Josefine Östberg Olsson is an artist based in Gothenburg, she received her Master’s degree from the Valand Academy in 2016. Her work revolves around the car as object, symbol, and method, and takes shape through performance, sculpture, and installations — such as in “Demolition Derby” and “epa tractor cruising”. She has exhibited at venues including Moderna Museet Malmö and Göteborgs Konsthall, received grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and the Fredrik Roos Foundation, and is represented in collections such as the Public Art Agency Sweden and Göteborg Konst.

Andreas Engman is an artist, educator, and former chef living and working in Gothenburg. His artistic practice is rooted in a conceptual and research-driven methodology; he often explores counter-rational strategies and speculative forms of meaning-making in his work. A long-standing interest in his practice involves investigating the many productive entanglements at the intersection of institutional critique, political philosophy, the politics of food, and performance practices. His works are associative, open-ended assemblages that frequently engage the public through installations, durational performances, and soundscapes. His experience as a professional chef contributes material knowledge and practical skills to his exploration of food and commensality.

Stig Steijner (b. 1990) is a Swedish artist based in Gothenburg. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2015 and Akademin Valand in 2019. Since then his practice have transformed into a mash up of paintings, sculptures, installations, text and prints. Stig’s work revolves around themes of urban ruins and demolition sites. Through site-writing, he explores the materiality of these spaces and the possibilities they offer for expanding artistic practice. His interest lies in the relationship between body and space, and in the emotional memory embedded in ruins and sites. He investigates material knowledge and how different states of decay can tell a story.

Gustaf Gideon is a Swedish composer and sound artist. He holds a double bachelor's degree in sound design and graduated from the University of Skövde, where he researched aesthetic audiovisual silence. During ☀︎ SOMMARSALONG ☀︎ Gideon will perform his latest work “jagärenm-a-nenmansomflyrendimmautannamn” live. As an alchemist and user of instruments, Gideon presents in this evocative piece a fog that emerges as a layered metaphor for the digitalized society: a threat, a comfort—something that both seeps in and holds you close. His practice begins in the city’s underbelly, where gathered data is transformed into sonic maps of the urban mind.

bpNichol (1944–1988, Vancouver, British Columbia) was one of Canada’s most influential poets. His diverse body of work includes concrete poetry, novels, short fiction, musical scores, computer-based texts, and scripts for the Muppet-inspired children’s show “Fraggle Rock”.

At ☀︎ SOMMARSALONG ☀︎, we will present “First Screening”, an early digital poetry project originally created for the Apple IIe, one of the first widely adopted personal computers. Distributed on 5¼" floppy disks in a signed and numbered edition of 100, the piece is regarded as one of the first examples of programmed kinetic poetry. It also stands as a landmark in digital publishing and distribution, created well before the rise of the Internet and mainstream digital platforms.