It is something it is nothing

It is something it is nothing, 2019,
performance, 30 minutes and installation
in Mellemting Mellem Ting, curated by Heine Klausen,
Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art , Copenhagen.

Photos: Malle Madsen

With support from

Residency with FRANK, Oslo

In October I had the great pleasure of doing a residency with the queer art platform FRANK  in Oslo.
FRANK is an Oslo-based platform, established to nurture art and critical discourse revolving around gender, desire and sexuality.  The residency is a located in an old worker’s home at Grorud, a suburb in the outskirts of Oslo. It was an inspiring and productive time, connecting to local queer feminist artists and starting to work on my upcoming publication.
Thank you FRANK for inviting me.

Klubben Vi kommer till varandra tomhänta

Klubben Vi kommer till varandra tomhänta, 2018

Förslag till konstnärlig gestaltning för Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, N-huset, Solna

Material och mått: 'Paljettvägg' av svartlackerade, laserskurna aluminiumcirklar på ramar av rostfritt stål och aluminiumsplattor; varje cirkel; dimension 170 mm, hela ytan; 5700 x 6000 mm, kedja av rostfritt stål; längd 424 mm (varje ögla), dia 44 mm, fotocollage på Aluminiums-Dibond; 5.700 x 6.000 mm och 3.865 x 6.648 mm

The Club We arrive at eachother emptyhanded, 2018

Public art commision, sketch assignment

Materials and measures: 'Sequin wall'; black coated aluminium circles on aluminium frames; each circle; dimensions 170 mm, entire surface; 5.700 x 6.000 mm, chain of stainless steel; each loop; 424 mm, dia 44 mm, photo collage, digital print on Alu Dibond; 5.700 x 6.000 mm and 3.865 x 6.648 mm

Public Art Commission, Sketch Assignment for Karolinska University Hospital

Ritning av sjukhusbyggnad med grön markering på fasad för plats för gestaltning / Drawing of building with green marking on the facade for placement of artistic design

 

The Cultural Administration at Stockholm County Council have selected the following artist following artists for sketch assignments/
För skissuppdrag till psykiatriska vårdavdelningar, Nacka sjukhus har följande konstnärer utsetts:

• Jakob Sjöstedt, Göteborg
• Jonas Nobel, Stockholm

Following artist have been selected for sketch assignments/ För skissuppdrag gestaltning på fasad, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset Solna har följande konstnärer utsetts:

• Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Stockholm
• Katarina Elvén, Stockholm
• Line Skywalker Karlström, Berlin  
 

 

Miraculous Thirst - how to get off in days of deprivation, Galway Arts Centre

Miraculous Thirst - how to get off in days of deprivation

Basic Space in association with the Galway Arts Centre is delighted to present Miraculous Thirst, how to get off in days of deprivation by Emma Haugh and Eimear Walshe, curated by Daniel Bermingham.
Miraculous Thirst, is a collaborative encounter between shared practices of queer world making, towards the blossoming of shameless queer desire (thirst). The works perform a repositioning of public space and the private sphere in relation to the non-reproductive pleasures of getting off.
Analogue sites of social sexual pleasure - public toilets/park bushes/nightclubs/bars - are becoming sanitised under the forces of rising rents and the intensification of human capital, transposed into a digital non-place, rubbing up against a reproductive, domestic present, what José Esteban Muñoz calls the “prison house... of the here and now.” Where do we get off? Queer intimacy and desire are becoming regulated actions, their manifestations monitored in both private and public realms. Lives at the intersections of systems of oppression are threatened on the streets, by lovers, in the bedroom and in the bushes. How do we maintain spaces for shared sensual /sexual pleasure and care when personal safety is at risk?
Gloria Anzaldúa claimed herself to be the “Shadow Beast”, a shape-shifting queer body slithering in the cruisy dark.  Miraculous Thirst is a hissing ephemeral moment of queer abundance and potentiality, a horizon in the midst of deprivation, denial, trauma and violence. Through this generative exercise, Miraculous Thirst seeks to activate a colloquialism of queer reclamation, staking ownership to spaces and networks under queer economies of care.
Please join us for an opening celebration and the performance of ‘Sex in Public’ by Emma Haugh, at the Galway Arts Centre, 6 pm, Saturday, 5th May and for a reading by Eimear Walshe 1 pm, Sunday, 6th May. Miraculous Thirst, how to get off in days of deprivation runs until Sunday, 6th June.
how to get off in days of deprivation is a query posed by Kathy Acker.

Eimear Walshe - Eimear presents new sculptural works including ‘Triple Bed’, ‘First Date’, ‘Middle Spoon’, and ‘The Third Person’, a set of proposals for how one might thrive in the face of personal and national sexual trauma. The works cast a side-eye at the coerciveness of coupledom and sexual binarisms, and uses the vernaculars which manifest these forces in furniture and grammar to create a new narrative: an idle fantasy, an unholy union, a humdrum pornography recounted by a Venus in Aquarius through objects, words, and diagrams.

Eimear Walshe makes sculptures, writing and research with a focus on queer theory and feminist epistemology. They are a two-time research fellow at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, where they will next initiate The Department of Sexual Revolution Studies.
Eimear Walshe is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.


Emma Haugh - Emma presents interconnected new works ‘Flags for Queer Cruising Sites’ and ‘Clothes for Queer Cruisers’ performative, propositional objects, talismans for desire that offer a shifting and connective queer iconography. The works raise questions about the role of social space in shaping identities, the meaning of communal space for marginalised peoples, and the significance of public spaces for social visibility and safety. The works engage queers in collective ephemeral acts of ritualised land and property reclamation developing a shared imagination and re-appropriation of sexual utopias that feed a transformative queer politics, for pleasure, for care, for arsing about, for getting off.
To date ‘Flags for Queer Cruising Sites’ and ‘Clothes for Queer Cruisers’ have been embodied through collaborations with:
Line Skywalker Karlström - http://lineskykarlstrom.blogspot.de
District, Berlin as part of 'Caring for Conflict'-  http://www.district-berlin.com/en/caring-for-conflict/

Between the Lines, KHiO, Oslo

Fists Are Tools for Collective Pleasure and Fighting, performativ photography, part of series

Between the lines - the artist's response to #metoo
118 artists takes part in this group exhibition, as a reaction to #MeToo. They wish to help raising awareness of the problematic power dynamics still at play in society and its institutions.

Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 10. - 17 February 2018

Article in Objektiv Journal
 (for Scandinavian readers only)

Article in Kunstkritikk

Now that you are gone I can finally think of geometry / The stones that I throw are your lack of corners, 2017

Performance in two parts, duration 3 hours, and fabric banners,
gr_und, Berlin, 2017

The stones that I throw are your lack of corners, 2017

The dog show, 2017

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 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.