JUST NU

13 & 14 November 19:00

HEAVY METAL CLOUDS

GEOLOGICAL SWEAT

In autumn 2024, the artist elieli travelled to the Baogang tailings dam in Inner Mongolia, one of the world’s most toxic lakes. It is filled with the waste from mining the rare earth minerals that sit inside all our digital technologies. They went alone, against the advice of the embassy and several journalists, bringing flowers, incense and sugar as offerings. The lake has stayed with them ever since, and it is there every time they look into a black screen.

Heavy Metal Clouds is a performance lecture in the form of a digital séance. elieli shares what they found, and together we might conjure the spirit of the lake and the spirits living in our haunted technologies.

Geological Sweat, an installation by Garden Loops (Mercè Torres, Natalie Blom and Poppy Bell) and Yana Deliyska, is on show the same evening. It follows salt through time, from the ocean to the sweat on our skin: salt trade, salary, salt on the roads, salt in the kitchen.

The food of the weekend will also be provided by Garden Loops.

Matskog Göteborg

Sunday 15 November

11:00-18:00

Many of the walnut and chestnut trees we sowed together in the spring, in nurseries at Färjenäs Skogsträdgård, Skogen, the Botanical Garden and at some of your homes, are ready to be planted out. This is part of the vision of a city fed by healthy, regenerative ecosystems, with an edible tree for every inhabitant of Göteborg.

11:00-15:00 Practical sign workshop, planting at different sites, and a packed lunch you bring yourself

15:00-18:00 Back at Skogen for map drawing, a workshop, a presentation of the map function and Kata’s speculative design, a status report, visions for the future, and a shared dinner at cost price

The day is also a chance to help shape the movement in Göteborg. We need more local leaders, volunteers and people who want to help make the vision real. Made in collaboration with Skogen, Studiefrämjandet and Västra Götalandsregionen.

Registration here

More at matskog.samarbetet.org.

DONATIONS, NOT TICKETS

At Skogen, we think art is about setting processes in motion, to think and act together, rather than making products to consume. That’s why the processes and stories of art should be a shared resource, not a privilege for those who can pay. It’s also why we have no fixed ticket price.

But shared processes don’t run on air. The food, the art and the lights all cost something, so we’re grateful for every donation, based on your own financial situation. Your donations keep Skogen open, and make this place feel like ours.💜

Give by Swish 123 388 4772, card or cash. If you’d like to make a larger donation to support Skogen’s work, you’re always welcome to get in touch.