Kalle Brolin, 2025
Kalle Brolin, Peace Talks - Three evenings about and with the peace movement in Gotland, 2024. Photo: Karl Melander
Welcome to the screening of Peace on Gotland by Kalle Brolin
Place: Almedals Library, E22 auditorium
Time: 1st of April at 17-19
Welcome to the Swedish premiere of Peace on Gotland, screened as part of the lecture series 'Gotland in Transition' organised by the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. Register for the event here.
Two years ago, BAC invited the artist Kalle Brolin to participate in an art project about the peace movement on Gotland as part of the European cooperation project On Mobilisation. The artist responded by creating a portrait of the peace movement on Gotland in the form of a film essay. The film consists of film, photo and archive material that peace activists he met on Gotland shared with him, mixed with the artist's own film material shot on Gotland during the project.
In March 2024, BAC organised the study group Peace Talks, led by Kalle Brolin, where all the people the artist had been in contact with on Gotland gathered together with a broad group of activists and interested individuals. Together they discussed the image of the peace movement, got to know each other and learned about each other's peace work. Both the study group and Kalle Brolin's film essay Peace on Gotland deal with questions that arose during his time on Gotland: How do you make an abstract concept like peace concrete? What does a peace movement look like?
Peace on Gotland can also be seen in the exhibition of the On Mobilisation project at Out of Sight in Antwerp until 30 March.
is an artist and writer based in Malmö, Sweden. He works with video installation and performance, and in large scale and research-heavy projects. A series of works concerns the effect of two industries, coal mining and sugar factories, upon the inner and outer landscape of Scania (Skåne). Kalle Brolin has also written and has been published widely about contemporary art, mainly focussing on social practice projects and on a definition of the term ”political art”. He is one of the initiators of the solar powered "Sunshine Socialist Cinema".