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Technological Eruptions
A new book on the singular artist, filmmaker, and electronic musician Åke Karlung redraws the map of Sweden’s experimental scene in the 60s.
A new book on the singular artist, filmmaker, and electronic musician Åke Karlung redraws the map of Sweden’s experimental scene in the 60s.
How can a film be a landscape? This is at the core of Swedish artist John Skoog’s first feature-length film, showcased at the CPH:DOX festival opening today.
The Berlin film festival’s experimental extension seeks to renegotiate the relationship between moving images and life.
– I always thank the machine for its creativity, says mail art pioneer Paulo Bruscky. Tomorrow, Friday, he performs at Andquestionmark in Stockholm.
– I like to understand the camera as a machinic-companion, says Elke Marhöfer, whose films are shown at Cinematiket and Fylkingen in Stockholm, today and tomorrow.
Bouchra Khalili’s exhibition at Färgfabriken in Stockholm shows the undocumented migrant as a subject with political agency.
– I wanted to treat the screen space as an affective material, says Lisa Tan, who participates in the New Museum Triennial, opening this week.
For artist Simona Barbera, sound has come to be more about its consequences.
Minister of Culture Joy Mogensen wants to strengthen management in art education, set up boards of directors, and counteract overly academised teaching. At best, this breaks with decades of technocracy.
Will Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America be as formative as Documenta 11 was at the start of the millennium? A report from a panel debate in New York.
The exhibition Artists’ Film International: Language at Tromsø Kunstforening makes no attempt to mimic the cinema’s isolating darkness.