Finding the lesbian leak at the Louvre

Performance and slideshow,  30 minutes, 2015.
The deadline for submission has passed, District, Berlin, as part of Project Space Festival Berlin.

Focusing on strategies related to gesture, language, failure, presence and absence, Line Skywalker Karlström’s performative, semi-improvised installations 
emerge from material, historical, spatial and discursive explorations of what it means ‘to think with the body'. On the evening, she contributes a performative presentation of her current research under the working title Finding the Lesbian Leak at the Louvre. Looking for physical gestures, she chooses to name and read as subversive, queer or lesbian, Karlström gathers a subjective archive of photographic details of 16^th and 17^th century paintings representing female persons. 

Fists are tools for collective pleasure and fighting

Poster, intervention on wall outside the bar Möbelolfe, Berlin
3/5 - 3/6 - 2015

Fists are tools for collective pleasure and fighting

Photography, part of series, 2015

The distance between the language and my tongue.
The distance between my mother and me.
Empty hands, fists, wrists.
Gestures of resistance and queer desire.
Fists are tools for collective pleasure and fighting.

Failure, Un-doing and the Subversive

Failure, un-doing and the subversive, a conversation on failure as an artistic strategy with Iris Smeds, Ellen Suneson, Jenny Grönvall, Julia Björnberg and Line Skywalker Karlström, Cirkulationscentralen, Malmö November 8 2014. 

My contribution to the seminar was a collective reading of the text In Abscence Bodies Present - Nothing But Cuntemporaries Allowed.

Haus der Naturen der Welt - All good things are wild and free

Text and collage, offset print; 3 x 29,7 x 42 cm, edition 200 ex., colored lense glasses and a performative walk in Tiergarten, Berlin in collaboration with Kajsa Dahlberg.

'Returning To Sender; Ladies Program', Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2014.

IN ABSENCE BODIES PRESENT - NOTHING BUT CUNTEMPORARIES ALLOWED

 

 

Text and performative photography, black and white offsett print, 42 x 60 cm, multiple

Installation; plywood, 60 x 184 cm, prints, glue, blanket

in Regibemærkninger, curated by Huskegruppen, Mønstings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark,

April 26 - June 15 2014  

Download text as Pdf here

Produced with support by

KROPPEN DER STAK AF HJEMMEFRA (OG FULGTE BEGÆRETS LINJE MED SIT BLIK)

KROPPEN DER STAK AF HJEMMEFRA (OG FULGTE BEGÆRETS LINJE MED SIT BLIK)

Performance, 30 minuter, 2014

Ind i det kollektive organ,

ind i din krop i fragment,

kroppen som en geometri

og et kaotisk tilstand.

Vi er kun til dels kroppe,

resten er af sten og mos,

resten er af metal og pæls

og et begærets arkitektur

- larm af triangler, firkanter og diagonaler.

Jeg har ikke skrevet det her.

Med udgangspunkt i Valie Exports Körperkonfigurationen og Marina Abramovich’s performances vil jeg gennemføre en performance, der er en fysisk undersøgelse af kroppen som et flydende, opløst og fragmentariseret tilstand. Jeg bruger kroppen som et materiale på linje med og sammen med andre skulpturale materialer og ønsker at skabe handlinger hvor min krop afviger fra den sociale krops handlinger – det vil sige, fællesskabet. Jeg ønsker at være med og skabe nye fælles drømme hinsides det mulige.

Live Art for Børn, kurateret af Ellen og Henrik Vestergaard Friis

Nikolaj Kunsthal, København

 

If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire.

  

One can not always choose

Performance, 2013,
duration 50 minutes, materials used in performance include metallic fabric cape, speech written on stack of paper, acrylic based paint marker, roses, pork chops, ribbon, chewing bones for dogs, rope, clock

Within and in response to the exhibition Bodytime, Skovgaardmuseet, Viborg, Denmark

Photo: Cecilie Aase

The Beginning Is Always Today - Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia, exhibition and catalogue

High Heel Sisters, Moustache Piece, 2002, 

performative photography,8,5 x 11 cm each, triptyche 

Self-Portrait with Valie Export; Body Sign, 2012

performative photography, 126 x 80 cm, Lamnda Print on aluminium

The YES! Association, Press Conference / Performance, 2005

The Beginning Is Always Today
- Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia,
curated by Karin Hindsbo and Else-Brit Kronenburg,
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Sept. 21 2013 - Jan. 19 2014

- the first presentation in a museum of Scandinavian feminist art of the last two decades.
A catalogue with comissioned texts by among others Art Historian Linda Fagerström has been published in connection to the exhibition.  
I participate with own works as well as with collective works by High Heel Sisters and The YES! Association.

HEARTBROKEN MONUMENT (Ache and Then No More Ache)

Heartbroken Monument (Ache and Then No More Ache), 2013

Mixedmedia installation, bambu sticks, fabric, carpet, rabbit fur, ribbons, fringe, plastic bags, salt, photos (xerox copies and digital prints), digital prints of photographies by Claude Cahun, silver tape, spray paint.

in The Dandelion Project, curated by Huskegruppen (Tomas Lagermand Lundme and Peter Brandt) Traneudstillingen, Gentofte, DK

June 15 - August 3 2013

DARKER THAN WHITE

DARKER THAN WHITE CUBE,
performativ installation, 2013

Rope, shelf, matress foam, framed text on paper, stuffed fabric objects, fringes, fabric, hare paw, velvet ribbon, cast of the artists beer belly in latex, color prints of works by Dora Maar and Claude Cahun, color print of collage, metallic thread, chewing bones for dogs, pearls, plastic flowers, plastic bags, nails a.o.

Jenny Grönvall & Line Skywalker Karlström, two person show,
Vita Kuben, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden, curated by Leif Holmstrand.

REVIEW Västerbottens Folkblad (in Swedish only)
REVIEW Västerbottenskuriren (in Swedish only)

The exhibition was sponsored by the Danish Arts Council Committee for Visual Arts.

I Am the Measure

   

Solo exhibition, 2012

Traneudstillingen, Gentofte, Denmark
Ready made objects, installation, photography, performance on video, painting, drawing, fabric works and three live performances.

Text about I Am the Measure is coming soon, meanwhile read about the exhibition here (in Danish only)at Kunsten.nu as Artist of the Week.

The exhibition is sponsored by Danish Arts Council Committee for Visual Arts.