{"id":2985,"date":"2025-10-31T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/?page_id=2985"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:36:00","slug":"afrang-nordlof-malekian-faglarnas-konferens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/news-and-events\/afrang-nordlof-malekian-faglarnas-konferens\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian: F\u00e5glarnas konferens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian:
F\u00e5glarnas konferens \/ The Conference of the Birds<\/h1>\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I poeten Attar av Nishapurs dikt F\u00e5glarnas konferens<\/em> (1177) samlas alla v\u00e4rldens f\u00e5glar f\u00f6r att tillsammans hitta den mytiska sanningsf\u00e5geln Simurgh. Efter en l\u00e5ng f\u00e4rd genom sju dalar \u00e5terst\u00e5r endast trettio, och i sin spegelbild inser de att Simurgh, vars namn betyder \u201dtrettio f\u00e5glar\u201d, \u00e4r dem sj\u00e4lva. I performance- och installationverket F\u00e5glarnas konferens<\/em> bl\u00e5ser publiken liv i trettio lerf\u00e5glar av konstn\u00e4ren Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian, inspirerad av lerg\u00f6kssamlingen p\u00e5 Sibeliusmuseum. Genom att ljuda i dessa skulpturala vindinstrument skapas en kollektiv signal vilken riktar v\u00e5rt fokus mot \u00d6stersj\u00f6n och en framtid d\u00e4r den best\u00e5r. Med f\u00e5gelperspektivet s\u00f6ker verket nya s\u00e4tt att tala, lyssna och vittna om \u00d6stersj\u00f6n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian (f. 1995) \u00e4r en iransk-svensk konstn\u00e4r baserad i Berlin och Stockholm, som genom performance och installationer unders\u00f6ker hur kulturer hybridiseras. Genom ber\u00e4ttande och kollektiva akter utforskar han hur estetiska sammanfl\u00e4tningar mellan prekoloniala, koloniala, migratoriska, m\u00e4nskliga och icke-m\u00e4nskliga kulturformer f\u00f6rvandlas till flyktiga och flexibla krafter som fr\u00e4mjar kollektiva str\u00e4vanden. Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian \u00e4r 2025 \u00e5rs stipendiat av Maria Bonnier Dahlins stiftelse och presenteras med en utst\u00e4llning p\u00e5 Bonniers konsthall i december i \u00e5r. Han \u00e4r representerad i samlingarna vid bland annat Moderna Museet, Statens konstr\u00e5d och Arab Image Foundation Library. Han har tidigare bedrivit konstn\u00e4rliga studier p\u00e5 the Arab Image Foundation och varit residenskonstn\u00e4r p\u00e5 Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts i Paris samt skapar just nu det offentliga verket \u00c4lvsorgeln<\/em> tillsammans med konstn\u00e4ren Theresa Traore Dahlberg i G\u00f6teborg. Hans verk har visats p\u00e5 10th Berlin Biennale, Sophiensaele, Moderna Museet och Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

English:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the poet Attar of Nishapur\u2019s poem The Conference of the Birds<\/em> (1177) all the birds in the world gather to set out to find the Simurgh, a mythical bird of truth. After a long journey through seven valleys, only thirty remain\u2014and in their reflection, they realize that the Simurgh, whose name means \u201cthirty birds,\u201d is none other than themselves. In the performance and installation The Conference of the Birds<\/em>, the audience breathes life into thirty clay birds by artist Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian, inspired by the claybird collection at Sibelius Museum. By sounding these sculptural wind instruments, we create a collective signal that directs our attention toward the Baltic Sea and a future in which it is preserved. From this avian perspective, the work seeks new ways of speaking and listening\u2014of bearing witness\u2014to the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian (b. 1995) is an Iranian-Swedish artist based in Berlin and Stockholm, who creates performances and installations informed by processes of hybridization in migratory cultures. Through storytelling and collective acts he explores how entanglements between precolonial, colonial, migratory, human, and non-human cultural forms can transform into evasive, flexible forces that advance collective endeavors. Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian is the 2025 recipient of the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation grant and his work will be presented at Bonniers Konsthall in December this year. He is represented by the Moderna Museet, the Public Art Agency Sweden, and the Arab Image Foundation Library. Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian has previously conducted artistic research at the Arab Image Foundation, was an artist-in-residence at the Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts in Paris, and is currently creating the public artwork The River Organ<\/em> with artist Theresa Traore Dahlberg for Packhuskajen in Gothenburg. His work has been exhibited at venues including the 10th Berlin Biennale, Sophiensaele, Moderna Museet, and Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Konsten att r\u00e4dda \u00d6stersj\u00f6n \u2013 bland paragrafer och performance<\/span><\/a>
4.11 kl. 18.00
Sibeliusmuseum<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afrang Nordl\u00f6f Malekian: F\u00e5glarnas konferens \/ The Conference of the Birds I poeten Attar av Nishapurs dikt F\u00e5glarnas konferens (1177) samlas alla v\u00e4rldens f\u00e5glar f\u00f6r att tillsammans hitta den mytiska sanningsf\u00e5geln Simurgh. Efter en l\u00e5ng f\u00e4rd genom sju dalar \u00e5terst\u00e5r endast trettio, och i sin spegelbild inser de att Simurgh, vars namn betyder \u201dtrettio f\u00e5glar\u201d,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"normal","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2985","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":2985},"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mallehto","author_link":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/author\/2\/"},"comment_info":0,"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2985\/revisions\/2989"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}