Line Skywalker Karlström (b. 1971) is a Swedish interdisciplinary artist who uses performance, objects, installation, video and social action as tools to investigate structures in society pertaining to communality, power, institution, space and body. She considers art and performance as "ways of doing and creating" that divert normal ways of doing and creating thus opening up for new experiences. Departing from an interest in material and from bodily experience and presence she insists on the subjective, intimate, regressive, ephemeral, unarticulated and failed as alternative knowledge-producing agents. Regardless media her work is always performative and bottom line is that it deals with bodily experience and presence in a space: how the way that you're present in a room or place will always alter that room or place, and the politics of displacement, definition and naming.
Being part of the feminist art legacy her practice was for a decade placed in a collaborative sphere. She was a collective member of 2'nd wave feminist performance group High Heel Sisters (2002-2007) and co-founded the artist activist group The YES! Association in 2005, which she left in 2010. In Exorcism of a Feminist Collaboration I and II she transformed the devastating structures she had been experiencing in her collaboration with the YES! Association. Thus she made visible the presence of power, even where there efforts to eliminate power are largest.
Skywalker Karlström was educated at The Royal Art Academy, Dept. of Wall and Space with Prof Yvette Brackmann and Julie Ault/Martha Rosler, Copenhagen and received a MFA from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway in 2006. She received a two year work grant from The Swedish Art Council, 2010-2012. She lives between Malmö in Sweden, Askeby in Denmark and in Berlin.
Being part of the feminist art legacy her practice was for a decade placed in a collaborative sphere. She was a collective member of 2'nd wave feminist performance group High Heel Sisters (2002-2007) and co-founded the artist activist group The YES! Association in 2005, which she left in 2010. In Exorcism of a Feminist Collaboration I and II she transformed the devastating structures she had been experiencing in her collaboration with the YES! Association. Thus she made visible the presence of power, even where there efforts to eliminate power are largest.
Contact the artist: lineskarlstrom at hotmail.com
