Current & Past Events
Colour Exchanges: Interview with Kajsa Dahlberg
“Colour marks exchange. It is border-work. Mixture is our calling.”—Lisa Robertson, How to Colour
In place of the artist talk, colourschool presents an ongoing series of artist interviews conducted by Johan Lundh, whose practice adopts the “art of conversation” as a starting point for more dynamic explorations. Since 2005, Lundh has made over thirty interviews with artists, curators, and writers about their views on contemporary art and culture in his Conversations on Contemporary Art project, which is dedicated to the definition, development, and examination of art and culture in the world today.
Colour Exchanges follow a traditional interview format, but allow for and encourage participation by visitors in the midst of the conversation.
Johan Lundh interviews Kajsa Dahlberg this session.
- hosts:
- Kajsa Dahlberg and Johan Lundh
- date & time:
- April 7th, 2008 at 7 pm
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Kajsa Dahlberg was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1973. She graduated from the Malmö Art Academy in 2003 and lives and works in Malmö and New York. Dahlberg works with video, text, and sound, which explores how narratives are constructed and mediated in relation to questions of censorship, political representation, history, and identity. In 2007, she had a solo show at Index in Stockholm. Her work has been shown in biennials and group exhibitions around the world including the 1st Athens Biennial 2007, Prague Biennial 3 in 2007, The Royal College of Art in London 2007, Momentum Nordic Biennial for Contemporary in Moss 2006, Sala Rekalde in Bilbao 2006, and the Moderna Muséet in Stockholm 2004. Dahlberg is currently doing the studio program at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.
Johan Lundh is an artist, curator, and writer, living and working in Stockholm, Sweden and Vancouver, Canada. He fosters research-based projects that explore connections between social interaction and the mechanics of contemporary art. The cornerstone of his creative practice is experimental collaboration, manifesting itself through inter/ multidisciplinary actions. He is currently working on an extensive interview-project and a series of posters, co-produced by Toronto and Vancouver-based artists, together with Vancouver-based artist and curator Alissa Firth-Eagland. He is generally perceived as “young and restless,” but in reality is old and settled.
Event Images & Documentation
Still image from 20 Minutes (Female Fist), Single Channel Digital Video, 20:00 (2006) . Image courtesy of Kajsa Dahlberg