ANNA KINBOM
September - October, 2022

Supported by Helge Ax:son Johnsson’s Foundation and the Swedish Arts Grant Committee.

During a six week long residency Anna Kinbom concucted research on Lacanian Psychotherapy and the latest feminist wave in Argentina among other things, wrote a book and performed a new work “The potential of conversations leading nowhere” at XXX in Buenos Aires. In the work the artist looks back at earlier periods in her life and reads from her new book about walks at Södermalm dreaming about a studio, therapy sessions in Buenos Aires and how one writes a book. She states:

"I got interested in Lacanian therapy because it is based on the word, the language, in the act of speaking and telling things. It makes a difference how I tell you my stories, this could be a cure, to speak, to tell things to someone.”

The performance also included newly written songs, among others: “When you wake up I go to sleep”. It adds to an already extensive repertoire of songs that makes up an important part of Anna Kinbom’s artistic work. 

The work was also performed at Galleri Box in Gothenburg in November 2022 and at Index the Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm in December 2022.