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KIROKAZE
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shark vs the universe
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Xuebing Du

ellievsbear

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Kiana Khansmith

Product Placement
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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Love Begins

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JVL
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH

Origami Around
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TALKING PRACTICE: MALIN ARNELL @KULTURHUSET
TALKING PRACTICE: ANASTASIA AX & LARS SILTBERG
Talking Practice studio visit to EVA ROCCO KENELL
We met Eva at her Konstfack studio where she is doing her Master program. She showed us her videowork in progress where she follows the step of a fictional route once told her by a girl that crossed half of Europe with a false ticket. This girl told the story with such details that the police had no choice but to let her go. The ticket was falsificated in a complex way that is known to a limited circle of people. During her research and travel Eva actually found many things in the real world that the girl in fact simply lied about: mysterious Suntravel agency with a ghosty owner, Ropley first and end station with no people in it except for the maintenance team, weird maps and perfect strangers.
Talking Practice at studios of MAX OCKBORN and LENA BERGENDAHL
MAX OCKBORN
Max is a visual artist focusing on sculpture and writing. Max is a poet that transforms his poetry in either words or scultpures: for example, a scupture of a toothbrush that is a usual weapon in prisons, or his Master Thesis "In hopes of support from the rooms we use", that is published on his wepage.
LENA BERGENDAHL
Lena is a visual artist that works mainly with video, photography and light installations, and now she is developing a project that deals with history of science: in particular, she is interested in early experiments with light and seeing. For example, one of her earlier projects was to create an illusion of the northern light, where a beam of light was filtered through a prism, creating a rainbow coloured light that was projected on the smoke from a fire. The smoke in this situation served as an ephemeral canvas.
Talking Practice at RAKETA collective studio
This time we met two of RAKETA members: Åsa Lipka Falck and Cecilia Enberg. We shared "conceptual meal" from our side (we bring our own snacks and drinks to be nice visitors, not as it's showned by Hennesy Youngman) and wine from RAKETA's side - there was quite a lot of it left from the party of Moscow Biennal guests, where I met Åsa and Cecilia for the first time.
RAKETA is involved into interdisciplinary collaborative projects, its members are changing all the time, and their focus depends on those who is involved at that time (artits/architect/etc). They experiment with different media, and they work maily outside Sweden.
They leave the impression of a collective that enjoys a complete artistic freedom. They make publications, but with a principle of "recycling" titles, so they use them as many as they like and to whatever content they find appropriate. Brilliant, ha?

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Talking Practice at studio of Elin Magnusson and Sofia Hultin, "Syrran"
The idea of Studio Visits by Curating Art students came to me during the chat with Elin, so it seemed logical to start the project with visiting her. One couldn't imagine the place cozier and more welcoming than this studio behind a glowing window at Telefonplan, Stockholm. Elin introduced us to her colleague, Sofia Hultin, and the visit began: instead of planned hour we stayed (by mutual interest) there for 2,5 hours and could have stayed more.
The purpose of this project is a live face to face conversation between artists and students, and not the reproduction of the meeting on the blog. Though I try to transmit a feeling of how it was held.
The place where Elin and Sofin are based is called "Syrran" (sis, sisters), and it is open for feminists and transgender people.
Elin Magnusson
Elin talked in particular about her work "Act of Instinct" where she, dressed in a costume of a deer, explored her body in a space of a nature animal area at her homeland. Through the animals (both handmade and real, out of flesh and blood) she talkes about freedom of choice, and specifically about "the order" of nature to have children. Humble, highly poetical video with a touching image of Elin dressed in a costume of a deer comes in contrast with a message of pressure and misunderstanding.
In her performance "Hatred" she changed the gender of comments about women written by men on the internet and in newspapers. These comments were left not only by angry teenagers, but by well-respected people working in media. Interesting, that male audience to whom Elin performed, took it personally, interrupted her saying they loved their mom and washed the dishes. Elin answered that this was not THEIR time to speak, but HERS. Example of comments:
Please stop embarrasing Sweden you disgusting monsters.
You are a fucking disease for the world.
I hate dudes with hairy armpits! I think it’s fucking disgusting that guys don’t shave.
Sofia Hultin
In Sofia's work "I'm every lesbian" she constructs citywalks, maps and audioguides presenting this place lesbian history.
"Not only winners should write history" - said Sofia.
It is an ongoing project and Sofia has already travelled to Albania, Serbia and Belorussia to meet local LGTBQ. During the talk Sofia showed us an interview that was done in Albania: the male interviewer almost rapped the questions in Albanian, not letting an opportunity for interpreter to translate and for Sofia to even understand and answer the question.
In her projects "Goodbye Gävle!" she preformed outloud messaged reasons why people left the city named Gävle, for example " Because the neo nazis that used to hide suddenly dare to show themselves on the streets. Because Gävle has no self-esteem". The project was criticized by local newspapers, saying that she presented the city in a negative way; but for her this project was about belonging, longing for something else, moving on.
Interesting, that both Elin and Sofia's projects are often taken wrong, they arouse critique and anger, and in my opinion that shows that they make sense and provoke dialogue that we all so urgently need.
Apart from telling the stories of those who "have to" leave, Sofia tries to give them a hand: in the song "It Gets Better" she and her colleagues sing songs about love and support in costumes of animals, surrounded by pots with plants.
In her graduation project "Everyone Has to Shower" Sofia takes an approach of challenging norms that one has to follow during his school time. School pupils are constantly exposed (for example, they must take a common shower), and they are not allowed to question it. Sofia tried to give them this opportunity. She took a so-called obstacle course with them, but in a costume of a tod. The project continued with songs in a shower, pillow forts and a conversation between Sofie and pupils.