TCK Talks

Artist talks

4.6 2024

Stockholm

Moderna Museet and Common Values United present TCK Talks: a series of presentations by young and acclaimed artists, all of whom identify as Third Culture Kids. On Tuesday 4 July, the artists Mapei, Rebecca Beyene and Jasmine Agdami meet in a conversation on the theme “Resilience”.

TCK Talks

Artist talks

Dates och themes

Tuesday 2 April 2024: Intuition
Tuesday 7 May 2024: Expression
Tuesday 14 May 2024: Empathy
Tuesday 4 June 2024: Resilience

Time

At 18.00 – 21.30

Place

In the exhibition “Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and the Moderna Museet Collection”, floor 4
When the museum closes at 20.00, we move over to Moderna Bar, floor 4

Language

Swedish and English

Registration information

Free admission. Registration is required

Contact: Camilla Carlberg, Moderna Museet

TCK Talks is a collaboration between Moderna Museet and Common Values United (CVU) and is based on both organisations’ efforts to challenge structures that perpetuate inequality in access to art and culture. We meet in a shared vision of creating space for participation and access to art and its institutions.

TCK Talks is built around four themes on which the invited artists reflect. The themes explores development, from personal exploration of intuition to resilience through the creative process.

The talks take place in the exhibition “Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and the Moderna Museet Collection”.

In this creative and collaborative journey, together with Moderna Museet, we want to create a vision of a "radical welcoming" by establishing a space for dialogue and encounter. We want to embody 'participation and access' – a philosophy that we are weaving into all our initiatives and programmes. We will endeavour to create a place that amplifies the artistic voice of third culture kids. – Babak Azarmi, Culture Director at CVU

Participating on 4 July 2024

Mapei

Mapei has a background and an upbringing marked by contrasts that also pervade her career today. As an artist, Mapei is exciting, interesting and difficult to define and put in a compartment. She is an outstanding lyricist who tells nostalgic, raw and honest stories, personally experienced or made up.

Through world hits and major collaborations such as with Swedish House Mafia, she has the whole world at her feet, but her heart beats extra for the memories and growing up in the Stockholm suburbs of Tumba and Norsborg.

Rebecca Beyene

Rebecca Beyene is an artist who experiments with, and reimagines, concepts of home through installations. These installations utilize multiple mediums: sound, video, sculptures, and drawings.

Attention to dialogue is a key point across her work; she specifically explores casual conversations and storytelling as an inspiration for her practice. Beyene is finishing her BFA at Konstfack this spring.

Jasmine Agdami

Jasmine Agdami is a Stockholm-based film director, creative director, and AI creative with a passion for storytelling.

Blending film, photography, art, dance, and fashion, she creates captivating visuals and compelling narratives that evoke emotion.

COMMON VALUES UNITED

Common Values United is an independent creative studio based in Stockholm. CVU has been operating in the creative and cultural sphere for three years focusing on studying behaviours (what is done) rather than values (what is said).
They work on how culture, community and creativity can work together to promote societal development. Some of their notable initiatives include the book on Third Culture Kids, the pop-up exhibition “Hoop Dreams” at Fotografiska and the OutsidersLab zine “A guide to Abisko” in collaboration with the clothing brand Patagonia.

Third Culture Kid

The concept of ‘Third Culture Kid’ (TCK) refers to a person who has spent a significant part of their childhood years outside their parents’ culture. TCKs often build relationships with many cultures, without fully belonging to any of them.

A TCK spends a great deal of time processing their experiences and emotions to try to establish who they really are. One of the most useful experiences in such a situation is to mirror their experiences, feelings and attitudes in other people (CVU).