LÖRDAG 18 JANUARI, KLOCKAN 13.30. Föreläsning av Helena Meyer om queer tatueringshistoria och heldagsvernissage med performance och firande på Southside Gallerey i Högdalen, Stockholm. Dörrarna öppnar klockan 12, och programmet avslutas vid midnatt.
I en föreläsning på Southside Gallery i Högdalen i södra Stockholm föreläser författaren, journalisten och tatueringshistoriker Helena Meyer om queer tatueringshistoria i Sverige. Med utgångspunkt från tidningsartiklar från två århundraden, arkivmaterial och debatt inom kriminologin avslöjar hon myter om tatueringar och tatuerade personer.
Föreläsningen är en del av en vernissage lördag den 18/1 på nyöppnade Southside Gallery i Högdalen – en dag fylld av samtal och föreläsningar och en kväll fylld av performance och firande!
Sara Swanson från StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm har intervjuat queers som tatuerade sig under 1970- och 1980-talet och fotograf Del laGrace Volcano har porträtterat historieberättarna. Dessutom fyller Soledad Aznar Rodriguez och Sara Swansons StaDemonia Tattoo hela 20 år och det vill vi fira med er!
Queer tatueringshistoria/historier är ett pågående konstprojekt, minnesarbete och efterforskning, skärvor som vi samlar in till oss sjäva och våra syskon, och som berättar om tider där tatuering och queerhet varit tabu, skambelagt och/eller förbjudet OCH ett handlande fyllt av motstånd kraft och lust.
Mer information på engelska och fullständigt program för dagen nedan, och länk till evenemanget här.
In this lecture, Helena Meyer 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 she points out that all that you heard about tattooing and the person tattooed is partly a myth.
Further, she will tell you some almost forgotten information about tattooing in early modern Sweden, in popular culture, literature and commercials. She will also discuss motives. Why is the old-school style popular and credible when the tribal tramp stamp faded away, discarded, and in many ways an object of shame? And what can we do if we want to change that?
Helena Meyer is a Swedish author, journalist and tattoo historian. Her book Tatuering – fakta, myter, historia och framtid (Tattooing—facts, myths, history, and future), which was released in 2023, contains a collection of essays about tattooing. Helena Meyer has a Bachelor of Arts in History and is studying for a master’s degree.
The lecture is part of a vernissage – 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 @sta.demonia_tattoo_stockholm has interviewed queers who got tattooed during the 1970s and 1980s 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.
Queer Tattoo History/Stories
Vernissage 18/1 at Southside19gallery, Högdalsgången 43, in front of Coop.
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 Meyer points out that what you heard about tattooing and the person tattooed is partly a myth.
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).
17.00 Presentation and conversation about the work behind Queer Tatueringshistoria / Historier, with Del laGrace Volcano, Sara Swanson and Yolanda Aurora Bohm Ramirez.
20.00 Performance ’I don’t miss you’ by Inga Kolbrún 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.
21.00Performance: 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.
21.30 DJ: Yolanda
24.00 Buy buy good night!
Accessibility: Not ideal, there are stairs down to the venue. There is an elevator managed by key, call Renato 0708788925 when outside the venue.
