meira Ahmemulic (Gothenburg)

We are looking forward to see you Sep 2nd at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art:
Address: Inre hamnen, 65100 Vasa, Finland
Time: 7 - 9 PM

/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

We are proud to announce the release of a new text by the artist Kalle Brolin and invite you to join us at Bezdomny in Göteborg for the coming SQUID event. The full archive will be on display and as part of the event Brolin will have an artist talk and screening which is connected to his text contribution:
#47 The Great Satan, Kalle Brolin (Göteborg)

You are welcome to join us at Bezdomny and read texts, print your favourites, listen to sound files, and above all attend the artist talk.
Address: Bezdomny, Tredje Långgatan 13A 1tr, Göteborg

We hope to see you!
/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

We are proud to invite you all to the Lounge at Röda Sten where the SQUID archive will be on display from Sep 4-26 as part of the exhibition "Plattform". The exhibition opens on Saturday 1 pm. and at 2 pm. there will be a short introduction of the SQUID project followed by live readings of two of the most recently released texts:
- Pojken, by Meira Ahmemulic (Berlin)
- OPERATION: Sagan om den Stora Datan – Akt I, by Anna Lundh (Stockholm and NYC)

You are welcome to sit down and read texts, browse the website, print out your favourites, listen to sound files, and have a coffee in the restuarant. The archive can be visited during opening hours:
Tue-Sun 12-5 pm.
Wed 12-7 pm.

Where to find Röda Sten:
http://www.rodasten.com/karta.asp

We hope to see you!
/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

We are proud to announce today’s release at SQUID, this time by the contributors Meira Ahmemulic and Anna Lundh.

Meira Ahmemulic tells a story about a boy and the perfect picture of a boy, reminiscent of Oscar Wilde’s ”The Picture of Dorian Gray”. The picture takes a lifetime to experience, but also a lifetime to preserve. The observer has to devote his life to its care and at the same time he is becoming increasingly provoked by it: There has to be something behind the surface, a personal expression, a voice.
Meira Ahmemulic is an artist based in Berlin. She works with video, text, actions and curatorial practices.

Anna Lundh’s contribution to SQUID is based on her research and takes the book “The Saga of the Big Computer machine – A vision”, by Olof Johannesson (1966) as its point of departure. The story unfolds a descriptive and fascinating timeline behind “The Saga…” revealing a nonlinear and multilayered narrative connected to technology, culture, science and interdisciplinary networks in Stockholm in the 1960’s.
Anna Lundh is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm and New York.

To read the new contributions, click below:
#46 Pojken, by Meira Ahmemulic (Berlin)
#45 OPERATION: Sagan om den Stora Datan – Akt I, by Anna Lundh (Stockholm and NYC)

The contributions will later this year be available in English.

We wish you a great summer and enjoyable reading!

/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

We are proud to announce that one of our previous contributions, Sound Scape, by Toine Horvers, is now also available in English. This version is the recording of a performance carried out during the last SQUID event in Helsinki, Finland.

In Sound Scape, Toine Horvers describes as accurately as possible the sound of writing. During the perfomance, he writes down this text on a sheet of paper while, simultaneously, reading it out loud. Slowed down by the speed of writing, the spoken text is slightly stretched and distorted.
#42: Sound Scape, by Toine Torvers (Rotterdam)

We hope you will enjoy the new contribution!
/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

We are proud to release five new texts at the SQUID archive and invite you to the coming event, the 19th of February, starting at 18.00 hrs, at Studio Johan Tobias on Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. The event will consist of two performances by Toine Horvers, one of the contributing artists to this release, followed by an informal artists’ talk on different approaches to independent art publishing with the Finnish artist duo IC-98. Refreshments will be served.

The new contributions to be released are:
#44: Clip Kino: Helsinki and beyond, by Andrew Gryf Paterson (Helsinki)
#43: Buying The Museum, by Alessandra Di Pisa (Stockholm)
#42: Sound Scape, by Toine Torvers (Rotterdam)
#41: Alienation Stories, by Jari Silomäki (Helsinki)

In an ongoing project at SQUID, notes for a book have been dispersed around the world. Please take a look at the latest addition from São Paulo:
#8 Untitled [In Progress], by A. S. Bessa (New York)

Furthermore, one of our previous contributions has now been translated into English: #37: The Publicly Private And The Privately Public, by Adriana Seserin (Stockholm)
#37: The Publicly Private And The Privately Public, by Adriana Seserin (Stockholm)

The adress to Studio Johan Tobias on Suomenlinna is:
http://www.squidproject.net/english/map.htm

We hope to see you!
/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

During Nov 7, 2009 - March 13, 2010 the SQUID archive will be part of ”Labyrint 09 - Writings and Observations” at Botkyrka konsthall in Sweden. "Writings and Observations" refers to the artistic practice of writing as a way of seeing, a way of altering the world. This year’s edition will focus not only on artist’s books, but also text art, and the aspects of writing in contemporary art.

In conjunction with the opening of ”Labyrint 09”, Saturday the 7th of November, a new text will be released at SQUID. IC-98 from Finland presents a family album where a partly arbitrary selection of characters, who have influenced the artists’ work, are introduced:
#40 Family Album, by IC-98 (Turku)

In an ongoing project at SQUID, notes for a book have been dispersed around the world. Please take a look at the latest addition from the Public Library in Bronx:
#8 Untitled [In Progress], by A. S. Bessa (New York)

As always, we hope you will enjoy the reading and we hope to see you at Botkyrka konsthall.

/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

To make sure your summer will be filled with enriching reading, we now release eight new texts at SQUID!

This release includes reading about cooking and storytelling, mapping, the parochialization of public space, exformation, the vandal as city planner, theme-workers, art as tool box or exceptional state, the body-fobia of modernism, dreaming walls, a poetry sale in Chicago and an attempt to write history after the end of History.

The new titles are:
#39: Urban Narratives – A round-table discussion with Meira Ahmemulic, Antonio Scarponi and Elin Wikström. Adapted to text by Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum and Janna Holmstedt.
#38: URBAN NARRATIVE: A MANIFESTO, by Antonio Scarponi (Zürich)
#37: Det publikt privata och det privat publika, by Adriana Seserin (Stockholm)
#36: Dolma, The Taste Of Kurdistan, by Francesca Recchia (Erbil)
#35: The 20th Century Chronicles, by Carl Åkerlund (Stockholm)One of the SQUID contributions is an ongoing project, which is regularly updated with new material.

Please take a look at the updated version:
#8 Untitled [In Progress], by A. S. Bessa (New York)

And finally, two of the contributions, which have so far been available in Swedish only, can now be read in English as well:
#23: THEMES, AGAIN. (Part two of  “All Talk, No Action”), by Fredric Gunve (Göteborg)
#22: All Talk, No Action, by Fredric Gunve (Göteborg)

We hope you will enjoy the new texts and we wish you a great summer!

/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

The lecture takes its point of departure in the SQUID project. We will talk about what we call parallel knowledge and different approaches to text and writing in contemporary art. We will also talk about the practices involved in the SQUID project. We are looking forward to seeing you at Bezdomny.

/ Katja Aglert, Janna Holmstedt, Martijn van Berkum

We are proud to release five new texts and also invite you to the coming SQUID event, the 29th of November, from 7 - 10pm, at Hit in Gothenburg, Sweden. Elin Wikström is invited to make a presentation and also screen a video, which is part of her project Aquatic Aliens versus Norwegian Marines. Refreshments will be served.

The new contributions to be released are:
#30: 20th Century Type Coins. Radio Play For Two Characters, by Marc Ganzglass (USA)
#31: Aquatic Aliens Versus Norwegian Marines, part I – IV, by Elin Wikström (SE)
#32: Scrambles Amongst The Alps, by Martijn van Berkum (NL)
#33: Behind The White Door, by Imri Sandström (SE)
#34: DESIRE, by Mairead Case (USA)

Monday, Dec 1 to Saturday, Dec 6
The SQUID display at Hit functions both as a reading room and an open archive. Some texts are also available as audio files. We will be present at Hit during the entire week. Feel free to drop by and have a chat over a cup of coffee, sit down and read the texts or print out your own favorite collection.

Opening hours: Monday - Saturday, 1 - 6pm (Sundays closed)
Address: Hit, Älvsborgsgatan 52, Gothenburg (www.h-i-t.se)

Since the very beginning our ambition has been to present the text contributions at SQUID in their original language as well as the English translation. In addition to that we are proud to announce that the entire SQUID website is now available in two languages: English (as before) and Swedish.

Currently we are working with preparations for the forthcoming event, Nov 29th 2008, which will take place at Hit in Göteborg, Sweden. More info will follow shortly.
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Our aim has been to create a website that would do justice to the diverse and dynamic content the authors at SQUID have generated over the past years. The new layout makes the website easy to navigate; various functions have been improved and you can now search the texts by theme, author, or in chronological order.

Furthermore, we would like to announce that Martijn van Berkum (NL) has joined as project manager to run SQUID on a regular basis. We are proud that the new website is now officially launched and hope that you, dear visitor, find it as interesting and exciting as we do!

Welcome to SQUID and enjoy all the good reading!

This website is currently under construction. We are working around the clock to make the last additions and dot the i's. The online archive is already available and mp3 and pdf versions of the texts will be available very soon. Feel free to browse the website and enjoy some online reading!

/ Katja Aglert, Janna Holmstedt and Martijn van Berkum