Southnord teams up with  Fotografiska  to activate the  Cindy Sherman  exhibition on 21 March 2024, offering an evening of talks and performance featuring the photography platform  Rise and Shoot,  as well as the artist, composer, musician  João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga together with artist and performance weaver Marcia Harvey Isaksson. 

We start the evening with artist talks with eight young photographers: Ali Malim, Hamsa Abdelgadir, Hayat Dualeh, Issra Dziri, Nemo Bergström, Kendra Salas Wahlberg, Sucdi Said och Thisbe Freerks, who all participated in Rise and Shoot’s year-long photography course in 2023. The resulting exhibition Visual Diaries: Chronicles of the Self, that was previously shown at Lava, Kulturhuset, will be featured during the evening. In a time where our identities are often influenced by external factors and expectations, the exhibition provides expression of a courageous questioning of these influences. Through every image, the students describe their personal journeys, question stereotypes and create dialogue around self-image and self-perception. Based in Järva, Rise and Shoot works to realise creative ideas of young people with passion for photographing with the aim of enabling pathways into the industry and promote diversity in creative rooms.  

The evening continues with a unique performance by Orecchia and Harvey Isaksson where they connect a synthesiser and a loom. As patterns emerge on the loom, so do sonic patterns emerge in the three dimensions of the performance space, in time, in rhythm, in step with the weaver’s actions, filtered through the synthesist’s tools, which are also a form of loom for weaving sounds into a textured sonic image. A conversation emerges between the workers and the tools: weaver, loom, synthesiser, synthesist.  The roots of this collaboration were formed in July 2022 when João was an artist-in-residence hosted by The Ninevites in collaboration with Gamleby Photo Grant. The aim of the residency was to provide the artists with space and resources to support their artistic practice, encourage collaboration and enable them to create in a new context.

Through experimentation and improvisation, Orecchia explores sound’s connective capacities through both its physical properties and material preconscious properties, seeking a balance between computer technology, field recordings and traditional musical instruments. Currently focused on the combination of bass clarinet and modular synthesiser, Orecchiaʼs live performance spans composed works and improvised textural sound worlds.  Marcia Harvey Isaksson uses textile techniques and methods to investigate our common cultural heritage. She uses weaving looms in public spaces as a tool to explore the architecture of both the loom and the space, as well as a creating opportunities for dialogue and memory work together with visitors.