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Guided meditation – Ester Bergsmark<\/h2>\n

Wednesday Sep 30 at 17.30, Kulturhuset Hartwig<\/strong><\/p>\n

How are we touched by the world?<\/p>\n

By a voice. A breath. Another body. A sound from the room. Something we long for without quite knowing what it is.<\/p>\n

Ester Bergsmark\u2019s work encompasses experiences of violence, vulnerability, and the body\u2019s defenses. Yet the body is also something more than what has happened to it; it is sensuous, ever-changing, and open to the world.<\/p>\n

The meditation moves through attention, desire, and sensation. Through the breath, bodily sensations, and awareness of the space, it explores what it means to be touched by\u2014and to touch\u2014the world. Not to reach a specific state or to gain a better understanding, but to dwell in sensuality, curiosity, and that which has not yet taken shape.<\/p>\n

It also embraces the idea of desire as something greater than a clear object or goal: a life force, a direction, an erotic intimacy with the unknown.<\/p>\n

There is no specific state to achieve here, nor an answer to arrive at. Instead, meditation is an invitation to remain curious\u2014open to sensations, to others, and to the unknown.<\/p>\n

Perhaps desire can be understood in this way, too: not as something requiring a goal, but as a movement toward the world. An erotic intimacy with the unknown.<\/p>\n

During Cinema Queer, Ester Bergsmark presents a site-specific installation and leads a collective meditation on one of the festival evenings.<\/p>\n

The meditation and the site-specific work are part of the launch of Ester Bergsmark\u2019s latest film, En ljuvlighet fr\u00e5n ingenstans (A Loveliness from Nowhere), which opens in cinemas on October 1. Read more about the film and find screenings at\u00a0folketsbio.se\/en-ljuvlighet<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_raw_js]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[\/vc_raw_js][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_raw_js]JTNDJTIxLS0lMjBGbGVyYSUyMHdpZGdldHMlM0ElMjBkdXBsaWNlcmElMjBkaXZlbi4lMjBGJUMzJUI2cnYlQzMlQTRsaiUyMHBhc3MlMjBtZWQlMjBkYXRhLXBhc3MtaWQlM0QlMjJQUk9EVUtUX0lEJTIyLiUyMFNwciVDMyVBNWslM0ElMjBkYXRhLWxhbmd1YWdlJTNEJTIyZW4lMjIlMjAtLSUzRSUwQSUzQ2RpdiUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIyZW50cmUtd2lkZ2V0JTIyJTIwZGF0YS10eXBlJTNEJTIycGFzc2VzJTIyJTIwZGF0YS1sYW5ndWFnZSUzRCUyMmVuJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGZGl2JTNF[\/vc_raw_js][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”3001″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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