Liv Strand CV

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Solo Exhibitions

Other Works

  • 2016 Workshop Comparative memories, contagious stories, with a group of Ukrainian and Swedish artists, about memory making and the censoring of history, for instance in public space. Curators Susanne Ewerlöf (SE) och Mykola Ridnyi (UKR).
  • 2016 Signals, a curated evening where the attention focused the mutual concern between people and things. With Isabel Carvalho (PT), Jelena Rundqvist & me. At Malongen, Stockholm.
  • 2016 two Text Sessions at Malongen, Stockholm, working on the complex of text as artistic medium with invited artists/writers. Reading ones own work and discussing aspects of text.
  • 2016 organizing workshop Subject to erring (@Swedish consulate) & performance (@Depot) in Istanbul as part of IdentityLab. We also traveled to Batman in east Turkey.
  • 2016 Tja chat tjena chien, concerning mimetic displacement, performance with and by me & Marcus Doverud, at Revolve Performance Festival, Uppsala
  • 2016 The skin & the costume, story/stand-up at Sunday Run_up, Svarta Huset, Stockholm
  • 2016 participant in IdentityLab, a research project on questions of identity visiting the Sami minority in north of Sweden and the Kurdish in Turkey. Curators Susanne Ewerlöf (SE) and Naz Cuguoğlu (TR)
  • 2016 Reading Performance, with Marcus Doverud and texts from our book Viformation at Verkstad konsthall
  • 2015 The Great Learning Ochestra (GLO) perform my composition Lockande lur, made in tribute to Pauline Oliveros. GLO perform together with crickets and a lamb.
  • 2014-15 Textile Location, art performance, showed at Pals Performance Art Festival, Stockholm and at Agora Collective, Berlin, Slakthuset performance program and at Sunday Run_Up (Svarta Huset)
  • 2014-2015 ArtResLab Hagastaden, a residency where 6 artists involve their work for six months with scientists. I was working with Rickard Sandbergs lab at Ludwig Institute, Karolinska Institute.
  • 2014 texts from up coming book on Weformation (published 2016, written collaboratively with Marcus Doverud ) shared as Reading Performance at Sunday Run_up in Svarta Huset and at STUDIO BAR #4 by Carl Palm @Stockholm city studio
  • 2013 A spatial reading, 4 persons at the evening event Aesthetic Acrobatics at Agora, Neukölln, Berlin
  • 2013 A 5 hours Drum session in the exhibition Non Cover, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
  • 2013 For heaven’s sake, Monsieur, don’t move your hands or you’ll lose the pose!… Can the artist speak? −a pedagogic performance. Signal, Malmö by Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea.
  • 2012-14 Capitalism as we live it, a workshop format developed in collaboration with artist Andrea Creutz (SE) and choreographer Elizabeth Ward (US), given at Konsthall C in suburb Hökarängen, Stockholm, at Flutgraben e.V. projectspace in collaboration with Inverse Institution, Berlin, Germany, and at Iaspis projectspace in Stockholm.
  • 2012 twice twice, a staged art performance at Weld in Stockholm, 3rd part of the collaborative work Through
  • 2011 Through Composition as Explanation, performance art work with M Doverud and A Rydqvist at the Auditorium at Modern Museum, Stockholm, curator Catrin Lundqvist
  • 2011- on going! Salon Material, a series of salons that links theory and text to material and physical space that aims for gathering collective knowledge. Organized with Johanna Gustafsson Fürst.
  • 2010 A performance reading on The Armenian Project with Unni Gjertsen in Ramallah. Curators Donatella Bernardi and Noemie Etienne, Eternal Tour 2010 in Jerusalem and Ramallah.
  • 2010 Through Composition as Explanation, a performative research out of a text by Gertrude Stein with M Doverud, A-M Hadji-Culea and A Rydqvist. Also presented as a workshop at The Royal Institute of Art and as a one day reading practice in Pontus Hulténs showroom (MM).
  • 2010 Queer Bucharest Biennale, collective intervention with the attendants of Marsul Gay Fest, curator Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea
  • 2009 Eight short ones, an evening with 8 short experimental lectures by 8 creators. A collaboration with Eva Marklund at Fylkingen, Stockholm
  • 2009 B, a one day installation in a pavilion in Tantolunden. A paper letter: B filled the pavilion. Documentary Another pavilion was made by Weld about the events in the pavilion.
  • 2009 School of Manipulation, a lecture performance with Malin Myrén for the manipulation month by Malmö Fria Kvinnouniversitet at Signal Gallery in Malmö
  • 2008 Pipeline screened at Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, at Loop in Barcelona, Spain, at Cinemateket, Stockholm, Kino Arsenal in Berlin and at Gallery TPW in Toronto in programs curated by Filmform.
  • 2004-08 taking initiative to and part in running a sound art project: LARM mapping women in sound art in the Nordic countries. As documentation historical and today trough a book, a cd, a festival and an exhibition.
  • 2004 T-shirt project taking place around the city of Stockholm, in collaboration with Malin Lobell
  • 2004 In-side-out at Elektronisk Pingst, Rålamshovsparken, Stockholm, Sweden and at Off the record III, sound art festival, Atalante, Göteborg
  • 2003 Performing with opera singers as part of Perfect Performance, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
  • 2002 Several radioprograms at src digital radio (www.sr.se/src), Swedish National Radio (SR), Where did you leg go, a radioprogram broadcasted at P1.
  • 2001 Twinkle little lamp -in your store, light installation, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2000 How, streetwork in co-operation with Kristina Matousch, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2000 According to the circumstances a sound work at Ballongmagasinet, Norway

Group Exhibitions

  • 2016 Luftslottet, at Norrköping konstmuseum, curator Johanna Uddén
  • 2014 How Green Was My Walley, out door project at Vevringutstillinga, Vevring, Norge, curator aiPotu
  • 2014 a4-room, The Great Learning Orchestra, No Sound Is Innocent, Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbyberg
  • 2013 Either / Or, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen and at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. Curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen
  • 2013 The Embassy Reconstructed, at the Nordic Embassies in Berlin, initiator Åsa Stjerna, satellite project to Transmediale 2013 BWPWAP
  • 2009 Konsthall SE, an exhibition on ideas of public art for blind people, Konsthall C, Hökarängen
  • 2009 Sound art III The Swedish scene, DVD edition on sound art published by Svensk Musik (Swedish Music)
  • 2007 START, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montreal, Canada (a project on rhythmicity)
  • 2005-6 The Idea of North, soundexhibition at F 15, Moss, Norway and at Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada
  • 2003 Open Source, Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm
  • 2003 Adagio, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle
  • 2002 Presentation, Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm
  • 2000 Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 1999 Framtidst(o)ro, Botkyrka konsthall , Tumba, Sweden
  • 1999 Edsviks konst och kultur, Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 1998 Students’r us, Bror Hjorts Hus , Uppsala, Sweden
  • 1997 Galleri Herslebsgt. 10, part of Seven-Eleven project, Oslo, Norway
  • 1997 Forum Gallery, Malmö , Sweden

Public Commissions

  • 2015-2017 two proposals for Hagaplan, a new square built in front of the Karolinska University Hospital. SLL is the organizor. The first round was a more experimental phase with artistic exchange between art and scientific research, I collaborated with Rickard Sandbergs lab at Ludwig Institute, Karolinska Institute.
  • 2008 Up the stair, at Eberg childrens nursery centre in Trondheim, Norway
  • 2005 Energy effect, permanent videoinstallation at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
  • 1999 Memory orchestra in the park by the Swedish church in Berlin, Germany

Collections

  • SAK, Sveriges Allmänna konstförening (Sweden)
  • Konst Gävleborg (Sweden)
  • The National Public Art Council (in Sweden)
  • Jack Helgesen private collection (Norway)

Education

  • 2009-10 project student in digital media, Royal Institute of Art (60 hp)
  • 2003 EAM, sound composition and computer course at EMS (Electroacoustic music in Sweden)
  • 2003 Rhetorical studies with gender aspect at Södertörn University College, (10 p)
  • 2001 Political Philosophy, University College of Stockholm (10 p)
  • 1999 Royal University College of Fine Arts (now Royal Institute of Art), Stockholm, Sweden (MA)
  • 1995 Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway

Written Texts

  • 2016 a travelogue for Between Pl&ces, written in dialogue with Naz Cuguoglu, Susanne Ewerlöf & Can Sungu. By project IdentityLab.
  • 2016 Viformation (Weformation) a book written and published with Marcus  Doverud
  • 2016 A book of small things, The continuance of belonging – a bundle of crossing concerns, a print and performance project by artist Panayiotis Michael, Cyprus
  • 2014 One – 10, typographic image texts, 10 pages in an edition of 15. Printed by hand at bbk Druckwerkstatt in Berlin. Released at Gallery Ping-Ping, Malmö and Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm 2015
  • 2014 Non Cover, 2014 constructed out of an exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2013)
  • 2014 What’s there in the corner? for Vera Kox’ exhibition Reassuring Inertia, KB, Berlin
  • 2013 Doing, showing, sharing. Ways to un-pre-scribe collective artistic processes. A paper for the seminar EMOTIONAL ECONOMY, a workshop on emotional labor and toward dispositions for a new economic ethos at Johns Hopkins University, the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality initiated by Katrin Pahl.
  • 2013 Artistic Medium: Moving Images (Konstnärligt medium: rörlig bild) on video and film art & Conversation Forums and Discussion Forums at Fylkingen in the book Fylkingen 80 år!, on the history of the experimental stage Fylkingen.
  • 2011 Working diary on the project Through Composition as Explanation, periodical Subaltern no 3.
  • 2011 The publication The Armenia Project, images and writings in collaboration with artist Unni Gjertsen.
  • 2007 The book LARM From mouth cavity to lap top, sound in Nordic art, published by Kabusa Books.
  • 2007 a text in LYDBOK (sound book) by Ballongmagasinet, www.ballongmagasinet.com
  • 2001 HUR (HOW) (33) Publikation in collaboration with the Publikation project in Malmö.

Teaching and Consultancy

  • 2016 external tutor for three MA students at Konstfack, department of Fine Arts
  • 2015 – 2016 workshop in performance art at Textile dep. at Konstfack
  • 2015 opponent of four MA students ”Textile in the expanded field”, Konstfack
  • 2014 sculptural workshop within Katja Aglert’s workshop Repetition, repetition, repetition, revolution at Konstfack, department of Fine Arts
  • 2014 studio visit at the resident artist from Utrecht, Nederlands at Flutgraben e.V, Berlin /Inverse Institution
  • 2013 studio visits at Fine Arts Department Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
  • 2013 studio visit at the resident artist from Utrecht, Nederlands at Flutgraben, Berlin.
  • 2011 Take up space, on three dimensionality at Master Program in Storytelling (Graphic Design & Illustration), Konstfack University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm
  • 2011 Site Specific with Sound and Light Design BA students at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts
  • 2010 Body, Sound, Space –be brave, take risks, mark place! A two weeks workshop at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, together with Maria Bjurestam and Victoria Brändström.
  • 2010 Reading practice Through Composition as Explanation, 4 days reading aloud and deep-reading as a way for ‘co-understanding’. In collaboration with Marcus Doverud, Amelie Rydqvist and Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea.
  • 2010 Soundweek at the Juteland Art Academi, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 2009–2010 teaching and planning of a one year Sound Art Program at Dramatiska Institutet
  • 2006–2012 art consultant in a large public art project at Stockholms Läns Landsting; HELIX in Flemmingsberg.
  • 2005, –06 workshops in tree dimensional art and sound at Konstskolan Paletten.

Lectures

  • 2014 presentation and performance: Through Composition as Explanation with Marcus Doverud at the conference Tacit or Loud, Inter Arts Center, Malmö
  • 2014 artistic presentation of Through Composition as Explanation with Marcus Doverud at the 15th International Bakhtin Conference, Stockholm
  • 2013 Doing, showing, sharing. Ways to un-pre-scribe collective artistic processes at Johns Hopkins University, the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
  • 2012 Salon Material was invited to host an evening of the reading group at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo
  • 2012 On sound art project Larm and my art, Sound art master’s program at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts
  • 2010 on sound art at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts when Carnegie Art Awards hosted the theme sound art
  • 2010 The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark on the sound art project Larm
  • 2007 Gallery 54, Gothenburg, on sound art project Larm
  • 2007 ROM46, Aarhus, Denmark on my art and sound art project Larm
  • 2007 Malmö Art Academy, Soundartprogrammet, on sound art project Larm
  • 2007 Sigtuna Folkhögskola’s Art Class on my art

Grants and Prizes

  • 2016 Malongen’s guest apartment in Stockholm for my colleague Isabel Carvalho from Porto, Portugal
  • 2014 The Visual Arts Fund’s 5 years working grant
  • 2014 Längmanska kulturfonden, supporting the printing of the upcoming book on Viformation
  • 2012 Emil Bergs travel grant, the Royal Swedish Academy for Fine Arts, travel made 2013 to Dakar, Senegal and the forum Theater Kaddu Yaraax
  • 2012 Iaspis, one year residency at Bethanien Künstlerhaus, Berlin
  • 2012 Project grant for costly projects, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee  for Capitalism as we live it: a workshopformat
  • 2011 Kulturbryggan Project support from Stockholm municipality for Through Composition as Explanation
  • 2011 Iaspis support for exhibition abroad: Tales of Fraternity... at 0047 in Oslo, Norway
  • 2010 KU-funding for artistic development work for Though Composition as Explanation from Royal Institute of Art, Sweden
  • 2010 Iaspis support for study periods abroad: Eternal Tour 2010 in Ramallah and Jerusalem, Palestine and Israel.
  • 2009 The Visual Arts Fund’s 2 years working grant
  • 2008 Project grant for costly projects, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Sliding Structure)
  • 2008 Helge Ax:son Johnssons traveling stipend to a research journey to Armenia
  • 2002 The Visual Arts Fund’s 2 years working grant
  • 2001 a grant from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
  • 1999 Bonnier grant for a student at the Royal Institute of Art, Sweden
  • 1999 KU-funding for artistic development work for HUR / HOW from Royal Institute of Art, Sweden
  • 1997 a grant from Sigrid Friedmans fund
  • 1995 Konstnärsklubbens grant for a young artist (as the first woman ever, from this male artists club)