ANNOUNCEMENT During 4 weeks in June Misschiefs is taking over a new second location in Stockholm called SUPERELLIPSEN, a circular 500m2 empty storefront visible 360 degrees through glass windows by the public passing by in Stockholms most important public square called Sergels Torg. Superellipsen is situated on what people refer to as ‘Plattan’ (the Slag), the famous pedestrian plaza where most major demonstrations and celebrations take place. For one week each, 4 outstanding women artists have been chosen by Misschiefs to take over Superellipsen and activate it from the inside.
LIVE ARTISTS’ PROGRAM
May 31 -June 06 : GREBNELLAW
June 07 - 13 : LISA JANBELL
June 14 - 20 : AILIN MIRLASHARI
June 21 - 27 : FARVASH & ROXY FARHAT
Using a system of QR-code, visitors on site will be able to connect to the sound of what is happening live inside while watching the artists through the glass windows 24/7. All the performances will be live streamed on our Misschiefs YouTube channel (link in bio) as well as social media. To avoid crowds on site we will not announce the times of the performances Follow our feed daily to see what will happen everything will be posted here Misschiefs acts site specifically as a surgical injector into dead urban storefronts of high-quality live art. Our goal is to physically reconnect the real makers of culture - womxn artists - with the broadest public possible in order to make our city centers less commercial and more human.
In their last performance, part of a series of creation experiments, GREBNELLAW @grebnellaw reimagined the chain of waste during the second wave of the Corona epidemic and formed a new character from barrier tape, hand sanitizer and shaving foam. Playing with the relics and artefacts of industrialism and consumer society they test alternative modes of existence, reconfigure fantasy and explore new ways of navigating the future. Old is the new NEW!
Misschiefs TAKEOVER was born out of a desire to actively help women artists in Stockholm who are acutely impacted by the economical repercussions of the Covid crisis. Women artists everywhere are particularly vulnerable due to their independent status as artists and as women. Misschiefs is a feminist art project from the start aiming at empowering women artists and designers. This first collaboration with a real-estate company with the aim of providing free art studio spaces to women artists with a urban visibility is a strong message of hope: indeed, new kinds of transversal partnerships between those who have access to empty spaces and artists is highly needed today.
We hope this initiative will bring together the public and the everyday real life of artists, and furthermore that Misschiefs TAKEOVER will inspire further concrete dynamism for privates companies, state institutions and individuals at large to actively participate in relieving the economic impact of the current global crisis on the heart of art world, namely its artists and practitioners, especially so for women.
Misschiefs TAKEOVER is open monday to friday from 10am to 5pm from August 10th to November 27th and will stream live the daily activities of the working artists and the live performances on YouTube and Instagram.
