Skribent och redaktör för filmmagasinet Walden. Verksam i Stockholm.
”Here, it’s personal”
Tomorrow, the American Fluxus legend Ken Friedman opens a show in Kalmar, Sweden, where he, unbeknown to many, has been living since 2014.
Tomorrow, the American Fluxus legend Ken Friedman opens a show in Kalmar, Sweden, where he, unbeknown to many, has been living since 2014.
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.
“They have approved a building without considering what it is actually supposed to contain,” says Nivi Christensen on the forthcoming museum in Nuuk.
Fewer artists and a deeper focus make the 16th Gwangju Biennale a rare, organic experience.
Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.
Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.