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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.
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Katja Aglert
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Beata Berggren
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Camilla Bergqvist
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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
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A.S. Bessa
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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)
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Veronica Brovall
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Fredric Gunve
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Po Hagström
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Saskia Holmkvist
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Janna Holmstedt
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Marcus Steinweg
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Ninia Sverdrup
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Torbjörn Säfve
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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)
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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)
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A. K. Westin
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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)
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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)
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