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Scenography is not an autonomous art form. Its significance and capacity to visualise emerges through interaction with the actors on stage, and is preceded by the collaboration with directors and other artists involved in creating a performance. Therein lies its expressive complexity – and the challenge for the…
Early Reading is based on a non-linear documentation of social structures and their different approaches to trust and fear. The book has a fragmentary structure and relates to Hoogland Ivanow’s film Interbeing (2018). The material is presented through a thermal camera, whose optics do not register what is visible…
I början av 1960-talet skapade Ulla Wiggen en svit målningar föreställande elektroniska komponenter och datorer. Hon utforskade denna motivvärld då knappast någon kunde förutse hur den digitala teknologin skulle revolutionera våra dagliga liv. Kort därefter, 1966 deltog hon i föreställningarna 9 Evenings: Theatre &…
Kategorier: Konst
Patrik Karlström investigates the politics of representation and when he replaces art historical language with the language of economics there is a noticeable shift in meaning. Over the years, Karlström has consistently shown the viewer that no shape or image is neutral, neither in art nor in society as a whole. In his…
In the photographic series The Rectangle’s Sharp Stare Källman has turned her gaze towards closed rooms such as prison cells, exploring the idea that they resemble a camera in the way that they subject light to control, only allowing it in under certain circumstances. Using this as her point of departure, she…
The artist duo Bigert & Bergström have long been interested in producing conceptually and technically complex sculptures and installations with a twist. While their work often touches on serious issues of social and environmental sustainability, (gallows) humor plays an essential part in their practice. The idea…
Kategorier: Konst
Contemporary Swedish Photography provides an overview of Sweden s photography scene, from the legendary Christer Strömholm to the wide range of photographers practicing today. The book covers the work of over 50 photographers, presented in alphabetical order, and with an introductory text for each as well as sumptuous…
Maria Friberg’s work is characterised by her great interest in societal issues and a desire to depict the phenomena of contemporary life. Narratives about mans place in a world where the power of nature and culture is difficult to master emerge in her carefully staged images, the production of which often…
Den första resan till Irland ägde rum i mitten av sextiotalet och sedan dess har Per L-B Nilsson regelbundet återvänt med sin kamera. Merparten av bilderna i detta urval fotograferades i Dublin 1967, men har också tillkommit under sjuttio- och åttiotalet i Galway, Tralee, Tubercurry och Derry. Sista bilden är från…
The book derives from Collectively, an international forum with 80 participants on the art of thinking, working and living together organized at Konstnärsnämnden in Stockholm, 24-26 May 2019. Collectively is a concept developed by Council and commissioned by Iaspis, curated by Grégory Castéra. The contribution of…
Fotografen Anders Schönborg kom i kontakt med Angelica sommaren 2013. Då var hon 36 år och döende. Läkarna hade något år tidigare sagt att de inte kunde hejda den cancer som hade brett ut sig i Angelicas ansikte. Genom bild och text vill Anders Schönborg berätta om Angelicas liv ett liv som försvarslös och utsatt.…
Kategorier: Konst
Hur växer design fram? Hur arbetar formgivare och producenter? Nationalmuseums restaurang i Stockholm är ett nytt offentligt vardagsrum och en undersökande, taktil utställning av samtida design. Inredningen är resultatet av ett konstnärligt samarbetsprojekt kallat NM& under ledning av Matti Klenell, Carina Seth…
Maria Friberg s color photographs and videos are vivid and lush, and at times exceptionally painterly, yet they are also unsettling and coolly provocative. Reversing centuries of what has often been called a male gaze, Friberg s female gaze often captures smartly attired men in unexpectedly solemn, vulnerable, and…
Kategorier: Feminism och feministisk teori Film Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Konst Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Scenkonst och film Sociala grupper
Bridging the gulf between aesthetics and politics, artist and film-maker Petra Bauer reflects on her own experience of making political films and launches a theoretical argument that uncovers the aesthetic mechanisms underlying contemporary strategies for collective and feminist film-making. An exploration in artistic…
The growing flow of digital culture depends on the hidden protocols of its underlying systems. To explore how interfacing shapes spectatorship online, this pioneering study pinpoints experiences of flow through the friction of photo-based glitch art by Phillip Stearns, Rosa Menkman, and Evan Meaney. Homing in on the…
Kategorier: Konst
Carin Ellberg s flowing and hanging figures and objects are articulated in series and variations, where a certain laconic absurdism is formulated through highly personal expression. Ellberg has become known for her interest in everyday life, reflected in her use of domestic, simple materials such as coffee,…
Kategorier: Konst
Winter Event antifreeze, Winter Event antifreeze, Winter Event antifreeze, Winter Event antifreeze är den avslutande delen i konstnär Katja Aglert’s projektet Winter Event antifreeze. Boken består av en sekvens fotografiska utsagor främst fotograferade av Aglert, ett bildnarrativ som är ett behind the scenes…
Kategorier: Konst
How do designs evolve? How do designers and producers work? Nationalmuseum’s restaurant in Stockholm is a new public living room and an explorative, tactile exhibition of contemporary design. The interior is the result of an artistic collaboration titled NM& led by Matti Klenell, Carina Seth Andersson,…
Kategorier: Arkiv, bevarande och digitalisering Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, museivetenskap Fotografi Konst Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap
The normative order and authoritarian use of conventional archives has long been criticized. This book explores the current digitally informed transformation and multiplication of archives with their increase in both accessibility and the amount of data produced, stored, and circulated. Despite improved search…
Kategorier: Konst
Gunnel Wåhlstrand creates extraordinary large-scale ink wash paintings featuring monumental landscapes, compelling portraits and serene interiors with intriguing compositions. The point of departure for Wåhlstrand’s work was a box of family photographs – the only connection that she had to her father while…
Lotta Antonsson’s work recalls her fascination with the late 1960s and 70s, in a style where documentary and fiction blur in a merging of social and sexual revolutions. From a process that utilizes techniques of collage and montage there emerges a personal way of looking at the ephemeral nature of things, whether…
Kategorier: Konst
In a time when all witnesses to the Holocaust will soon have perished, one possible route for commemoration is a return to images, asking what testimony they can give? This book seeks to answer the question of how images can bear witnesses, by examining them as multifaceted entities produced, reproduced and resituated…
Kategorier: Konst
Susan Philipsz s work is rooted in the sculptural qualities of sound. With her idiosyncratic sound installations she investigates the landscapes and history of places, and how sound can both create new spaces and inform existing ones. The Distant Sound is a richly illustrated documentation of Philipsz’s most…
Photographs are both artistic representations and visual documents that have the capacity to bear witness to place, time, and human actions. This book is a dialogue with history through stories of place and journeys through time, connecting archives and collections with the places that produced them. Environmental…
Kategorier: Konst
What is truth and who speaks it? In the exhibition I Always Tell the Truth at Bonniers Konsthall in 2018, Dora García explores the concept of truth through film, drawing, text, and performance. The boundary between true or false is increasingly porous in our contemporary information society. This is especially the…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Ekonomiska system och strukturer Kommersiell konst och design Konst Konsumtion och konsumism Nationalekonomi Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor
THE SHOPMODERN CONDITION BY LINDA RAMPELL Read me! I am not going to change your life, I am your life. You are now living in the shopmodern condition. Forget art history. Remember image shopping. The only ism after postmodernism is consumerism. Aesthetics and economics have merged into aesthetonomics, being is…
D has made a little opening in the stable earth of the known, a modest schism in the assumed equivalence between seeing and knowing. Steven Henry Madoff Spanning a prolific five decades, Dawid: This Is a Photograph is the first truly comprehensive publication tracing the work of the pioneering Swedish photographer.…
Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff’s images are often based on the themes of spatiality, psychoanalysis, crime photography and global capitalism. She belongs to the generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the early 1990s, inspired visually by postmodernist art and theory and with a profound interest in the…
Louise Enhörning’s latest body of work is a meditation on love of different kinds. The title ”Agape” references the Greek term for a form of non-romantic love, affection, charity. The series of photographs with their luminous colours and unearthly atmosphere deal simultaneously with depth and surface,…
Kategorier: Konst
Still Life / Work Life From the Hasselblad Foundation Collection Still Life / Work Life förenar två vitt skilda fotografiska genre, stilleben och dokumentär fotografi genom ett omfattande och varierat urval ur Hasselbladstiftelsens samling. Kombinationen av stilleben och dokumentationer av arbete speglar fotografins…
En stigande temperatur håller på att förändra miljön i polarområdena. Permafrosten tinar, ekosystem förändras och glaciärer smälter bort framför våra ögon. De första försöken att skildra polarlandskapet med hjälp av kameran skedde för mer än 150 år sedan. I FRUSNA ÖGONBLICK Svensk polarfotografi 1861 1980 visas många…
Kategorier: Konst
Nakenakt is an artist’s book in accordion format created by photographer Karlsson Rixon in collaboration with the Swedish writer Mara Lee. The photographs depict a series of interactions between two bodies. They are portraits of the artist captured in a particular phase in life: a phase of intense questioning…
Kategorier: Konst
Refugee camps are established with the intention of being demolished. As a paradigmatic representation of political failure, they are meant to have no history and no future; they are meant to be forgotten. The history of refugee camps is constantly being erased and dismissed by states, humanitarian organizations,…
As traces left behind by the last two hundred years of profound historical change, architecture and photography contribute both to our contemporary skyline and to our image of the past. Their common history thus provides an indispensable background to every discussion of what has been called the contemporary past…
The Shift takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the world of contemporary art. While analyzing the motives and behavior of internationally operating collectors, it explains the current popularity of contemporary art and discloses the unwritten rules, active networks, and persistent myths of the rapidly…
Kategorier: Konst
Since their first work, Stateless Nation, at the Venice Biennial in 2003, and throughout their more recent architectural interventions in refugee camps, the artistic practice of Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti has explored and acted within and against the condition of permanent temporariness that permeates…
Kategorier: Konst
Curtain Callers by Ann-Sofi Sidén and Jonathan Bepler Entering the role, the stage, the theater house. Setting the scene. The actress smoking nervously before the curtain is lifted or is she acting nervous? Curtain Callers studies the machinations of the theater closely and affords the viewer an unobstructed view into…
Kategorier: Fotografi Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: transpersoner, transsexuella och intersexuella Konst Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
This book constitutes a series of entrances into an artistic research project exploring how queer community may emerge through photographic acts. Conducted through two artworks depicting queer lives in Russia State of Mind and At the Time of the Third Reading the research looks at possibilities to acknowledge…
On June 11, 2013 a federal bill prohibiting minors from being informed about non-traditional sexual relationships was approved after its third reading in the Russian State Duma. Meanwhile, a group of people for whom the new law could have severe consequences arrived at a women´s camp on a remote island. This book…
Cosmological Arrows / Kosmologiska Pilar was published on the occasion of the exhibition Cosmological Arrows at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, 2019. Both the exhibition and the publication aim to be springboards for artistic ideas and visions that challenge our usual way of seeing the world, and perhaps suggest new…