Hanna Wildow has been chosen to artistically lead Konstfrämjandet Bergslagens project Bortom de blå bergen (Beyond The Blue Mountains). From September 2018 – June 2019, she will work together with a group of youths in the remote nature reserve Gränseskogen (The Periphery Forest). The youths come from the village Storå in Lindesbergs county, which serves as arrival point for many newly arrived refuges in Sweden. The social environment of the school in Storå is consequently tinged with disruptions and renewals, and Bortom de blå Bergen is a project aiming to establish a temporary safe space in the unique and remote primeval forest. Through participatory and pedagogically influenced artistic processes, Hanna Wildow and the group will near the forest as a place, a material and a context for relationships, to collaboratively generate artworks. Hanna Wildow will lead the process based on four orientations; a walking choreography, a straying language, dying materials, and the natural blueprint process of cyanotypes. From the proposal:
 
"There is an interesting tension in Konstfrämjandet’s project description, concerning place and subject, which I would like to embrace. The Periphery Forest is described as an environment where trees are allowed to live freely – growing, dying, falling, providing life to other species; generating diversity. A poetic reading of the forest’s name also reveals the magical shield that the forest can provide; a demarcation from the world outside; or a borderland within which other realities become possible. Maybe, the contrast between the forest and the constrained existence on the outside, is the most palpable for newly arrived youths, whose lives are carved with flight, disarrays and recommences. And maybe, that’s why the temporary haven that the forest can provide; a place to breath and for a moment live freely, is uttermost important for this group."

De starka, stolta kvinnornas berg (Mountain of the Strong, Proud Women)  ​will be screened and performed as part of artist and curator Sophia Tabatadze's Grandmother Film Festival, scheduled to take place at Tante Nino in Rotterdam and at the Jugend Museum in Berlin, in November. De starka, stolta kvinnornas berg is a performative history lecture presented in video, text, sound and live performance, first performed in 2014. This will be the first time the work is translated and performed in English. 

As the name suggest, the Grandmother Film Festival screens personal films and animations about grandmothers. ​The first Grandmother Film Festival took place in Rotterdam in 2016 and the same program was shown in Berlin in 2017. 22 films were shown by international makers including Tom Fassaert (the Netherlands), Sabine Jainski (Germany), Ayala Sharot (Israel) and Yulene Olaizola (Mexico).

On November 1st, Darb1718 for Arts and Culture in Cairo, Egypt, opens its biennal Off Biennal Cairo - Something else, which will runs for two months in various spaces. This years theme is "What if it did not happen!", focusing on rewriting history, and is led by head curator Simon Njami. Hanna Wildow's The Family Dinner has been selected to be exhibited as an analogue installation of its digital archive, together with the installation and the performance both titled What is this thing called an archive, really?. The performance will be performed together with artist Alva Willemark, who is also exhibited as part of the biennal.   

On March 3rd, Wildow's research project gränsen, in collaboration with Nadah El Shazly, Mohammed A. Gawad, Adham Hafez, Alva Willemark, Erik Malmsten, and produced by Sarah El Miniawy, will have its final presentations at Cimatheque, Cairo. The project was initiated by Wildow in early 2017, as one concerned with the act of translation. When not speaking each other's mother tongues, when language it self performs the very border of comprehension, what kind of disparate translations of each other's work can we generate? Can we allow for our works to go errant, get lost, die, and be reborn in another's mouth? Can something utterly other be set in motion in a gap of hybridised languages? These were some of the questions post by Wildow as she invited two Swedish speaking and four Arabic speaking artists to a one year long relation. 

The project has generated a cluster of interweaved works, to be presented at Cimatheque in Cairo on March 3rd, 2018. Displayed above is a sketch for Wildow's piece warped vowels, to be screen printed on handmade paper made from rice straws at Al Nafeza in Cairo. Al Nafeza is a small paper-making and screen printing workshop with a re-made falafel machine, which they use to make papers and at the same time to prevent pollution from extensive burning of rice straws in the city. warped vowels is one of Wildow's two pieces attempting to translate the song “Barzakh” by Nadah El Shazly. The translating process have generated five dislocated poems, moving through different known and unknown languages, here layered into a pattern.

warped vowels have been made in collaboration with Moa Edlund and Sam Carlshamre, with great support from Sarah El Miniawy. gränsen is made possible with support of The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden).

On November 29th, Hanna Wildow will read from her text ensamkommande är ett ord med för många bokstäver för att uttala (translates alonecoming is a word with to many letters to pronounce) at Turteatern i Kärrtorp, Stockholm, as part of the examination event of 2017's class of Skrivandets förhandlingar (Negotiations in Writing) at Konstfack University of Arts and Crafts. The text springs out of Wildow's work in Botkyrka as a teacher to newly arrived refugee teenagers, fleeing their home countries as unattained minors. It is a poem-essay about language and power, about creating meaning and meaninglessness, about relations, life and death. Doors open at 5.30pm, the program starts at 6pm and Wildow reads at 7.45pm. 

​Full program at other participants can be found here: ​https://www.facebook.com/events/143774962912297/

On Saturday, November 4th, about 35 people gathered at EMS in Stockholm to take part of Wildow's research project gränsen (in progress), in collaboration with Nadah El Shazly, Mohammed A. Gawad, Adham Hafez, Alva Willemark, Erik Malmsten, and produced by Sarah El Miniawy. The group met for the very first time six days earlier and visitors were invited to step into the midst of an ongoing process. Video works, sound poems, silent poems, performances, singing, and language without meaning was unfolded, presented and discussed.

gränsen is made possible with support of The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden).

You tell me a tale, and I will listen. The story is yours to voice, but it dies the moment it slips your lips. I will adore it, and I will betray it. Your language, my language, and between the two a path of ravishment. Always in-between is the boundary, always the demarcation between your body and mine; your language and me; your mouth and my ear; your hello and my good bye.

On Monday, October 30th, Wildow's research project on translation and language as artistic material starts with a collective residency at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion). Recently Wildow invited a group of Egyptian and Swedish multilingual practitioners, all working to some degree within and with their own mother tongues; to enter a relation of some kind with her. Being drawn to interspaces within language, where words reach their own limitations, Wildow’s invitation was one concerned with the act of translation. When not speaking each other's mother tongues, when language itself performs the very border of comprehension, what kind of disparate translations of each other’s work can we generate? Can we allow for our works to go errant, get lost, die, and be reborn in an one another’s mouths? Can something utterly other be set in motion in a gap of hybridized languages?

The six artists - Nadah El Shazly, Mohammed A. Gawad, Adham Hafez, Alva Willemark, Erik Malmsten and Hanna Wildow - are gathering to collectively construct a realm of trans-boundary practices; geographical movements as well as genre-crossing art works. Together, in a week-long residency in Stockholm next week followed by a second residency in Cairo in February 2018, they inquire about borders and boundaries, what these mean across languages, practises, artforms and geographies. As unknown outcomes, interdisciplinary presentations will take place in Stockholm and in Cairo.

gränsen is co-produced by Sarah El Miniawy, a Stockholm based music manager from Cairo, and made possible through the support of The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden) for Hanna Wildow. With special thanks to EMS for their generous week-long hosting of the group.

Wildow's essay And you are the Wound has been selected for public in the California based magazine HAUNT Journal of Art. The publication can be found and downloaded at the website: ​http://hauntjournal.org/volume3/

Wildow's work Affective Breaks have been commissioned as a poster for the next edition of KRITIKER Magazine. The Magazine will be released on February 10th, at Index Stockholm.  

Last wee the digital book and archive www.c-along.com was released, as the accumulation of two years artistic research on dialogue, intimacy and desire lines by Hanna Wildow. During 2014 — 2015 c.along was presented as a series of salons; nine physical acts that explored habitual and performative modes of dialogue. The gatherings were choreographed by Hanna Wildow in collaboration with the ten practitioners and performed by a total of two hundred participants. Provoking a multitude of straying ideas, words and bodily actions; the explorations were thoroughly documented throughout their processes. Generated documents have been gathered, edited and further played on by five other practitioners. Accumulated, they form the digital collective online-choreography named c-along.com.

c-along.com hosts an archive of new and unpublished works; multiple letters, scores, scripts, notations, maps — two sound pieces, one audio guide, five videos, photography — stories written from guts and through elbows, narratives written in the act of falling/failing asleep, endless walkings and talkings, lots and lots of techno, speech and silence, memory works, deaths and bodies in decay, breakups and makeups, and boundaries that fall in to free collapse.

c.along was organized and designed in collaboration with with Sara Kaaman, Joel Galvez, Jess Arndt, Litia Perta, Cristina Caprioli, MYCKET (Katarina Bonnevier, Thérèse Kristiansson, Mariana Alves), Frédéric Gies, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Sara Magenheimer, Stina Nyberg, Laida Aguirre, Katherine Hubbard, Roxy Farhat, Moa-Lina Croall and Patriez van der Wens, produced and administrated by Izabella Borzecka and My Carnestedt.  

As part of Konstfack 2015 Degree Exhibition, Affective Breaks opens on May 13th. The exhibition is up until May 24th. Affective Breaks is an artistic research project through which Hanna Wildow collaboratively processes linguistic, political and emotional aspects of translation. Through performative inquiries, engendered as lectures, video, sound, books and installations, she explores dimensions of translation, while at the same time embodying and performing them. Wildow’s interest in translation concerns the movement and displacement that can be found in languages — shiftings, breakages, slippages and gaps. She examines these interspaces — in between words, cultures, bodies — in search of places where language reaches its own limits and stops itself; becomes lost, skewed, queer.

Affective Breaks consists of a series of overlapping works and for the spring exhibition, Wildow makes a site-specific installation within which an archive of these unfold; works collaboratively engendered together with Inga Svensson, Imri Sandström, Laida Aguirre, Sara Kaaman, Moa-Lina Croall, Moa Edlund, Athena Farrokhzad and Cristina Caprioli. 

In conjunction with the exhibition, Wildow will also perform her video lecture De starka, stolta kvinnornas berg:
May 15th – 17th at 2pm, at Midsommargården (Telefonplan 3, above the library). Open to the public and free of charge.

For more information, please visit: ​www.konstfack2015.se/master/maapr/hanna-wildow