{"id":12534,"date":"2026-05-20T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:28:48","slug":"we-cant-sing-but-we-do-a-karaoke-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/we-cant-sing-but-we-do-a-karaoke-party\/","title":{"rendered":"We can\u2019t sing but we do \u2013 a karaoke party"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>We can\u2019t sing but we do <\/b><b>\u2014<\/b><b> a karaoke party<br \/>\nwith Matti Sumari<br \/>\n<\/b><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday 29 May, 19.00\u201322.00<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b><i>We can\u2019t sing but we do<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join us for a night of karaoke with an open stage where you can sing your heart out \u2014 the sad, sweet, bad or longing-filled songs you feel like expressing. Or simply come and listen: Matti Sumari will perform Finnish classic ballads in minor keys about broken dreams and forbidden love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event forms part of the public programme for our current exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/object-of-devotion-ville-laurinkoski-matti-sumari\/\"><strong>Object of Devotion<\/strong>: Ville Laurinkoski, Matti Sumari<\/a> (15.05\u201314.06.2026), curated by Tawanda Appiah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Object of Devotion<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gathers a delicious mix of sculpture, sound, installation, and performance. It lingers on two artistic practices that are charged with material intensity, affect, and critical force. Here, matter is unravelled: how it behaves, what it signifies, and how it structures perception. The artists move in varying conceptual directions, generating productive dissonance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <strong>Object of Devotion<\/strong> Sumari presents <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can&#8217;t sing but we do <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2026), a sculptural installation with anthropomorphic characters that are imbued with agency. The inanimate objects sing their hearts out \u2013 vibrating and echoing the physical histories embedded within them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>About the artist:\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matti Sumari (b. 1987, Finland), lives and works in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, and graduated with an MFA from Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts in 2014. He is a co-founder of Alta Art Space, an artist-run exhibition space in Malm\u00f6 founded in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening is supported by Malm\u00f6 City, Region Sk\u00e5ne and the Swedish Arts Council.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can\u2019t sing but we do \u2014 a karaoke party with Matti Sumari Friday 29 May, 19.00\u201322.00 We can\u2019t sing but we do Join us for a night of karaoke with an open stage where you can sing your heart out \u2014 the sad, sweet, bad or longing-filled songs you feel like expressing. Or simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evenemang","category-performance"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["sv","en"],"languages":{"sv":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12556,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions\/12556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}