Wood carving and rotation in combination, production during a residency with Grafikens Hus.
An active measuring of distance and time. Playing on one of the central principles of reproducibility – the practice of rotation. Performance at SITE specific with woodcut sculptures, on papers, in the bushes and as a exhibition over the process and material outcome, open until September 7.
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.
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.
The video Pipeline (from 2007) was included in the celebratory exhibition ‘Elektronmusikstudion EMS – Art, Technology and Politics’, at Scenkonstmuseet in Stockholm.
And was also shared in the second edition of KINOBOX, as part of LIAF 2024 – ‘Gnistsambandet (Sparks)’, in Svolvær. In the programme reflecting on the themes of the festival – connections, signals, networks and distribution.
Directions of faux leather falling, a soft smooth movement. If someone cranks the crank. A wall based sculpture. Shared with a reading at Bie Biennal 2023.
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.
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.
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.
A performance Tja chat, tjena chien, concerning mimetic displacement that deals with mimecry and the comparison of gestures, language and things. The two bodies of the performers draw a narrative about societal understanding.
Published book: Viformation, written together with Marcus Doverud. The texts are in Swedish and touches different aspects on what it is to collaborate.
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!
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.