Stockholm University of the Arts welcomes you to Lethe - International Symposium on Forgetfulness in Artistic Processes to be held on 2-4 March, 2023.

Using the mythological river Lēthē as a metaphorical point of departure, musicians Anna Lindal, Andreas Hiroui Larsson, and Johan Jutterström conduct a research project on forgetfulness as a method and guiding principle for an artistic process.

With this symposium we invite you to discuss and investigate forgetfulness from a wide spread of perspectives, e.g., improvisation, memory, and time, in order to hopefully be able to draw conclusions on if and how forgetfulness can be applied to an artistic practice.

How can forgetfulness be an artistic tool?

Will forgetfulness and the river Lēthē enable us to become artistically reborn by way of aiding us to forget our musical habits and traditional reasonings?

What are we willing to forget?