A knot not

a tongue
a trap
a slip
a slice
a table
a bucket
a bog
a publisher
a warehouse
a workhorse
a blender
a library
a circulatory system
a mouth
a fold
a list
a pile
a stick
a cup
a b c
a breath
a tone
an odd sock
an awkward gesture

A knot not is a study of language in action. This performance practice navigates what it means to live with(in) systems of meaning-making. Language falls over, sparkles, collapses and swoons. It slips through fingers and lips into sticky inks and sounds. Its presence is felt on the page, the stage and the in-betweens. This publishing takes place as a performance at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) Brinellvägen 58 and as a book presentation at Index Foundation.

When / Where

A KNOT NOT: performance practice

• Tuesday April 25, 18.00–18.45, studio 10 at SKH Brinellvägen 58
• Wednesday April 26, 18.00–18.45, studio 10 at SKH Brinellvägen 58
• Thursday April 27, 18.00–18.45, studio 10 at SKH Brinellvägen 58

A BOOK KNOT BOOK: book presentation

Saturday April 29, part of the seminar Delta – The Page as a Stage organized by Pontus Petterson and Izabella Borzecka at Index Foundation, Kungsbrostrand 19, Stockholm. Times and more information https://indexfoundation.se/. No pre-booking needed.

Bio

Sara Kaaman is a graphic designer and artist working through publishing and performance, drawing from the politics and poetics of publishing as public action. Using a variety of strategies including publication-making by paper and voice, writing, printmaking, drawing, and video, she sets up conditions to make language move.

www.sarakaaman.com

Credits

Special thanks to Martin Hargreaves, Jeanine Durning, Roby Redgrave McPherson, Tiny Karlsson Savci, Ester Martin Bergsmark, Ylva Karlsson, Channa Bianca, Laressa Dickey, Darya Efrat and all the dearlings of NPP 2023.

Also performing in:

Push/ing on language aka I wanna be a ChatGPT 

If you like DEAD RECKONING by Alexis Steeves, you might be interested in this. If you like A knot not by Sara Kaaman, you might be interested in this. If you like Moment is within momentous by Laressa Dickey, you might be interested in this.

You come. We show you what we do.

Players: Alexis Steeves, Sara Kaaman, Laressa Dickey
Time: Sunday 30 April, at 17:30, 75 min
Venue: Skeppsholmenstudion, Slupskjulsvägen 34, Stockholm

Temporary Workplace Situation

Guest appearance in one of Robert Malmborg's sharings, read more here.
Time: Friday 28 April, some time between 13:30-17:00
Venue: Studio 11 at Brinellvägen 58