is a 'writer and visual artist and in these years mainly work with writing , photography and translation .My latest book is called To the friend I never knew (2023) and was published by Tredje September. It has now been nominated for both Politiken's and Information's literature prizes.
In 2021 published Laurbærdialogerne and was lucky enough to receive the Otto Gelsted award from the Danish Academy. Træmuseet , which was published in 2018 in Ræven's Sorte Bibliotek, received the Critics' Prize and was awarded by the Statens Kunstfond as one of ten books of the year. It was also nominated for Politiken's Literature Prize.
*Cyf has served as my first name since the 1980s and is what I prefer to be called. My pronouns: he/him.'
'is an art historian, writer, and curator. She's also my partner and collaborator on 'Things Change Anyway' (2023). Since 2012 she is head of research at The Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg. At the Hasselblad Foundation Wolthers conducts research in photography’s history, theory, and contemporary practices. 'Lost and Found / Queerying the Archive' (2009/10) co-curated by Jane Rowley and Louise Wolthers was an international show of 13 contemporary artists focussing on memory and history in relationship to gender and sexuality. I was included in that show with Blood Script (2018)
is an 'artist, educator and former chef working and living in Gothenburg. Engman’s artistic practice1 is, through a conceptual approach, invested in different modes of institutional critique and alternative pedagogical frameworks, which often takes the shape of installations, performances and discursive events. Turning towards the performative and the corporeal he’s interested in how expanded notions of institutional critique can be formed in the intersection of feminist pedagogies, affective strategies and the politics of food. His past experience as a professional chef informs the conceptual and political aspects of his work with food cultures with material knowledge and practical skills.' Together with Annie Johansson they initiated the artist-run platform Temporary Stabilizations (Gothenburg, SE)
'grew up in a small village in the woods and likes to disappear into the slow making of textiles. A material and craft that interests her based on its deep-rooted relationship to body and corporeality. In her work, she often draws inspiration from topics such as private and public desire, the phenomenology of the body, new materialism, mysticism and our relationship to nature. With the language of textiles, Annie creates sculptures through which she explores the physical relationship that our bodies negotiate with objects, spaces and materials, more recently our sensual and sometimes sexual relations to textile objects. In her installations, she often wants to recognize our bodily understanding, over the cerebral, when encountering her work.'
'I am interested in the potential of social opportunities through making artworks, and exploring expanded notions of practice through collaboratively creating spaces, discussions and events. I often employ a variety of formats, materials and time frames; using film, sound, performance and space in order to promote dialogue and experience with an audience. I tend to respond to the pre-existing, deconstructing and using my surroundings. I use found materials, objects, information or collections as starting points that I then re-curate, classify, arrange and remix. The aim is to create work that encourages critical debate and might allow an audience to re-evaluate and re-look at what is presented through a new lens.'
Silas Lilo is a queer & non-binary artist, musician and producer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. I had the honor of being asked to draw an image for their song STEADY, which is included in 'REMBODY-a solo act where they map together electronic, ambient, indie/ singer-songwriter with sounds collected from places of struggle. Evoking dreams of resistance and community.'
Take a listen!
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lilosilas
Bandcamp: https://rembody.bandcamp.com/
is a 'multi media artist of many disciplines. She's a passionate YouTuber, an award-winning filmmaker and a Virtual Reality creator and enthusiast.' P*D*A* (Public* Display* of Actions*) worked with Sky in 2021 during the making of Radical Empathy, A Continuous Score, Act 11: The Musical. Sky listened to our ideas and thought along with us to create several extensive stems of a soundtrack that we used throughout the musical. This was a exciting process and Sky was amazing to work with!
'I’m an artist from Brazil, based in Sweden. I work with specific focus on the development of curatorial strategies as means for furthering decolonial dialogue - an orientation informing both my artistic practice and pedagogical work. More recently I’ve started to investigate how decolonial practice may find potential social impact in curating and organizational modes. For example - within public art schemes - commissioning strategies that are led by civil society groups or communities may prove to expose, experiment and embed ideas on pluriversality, agency building, community governance, shared authorship and belonging that could be interrogated as a form or catalyst for future decolonial practices.
"French/Danish artist Al Masson often includes performances in his work. He says 'it's an extension of the works and a challenge for the audience and for myself'. Using diverse medias open for possibilities and discard a limitation of one line of works. Within a given delimited space Al Masson tries to build an illusory enviroment or "space of doubt". These installations have the same common point; "trying to reconstruct a familiar place into a metaphorical aesthetic space. In that enclosed space one is usually invited to stay and reflect for a few minutes.""
Anna Linder "has worked in moving image art as an independent artist, curator and producer since early 1990s. Now based between Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden, her work has been selected for festivals and art exhibitions internationally. Currently she is researching Queer moving image culture at The University of Gothenburg; Valand Academy. Upcoming is an exhibition called Sister at Borås konstmuseum in October 2014. She has been active in several artists groups; High Heel Sisters, Fylkingen and YES! Assoc."
"J.J. McCracken builds immersive installations populated by living models focused on assigned tasks. Sometimes, repeating cycles of productive activity yield accumulation, and then things fall apart. Other times, consumption is incessant but unable to satisfy. McCracken’s experiential landscapes are manifestations of her research and her concern about resource equity."
"Jeff Kurosaki and Tara Pelletier are a collaborative duo based in Brooklyn, New York. We build multi-layered narrative projects using sculpture, video, music and performance. Our work explores the tension between the fundamental rhythms of life and the ordered systems that humans design to make sense of these rhythms."
'I live and work in Prince George’s County, MD, outside Washington, DC. Over the years, my studio practice of digging native clays has led to collaborations with soil scientists and work that explore intersections of art and science. As I prospect, I notice cause and effect in the environment, stealing strategies to bring back to the studio. I am interested in ways that beauty can foster stewardship… how a small souvenir of soil can carry great meaning, stories and emotional impact. I am the Founder and Director of Red Dirt Studio, an artist incubator in Mt. Rainier, MD, and I’m also Co-Director and founding member of NY Urban Soil Institute’s Art Extension Service. In both of these capacities, I get to create and foster new work in the world in partnership with amazing, smart and talented Co-Directors and colleagues.'
"Experience performance art by Swedish and international artists during 13 Festivalen. 13 Festivalen’s mission is to create a meeting point for artists and audience, where a mix of professional and emerging artists explore the possibilites and boundaires of performance art." Gothenburg, Sweden.
RAPID PULSE presents a dynamic range of styles and forms of performance art. The festival embraces the local and the global simultaneously. We aim to invigorate Chicago by bringing to the city artists of exceptional calibre from around the world with dynamic programming, decidedly fearless and unique.
//BUZZCUT// is an artist led annual performance festival that happens in the Pearce Institute in Govan, Glasgow every Spring. Throughout the year, BUZZCUT also work with other organisations to host events where artists and audiences can experiment with live performance in an accessible, community focused environment.
Red Dirt Studio is a graduate program with no grades. It’s a sculpture studio with a taste for ceramics. It’s a collective work environment with shared resources. It’s a critique group. It’s a business-of-art incubator. It’s an exhibition space, a site for visiting artist workshops and an opportunity to create artistic events. At its core, Red Dirt is about what can happen with the coming-together of talented, smart and curious people, working toward greater accomplishment in their professional practice. It’s about drawing on the resources of artistic community, and at the same time giving back.
"FADO Performance Art Centre (Fado Performance Inc.) is a non-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO was established to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art."
"Skowhegan, an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists established in 1946, seeks each year to bring together a gifted and diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to art-making and inquiry to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth."
"Established in 1986 by a group of local artists, Overgaden has for more than two decades been among the leading non-profit exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Copenhagen."
"If you are looking for someone based in the Washington, DC area to shoot a live performance (or other event) I would support Mikhail Bezruchko. He shot "Deferral", a live performance and installation at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2013 for me and I was extremely happy with the attention and sensitivity in his images and working process." Mary Coble/2013