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Katja Aglert runs SQUID together with Janna Holmstedt and Martijn van Berkum. She is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. She works in different media such as video, sound, interventions and text.
www.katjaaglert.com

Contributions:
#18 The Main Character Of The Scene (ENG)
#14 Yet Another Artist With A Project (ENG)
- Postings on Point of View

Beata Berggren is an artist who lives in Malmö, Sweden. She graduated from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts 2005 (MFA). She works mostly with text, video and performance.
beataberggren.blogspot.com

Contributions:
#25 Ett parallellmanus till filmen: The Dream Of A Book (SV)

Camilla Bergqvist is an artist who works with video and animation. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.camillabergqvist.com

Contributions:
#3 Crystal Palace (ENG)

Martijn van Berkum runs SQUID together with Janna Holmstedt and Katja Aglert. He is an artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Martijn van Berkum works in different media such as photography, video and text. His works critically reflect on the ways in which we shape our environment. Since 2003 he works in collaboration with the Finnish artist Oskar Lindström. In 2007 Martijn van Berkum founded the group weblog Point of view, which merged with SQUID in 2008.
www.tmvb.nl
www.point-view.net

Contributions:
#32 Scrambles Amongst The Alps (ENG)
- Postings on Point of View

Michael Blum studied history at Paris University and photography at ENP, Arles, France, before turning to an artistic practice. His videos, installations and publications aim at humorously and critically re-reading the production of culture and history. He's based in Vienna, Austria.
www.blumology.net

Contributions:
#20 Dear Tom (ENG)

Veronica Brovall is a Swedish artist based in Berlin, Germany. She works with sculpture and collage.
www.veronicabrovall.com

Contributions:
#7 Through The Home Tunnel (ENG)
#7 Genom Home Tunnel (SV)

Mairead Case is a writer. She grew up in Omaha and Seattle, and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, where she works in the arts and community organizing.
www.fabulouscolor.blogspot.com

Contributions:
#34 DESIRE (ENG)

Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson have worked collaboratively since 1998. They live and work in New York, USA. Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper.
www.dubbin-davidson.com

Contributions:
#17 Lost Homing Pigeons (ENG)

Linus Elmes is an artist and curator. He works in several collaborations, among them, the Stockholm based artists initiative ak28. He founded Ersta konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.erstakonsthall.se

Contributions:
#26 Obligatory Passage Point (ENG)

Fredric Gunve is an artist based in Göteborg, Sweden. He works among other things with text, installations, teaching and situation based art.
www.framtidskonsten.se

Contributions:
#23 Tema, igen. (Part 2 of "All Talk, No Action") (SV)
#22 Mycket snack, lite(n) verkstad (SV)

Po Hagström is a Swedish artist who primarily works with the clashing and fusion of theories and worldviews. He works in Stockholm, Sweden, with mediums such as installation, text, video and painting.
www.trialerror.org

Contributions:
#5 The Melancholy Of Evolution (ENG)
#5 Evolutionens melankoli (SV)
- Postings on Point of View

Saskia Holmkvist, born 1971, is a conceptual artist from Stockholm, Sweden, working mainly with video. Her work hovers between the languages of fiction and documentary in an attempt to uncover the apparent reality that is being presented to us.
www.saskia.frontiergoodies.com

Contributions:
#13 How I Became An Artist (ENG)
#13 Hur jag blev konstnär (SV)

Janna Holmstedt runs SQUID together with Katja Aglert and Martijn van Berkum. She works with text, image, video, installation and interventions, usually in relation to a specific site or situation. She often employs storytelling as a tool for critical engagement and as a way to deal with and make sense of the constant flow of information in everyday life.
www.jannaholmstedt.com

Contributions:
#18 The Main Character Of The Scene (ENG)
#10 The Heroes Of Absolute Zero (ENG)
#10 Den absoluta nollpunktens hjältar (SV)
- Postings on Point of View

Yukie Kamiya is Chief Curator at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan. She has curated a exhibitions internationally as independent curator since 1998. Kamiya has also contributed extensively to publications including Art Asia Pacific, Asahi Newspaper and catalogue essays. She has lectured at universities in Asia and Europe, also served on panels at the Istanbul Biennial, the Kiev Art Festival in Ukraine, ARCO in Madrid and others.

Contributions:
#2 The Story As Seen From A Moving Viewpoint (ENG)

Peeter Laurits. Photo based artist. Born 1962 in Tallinn, lives in the South Estonian woods. Founder and curator of the Kütioru Avatud Ateljee (Kütiorg Open Studio). He has been active in the field of photography, theatre, advertisement, fashion and writing.
www.metsas.ee

Contributions:
#12 Labyrinth (ENG)
#12 Labürint (ES)

Ylva Mazetti was born in 1973 and has an Associate in arts degree in Arts and Philosophy from Santa Monica College, US (1998) and a Masters degree in Fine Arts from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts (2003). Mazetti's work often strive for the burlesque but never quite get there, somehow ending up organized and sanitary instead. The body of the house has had a recurring position in her work, serving as a useful backdrop to the various subjects discussed, as well as symbol for the distinction between mine and yours.

Contributions:
#9 Poetry Is What Gets Lost In Translation (ENG)

Ellen Nyman Born 1971 in Eritrea, grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress educated at The Actors' School at Aarhus Theater, Denmark. Since 1997 she has worked within theater, film, performance and television. Parallel to her acting career Ellen runs a political project entitled SPACECAMPAIGN which includes posters, stickers, t-shirts, and press cards, as well as activities such as talks, fictitious articles, spam-mail, and actions.

Contributions:
#1 "I Have Never Seen A Girl Wearing A Muslim Headscarf On Television Without It Being About The Scarf..." (ENG)
#1 "Jeg har aldrig set en pige med tørklaede vaere i fjernsynet uden at det har handlet om tørklaede..." (DK)

Marjetica Potrc is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Americas, with solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2001), the PBICA (Lake Worth, Florida, 2003) and elsewhere. She has taught at several well-known institutions in Europe and North America, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005) and has published a number of essays on contemporary urban architecture.
www.potrc.org

Contributions:
#28 New Territories In Acre And Why They Matter: Notes On Hope And "The Game" Of Coexistence (ENG)

Jelena Rundqvist, born 1967 in Stockholm, is a curator and artist. Together with Ylva Ogland and Rodrigo Mallea Lira she is part of Konst2, who ran Tensta konsthall 2005-2008. Rundqvist has previously worked as stylist, set designer and producer. Between 2001-2003 she ran After shopping and the project room SAM at Kulturhuset in Stockholm.

Contributions:
#24 06.04.02 (SV)

Imri Sandström is an artist based in Malmö. She works with sound, text, video and performance.

Contributions:
#33 Behind The White Door (ENG)

Paula von Seth, Visual artist who works with issues concerning gender, performative and participatory forms, art value in relation to economical and political value and social development. Her practice focuses on ways of addressing the question of how to meet "the other" on an individual, social and political level. Von Seth was born 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden where she also lives.

Contributions:
#16 Coca-Cola Holy Water (SV)

Marcus Steinweg. Philosopher, born in 1971, lives in Berlin, Germany.

Contributions:
#19 Love, Pain And Self-Erection (ENG)
#4 For The Love Of Foucault (ENG)

Ninia Sverdrup was born 1971 in Lund, Sweden. She graduated from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts 2004 (MFA) and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her medium today is primarily video.

Contributions:
#27 Ma And The Four Dimensional Concept Of Reality In Today's Tokyo (ENG)
#27 Ma och den fyrdimensionella verklighetsuppfattningen i dagens Tokyo (SV)

Torbjörn Säfve has published 25 works, mostly novels; he has been honored with a lifesize bronze statue in his home town, so he knows what it means to be "larger than life". Love and knowledge are his greatest passions, anyhow.

Contributions:
#21 Excerpts from "Bridge Over Deep Ditch", poems written in Ubud Nov 05 - Jan 06 (ENG)

Based in Berlin, works as a contributing editor for Frieze and writes for Afterall, Metropolis M, Springerin and Camera Austria, among others.

Contributions:
#6 This I Know About Home (ENG)

What is to be done/Chto delat?" is a group of artists (Tsaplya and Glucklya, Nikolai Oleinikov, Kirill Shuvalov, and Dmitry Vilensky), philosophers (Artem Magun, Oxana Timofeeva, Alexei Penzin), and writers (David Riff, Alexander Skidan) who are based in Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Berlin. The workgroup publishes an English-Russian newspaper on issues central to poetics and politics today, with a special focus on the Russian artistic-intellectual situation. It also engages in a variety of art projects, including videos, installations, public actions, radio programs, and artistic examinations of urban space.
www.chtodelat.org

Contributions:
#11 Drifting Through Incomplete Renovation (ENG)

A. K. Westin is a Swedish artist, working with gender related issues, mainly in the domains of textile art and comic books.

Contributions:
#29 Genusvägrarmanifestet / The Manifesto Of Gender-Refusal / Le Manifeste Anti-Genre (SV/ENG/FR)

Elin Wikström is an artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work - with roots in performance, conceptual, and context based art - deals with being subjected to a constructed situation, which leads to reflections on social issues and include her own participation, along with collaboration and exchange with those who commissions her work, audiences and specially invited participants.

Contributions:
#31 Aquatic Aliens Versus Norwegian Marines, Part I - IV (ENG)
#31 Aquatic Aliens Versus Norwegian Marines, Part I - IV (SV)

Thomas Wingren has been a professional musician and DJ for over 10 years. He is working mostly in Stockholm, Sweden but is sometimes touring with various groups. He has been studying percussion in New York, Havana and Santiago de Cuba. While he is specialized in Cuban and Brazilian music he is also working with drums from other cultures, trying to have a wide approach to the world of percussion and the various musical styles that comes with it. He has also been the driving force behind a lot of projects on the music scene in Stockholm.
www.expansionsmusic.com

Contributions:
#15 Reflections Of A Percussionist (ENG)

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.................................................... Search texts Chronologically By author Thematically ....................................................	................................................................................................................................................................................ The writers We continuously invite artists, musicians, writers, curators, philosophers and other practitioners in the cultural field to write in relation to the engagement and driving forces that runs through, or parallel to their own work. Here you can read short presentations of the participants. click a name open/close a short bio a - e ....................................................................... Katja Aglert Katja Aglert runs SQUID together with Janna Holmstedt and Martijn van Berkum. She is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. She works in different media such as video, sound, interventions and text. www.katjaaglert.com Contributions: #18 The Main Character Of The Scene (ENG) #14 Yet Another Artist With A Project (ENG) - Postings on Point of View ....................................................................... Beata Berggren Beata Berggren is an artist who lives in Malmö, Sweden. She graduated from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts 2005 (MFA). She works mostly with text, video and performance. beataberggren.blogspot.com Contributions: #25 Ett parallellmanus till filmen: The Dream Of A Book (SV) ....................................................................... Camilla Bergqvist Camilla Bergqvist is an artist who works with video and animation. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden. www.camillabergqvist.com Contributions: #3 Crystal Palace (ENG) ....................................................................... Martijn van Berkum Martijn van Berkum runs SQUID together with Janna Holmstedt and Katja Aglert. He is an artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Martijn van Berkum works in different media such as photography, video and text. His works critically reflect on the ways in which we shape our environment. Since 2003 he works in collaboration with the Finnish artist Oskar Lindström. In 2007 Martijn van Berkum founded the group weblog Point of view, which merged with SQUID in 2008. www.tmvb.nl www.point-view.net Contributions: #32 Scrambles Amongst The Alps (ENG) - Postings on Point of View ....................................................................... A.S. Bessa Is a writer. Lives in New York, USA. Contributions: #8 Untitled [In Progress] (SV) ....................................................................... Michael Blum Michael Blum studied history at Paris University and photography at ENP, Arles, France, before turning to an artistic practice. His videos, installations and publications aim at humorously and critically re-reading the production of culture and history. He's based in Vienna, Austria. www.blumology.net Contributions: #20 Dear Tom (ENG) ....................................................................... Veronica Brovall Veronica Brovall is a Swedish artist based in Berlin, Germany. She works with sculpture and collage. www.veronicabrovall.com Contributions: #7 Through The Home Tunnel (ENG) #7 Genom Home Tunnel (SV) ....................................................................... Mairead Case Mairead Case is a writer. She grew up in Omaha and Seattle, and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, where she works in the arts and community organizing. www.fabulouscolor.blogspot.com Contributions: #34 DESIRE (ENG) ....................................................................... Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson have worked collaboratively since 1998. They live and work in New York, USA. Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper. www.dubbin-davidson.com Contributions: #17 Lost Homing Pigeons (ENG) ....................................................................... Linus Elmes Linus Elmes is an artist and curator. He works in several collaborations, among them, the Stockholm based artists initiative ak28. He founded Ersta konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden. www.erstakonsthall.se Contributions: #26 Obligatory Passage Point (ENG) ....................................................................... f - j ....................................................................... Fredric Gunve Fredric Gunve is an artist based in Göteborg, Sweden. He works among other things with text, installations, teaching and situation based art. www.framtidskonsten.se Contributions: #23 Tema, igen. (Part 2 of "All Talk, No Action") (SV) #22 Mycket snack, lite(n) verkstad (SV) ....................................................................... Po Hagström Po Hagström is a Swedish artist who primarily works with the clashing and fusion of theories and worldviews. He works in Stockholm, Sweden, with mediums such as installation, text, video and painting. www.trialerror.org Contributions: #5 The Melancholy Of Evolution (ENG) #5 Evolutionens melankoli (SV) - Postings on Point of View ....................................................................... Saskia Holmkvist Saskia Holmkvist, born 1971, is a conceptual artist from Stockholm, Sweden, working mainly with video. Her work hovers between the languages of fiction and documentary in an attempt to uncover the apparent reality that is being presented to us. www.saskia.frontiergoodies.com Contributions: #13 How I Became An Artist (ENG) #13 Hur jag blev konstnär (SV) ....................................................................... Janna Holmstedt Janna Holmstedt runs SQUID together with Katja Aglert and Martijn van Berkum. She works with text, image, video, installation and interventions, usually in relation to a specific site or situation. She often employs storytelling as a tool for critical engagement and as a way to deal with and make sense of the constant flow of information in everyday life. www.jannaholmstedt.com Contributions: #18 The Main Character Of The Scene (ENG) #10 The Heroes Of Absolute Zero (ENG) #10 Den absoluta nollpunktens hjältar (SV) - Postings on Point of View ....................................................................... k - ö ....................................................................... Yukie Kamiya Yukie Kamiya is Chief Curator at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan. She has curated a exhibitions internationally as independent curator since 1998. Kamiya has also contributed extensively to publications including Art Asia Pacific, Asahi Newspaper and catalogue essays. She has lectured at universities in Asia and Europe, also served on panels at the Istanbul Biennial, the Kiev Art Festival in Ukraine, ARCO in Madrid and others. Contributions: #2 The Story As Seen From A Moving Viewpoint (ENG) ....................................................................... Peeter Laurits Peeter Laurits. Photo based artist. Born 1962 in Tallinn, lives in the South Estonian woods. Founder and curator of the Kütioru Avatud Ateljee (Kütiorg Open Studio). He has been active in the field of photography, theatre, advertisement, fashion and writing. www.metsas.ee Contributions: #12 Labyrinth (ENG) #12 Labürint (ES) ....................................................................... Ylva Mazetti Ylva Mazetti was born in 1973 and has an Associate in arts degree in Arts and Philosophy from Santa Monica College, US (1998) and a Masters degree in Fine Arts from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts (2003). Mazetti's work often strive for the burlesque but never quite get there, somehow ending up organized and sanitary instead. The body of the house has had a recurring position in her work, serving as a useful backdrop to the various subjects discussed, as well as symbol for the distinction between mine and yours. Contributions: #9 Poetry Is What Gets Lost In Translation (ENG) ....................................................................... Ellen Nyman Ellen Nyman Born 1971 in Eritrea, grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress educated at The Actors' School at Aarhus Theater, Denmark. Since 1997 she has worked within theater, film, performance and television. Parallel to her acting career Ellen runs a political project entitled SPACECAMPAIGN which includes posters, stickers, t-shirts, and press cards, as well as activities such as talks, fictitious articles, spam-mail, and actions. Contributions: #1 "I Have Never Seen A Girl Wearing A Muslim Headscarf On Television Without It Being About The Scarf..." (ENG) #1 "Jeg har aldrig set en pige med tørklaede vaere i fjernsynet uden at det har handlet om tørklaede..." (DK) ....................................................................... p - s ....................................................................... Marjetica Potrc Marjetica Potrc is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Americas, with solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2001), the PBICA (Lake Worth, Florida, 2003) and elsewhere. She has taught at several well-known institutions in Europe and North America, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005) and has published a number of essays on contemporary urban architecture. www.potrc.org Contributions: #28 New Territories In Acre And Why They Matter: Notes On Hope And "The Game" Of Coexistence (ENG) ....................................................................... Jelena Rundqvist Jelena Rundqvist, born 1967 in Stockholm, is a curator and artist. Together with Ylva Ogland and Rodrigo Mallea Lira she is part of Konst2, who ran Tensta konsthall 2005-2008. Rundqvist has previously worked as stylist, set designer and producer. Between 2001-2003 she ran After shopping and the project room SAM at Kulturhuset in Stockholm. Contributions: #24 06.04.02 (SV) ....................................................................... Imri Sandström Imri Sandström is an artist based in Malmö. She works with sound, text, video and performance. Contributions: #33 Behind The White Door (ENG) ....................................................................... Paula von Seth Paula von Seth, Visual artist who works with issues concerning gender, performative and participatory forms, art value in relation to economical and political value and social development. Her practice focuses on ways of addressing the question of how to meet "the other" on an individual, social and political level. Von Seth was born 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden where she also lives. Contributions: #16 Coca-Cola Holy Water (SV) ....................................................................... Marcus Steinweg Marcus Steinweg. Philosopher, born in 1971, lives in Berlin, Germany. Contributions: #19 Love, Pain And Self-Erection (ENG) #4 For The Love Of Foucault (ENG) ....................................................................... Ninia Sverdrup Ninia Sverdrup was born 1971 in Lund, Sweden. She graduated from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts 2004 (MFA) and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her medium today is primarily video. Contributions: #27 Ma And The Four Dimensional Concept Of Reality In Today's Tokyo (ENG) #27 Ma och den fyrdimensionella verklighetsuppfattningen i dagens Tokyo (SV) ....................................................................... Torbjörn Säfve Torbjörn Säfve has published 25 works, mostly novels; he has been honored with a lifesize bronze statue in his home town, so he knows what it means to be "larger than life". Love and knowledge are his greatest passions, anyhow. Contributions: #21 Excerpts from "Bridge Over Deep Ditch", poems written in Ubud Nov 05 - Jan 06 (ENG) ....................................................................... t - z ....................................................................... Jan Verwoert Based in Berlin, works as a contributing editor for Frieze and writes for Afterall, Metropolis M, Springerin and Camera Austria, among others. Contributions: #6 This I Know About Home (ENG) ....................................................................... What is to be done/Chto delat? What is to be done/Chto delat?" is a group of artists (Tsaplya and Glucklya, Nikolai Oleinikov, Kirill Shuvalov, and Dmitry Vilensky), philosophers (Artem Magun, Oxana Timofeeva, Alexei Penzin), and writers (David Riff, Alexander Skidan) who are based in Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Berlin. The workgroup publishes an English-Russian newspaper on issues central to poetics and politics today, with a special focus on the Russian artistic-intellectual situation. It also engages in a variety of art projects, including videos, installations, public actions, radio programs, and artistic examinations of urban space. www.chtodelat.org Contributions: #11 Drifting Through Incomplete Renovation (ENG) ....................................................................... A. K. Westin A. K. Westin is a Swedish artist, working with gender related issues, mainly in the domains of textile art and comic books. Contributions: #29 Genusvägrarmanifestet / The Manifesto Of Gender-Refusal / Le Manifeste Anti-Genre (SV/ENG/FR) ....................................................................... Elin Wikström Elin Wikström is an artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work - with roots in performance, conceptual, and context based art - deals with being subjected to a constructed situation, which leads to reflections on social issues and include her own participation, along with collaboration and exchange with those who commissions her work, audiences and specially invited participants. Contributions: #31 Aquatic Aliens Versus Norwegian Marines, Part I - IV (ENG) #31 Aquatic Aliens Versus Norwegian Marines, Part I - IV (SV) ....................................................................... Thomas Wingren Thomas Wingren has been a professional musician and DJ for over 10 years. He is working mostly in Stockholm, Sweden but is sometimes touring with various groups. He has been studying percussion in New York, Havana and Santiago de Cuba. While he is specialized in Cuban and Brazilian music he is also working with drums from other cultures, trying to have a wide approach to the world of percussion and the various musical styles that comes with it. He has also been the driving force behind a lot of projects on the music scene in Stockholm. www.expansionsmusic.com Contributions: #15 Reflections Of A Percussionist (ENG) .......................................................................