>>Artist-Run Networks<<
Sunday, 15 May, 1-5 pm
Moderna Museet, The Auditorium

Artist-run platforms and networks are by no means a new phenomenon in the history of art. They take on different appearances, but often seem to have the same purpose, namely to generate alternative projects, produce new forms of art and promote new job opportunities for artists. How long can these artist platforms remain alternative? And where is the line where alternative becomes institutionalised? Is this line really necessary, if the institutions themselves can manage to be more reactive and flexible? By definition, networks also involve an exclusion of many individuals - could this, in fact, lead to an exclusion mechanism against certain artists and their oeuvres?

Participants: The Icelandic Love Corporation; Gil & Moti; onestar press: Christophe Boutin & Mélanie Scarciglia; Jasper van den Brink/PARK 4DTV; United Net-Works: Sofie Sweger; Bengt Jahnsson-Wennberg, NKF.

Moderator: Niclas Östlind, curator, Liljevalchs konsthall

>>Artistic Strategies<<
23 March - 15 May 2005

Artistic strategies (Konstnärliga strategier) - a series of events based on contemporary artists' methods and the issues that concern them. Common to all the artists who have been invited to take part is that they work with strategies, playful or serious, that can give rise to political and socially critical debate. Their methods vary from creating one's own institutions to infiltrating existing systems and undertaking activism that produces new forms of knowledge. The medium of expression also varies: traditional painting along side events, performances, video documentation, text-based art and workshops.

Participants:
Copenhagen Free University: Henriette Heise & Jakob Jakobsen, Superflex, Åsa Elzén, Sonja Hedstrand, Måns Wrange, Dariush Moaven Doust, Elin Wikström, Matias Faldbakken, Ståle Stenslie, Peter Andersson, The Icelandic Love Corporation, Markus Renwall, Gil & Moti, Barbara Caveng, Annika Ström, onestar press: Christophe Boutin & Mélanie Scarciglia, Johan Grimonprez,United Net-Works: Sofie Sweger, Volker Morawe, Timan Reiff, Jasper van den Brink, Niclas Östlind, Magnus af Petersens, John Petter Nilsson, Kim Einarsson, Josefin Herolf, Bengt Jahnsson-Wennberg and Catrin Lundqvist.

Artistic strategies was produced jointly by the Department of Fine Arts and the CuratorLab at Konstfack (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design); the International Curator Studies Programme at Stockholm University; NKF and Moderna Museet's Education & Events department.

For more info see: www.modernamuseet.se