Events & News

2024

Platonic solid

Working on soft sculptures, as part of a larger project on land ownership. – In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

2024

Abstract Partition – performance

A two hour long performance intervention with fifty meter paper, and voice, inserted through the shrubbery in Tantoparken, in Stockholm. Weld held a one day festival named “In the Park”, filled with dance and art performances.

2024

Pipeline video screened twice

I’m proud to have the video work Pipeline (from 2007) included in the celebratory exhibition ‘Elektronmusikstudion EMS – Art, Technology and Politics’, on show from 1 December 2023 to 1 September 2024 at Scenkonstmuseet in Stockholm.
The video is also shared in a second edition of KINOBOX, as part of this years LIAF – ‘Gnistsambandet (Sparks)’, in a collaboration on a programme reflecting on the themes of the wider festival – connections, signals, networks and distribution. KINOBOX Svolvær operates 31.08-01.12.24

2023

Dear swarm-I, a room swarming of we-me-s

Exhibition at Haninge konsthall. Negotiations of bodies and space through paper and text in an installation that explores paper as a carrier of meaning. The work challenges modes of reading and makes it a spatial task, that encourages and choreographs the gaze of visitors to bend around paperedges and across the space.

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2022

veckad rytm

a band with Marcus Doverud formed out of project PublikMusik, caring for choreographic and music practices that complicate virtuosity in relation to playing and listening.

Veckad rytm performance at Hallen, Farsta

2018

Utsikten

Utsikten / The Prediction, an exhibition at Krognoshuset in Lund, Sweden. Featuring an installation with folded and plied lighting filters, and a set of typographic prints on the notion of the nation state (setting borders for people ans imagination) and a large drawing of a lowercase i (font Times New Roman). The exhibition combine abstraction and argumentation. A version of the work was exhibited at Grafikens Hus in exhibition Mellanrummets mekanismer.

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2016

Viformation

Published book: Viformation, written together with Marcus Doverud. The texts are in Swedish and touches different aspects on what it is to collaborate.

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2016

Research project IdentityLab

I was part of research project IdentityLab, a collaborative project between the Istanbul based maumau Art Residency and Verkstad konsthall in Norrköping. The research concern identity and connections to place, through the lens of minority groups in the two countries. Our first journey visited Jokkmokk, Stockholm and Norrköping. Next one Batman in east Turkey and Istanbul. There is a publication Between Pl&ce, download it!

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2015

Textile Location

Textile Location is a performance work where a red and white textile set a structure probed by a costume and by text. Text read and recited. Textile Location has been showed at Agora Collective, Berlin, at PALS 2014 –International Festival for Performance Art, at Sunday Run_up @ccap celebrations, and at Slakthuset.

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Statement

Liv Strand is in her art engaged in thin materials such as paper, sticks, sound and veneer. And in how the surfaces and their communicative messages are interpreted visually and understood, through social – rather than individual – negotiations. Her work addresses knowledge sharing and thought structures that affect understanding in a temporary social body (accumulation). The works of art take the form of installations or performances that want to draw attention to the processes involved when we really grasp something, perhaps just for a moment.

Liv Strand is based in Stockholm. She’s co-initiator of Salon Material (2011-18) and of feminist sound art project Larm (2004-08). She is a member of Fylkingen and in the board of NKF.