You Are not A Guest in Stockholm

Vision Forum will participate in “You Are not A Guest” at AllArtNow in Stockholm. Per Huttner will perform “Friendship in the Age of Gaslighting*” on June 16, 2023. The exhibition and program is curated Vision Forum’s dear friend and long time collaborator by Abir Boukhari. Everyone is welcome and entrance is free.

The world is changing fast. Many aspects of our reality that we took for granted only a few years ago can no longer be counted on. The landscape of industry, politics and technology are moving in previously unimaginable directions. In the performance Huttner looks at what happens to friendship in the wake of the changes that we are living through.

He will use text, sound and moving images to reflect on friendship. He invites the audience to ponder how love expresses itself in their relationship to their friends. Could this affection be the foundation for inspiring hope in our hearts? Does friendship demand honesty? What happens to friends when they no longer share the same values? These are some of the questions that the performance raises.

* Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even their sanity. The term comes from the 1944 film called “Gaslight” which stars Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.