MOA LINDH

2011-12-28T20:00:00.002+01:00

Open on request

2011-10-03T20:37:00.006+02:00

It has been a successful and fun weekend! More than 70 people visited me during the past two days and I got a lot of positive feedback as well as a proposal to do some sort of themed exhibition and talk on climate hope, which I'm considering.

Even though the art expedition is over for this time I will leave the exhibition up for a while as I'm still expecting a few latecomers. It'll be open on request until further notice - give me a call.

Art expedition opening today

2011-10-01T11:07:00.022+02:00

Follow the orange pennants

Success, succession (version 3), 2007-2011
Pvc, bells, pine, steel
Dimensions variable
Installation view

Learn to enjoy losing, 2005
Laser cut steel pipe, chain, locks
12 cm diameter each
Installation view

It's finally time for the art expedition here in Olofstorp. Exhibitions and studios, including mine, are open from 11h00 - 17h00 both today and tomorrow.

Visit more than 5 participants and stand a chance to win an artwork from artist Lilian Andersén.

Welcome!

Bergums Källegårdsväg 9
Gothenburg
Tel: +46 (0) 70 401 4385

New treasures and upcoming autumn activites

2011-06-13T21:23:00.014+02:00

Summer is here and I'm spending most of my time out in our overgrown garden, or inside the new (120 year old) house inventing practical solutions and tearing up linoleum carpets in search of wooden floors and other surprises. After our move to the countryside just northeast of Gothenburg in Februrary we now find ourselves in a historically potent and visually stunning district, and seem surrounded by culture workers and craftsmen.

During the first weekend of October I'll be opening this new home of mine to the public, as part of the annual "art expedition" (konstrunda) featuring artists in the area. As I most certainly won't have time to build my barn studio before then my plan is to use the room next to my temporary work space as an exhibition venue. All participating artists will also take part in a group exhibition in central Olofstorp.

I'm telling you this now as three months is a very short time, especially in the middle of summer. See you soon!

For more information, including an expedition map for download, visit the website:
www.konstrundaniolofstorp.se
or the facebook page

Evening lecture on the sociopolitical history of soccer, Thursday 28 April

2011-04-27T23:23:00.003+02:00

This week is the last chance to see the soccer exhibition that I'm a part of at Galleri J in Falkenberg. What better way to indulge than with an evening lecture tomorrow night held by Torbjörn Andersson, lecturer at the Institution of Sportscience at Malmö University.

The lecture will explore subjects such as early rivalry between soccer clubs of the middle and working class, why there used to be so much drinking involved in swedish soccer, the development of chants, hooliganism and much more.

The lecture is held at the gallery tomorrow evening, Thursday 28 April 19h00, and is free of charge.

Föreläsning om Fotbollens kulturhistoria med Torbjörn Andersson, torsdagen den 28/4 kl 19.00 på Galleri J, Storgatan 19, Falkenberg. Föredraget hålls i anslutning till den pågående konstutställningen "Fotboll" som ordnas av IFK Göteborg och Galleri J. Fri entré även på föredraget!

En fotbollshistorisk föreläsning som kommer att handla om tidiga rivaliteter mellan medelklass- och arbetarklassklubbar, om varför det söps så mycket förr inom svensk fotboll, om hejaramsornas utveckling, om huliganismens utveckling, om damfotbollen runt första världskriget, om problemen med att få ihop ett starkt landslag pga motsättningarna mellan "fotbollshuvudstaden" Göteborg och huvudstaden Stockholm.

Torbjörn Andersson, lektor vid Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap vid Malmö högskola, en av landets främsta kännare av svensk fotboll historiskt och idag, disputerade 2002 på den redan smått klassiska avhandlingen Kung fotboll: Den svenska fotbollens kulturhistoria från 1800-talets slut till 1950. Inom kort utkommer första delen av "Spela fotboll, bondjävlar!": En studie av svensk klubbkultur och lokal identitet från 1950 till 2000-talets början.

Galleri J
Storgatan 19
Falkenberg, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)70 690 0603

Guerrilla Gardening, phase 2 (year 2)

2011-04-14T20:59:00.010+02:00

Guerrilla Gardening: Vasaparken, Falun 2009-
Photodocumentation of phase 2 (year 2)
Dimensions variable

Last weekend Karin and I visited Falun and we were happy to see that our yellow crocus trail is back on the slope of Vasaparken. It looks slightly different from last year so perhaps only one of the two flower types used survived this year's cold winter - or the remaining ones have yet to wake up from their winter sleep.

It's only the trail's second year and already it offers a sense of familiar recollection. Like seeing an old friend.

For project history see the earlier posts, starting from November 2009 (Guerrilla Gardening: Vasaparken, Falun 2009-)

Fotboll, images and press

2011-04-02T18:48:00.025+02:00

Cykel och tuta, 2011
Text piece

Soccer may be a complete commercial spectacle. But as it is the world's most popular sport, activating several million people, it leaves few without more or less banal memories of their own to relate to. These are mine.

As I find it hard to translate this to English and still retain the intended tone, I've picked out two key passages:

During primary school I cycled the three kilometers from Hälsingberg to Korsnäs once a week to get to soccer practice. I guess I had borrowed shoes from some friend of the family, and we affixed the shin guards under our yellow socks using masking tape. /.../

/.../ Despite the neocolonial european demands the south africans didn't ban the vuvuzelas from any world cup matches. It felt refreshing. I picked up my own old horn and joined in their "see if we care!".

Installation view of text piece and accompanying original artifacts (bicycle and vuvuzela)

Gallerist Johny Kronwall (far left) just before the exhibition is officially opened by a local soccer celebrity

Media coverage /reviews (in Swedish)

"Fotbollspremiär på Galleri J i helgen
Mest originell är inflyttade amerikanen Anthony Mills som format en boll av skärp som hänger från taket med titeln 'Bend it like Beckham', formodlingen lånad från filmen med samma namn. Moa Lindh ligger inte långt efter med 'Cykel och tuta'. Hon har helt enkelt ställd ut en riktig cykel och en vuvuzela från VM-aktuella Sydafrika. Moa bodde en tid i Kapstaden under sin utbildning och skaffade tutan då. Cykeln använde hon till träning och matcher när hon växte upp i Falun..."

Published in the paper version of Hallands Nyheter Saturday 2 April 2011 (unfortunately not available online)

Upcoming exhibition Fotboll - opening 31 March 2011

2011-03-04T21:02:00.013+01:00

Exhibition poster

Once again I'll be joining Galleri J in Falkenberg. This time gallerist Johny Kronwall hosts Soccer, "a themed exhibition with artists from north to south". What makes this show unusual is its co-organiser, the soccer team IFK Göteborg!

Sneak preview from Thursdag 31 March 2011.
The opening event is on Saturday 2 April 2011 at 11h30.
The show stays on until 30 April.

Galleri J
Storgatan 19
Falkenberg, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)70 690 0603

Opening hours:
Thurs & Fri 14-18
Sat 11-14

Craft challenge accepted

2011-01-18T18:52:00.011+01:00

I've taken on a craft challenge in support of creativity. Five 'pieces' for five people, to be delivered during the course of 2011.

Awaiting the completion of the chain reaction (that will determine my five receivers) gives me time to deliberate over whether this seemingly borderless challenge is really as open as it first might seem, and also what factors will make it worthwhile. Good thing the year has just started!

Feel free to strike up a chat to give me your views on this or any other project, as always my e-mail is provided on the left.

Keeping with the times

2010-12-13T15:16:00.042+01:00

Bird, 2010
Wool
10 x 10 x 10 cm

I think it's safe to say that a lot of my work generally has a childlike edge to it. I simply enjoy a juvenile visual language that invites to dramatic colours, shapes, exaggeration and play - and its supposed clash with darker subject matter. In many cases I also still find the techniques I was taught in kindergarden very useful!

In keeping with the times, here's a selection of recent utilitarian works intended especially for tiny but eager hands.

Frog, 2010
Wool
9 x 20 x 15 cm

Lobster tail, 2010
Fabric, wadding
25 x 20 x 40 cm

Play mat, 2010
Fabric, wool, plastic
60 x 70 x 6 cm
Details (3)

Design for Hagabion

2010-07-08T13:47:00.025+02:00

Hagabion (tote bag design), 2010
Digital image
Dimensions and colours variable

Over the last couple of months I've mostly been occupied with pregnancy and child birth related activites - and my newborn is bound to keep me pretty busy yet a while!

I have, however, had time to be part of a small design group at Hagabion, Gothenburg's independent cinema, with the mission to develop a new design for a tote bag to be sold at the cinema. Work began in early April and since then we've had several feedback rounds on a wide variety of individual designs. Many proposals were discarded, others developed further, and a few made it all the way to the final round where one of my designs, inspired by the sign above the cinema entrance, was chosen for the first load of tote bags.

This load has now just returned from the printers! Bags can be bought for 40 SEK at the cinema ticket office, and are avaiblable in an off-white print on black fabric as well as purple on green (limited edition).

Hagabion
Linnégatan 21
Gothenburg, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)31 42 88 10

Opening hours:
Mon - Fri 17-21
Sat - Sun 13-21

Other designs of mine, at various stages of development, that we dismissed along the way (might show up on other forms of printed material in the future).

Guerrilla Gardening, phase 2 (year 1)

2010-04-19T16:23:00.022+02:00

Guerrilla Gardening: Vasaparken, Falun 2009-
Photo-documentation of phase 2 (year 1)
Dimensions variable

Photographs by Karin Nordmark

Spring has arrived in Falun! The result of Karin's and my efforts in October last year, as part of our Guerrilla Gardening project, has begun to reveal itself as planned and a trail of yellow crocus flowers now stretches from Vasaparken down to the road island.

As crocuses are perennial they will continue to surface on this spot in coming years. There's also a possibility that Karin and I will make additions to this project in various ways.

Background info and photodocumentation of phase 1

The Industrial Religion, images & press

2010-04-01T22:01:00.037+02:00

Golden calf, 2010
Jute string, wire
16 x 22 x 10 cm
Installation view & detail

This slightly physically disabled (/cyborg) calf has been equipped with a wire wheel and is otherwise crocheted using jute, "the Golden Fibre". The Golden Calf is commonly understood as a symbol of idolization, or as a critique of the pursuit of wealth. The hebrew word for calf can (according to a currently unconfirmed source) also mean circle.

Images from the opening

Curator Magnus Sjöbleke (right)

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Media coverage / reviews (in Swedish)

"Religiös kitsch är temat - Galleri J inviger sin påskutställning idag
En temautställning om religiös kitsch startar i dag på Galleri J i Falkenberg. 14 konstnärer från när och fjärran finns med i 'Den industriella religionen – den religiösa evolutionen'. Ordet kitsch är ett låneord från tyska eller jiddisch och syftar vanligen på konst, hantverk och litteratur som är producerad på ett billigt sätt och utan konstnärligt engagemang. Men som samtidigt kopierar och gärna överdriver former från dyrare verk..."
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The Industrial Religion - opening 1 April 2010

2010-03-21T20:53:00.005+01:00

The group exhibition on the subject of religious kitsch that I'm participating in, entitled The Industrial Religion - the Religious Evolution, opens at Galleri J in two weeks time. The show is curated by artist/critic/journalist Magnus Sjöbleke who sends the following press release:

Den industriella religionen - den religiösa evolutionen
utställning om religiös kitsch i Falkenberg

Utställningen är skapad av konstnär/curator Magnus Sjöbleke.

14 konstnärer deltar med verk som på olika sätt förhåller sig till religiös kitsch, den religiösa evolutionen samt den industriella religionen.

Utställningen i vilka följande konstnärer deltar:
Gertrud Alfredsson, Leanne Bridgewater, Noah Ljungberg, Anna Fröman, Moa Lindh, Fredrik Persson, Ann Strömland Väggö, Martin Svansjö, Camilla Rosberg, Johan Svensson, Susanne Petersson, Peter Davidsson, Magnus Sjöbleke, Paula Pantolin

Presentation av kyrkoherde Peder Jarnvall kl. 16:00
torsdagen den 1 april 2010 på Galleri J Falkenberg

Opening event and presentation by vicar Peder Jernvall on Thursday 1 April, 16h00.
The exhibition stays on until 1 May.

Galleri J
Storgatan 19
Falkenberg, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)70 690 0603

Opening hours:
Thurs & Fri 14-18
Sat 11-14

KONSTPOST - POSTKONST, images

2010-03-21T20:17:00.015+01:00

Images from the exhibition (courtesy of Sigtuna Kulturgård)

My two submissions towards the far end of the middle row

KONSTPOST - POSTKONST, opening 6 March 2010

2010-03-03T15:42:00.013+01:00

Untitled, 2010
Envelopes with re-used stamps
23 x 32,5 cm each

On saturday, the open-call exhibition KONSTPOST - POSTKONST opens at Sigtuna Kulturgård. Anyone interested has over the last couple of months been able to send in 1-3 artworks, with the only criterion being that the consignment itself is the artwork - exactly as it is sent.

Begreppet "Postkonst" är en översättning av engelskans "mail art" och är en genre inom konceptkonsten, där konstverken är objekt som går att skicka med posten. Själva konstverket kan vara gjort i vilken teknik som helst; teckning, måleri, collage, textil konst, etc - så länge det går att frankera. Konstverket ska alltså inte ligga inuti försändelsen, utan det är själva försändelsen - med frimärken och allt - som är konstverket.

Some of the submissions can be viewed on their website.

Unfortunately I am unable to attend the exhibition myself, but I'm interested to know whether my intentionally plain envelopes with re-used stamps have been recognised as submissions - or whether they've been lost amongst the piles of cut-and-paste items that seem to characterise the other sent-in goods. For myself I decided (this time): less is more.

The exhibition stays on until March 21.

Föreningen Sigtuna Kulturgård
Stora Nygatan 1
Sigtuna, Sweden
Tel: +46 (8) 592 515 08

Opening hours:
Saturdays and Sundays 12-16

Upcoming exhibitions

2010-02-07T21:25:00.003+01:00

I've been invited to participate in a group exhibition entitled The Industrial Religion, curated by artist and critic Magnus Sjöbleke, which opens at Galleri J in April.

Before then I'm also taking part in the open-call exhibition KONSTPOST - POSTKONST, showing at the Sigtuna Kulturhus Gallery 6 - 21 March.

More info will follow...

DALAKONST 09, images & additional press

2009-11-26T13:18:00.030+01:00

The juror Peter Johansson's opening speech

The Salon-styled hall

The "controversial" decision of this year's juror to hang artworks in one of the halls Salon-style has caused a fuss. Two middle-aged male artists have removed their works from this wall - one even leaving a (silly) explanatory note behind which has been accepted as replacement for the removed artworks. Meanwhile, another middle-aged male artist has gone back to the museum to add a moustache and beard to his painted lady, one of the works placed in the juror's hall of "favourites", in the hopes of having the piece reassessed.

Overall, it's been interesting to follow the steady lowering of the watermark through all this, and watch certain artists do things they probably normally wouldn't (in attempts to turn the imagined spotlight back on themselves?). It's also worth noting the corresponding characteristics of these three "deserters" when one of the juror's main comments to this year's exhibition was, as he put it, the regrettably low number of participating male artists.

Personally, though, I don't share the indignation of these three, and find their acts somewhat humorous but mostly counter-productive. I have never quite understood why Peter Johansson is regarded as provocative, but given the disproportionate amount of attention generated here (and how easy it seems to provoke the local middle-aged male artists) maybe it's no longer that big of a mystery...

I can't help but feel a bit discouraged - is this as good as it gets?

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More press (in Swedish):

"Bra konst tål att ha grannar
Hittills har två konstnärer valt att i protest lyfta bort sina bidrag från utställningen Dalakonst 09 på Dalarnas Museum. Kommissarie Peter Johanssons grepp att fylla en vägg med konst från golv till tak har väckt sårade känslor. 'Johansson visar en tydlig respektlöshet mot mig som konstnär'..."
Read the article (one of the articles in the debate)

"Holst vill ha ny bedömning
Årets höstsalong på Dalarnas Museum ger inte vissa konstnärer någon ro. Nu vill Tomas Holst från Dala-Järna ha en ny bedömning av sin målning 'Hur gammal tror du att jag är'. I går gick Holst till museet med svart färg och två penslar för att måla dit mustasch och pipskägg på sin gamla gumma som står i ett skogslandskap i orange klänning..."
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DALAKONST 09 - opening 21 November 2009

2009-11-16T13:01:00.029+01:00

View of Dalarnas Museum
(image from the museum website)

Our recent Guerrilla Gardening has been selected as part of the annual jury-based group show DALAKONST at Dalarnas Museum in Falun. This year's superintendent is artist Peter Johansson.

The opening event is this Saturday, November 21, from 13h00.
There'll be a guided walkabout on Wednesday 25 November at 19h00.

The exhibition stays on until 16 January 2010.

Dalarnas Museum (Konsthallen)
Stigaregatan 2-4
Falun, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)23 765500

Opening hours:
Mondays 12-17
Tue - Fri 10-17 (Wed open until 21)
Sat - Sun 12-17

Closed 18/12, 24-25/12, 31/12-1/1

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Media coverage / reviews (in Swedish):

"Salong signerad Johansson
Visst anade man att det skulle bli något extra av höstsalongen med provokatören och konstnären Peter Johansson som kommissarie. Och det blev det. På en stor vägg har Johansson samlat 109 av de 140 utvalda verken i vad han kallar en myllrande 'rysk hängning'..."
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"Årets Dalakonst har både fin- och fulrum
Dalakonst 09. Utställningskommissarie och enväldig jury är Peter Johansson. Han har kunnat välja och vraka. Det är nämligen länge sedan som intresset för höstsalongen var så här stort. Över 150 konstnärer lämnade in över 560 verk (45 män och 107 kvinnor). Efter utgallringen återstod 70 konstnärer och 141 verk..."
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"Många ville delta vid Dalakonst 2009
Trångt på Dalarnas museum. På lördag öppnar den årliga konstutställningen "Dalakonst 2009", på Dalarnas Museum i Falun, där yrkesverksamma konstnärer och amatörer samsas om utrymmet. 150 konstnärer ville vara med, men bara 70 av dem fick plats när årets juryordförande, den internationellt kände konstnären Peter Johansson skulle välja..."
View video clip (interview)
View images (general)

"Dags för 'Dalakonst 09'
141 bilder kommer att visas upp på lördag när årets upplaga av Dalakonst 09 öppnar på Dalarnas museum. Det är en utställning med verk av både proffs som amatörer..."
Read the article / Hear radio clip

Guerrilla Gardening: Vasaparken, Falun 2009-

2009-11-05T17:43:00.040+01:00

Two weekends ago, garden designer Karin Nordmark and I headed out into Falun to launch a Guerrilla Gardening venture that stretches into next year - and beyond. It is sprung from one of Karin's earlier projects involving the Guerilla Gardening concept but has surely also benefited from our last colloboration (namely the previously mentioned correspondence project that we have been running throughout this year and which recently ended).

During our 5 hours of work on this rather chilly Saturday night we encountered three initially suspicous but later friendly police officers and an assortion of talkative passers-by in various stages of alcohol intoxication, among others.

The chosen site consists of a centrally located grass slope stretching from Vasaparken over to a spacious road island that used to harbour a flower bed spelling "welcome", which has apparently been discontinued.

We now await spring.

Guerrilla Gardening: Vasaparken, Falun 2009-
Photo-documentation of phase 1
10,2 x 18cm each

Overview of phase 2
10,2 x 18cm

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Update 30 December 2009:

Today the Language Council of Sweden has released its list of new words for this year, including a swedish version of Guerrilla Gardening.

Fröbomba ("seed bombing") - plantera på offentliga platser utan tillstånd
(the act of planting on a public site withouth permission).
Language Council website (in Swedish)

Glimpses of my last few months

2009-10-19T22:17:00.008+02:00

(Seasonal job as a school photographer in - mostly - narrow spaces)

Mannheim after dark

2009-06-28T22:50:00.016+02:00

Mannheim after dark, 2009
Digital photographs
Dimensions variable

Themed selection of images from a one-day visit to Mannheim, Germany, in June 2009.

Fast-forward & rewind triptych

2009-06-28T22:37:00.020+02:00

Fast-forward & rewind triptych, 2009
Oak wood, bolts, nuts, washing line
20 x 80 x 6cm each

Installation view & detail

Commission for upper secondary school graduate.

2D variation

2009-06-02T12:43:00.013+02:00

I've had the opportunity to get some fun variation lately, both with the correspondence project (see below) and 2D work. Last month I made a cd-cover for the Gothenburg-based musician Euphoria and the lazy boy, just in time for his European tour together with Winter Took His Life, Hajen and Tvärvägen.
To listen visit his website http://www.myspace.com/eatlb

Euphoria and the lazy boy (cd-cover: front), 2009
Digital image
Dimensions variable

Correspondence project throughout 2009

2009-05-04T19:11:00.009+02:00

Since March, garden designer Karin Nordmark and I have been involved in a new correspondence project. The project (currently without a more specific title) is defined by a mutually formulated framework and propelled by the periodic exchange of instructions aimed at altering and developing a given position or 'state'. It's an attractive project in that it is simultaneously collaborative and individual, both rigid and open-ended.

Part of the agreement is to keep each of our processes confidential until the completion of the project, and for that reason I probably won't post much about it here as we go along. The nature of the framework does however open up for many potential approaches...

The correspondence project will continue throughout this year.

Hamburger curves

2009-03-24T17:56:00.019+01:00

Hamburger curves, 2009
Digital photographs
Dimensions variable

Themed selection of images from a one-day visit to Hamburg, Germany, in March 2009.

Collaborations ahead

2009-03-17T13:16:00.008+01:00

The Alfa beta tetra exhibition is now closed after a busy final week featuring the art talk in association with ABF and Kvinnojouren on Womens' Day last sunday, and a visit to the gallery by a group of enthusiastic pre-scholars who certainly engaged with the installation.

Since the majority of my recent work has been individual, my aim is to spend more time ahead on collaborative modes of working. A few of the project ideas that have been under development since late last year are likely to be launched soon!

On Saturday I'll be making a quick visit to Hamburg, possibly resulting in a small intervention in some or other way.

Alfa beta tetra, images

2009-02-08T21:18:00.074+01:00

Alfa beta tetra, 2009
Mixed media and sound
Dimensions variable
Installation views & details

"Det är inte kunskap vi saknar. Vad som fattas oss är modet att inse vad vi vet och dra slutsatserna." - Sven Lindqvist
('We don't lack knowledge. What we lack is the courage to realise what we know and draw the conclusions')

Instead of using an 'idea' as starting-point, this work derives from the colours gold, orange and green and the architecturally varied space of the gallery. Some parts were finalised on site as they depend on fixed features found in the premises.

Alfa beta tetra (detail: gold - oval)

Alfa beta tetra (detail: orange - long)

Alfa beta tetra (detail: green)

Alfa beta tetra (detail)

(detail: gold/yellow - stripe)

(detail: gold - round)

(detail: green/light green)

An article on the exhibition was published in Hallands Nyheter Friday 6/2 (as of yet not available on the net, unfortunately)

Alfa beta tetra, opening this Friday 6 February 2009

2009-01-17T22:55:00.012+01:00

Only a few days remain until the opening of my solo show at Galleri J in Falkenberg - a sculptural/musical installation derived from the colours gold, orange and green. I'm working on the finishing touches and look forward to installing this partly site-specific work in its intended space!

Join us for the opening event this Friday 6 February 17h00 - 20h00

On Sunday 8 March 14h00 - 16h00 I'll be holding an art talk in conjunction with my exhibition at the gallery, in association with ABF and Falkenbergs Kvinnojour.

Galleri J
Storgatan 19 (Hantverksgården)
Falkenberg, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)70 690 0603

Opening hours:
Thurs & Fri 14-18
Sat 11-14
Or by appointment

Christmas Exhibition at Galleri J opening 14/12 2008

2008-12-10T06:51:00.032+01:00

Opening this Saturday the 14th of December and running unil January 30th, the Christmas Exhibition at Galleri J in Falkenberg features a selection of works exhibited at the gallery in 2008 as well as previews of upcoming shows in 2009. I'm represented by one of the works (in progress) that will be included in my exhibition in February 2009.

Galleri J
Med start söndag 14 december kl 14.00 och fortsättning långt in i januari visas något av det bästa från 2008 (och 2009). Olja, grafik, skulptur, teckning m.m.

Ge bort konst? Inget problem med Galleri J:s konstpresentkort.
Utökat öppethållande fram till nyår.

Galleri J
Storgatan 19 (Hantverksgården)
Falkenberg, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)70 690 0603

Opening hours:
Thurs & Fri 14-18
Sat 11-14
Or by appointment (extended opening hours until 31/12)

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Media coverage / reviews of the exhibition (in Swedish):

"Galleri J blickar både bakåt och framåt
Galleri J slog upp portarna i början av februari 2008, galleristen Johny Kronwalls ambition har varit och är att visa den unga, samtida, regionala konsten. Ett utmärkt initiativ och ett bra komplement till den konstscen som redan finns i länet..."
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Falu kommuns Kulturstipendium 2008

2008-11-21T14:03:00.027+01:00

I've been awarded the municipality of Falun's 'Cultural Bursary' for 2008! The committee's statement in its original form:

Moa har efter utbildning i Kapstaden redan deltagit i flera utställningar. Hon sysslar med visuella konstverk. Genom att använda material som redan har använts tidigare för andra ändamål så skapar hon ett nytt verk som har både två och tre dimensioner. Hennes konstinstallationer har ett internationellt språk. Moa har ett stort engagemang när det gäller miljö. Ett spännande konstnärskap som just har börjat.

(Motivering från Kultur- och ungdomsnämnden i Falu kommun)

Media coverage (in Swedish):

"Kommunens kulturpristagare, kulturstipendiat och miljöpristagare
fick ta emot sina utmärkelser vid kommunfullmäktiges sista sammanträde för året. De hyllades med trumpetfanfarer och applåder..."
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"Moa Lindh blir Faluns kulturstipendiat

- Vad trevligt, det var tredje året jag sökte stipendiet, säger Moa Lindh. Moa Lindh är född och uppvuxen i Falun, utbildad på Michaelis School of Fine Art i Kapstaden i Sydafrika. Nu bor hon i Göteborg..."

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"Konst och hårdrock kulturbelönade
Kulturnämnden motiverar valet av Moa Lindh som kulturstipendiat med att hon har ett starkt visuellt språk och skapar verk som har två- och tredimensionella kvaliteter. Moa tilldelas ett stipendium på 10.000 kr..."
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"Faluns Kulturpris och Kulturstipendium
Hårdrocksbandet Sabaton får Falu kommuns kulturpris på 20000 kronor 2009. Falu kommuns kulturstipendium på 10000 kronor tillfaller 2009 den unga konstnärinnan Moa Lindh..."
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DALAKONST 08, images & press

2008-11-15T17:15:00.029+01:00

Ho-huva, 2008
Stainless steel, fabric, padding
ca 60 x 160 x 50 cm
Installation views

Inspired by Guantánamo, et al.

(works from other artists visible in the background)

Media coverage / reviews of the exhibition (in Swedish):

"Måleri präglar Dalakonst 08
Årets höstsalong innehåller mycket måleri men påfallande lite grafik och ett fåtal objekt och skulpturer. Owe Carlssons uppkäftiga datavirus bråkar på golvet, och Ingrid Viklunds luvlika jättehydda har landat i ett hörn och en Ho-huva vilar på Moa Lindhs inklädda diskbänk..."
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"Bättre bredd i årets Höstsalong
Årets upplaga av Höstsalongen är flera klasser bättre än i fjol. I år lämnade 134 konstnärer in till Höstsalongen. 58 konstnärer och 129 verk blev antagna av årets kommissarie Svante Rydberg. Han har valt att satsa på bredd och tydlighet..."
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"Amatörer och proffs sida vid sida
Svante Rydberg är kommissarie för årets utställning. Han har också varit enväldig jury i arbetet med att utse vilka konstnärer som ska få vara med och vilka som får försöka igen nästa år. - På ett sätt är det enklare att vara ensam än att vara flera. Men det är inte okomplicerat. Det är över 500 verk man ska titta på, säger Svante Rydberg om sitt juryuppdrag..."
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DALAKONST 08 - opening 15 November 2008

2008-11-07T13:45:00.018+01:00

I'll be taking part in the group show Dalakonst 08 at Dalarnas Museum in Falun. It's an annual jury-based exhibition representing artists with ties to the region of Dalecarlia (where I'm born and, for the most part, bred).

Join me at the opening event, taking place on Saturday November 15 from 14h00. The exhibition stays on until 10 January 2009.

Dalarnas Museum (Konsthallen)
Stigaregatan 2-4
Falun, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)23 765500

Opening hours:
Mondays closed
Tue - Fri 10-17 (Wed open until 21)
Sat - Sun 12-17

Dalarnas Museum (the venue)
Dalarnas Konstförening (the organisers)

New studio, projects and exhibitions

2008-10-28T09:17:00.004+01:00

In the coming week I'll be moving into my new studio at the industrial premises of the former Lyckholm Breweries in central Gothenburg. I'll be sharing the space with three musicians, and hope to stay productive!

Projects in the pipeline include a solo exhibition in February-March next year, two possible group exhibitions at the end of this year, as well as a few collaborations with fellow artists. As usual, more info will follow.

View of the old Lyckholm Breweries, Gothenburg

FÅGEL FYRA, images from the event

2008-09-08T20:20:00.045+02:00

Fågel Fyra, 2008
Wood, hard board, and Lådan/the mobile box tilted on its side
ca 3,5 x 2 x 2,5 m
Installation views and details

Bird meets bird.

For more images and info see LÅDAN/THE MOBILE BOX --> Events --> Fågel Fyra
or LÅDAN/THE MOBILE BOX --> Artists --> Moa Lindh

FÅGEL FYRA / Galleri Box 10 years - August 30, 2008

2008-06-16T11:28:00.029+02:00

A feast of boxes is coming up as I'll be turning LÅDAN/THE MOBILE BOX into a sculpture/installation in conjunction with the 10-year anniversary of Galleri Box on Saturday August 30th. This one-night event will take place in and outside the birthday gallery on Kastellgatan 10, Gothenburg, from 4pm till late:

Fågel Fyra / Moa Lindh
Kastellgatan 10

Lådan/the mobile box deltar i firandet av Galleri Box.

För kvällen kommer Moa Lindh att förvandla vårt lilla galleri till en stor svart fågelkropp; en tribut till den ständiga obeslutsamheten, och den fjärde i raden av liknande byggklosse-fåglar. För Lådan/the mobile box blir kvällen och Moas skulptur en avslutning på det fysiska galleriet som skall monteras ned och packas ihop i väntan på en annan form och hemvist.

Moa Lindh är utbildad på Michaelis School of Fine Art Cape Town, Sydafrika och har nyligen flyttat till Göteborg. Mer om Moas arbete; www.moalindh.blogspot.com

Stort tack till Konstepidemin för parkeringsmöjlighet.

During the eve of celebration Moa Lindh will show her work Fågel Fyra. More information on Moas work; www.moalindh.blogspot.com

LÅDAN/THE MOBILE BOX

Galleri Box fyller 10 år!

Detta firas med stor fest på lördag
den 30 augusti, kl. 16-23.

Utöver alla gäster medverkar även:
Anna Carlsson med performance
Deepfry your dreams med käk
Bezdomny
DJ Sara Lännerström
Fabric
Mobile Box
Framtidskonsten

Värsta fina baren och festligheter!

Alltid fri entré.
Galleri Box

RIA NO, press

2008-04-15T10:39:00.024+02:00

Media coverage / reviews of the exhibition (in Swedish):

"Klimatångest a la Lindh
Vad kan man förvänta sig att få se på en utställning av en ung konstnär som stora delar levt sitt liv i Sydafrika? Afrikanska masker? Det 'afrikanska' sett med västerländska ögon? Moa Lindh bjuder oss inte på detta, lika lite som man kan tala om 'afrikansk konst' i allmänhet, eller ens i synnerhet. Moa Lindh avslutade sin konstnärliga utbildning i..."
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"RIA NO
Delar av en examensutställning följde med Moa Lindh hem till Falun och visas nu i Galleri Hörnan. 2004-07 gick Moa, som också tidigare bott några skolår i Sydafrika, på Michaelis School of Fine Art vid Kapstadens universitet..."
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RIA NO, images from the exhibition

2008-04-15T10:04:00.022+02:00

Installation view:
Success, succession (version 2), 2007-2008
Pvc, bells, pine, steel
Dimensions variable

Videodocumentation of Success, succession, 2007
Digital video recording with sound
5:47 min (loop)
Edition: unlimited

Documentation of They're coming to take you away (hahah), 2007
Gicléeprint on cotton rag paper (original image courtesy of Esti Strydom)
60 x 85 cm framed
Edition: 4

with reflection of Enter-info box, 2007-2008
Superwood, vinyl, perspex, flourescent light
15 x 75 x 12 cm

They're coming to take you away (hahah) (version 2), 2007-2008
Tree models, conveyor belt, steel, pine
30 x 50 x 20 cm

Installation view:
Untitled [soundtrack] (version 2), 2007-2008
Sound equipment playing sounds of hippo, elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, zebra and hyena
Wildlife Sounds of the African Bush at a Waterhole in South Africa Vol 2, (Isidor Davis, SABC Sound Archives: 1997)
72:48 min (loop)

Success, succession (version 2), 2007-2008

RIA NO, 10 April - 5 May 2008

2008-03-31T13:32:00.012+02:00

My first solo show opens next Thursday at Galleri Hörnan, in my birth town Falun. The work involves parts from my graduation exhibition, but under new direction.

Throughout the year the concern has been with groups and crowds, and the terrible and wonderful things the human collective can bring about, not in least in terms of the environment. That's not easy to shake off. But after having been moved in well-packed cartons from one half of the globe to the other, these same objects also symbolise something else: What one brings along, and what one leaves behind. Prejudices and expectations of some far away place, and that which is 'Lost in Translation' along the way.

Opening event Thursday 10 April, 16h00 - 18h00.

Galleri Hörnan
Östra Hamngatan 24
Falun, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)23 833 36

Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10-19, Fri 10-18, Sat 11-15

The exhibition is on until May 5.

Greatest Hits 2007 - Invitation and press

2008-01-23T16:39:00.010+01:00

THE AVA
in partnership with Spier

invites you to

GREATEST HITS 2007
opening at 6 pm
Monday, 28 January 2008
Exhibition closes on Friday, 15 February 2008 at 1 o clock pm

A selected exhibition of graduate works curated by Lynette Bester and Kirsty Cockerill
will employ the four gallery spaces of the AVA. Works have been selected from
Michaelis school of Fine Art UCT, Ruth Prowse School of Art, Stellenbosch University
and Stellenbosch Academy.

The exhibition offers an overview of the local and broader discourses that run through
the four schools and reflects the quality of work produced by the graduate students in
2007.

Participating artists

Bianca Baldi, Susan Beyers, Jessica Brown, Francis Burger, Katrine Claassens, Katrin Coetzer, Luciano Miguel De Nobrega, Ian Engelbrecht, Melissa Foster, Nadia Fouché, Peter Jenks, Athi Joja, Lunga Kama, Terence Kiewitz, Moa Lindh, Lizelle Lotter, Luke Metelerkamp, Sabelo Mhlongo, Daniel Naudé, Keara O'Toole, Gert Pretorius, Lisa Scalabrino, Sameer Sirkhoth, Rowan Smith, Wessel Snyman, Esti Strydom, Lizanne Theunissen, Robyn Turner, Neil Wright.

Gallery hours:
Weekdays 10h00 to 17h00.
Saturdays: 10h00 to 13h00

Enquiries:
AVA tel: 021 424 7436,
fax: 021 423 2637
e-mail: avaart@iafrica.com
Website: www.ava.co.za

A few works from the show can be seen using the AVA-link above: click 'next' until GREATEST HITS 2007 appears in the list of archived exhibitions (roughly page 7/18), then click on the name to view.

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Media coverage / reviews:

“'Greatest Hits 2007' – Some hits but also a few misses
The Greatest Hits 2007 exhibition curated by Lynette Bester and Kirsty Cockerill that opened last night at the AVA is a selected showcase of some of the 2007 graduating art students in Cape Town. The exhibition consisted of work from Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, Ruth Prowse, Stellenbosch University and Stellenbosch Academy..."
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Teckning 2008, opening 19 January 2008

2008-01-11T15:22:00.035+01:00

Images from the opening event at the Sandviken Konsthall with works from various artists

I've been selected to be a participant in the jury-based Teckning 2008, an exhibition of drawings at the Sandviken Konsthall. The opening event is on Saturday January 19, and the exhibition is on until February 3.

Opening hours:
Tuesday - Wednesday 12:00 - 17:00
Thursdays 12:00 - 19:00
Friday to Sundays 12:00 - 15:00

Konsthallen Sandviken
Köpmangatan 3
Sandviken, Sweden
+46 (0)26 - 24 14 90

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Media coverage / reviews (in Swedish):
(Newspapers seem to change their archives from time to time, I'm in the process of tracking down the missing 'Teckningsboom!' article...)

"Toppentecknare
Att teckna sägs vara inne. Det tycks stämma på våra breddgrader för utställningen Teckning 2008 på Konsthallen i Sandvikens är intressant, livfull och rymmer oväntat många blickar på det mänskliga..."
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"Teckningsboom!
Vilken boom! Sandvikens konsthalls teckningssalong - jo, den får räknas som en sådan till antalet verk, men utan det där upphöjda finliret - håller verkligen på att växa till en stor konsthändelse. Initiativet är Jordi Botas, men urvalet juryns, i år konstnären Jonas Kjellgren och länsmuseets Kristina Lindkvist som valt 64 namn av 104. Det visar sig glädjande, men inte förvånande, nog att de har en mycket vid inställning till begreppet 'teckning'..."
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Greatest Hits 2007, opening Jan 28 at the AVA

2008-01-09T11:04:00.008+01:00

I have just found out that I will be participating in the group show Greatest Hits 2007 at the AVA later this month:

Greatest Hits 2007 is a selected graduate exhibition. Works have been chosen from 4 art schools (Ruth Prowse, Stellenbosch academy, Michaelis UCT and Stellenbosch University). Opening on the 28th January - 15 February 2008.

It's a pity I won't be able to attend myself as this should be an exhibition well worth seeing!

Opening event Monday 28 January @ 6pm
Thereafter weekdays 10h00 - 17h00, and
Saturdays 10h00 - 13h00

AVA - Association for Visual Arts
35 Church Street
Cape Town, South Africa
+27 (0)21 - 424 7436
www.ava.co.za

Upcoming show & awards

2007-12-07T11:43:00.004+01:00

Plans are underway for a small solo show in April to May 2008 at Galleri Hörnan in Falun, Sweden. The exhibition is likely to be a recontextualised and Swedenised version of the EFFERVESCENCE series, and the challenges and possibilities involved in transporting and altering the works and setup is all very exciting! More info to come.

Meanwhile, I have passed my BAFA with distinction and have been co-awarded the Simon Gerson Prize ('awarded annually to a student or students who produce an outstanding body of work'), as well as received the Class Medal for Theory and Practice of Art IIII.

Next up: a relocation from the African to the European continent (physically - but mentally?).

Michaelis Graduate Show 2007 - press

2007-11-27T07:09:00.016+01:00

Installation view of EFFERVESCENE - THERE'S NO I IN APATHY (image courtesy of Esti Strydom)

"Michaelis Graduate Show 2007
Another body of work that utilises movement is Moa Lindh’s work. Lindh has created bizarre contraptions that the viewer can interact with. Along one wall of the gallery space lies, what appears to be bright red lobster tails that writhe in a Mexican-wave fashion when a switch is flicked on..."
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"Michaelis Graduate Show at Michaelis
Moa Lindh's Effervescence (There's No I In Apathy) was a conceptually dense body of work executed with a refined touch of humour and thoughtfulness..."
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"Michaelis 2007 Graduate Exhibition
Search engine Yahoo just released its top 2007 searches with the environment, politics, celebrity and militancy all scoring high in the rankings. The Michaelis 2007 Graduate Exhibition reveals similar trends. One to watch on the show include this year’s Michaelis Prize winner Rowan Smith, who work presents a dystopian view on technology, Moa Lindh whose mad lobsters muse ecology and economy and Molale Monnapula who offers a dark take on security and urbanisation."
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"This is Our Last Dance: The 2007 Michaelis Graduate Exhibition
David Bowie and Freddy Mercury are singing in Moa Lindh’s exhibition space, and as her crayfish tails rise and fall in a Mexican wave to the refrains of Under Pressure, a particular lyric struck me in its relevance not only to Lindh’s work, but the exhibition as whole. It’s the terror of knowing what this world is about, croons the late Mr Mercury in a lament that is oft repeated in the work of the 2007 Michaelis graduates: a fear, anxiety and distrust of the outside world and all its many uncertainties..."
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Graduate Show of Michaelis School of Fine Art 2007 – Press Release

An increasingly important event on the local and national arts calendar, the Graduate Show of the Michaelis School of Fine Art is a unique opportunity to view the emerging talent emanating from one of South Africa’s top art schools and to see a first glimpse of the new face of art that will, if previous shows are anything to go by, dominate the market.

To be opened at 6 pm on 5 December, the show will run until the 15th of that month and showcase the best work of the graduating 4th Year cohort as well as post graduate students. Many of our past graduates have gone on to have significant solo shows and gain international exposure. Institutional and private collectors make a point of attending the show to see what new and fresh faces may be out there.

This year’s show will be accompanied by a lavish catalogue that will contextualise the work on display and theory lecturers Nasan Pather and Andrew Lamprecht will conduct a walkabout on Thursday the 6th at 11 am. This year’s opening will be a celebratory event and will be followed by an auction of works by major South African and international artists as well as up and coming artists, the proceeds of which will be used for student bursaries and School projects.

Opening times: 10h00–16h00, Mondays to Fridays and
Saturdays, 10h00 to 14h00
6-15 December
Michaelis School of Fine Art
UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town.
Enquiries: Lisa Essex lisa.essex[a]uct.ac.za, tel. 021 480 7111.
www.michaelis.uct.ac.za

Moa Lindh - CV

2007-11-22T11:44:00.042+01:00

ACADEMIC

2004-2007 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art - Sculpture (with distinction), Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
2006 Physical Computing (course in electronics and programming), UCT
2003 20p Gender Studies, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden
20p International Relations, Stockholm University, Stockholm
2001-2002 Art and design, Nyckelviksskolan, Stockholm
1999-2001 Upper secondary certificate (Arts and social science), Lugnetgymnasiet, Falun, Sweden

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011 Konstrundan i Olofstorp, Gothenburg (solo + group)
Fotboll, Galleri J, Falkenberg (group)
2010 Den Industriella Religionen, Galleri J, Falkenberg (group)
KONSTPOST - POSTKONST, Galleri Sigtuna Kulturgård, Sigtuna (group)
2009 DALAKONST 09, Dalarnas Museum, Falun (group)
Alfa beta tetra, Galleri J, Falkenberg (solo)
2008 Jul- och Nyårsutställning, Galleri J, Falkenberg (group)
DALAKONST 08, Dalarnas Museum, Falun (group)
Fågel Fyra, Lådan/The Mobile Box, Gothenburg (solo -
in conjunction with Galleri Box 10-year anniversary event)
RIA NO, Galleri Hörnan, Falun (solo)
Greatest Hits 2007, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town (group)
Teckning 2008, Sandviken Konsthall, Sandviken (group)
2007 Michaelis Graduate Exhibition, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (group)
Headlines, Centre for African Studies Gallery, Cape Town (group)
2006 Untitled, What if the World Gallery, Cape Town (group)
Kamouflerad Kurbits Member Exhibition, Banken Bar & Brasseri, Falun (group)
2004 [Unofficial intervention], Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town (group)
2002 Spring Exhibition, Nyckelviksskolan, Stockholm (group)

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Falu kommuns Kulturstipendium, Falun
Bröderna Molanders Stiftelse, Falun
Simon Gerson Prize ('for an outstanding body of work', co-awarded), UCT
Class Medal (Theory and Practice of Art IV), UCT
Dean's Merit List ('for academic performance'), UCT (several)
Eva och Oscar Ahréns Stiftelse, Stockholm
Class Medal (Theory and Practice of Art III), UCT
McIver Scholarship, UCT
Makarna Lindeqvists Donation, Hisings Backa (several)
Golden Key International Honour Society for Academic Achievement
Class Medal (Studiowork II), UCT
Vivian Cohen’s Material Fund ('to an outstanding student'), UCT
Class Medal (Studiowork I), UCT
Mathew Somer’s Memorial Prize ('for an excellent body of work'), UCT

ADDITIONAL LISTINGS AND REFERENCES

Provided upon request

Catalogue download link, and additional texts

2007-11-21T22:16:00.018+01:00

Spread from the essay Crowds and Collectivity included in the catalogue

The catalogue for the 2007 series EFFERVESCENCE (THERE'S NO I IN APATHY) includes an artist's statement, images and text relating to each of the works, and an essay exploring crowds and collectivity. The 2,7 MB pdf-version can be downloaded here.
Or, if you prefer, contact me directly and I'll e-mail you a copy.

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ADDITIONAL TEXTS & PAPERS by me, available on request:

Thomas Cartwright - Utopia: One Size Fits All, 2006
Swedish Contemporary Art? & The IKEA Art Event, 2006
Investigating the History of New Media, 2006
Tracing the Illusion: A City Project, 2005
Thoré-Bürger and the "Discovery" of Dutch Art, 2005
How Useful is the Concept of schijn realisme to an Understanding of Willem Buytewech's Merry Company (1622-24)?, 2005
Degas' Bathers: Raw Novelty, 2005
Hybridity and Authenticity: Changing Paradigms of Canonical African Art, 2005
Performance and Performativity: Postproducing Bourriaud, 2005
Race in South African Adverts: And This is Just the Beginning, 2004
Disney's Aladdin: A Case of Orientalism?, 2004
Michelangelo's The Last Judgement: The Changes and Shifts in Context, 2004

Success, succession

2007-11-21T21:43:00.001+01:00

Pvc, bells, wood, steel, motor
93 x 560 x 93 cm
Wave interval variable
Details and video

They're coming to take you away (hahah)

2007-11-21T21:30:00.001+01:00

Tree models, conveyor belt, steel, motor, sound equipment
43 x 71 x 30 cm
Installation view (photo by Esti Strydom) and detail

Of the round table

2007-11-21T21:25:00.001+01:00

Steel, superwood, rubber, electric fence cable
43 x 45 x 45 cm ea (excl. stand)
Edition: 4
Top view and installation view

The Golden Rule

2007-11-21T21:17:00.001+01:00

Stop-motion animation with sound, mirror perspex, wood
3:54 min (loop)
35 x 35 x 8 cm (incl frame)
Installation view and video stills

Enter-info box

2007-11-21T21:00:00.004+01:00

Superwood, vinyl, perspex, flourescent light
15 x 75 x 12 cm
Back detail and front view

Untitled [soundtrack]

2007-11-21T20:46:00.001+01:00

Sound equipment playing Under Pressure, written and performed by Queen and David Bowie (EMI Elektra, 1981)
4:03 min (loop)
Lyrics not included in exhibition

Week two: Reality check/HWC (in collaboration with 48 nations and one goal)

2007-11-21T20:26:00.000+01:00

Images from the Homeless World Cup in Cape Town 24 -30 September 2006, where I was a volunteer and guide for the Swedish team. The second of four interventions forming part of the ‘one work per week’ series.

Bolt bird

2007-11-21T20:24:00.001+01:00

Canvas, hessian, wood, hinges
20 x 22 x 12 cm

Bolted onto one of the canvases distributed and used in the show ‘Untitled’ at What if the World Gallery in Cape Town 2006. One of few submissions that survived a paint-attack on the gallery’s storeroom immediately after the exhibition.

Squeak bird

2007-11-21T20:21:00.000+01:00

Infra-red sensor, LED, motor, piezo, wood, BS2

Physical computing project

Peel

2007-11-21T20:17:00.001+01:00

With Frank Latter
Stills from video with sound
2:13 min

Bonne santé

2007-11-21T20:12:00.002+01:00

Laser cut mild steel, nuts, bolts, soil
ca 100 x 45 x 45 cm
Installation view

144 individual parts assembled like a mechano-set, with ’man-made nature’ and genetically modified crops in mind.

Detail of parts during assembly

Wheat tree

2007-11-21T20:06:00.002+01:00

Routered and torched MDF, wood
420 x 120 x 7 cm
Installation view

A continuation on the subject of genetic engineering.

The Chancery

2007-11-21T19:58:00.008+01:00

Documentation of site-specific work 2006-2007
(see 1 and 2)

The Chancery functioned as an embassy for Swedish artist Lars Vilk’s micro-nation Ladonia, and used role-play to explore notions of restriction and access.

Space monkeys

2007-11-21T18:51:00.000+01:00

Cast bronze, glass, oil paint
Approximately 20 x 19 x 15 cm each

Domino

2007-11-21T17:43:00.000+01:00

Stills from video with sound
1:03 min
Dimensions variable

Round 3947: domestic VS art

2007-11-21T16:36:00.000+01:00

Stills from flash animation with sound
Dimensions variable
48 seconds (loop)

City project

2007-11-20T18:24:00.002+01:00

Collaboration with Esti Strydom.
Night screening of Disney’s Steamboat Willy on Oct 5 in the Shell House corporate building, Cape Town, built on the site of the demolished Alhambra Theatre (1929-1973).

Anti-postcards (habit tourism)

2007-11-20T17:59:00.008+01:00

Photo documentation of interventions in Cape Town, February – April 2005
10 x 10 cm each

Installation view

Sugar factory

2007-11-20T17:52:00.003+01:00

Sugar solution, string, glass jars
Dimensions variable

For one month I cultivated diamonds in these jars. The sugar factory produced ‘counterfeits’ which, in extension, drew attention to the arbitrary assignment of value.

Learn to enjoy losing

2007-11-20T17:43:00.001+01:00

Laser cut steel pipe, chain, locks
12 cm diameter each

The pattern is based on braille and reads ‘learn to enjoy losing’. Originally installed with a book in braille and a rhythmic sound piece with notes directly translated from the pattern.

Surveillance camera

2007-11-20T17:37:00.001+01:00

Wire, glass beads
26 x 12 x 30 cm
Installation view

Made in context of 'African' art and authenticity.

Bodymap

2007-11-20T17:29:00.000+01:00

Wool, cardboard
119 x 80 cm

Hero book (extracts)

2007-11-20T17:17:00.000+01:00

Charcoal on paper
42 x 29 cm

A few of the original pages from the short Hero book saga, eventually reverse-printed onto cardboard.

Mixed drawings

2007-11-20T16:19:00.003+01:00

Acrylic ink on paper (/ chalk on metal / felt-tipped pen on wood / ginger bread)
30 x 21 cm

Fragments & (w)hole

2007-11-20T16:09:00.006+01:00

Photographic prints on hardboard
25 x 40 cm each
As displayed
(3 of the 6 images in the series)

The intention was to see if it was possible to offset the dominant positioning of males in images from a pornographic magazine by physically manipulating the pages using additions, and by selectively re-shooting the compositions to create new areas of emphasis and power.

Additional works from 2005

2007-11-20T15:28:00.030+01:00

Black box, 2005
Stainless steel, perspex, torch light
15 x 20 x 40 cm
Installation view and details

Incidentally made days before the 2005 London bombings. Initially visualised as an exploding toy backpack.

Plug gang bang, 2005
Cement, electrical parts
ca 20 x 20 x 15cm

Plugs, 2005
Fired clay
ca 15 x 25 x 7cm

Turnbox, 2005
Wood, motor, X-ray sheets, chalk, paper
36 x 58 x 17 cm

A motor spins the blue circle, and the two figures on either side appear to be standing next to each other. Response to a social responsibility project envolving scholars from a nearby school.

Kalimba Zarathustra

2007-11-20T14:27:00.003+01:00

Book, cutlery, wood, nuts, bolts
25 x 13 x 7 cm

Nietzsche's book Thus Spake Zarathustra (edition from 1970) reworked into the musical instrument kalimba, in the name of imperialism and 'African' art.

City (preparatory sketches)

2007-11-20T13:50:00.001+01:00

Felt tipped pen on paper
43 x 59 cm