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Colour Exchanges: Interview with Nathalie Melikian
“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 Vancouver and Malmo-based artist Nathalie Melikian for this session.
- hosts:
- Johan Lundh and Nathalie Melikian
- date & time:
- February 25th, 2008 at 7 pm
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
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.
Nathalie Melikian lives and works in Malmö and Vancouver. Since the late 1990s, she has been creating videos in which she calls into question and analyzes the narrative structures of various film genres. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the MuHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium, and the Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden, in 2002, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, the Centre pour l’image contemporaine Saint-Gervais Genève, Switzerland, and the IASPIS, Sweden, in 1999. She has also participated in a number of group shows in Canada and in Europe, including Shadows of Productions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2004, Thriller at the Edmonton Art Gallery in 2004, and Melodrama at the Centro José Guerrero in Grenada and at the MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain, in 2003.
Event Images & Documentation
Action 2002. Image courtesy of Nathalie Melikian