Janna Holmstedt

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E-mail: janna.holmstedt[at]gmail.com
Cell phone: +46 (0)709 700 710
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Environmental Dependency Syndrome >>
A 3-channel video- and sound installation with video projectors, rear projection screens, headphones, a table, chairs, a wooden floor and a gun. Length: 7 x 3 min. Language: Swedish and English. Narrators: Andreas Kundler, Jan Modin and Ulla-Britt Norrman. Actors in the filmed sequences: Janne Kilpiö and Nina Renvall, 2009.
   
Mushrooming [Som svampar ur jorden] >>
Mapping social infrastructures, six double-sides posters and a leaflet, 42x 59,4 cm, collaboration with Anna Högberg, 2009.
   
Paranormal >>
Performance for three listeners/actors. Table, chairs, bench, bags with props, audioguides and headphones. Length: 3x11 min, language: Swedish, narrators: Andreas Kundler, Jan Modin and Ulla-Britt Norrman, 2009.
   
Privileged Position >>
Rokkakaku kite, beach, wind, runners and helpers
Sylt, Germany, April 2009.
   
Don't Mind the Gap >>
79 images on 79 pages, for Glänta magazine #1-2: The missing links, collaboration with Po Hagström (Trial and Error), 2008.
   
A Concise History of the Universe >>
Artist book, collaboration with Po Hagström (Trial and Error), 2008.
   
Putting Together With Light >>
Single channel video- and sound installation with 3 headphones, rear projection screen, mirror, tilted viewing plane, carpet and external soundtrack in loudspeakers. Length: 9:40 min, language: English, narrators: Orenda Fink and Matt Wycoff, 2007-2008.
   
Social Forms And Ideal Types >>
Drawings, 2008.
   
The Construction Of Landscapes >>
Digital prints, diptych, 28 x 111 cm, 2005/2006.
   
Within This Border (I Will Be Safe) >>
Video- and sound installation with five synchronized DVD-players.
A voice-over speaks about Dr. Lilly, floating in his custom-made sensory deprivation tank; about David Blaine suspended for 44 days in his plexi glass box above the Thames; about how termites construct their magnificent nests.The voice and soundscape is accompanied by images on five monitors. Length: 10min, language: English, narrators: Jennilie Brewster and Matt Wycoff, 2007.
   


Positioning 1-3 / Positionsbestämning 1-3 >>
Posters, triptych, 46 x 60 cm, 2002-2006.
   
To turn one's anus towards the sun and say "GO"! >>
Poster, 31.5 x 56.5 cm, collaboration with Katja Aglert. Made for the Russian newspaper Chto Delat?/What Is To Be Done? #16: Potentialities Beyond Political Sadness, 2007.
   
Paper bag or plastic bag? / Don't get emotional with the food >>
Posters, diptych, various size, collaboration with Po Hagström (Trial and Error), 2008/2005
   

Inauguration – Some Day They're Gonna Name A Street After Me >>
Lamda print, 108 x 123 cm, collaboration with Po Hagström (Trial and Error), 2006.
   

Inauguration-kit >>
Mobile rostrum, collaboration with Po Hagström (Trial and Error),
2007.
   
Trial and Error – Monument for the Masses >>
A 2-year project that consists of a proposal for a counter-monument, a campaign to gain support for the proposal, an exhibition and a website. Collaboration with Po Hagström (Trial and Error), 2005-2006
 
The Last Journey of the Wanderer >>
Documentation of intervention / DVD PAL, 3:20min. Lasnamäe residential area, Tallinn, Estonia, 2005.
   

Except For Your Presence >>
Documentation of intervention / podium 37x37x57 cm, Kadriorg park, Tallinn, Estonia, 2005.
   
The Home of the Safe and Short-circuited Security Systems >>
Poster, 84 x 29,7 cm, co-written with Lisa Bäckman, 2005.
   
From Here To There (Receiver module #3) >>
Site specific video- and sound installation. A wooden booth for two persons were built against the glass wall of the exhibition space. The visitors could listen to a story about a compulsive border crosser, uncomfortable in any fixed territory, and his urge to pass forbidden borders. Soundtrack: 4:09 min, language: Swedish, 2004.
   
Receiver-modules >>
Site specific video- and sound installation. In the different booths, three different stories are told. The visitors are asked to focus on the view outside the window, where also a video projections can be seen. Language: Swedish, 2003.
   
Point Of Departure/Utgångspunkt
Site specific audio-guided walk. Length: 11min, language: Swedish, 2002.
   
The Activity Organ / Stimuli-Response
Diptych, OH-projections. Image- and text piece describing a fictive organ in the human body through mapping a series of actions and their emotional responses.
2002/2004.
   
110 Days/110 dagar
Walking, writing, mapping. During 110 consecutive days, physical movements in three cities were traced from memory and collected in an archive of subjective maps in arbitrary scale; an absurd collection of fragmented notes, daily routines and trivial adventures. The project was presented in Glänta magazine #3-4: Maps, 2002.