Conversation Queer Tattoo History / Stories!

CONVERSATION with SARA SWANSON, DEL laGRACE VOLCANO and YOLANDA AURORA BOHM RAMIREZ
LÖRDAG 18/1 kl 17.00

Sara Swanson tells about the project Queer Tattoo Histories / Stories, its background and process. In conversation with Del laGrace Volcano who has portrayed the storytellers and Yolanda Aurora Bohm Ramirez who has taken sound during most of the interviews and assisted with backup questions and valuable ideas.
 
Sara Swanson is tattoo artist, created Stademonia Tattoo Stockholm with Soledad Aznar Rodriguez in 2005 in Barcelona. Also behind Queer Konst x StaDemonia, Queer Art Fest Stockholm and Queer Tattoo Expo Stockholm.
 
Del laGrace Volcano is legendary photographer and artist who has documentet and portrayed queer life and community the last 50 plus years.
 
Yolanda Aurora Bohm Ramirez is legendary poet, and also translator, sound technician, cultural worker, one part of duo Mariconas and so much more. 
 
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Welcome to the vernissage Saturday 18/1 at the newly opened Southside Gallery in Högdalen (Högdalsgången 43, in front of Coop) – A day filled with talks and conversations and an evening filled with performance and celebration! Sara Swanson from StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm has interviewed queers who got tattooed during the 70s and 80s and photographer Del laGrace Volcano has portrayed the storytellers. In addition, Soledad Aznar Rodriguez and Sara Swanson’s StaDemonia Tattoo turns 20 years old and we want to celebrate this with you! Queer tattoo history / stories is an ongoing art project, work of memory and research. Fragments collected for ourselves and our siblings, which tells of times where tattooing and queerness was taboo, shameful and/or forbidden AND an act filled with resistance, power and desire.
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PROGRAM
(the lectures and conversations will be in English. We help each other with language when needed. For more info se posts in the event, or web www.stademonia.com Times and details might change so double check when we get closer)
 
12.00 – Doors open, welcome!

13.30 – “Swedish Tattoo History”, lecture by author, journalist and tattoo historian Helena Meyer, where she sheds new light on the history of tattooing. With the help of articles from Swedish newspapers from two centuries, archival material and old debates in criminology Helena points out that what you heard about tattooing and the person tattooed is partly a myth. More info!

15.00 – “Tattoos and queer women at the turn of the twentieth century in Copenhagen”, lecture by Rikke Andreassen, professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. Followed by conversation about Queer archives and how to work with Violent archives (from police, medical records etc, that often condemn both queerness and tattoos) with Rikke Andreassen, Marie Lunau (post doc researcher) and Pia Laskar (history of ideas and behind QRAB -Querrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek). More info!

17.00 – Presentation and conversation about the work behind Queer Tatueringshistoria / Historier, with Del laGrace Volcano, Sara Swanson and Yolanda Aurora Bohm Ramirez. More Info!

20.00 – Performance ’I don’t miss you’ by Kolbrún Inga Söring (they/them/den), a gender queer artist working in Gothenburg whose work spans several areas of artistic expression from performance, video work and site-specific installation to community cultivation and cultural production. They currently run the organisation Status Queer. More info!

21.00 – Performance: PUNK LETTERS! is a band with an undecided never of members. The show is messy and grimy. A punk love letter with a message of revolution. A Rock-opera that meets crust punk. Burning flames. Nasty proposals. Ritual powers. Soft fluff. Sibling-hood. We perform with our voices. And maybe a live ukulele. More info!

21.30 – DJ: Yolanda More info!
 
24.00 – Buy buy good night!

Availability: Unfortunately not the best.  A longer flight of stairs down to the venue, call Renato 0708788925 if needed and he will come up and show you around to the lift which he can unlock. For more questions write to sara@stademonia.com!
 
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Med stöd från Kulturrådet och Stockholms Stad, i samarbete med ABF Stockholm