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Welcome to a guided tour of our new exhibition Wolf Tones!
The tour will last for approximately 40 minutes, and after that we will serve waffles, coffee and tea for free.
Sunday 4 October, 13:00–14:00
Mellomvegen 82, Tromsø
Language: English
Free entry and open to all
+ free waffles, coffee and tea afterwards1
with works by Marsil Andjelov Al Mahamid, Hanan Benammar, Kamil Dossar, Laila Hida, Fatima Moallim and Hamid Zénati
curated by Myriam Amroun and Natasha Marie Llorens
A wolf tone is an irregular vibration that can occur in a musical instrument, such as a cello. It arises when the vibrations of the strings and the instrument’s wooden body come so close that they neither harmonise nor merge. The result is a recurring, howling sound – a form of friction and response that does not come from outside, but emerges from within the instrument itself.
The works in Wolf Tones hold similar tensions. They resist easy placement within established national and socio-political narratives, instead moving along their edges - between different places, histories, experiences and positions.
The title is drawn from Sara Nadal-Melsió’s book Europe and the Wolf. She uses the wolf tone as an analogy for that which cannot be harmonised – a dissonance that unsettles the idea of a unified and harmonious whole. In the exhibition, it becomes an entry point into artistic practices that create forms of friction or displacement within cultural systems of which they are themselves a part – destabilising established norms and narratives from within.
The works do not see history as a straight line from past to future. Instead, they open up other connections between what has been, what is, and what is yet to come. And to the possibility of imagining healing, repair and new ways of living in the aftermath of violence.
Each work can thus be understood as both a howl and a proposition.
The exhibition is the first in a cycle of four in Myriam Amroun and Natasha Marie Llorens's artistic research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, Decolonization is Not A Metaphor. The aim of this broader research is to flesh out the notion of “minor transnationalism” in curatorial practice as a critical approach to decoloniality in the arts.
The project has received support from OCA, Arts Council Norway, the Swedish Arts Council and the Danish Arts Foundation.
Mellomvegen 82, second floor, entrance on the side of the building facing towards north/the city center
Free and open to all
