{"id":13051,"date":"2026-09-17T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/?p=13051"},"modified":"2026-09-17T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:12:34","slug":"matilda-tjader-shelf-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/matilda-tjader-shelf-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Matilda Tj\u00e4der: Shelf Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Welcome to <em>Shelf Life:<\/em>\u00a0Album Launch and Concert!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>18.30 Doors<br \/>\n19.00 Concert: Matilda Tj\u00e4der with Angelina Petrovic and Niklas Tj\u00e4der<br \/>\n19.30\u201320.30 DJ-set: juliettehenriu<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, November 6, Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening presents an album launch and concert celebrating the release of <em>Shelf Life<\/em>, the new musical album by artist Matilda Tj\u00e4der. Released on October 21 with Doyenne, the album will be performed live by Tj\u00e4der together with collaborators Angelina Petrovic and Niklas Tj\u00e4der.<\/p>\n<p>The musical release is based on Tj\u00e4der\u2019s eponymous short story Shelf Life, originally written for an exhibition in 2024. The story was later adapted for the stage as <em>Shelf Life: An Opera<\/em>, created in collaboration with Mathias Tang, Penny Yiou Peng and Thibaut Knapp, premiered at Inkonst, Malm\u00f6, on September 26, 2025 and produced by Malm\u00f6-based Scaling.<\/p>\n<p>The album follows a character who collects objects that share the same expiration date. As this date approaches, the inevitability of an ending begins to emerge. Through repetition, obsession and satire, everyday protocols are transformed into a dreamlike landscape where memory and surveillance take centre stage.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term &#8220;Shelf life&#8221; is a designation used to determine the function and value of a commodity, and to establish whether it is fit to sell or consume. But what happens once an object crosses that threshold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working through notions of \u2018expiration\u2019 in a surrealist and associative manner, the album explores the invisible infrastructures and systems of surveillance embedded in everyday life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CD edition of the album will be available for purchase at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album will be released by Doyenne on October 21:<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doyenne-books.bandcamp.com\/album\/d-14-matilda-tj-der-shelf-life\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen and buy the album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shelf Life.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Shelf Life:\u00a0Album Launch and Concert! 18.30 Doors 19.00 Concert: Matilda Tj\u00e4der with Angelina Petrovic and Niklas Tj\u00e4der 19.30\u201320.30 DJ-set: juliettehenriu &nbsp; On Friday, November 6, Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening presents an album launch and concert celebrating the release of Shelf Life, the new musical album by artist Matilda Tj\u00e4der. Released on October 21 with Doyenne, [&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-13051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evenemang","category-performance"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","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\/13051","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=13051"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13129,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions\/13129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}