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Voice, vision and sense of place
I work with image, text, sound, installations and interventions,
as well as collaborative and web based projects. Another way to
describe my practice is to say that I work with föreställningar
– a Swedish word that in addition to perception also
refers to preconception and performance. On the
one hand my projects concern the perceptual and cognitive prerequisites
for how we as individuals perceive our environs, and on the other
hand the social and ideological structures that shape our world
view and interaction with others.
Narrative installations.
I often use voice-overs in
combination with constructed situations to create multi-layered
narratives. The stories told, fictional and documentary, are related
to what you see, but also the situation you find yourself in while
listening. Voice and vision, or lack of vision, are thus used to
activate specific perceptions and preconceptions in a kind of one-man
performances. See for example the work "Paranormal",
or "From
Here to There".
Collaborative projects. Narrative strategies, as
well as sampling and recontextualization of already existing material,
were used on a larger scale in the 2-year-project "Monument
for the Masses", made in collaboration with Po
Hagström. Here we took an existing proposal for a monument
in Estonia, altered it in substantial ways and presented our re-make
as a counter-monument. Our proposal was used as a point of departure
for mapping stories and rituals surrounding art in public space.
Rather than focusing on the values and virtues monuments are said
to symbolize, we explored the misunderstandings, conflicting relations
and stories associated with them.
Questions related to democracy, the use of
public space, city branding, identity and social sustainability
are also at the heart of the long-term collaborative projects “Mushrooming”
and "A
Radical Shift of Scenery", made in relation to the new
Regional Development Plan for the Stockholm Region.
My interest in storytelling and research based practices is the
reason I in 2005 started SQUIDproject.net
together with Katja
Aglert. "SQUID" is an ever-expanding, online archive
of texts written by cultural producers from different countries,
but also a framework for activities such as public events. In 2008
Martijn
van Berkum [NL] joined as project manager on a regular basis.
Theatre. Since 1992 I have also made works for
the stage.
Read more
"Are
You Willing to Get Stupid?" [EN], by Janna Holmstedt (Chto
delat?/What is to be done? magazine)
"The
Familiar Reconfigured" [EN], by Hassan Khan (catalogue
text, pdf)
"Some
Day They’re Gonna Name A Street After Me" [EN], by
Po Hagström and Janna Holmstedt (Estonian Art)
”Welcome
to ESTonia – en roadmovie i fem delar” [SV], by
Po Hagström and Janna Holmsted (Paletten Art magazine)
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