Line Skywalker Karlström Curriculum Vitae

Born 1971 in Karlstad, Sweden. Lives and works in Askeby, Denmark and Berlin.


Current and upcoming:

2008


Oct 30 - Nov Investir TOUT. FSPACE3, Sans Accroche, Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Filmfestival, Le Trianon, Paris

Nov 24-29 High Heel Sisters: Act Out: Performative Video by Nordic Women Artists. The Department of Visual Arts of Évora University , Portugal

Nov 3 - The YES! Association: MOOT POINT, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, in Kajsa Dahlberg: The Name Of This Association Shall Be Transmission




Projects:

2003-

The YES! Association, a collaboration between artists Malin Arnell(S), Åsa Elzén(S/US), Johanna Gustafsson(S), Fia-Stina Sandlund(S/US) and Line S Karlström. The YES! Association is an association that aims to create favorable conditions for art workers whose practices and activities contribute to the overthrowing of male supremacy, ethnical supremacy and of hierarchies connected to physical and mental ability, sexuality and class. www.theyesassociation.org


2002-2007

High Heel Sisters (HHS) was a collaboration between artists Malin Arnell (S), Karianne Stensland (NO), film maker Anna Linder (S) and Line S. Karlström.

High Heel Sisters' work took as its starting point the mutual and diverse experiences of being taller than 178 cm, wearing shoes bigger than size 41 and being older than 30 years. Through their work High Heel Sisters investigated and renegotiated their own, as well as, societies expectations and norms. Using feminist analysis, issues of esthetics and privilege in public space pertaining to gender, sexuality and class, were discussed and reworked.www.rolloverallover.blogspot.com












Solo shows:

2005 Re-Searcher in Residence. The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, curated by Johanna Rosenqvist and Pontus Lindvall

High Heel Sisters: Artholes. High Heel Sisters. Trace Installaction Artspace, Cardiff, Wales, UK

2004 No Fear in der Festspielhaus, Q Exhibition Space, Copenhagen

2002 High Heel Sisters: Art Holes. High Heel Sisters. Gallery Lars Bohmann Project space, Stockholm

Heel Sisters: Three pieces by High Heel Sisters. Blunk, Trondheim


Performances:

2008 Marked. 1993 (Cock Line). Queer Gala, Schwarzer Kanal, Berlin
Marker (Mary Coble Re-enacted). Queer and Rebel Days, Heinrichplatz, Berlin

2007 High Heel Sisters: Screaming Mountain. Gaze. Space. Desire, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
Combustion (I am angry and I am sad and so are you). Gallery Christoffer Egelund, The Project space, Copenhagen
High Heel Sisters: Stand Piece #11, #12, #13". Berlin
The YES! Association: In Search of Lost Art. Vikingsbergs Konsthall, Helsingbor

Performer in artist Rikke Benborgs video work Dislocation

2006 High Heel Sisters: The Last Straw. Ars06, Kiasma, Helsinki
Indoors or outside or maybe both at the same time. Sweden 16, Norrtälje Arthall, Norrtälje (with Malin Arnell)
Fire (Flower, Kiss) Walk With Me. ART PARADE, Copenhagen (with Malin Arnell)
High Heel Sisters: It Comes As No Surprise. Bastard Theatre Festival, Avantgarden, Trondheim

2005 The YES! Association: Press Conference JA!/ YES!. Art Feminism. Strategies and consequences in Sweden from the 1970s to the present, Dunkers Culture House, Helsinborg
High Heel Sisters: Art Holes, Trace Installaction Artspace, Cardiff, Wales, UK
All Embroidery is Subversive, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen
Denmark's Small Heart. The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen

2005 We Suck You In and Out. Nu & Då, Sveriges Konstföreningar, Värmlands Museum, Karlstad (with Malin Arnell)
Roll Over Allover (Here You Are Wankers, A Free Feministic Opening Performance). Art Feminism. Strategies and consequences in Sweden from the 1970s to the present, Dunkers Culture House, Helsingborg (with Malin Arnell)
Food-Radio. Radio program. With Fia-Stina Sandlund, Sophea Lerer and Oda-Projesi.
High Heel Sisters: Stand Piece#10. S:t David City Mall, Cardiff, Wales, UK

2004 High Heel Sisters: Stand Piece#9. Essen, Germany
High Heel Sisters: High Art Fraktione in Scandinavian Performance in NRW 2004. Machinenhaus Essen - Produktionsort der Künste, Essen, Germany
Världens bästa föreställning!1, Att Gå Samman Över ett Torg/ A United Walk Across a Square and FRUIT SALAD( Världens Bästa Föreställning!2). ARTfog ( Art Focused on Gender), Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå (with Malin Arnell)
High Heel Sisters: Never Too Much. Kilen, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
High Heel Sisters: Down Up and 400 meters midnight run in high-heeled shoes. Là-Bas_space Contentions Performance Symposium, Helsinki
High Heel Sisters: Stand Piece#8. Drottninggatan, Stockholm
High Heel Sisters: Down Up and in Mental Dry Cleaner with Koeff (Johanna Rosenqvist). SEKT, Stockholm

2003 High Heel Sisters: Never Too Much. Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London,UK, commissioned by ICA
High Heel Sisters: A United Walk Across a Square and Peace Piece. The Artist as Activist, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
High Heel Sisters: High Heel Sisters wanks off and makes power. Fylkingen New Music And New Media, Stockholm
High Heel Sisters: Stand Piece #7. Angel Station, London, UK
High Heel Sisters Never Too Much, Live Art Festival, Hull, UK
Cirkulationcentralen/The Cirkulation Central. Högriskfestivalen, Malmö


2002 High Heel Sisters: Mix Master Piece, Peace Piece and Climbing Up Ladders Falling Down. Gallery Lars Bohmann Projectroom, Stockholm
High Heel Sisters: Stand Piece #2-6, performed at five different sites along the red tube line, Stockholm
High Heel Sisters: Stand Piece #1, Munkegata, Trondheim

Group Shows and Screenings:

2008 High Heel Sisters: 6808 Östersund. Färgfabriken, Östersund
High Heel Sisters: 6808. Färgfabriken, Stockholm

2007 High Heel Sisters: Nature Films. Cinemateket, Stockholm, curated by Filmform
High Heel Sisters: Put the light out, erase a line, Studio 44, Stockholm
High Heel Sisters: Put the light out, erase a line. Studio 44, Stockholm, screening
High Heel Sisters: Space.Gaze.Desire. Den Frie udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen
The YES! Association: Bra konst. Vikingsbergs Museum, Helsingborg
Gallery Christoffer Egelund, The project space, Copenhagen
The YES! Association: Art Feminism. Strategies and consequences in Sweden from the 1970s to the present. The Art museum of Gothenburg, Göteborg
High Heel Sisters: Taking over. Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå
High Heel Sisters: Arka Video festival, Sardinia, Italy



2006 The YES! Association: Art Feminism. Strategies and consequences in Sweden from the 1970s to the present, Hälsingland Museum, Hudiksvall
Camp Eden. Kong Christian, Copenhagen
The YES! Association: Art Feminism. Strategies and consequences in Sweden from the 1970s to the present. Liljevalchs Arthall, Stockholm
High Heel Sisters: Tank-tv. www.tanktv.uk
High Heel Sisters: Hit The North. Video archive, curated by Filmform, Stockholm

2006 Selvsving Factory. The Factory of Art and Design, Copenhagen
Mindblow. Første Til Venstre, Copenhagen
The YES! Association: Art Feminism. Strategies and consequences in Sweden from the1970s to the present. Dunkers Culturehouse, Helsingborg

2004 High Heel Sisters: We Love YOUko – Hommageparty for Yoko Ono. Terrassen, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
High Heel Sisters: Best Regards – The Royal Academy of Fine Arts 250 years. Charlottenborg Exhibitionspace, Copenhagen
High Heel Sisters: Women Jubilee – 96 Years. Q, Copenhagen
VIDEO ZONE, The 2nd International Video-Art Biennale in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel
High Heel Sisters: VIDEO ZONE, The 2nd International Video-Art Biennale in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel
High Heel Sisters: BLICK 2004. Moderna museet, Stockholm

High Heel Sisters: Ladyfest, Malmö, screening
High Heel Sisters: Feminism 2004. Malmö, screening

2003 Utopia Station. Venice Biennale, Italiy. In Oleanna Group and with Martha Rosler.
The Shop. Art Emergency, Stockholm
Release party for the book Hejdade, hejdade sken by Jenny Tunedal, The Art Emergency, Stockholm
Pølsene op eller bukserne ned. Valdemarsgade52, Copenhagen,
High Heel Sisters: Trønderlagsutstillningen. Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art, Trondheim
High Heel Sisters: Net Guest Exhibitors at www.fiberartsweden.org
High Heel Sisters: The Biennale of Thisted. Thisted, Denmark

2002 Video Works. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Everybody knows this is Norway. Gallery ID:I,Stockholm
Minimalen Shortfilm festival, Trondheim, main program

Curatorial:


2008 The YES! Association: Privilege Walk/Symposium – Feminist and Intersectional Aspects on Contemporary Art.Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö

CELLULOID CROSSINGS. Film program, Privilege Walk/Symposium, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö.


2006 The YES! Association: They Call Us Art Feminists/Panel discussion. Stockholmsterassen, Kulturhuset, Stockholm











Teaching and Talks:

2008 The Naked Truth ·– On Gendered Bodies in Performance Art. The
Department of Visual Arts of Évora University, Portugal, workshop.

High Heel Sisters: Presentation at the conference Act Out, Department of Visual Arts of Évora University , Portugal.

Artist talk, Munka Ljungby Folkhögskola, summer course in Berlin

2007 The YES! Association: Presentation, Malmö Fria Kvinnouniversitet (MFK)

2006 Performance tour for ground school kids, commisioned by Malmö City Council, Malmö, 30 shows (with Erik Högström)

2004 Performance at thematical days on the environment, comissioned by Malmö City Council, Malmö (with Erik Högström)


Published works:

Tidskriften Aluma #7/2007, s.25, invited guest artist

Kom Ut magazine #1/07, Stockholm, guest artists with High Heel Sisters

Aluma #10/06, Om Odöden, collage and texts, invited guest artist, Malmö, Sweden p.20, 21

Øjeblikket #46, Informations Forlag, Danmark 2006, article and spread, with YES!

Hundra procent fett, Liv Strömquist, Ordfront förlag 2006, cover art

Arena #1/2006, debate article, together with Johanna Gustafsson, Malin Arnell and Fia-Stina Sandlund

Konstspelkort, published by Sapphos Döttrar 2005

Lyrikvännen#5/2005, I do the Skywriting for you really, collage, photos and drawings, cover and p.130, p.135 and p.138.

Fabrik #3-4/2005, Sweet Her-after and Queens Deers, collage and poetry,

Fabrik #1-2/2004, collage and text, p. 6-7

Lyrikvännen#3/2004, collage, p.2

Hejdade, hejdade sken, Jenny Tunedal, Wahström & Widstrand Förlag, Stockholm 2003, cover art

Published writings:

Billedkunst #2/08Sex uten seksualpolitikk, art critique

Kom Ut #9-10/07, Konsten att flyta/The Art of Floating, art critique

Göteborgsposten, 03-02-07, with the YES! Association

The limits of art, OBS!, Sveriges Radio P1, 30-11-06, debate article, with Malin Arnell/YES!

Dictionary, red. Rasmussen/Rosaco/Hillesø/Ask, s. 86-94, 178-179, Istanbul,2007

Arena #6/05, 50% är allt vi vill - och lite till, debate article, with Fia-Stina Sandlund, Malin Arnell and Johanna Gustafsson.

Writings:

Interview with YES! Association, 2006-10-10, http://konstsomyrke.com, interview by Erik Krikortz

Kritik och konservatism - Samtidskonstens alternativa teater, Hjärnstorm # 88-89, article by Dan Jönsson

Trettio års kamp har gett resultat, Dagens Nyheter, 2006-07-21, article by Jenny Aschenbrenner

Säg ja till jämställdhet, Dagens Nyheter, 2006-07-19, article by Jessica Kempe

Konstkamp i högklackat, Dagens Nyheter På Stan 2006-07-15, interview with Malin Arnell by Sanna Björling

BANG #1/06, Feministisk Aktionskonst utan action, article by Ulrika Stahre

Ordfront Magasin #1/06, article by Nina Lekander

Svenska Dagbladet 2005-10-05, review by Therese Marklund

Expressen 2005-10-21, review by Boel Gerell

Titta här feminister, mycket kan hända, Aftonbladet 2005-10-16, review by Ulrika Stahre

Dagens Nyheter, 2005-10-12, article by Lina Kalmteg




Writings on High Heel Sisters:

Billedkunst #4/2006, article by Nina Schjønsby

Format, SVT2 (Swedish Television), 2005-09-20

New Welsch Review, 2005-04-16

Konstperspektiv, 4/04, p. 32-37, ”Varför står ni där? Flytta på er!”, article by Bo Borg

(Writings on High Heel Sisters, continuation)

NRZ, Essen, 2004-07-15, ”Die Skaninavische Kunst der Handlung”

Dagens Nyheter, 2004-06-14, article by Malena Rydell

Expressen, 2004-03-06, review by Natalia Kazmierska

Svenska Dagbladet, 2004-03-07, review by Anna Ångström

Dagens Nyheter, 2004-03-07, review by Maria Lind-Garreu

Dagens Nyheter, 2004-03-03, article by Johanna Paulsson

www.omkonst.com, 2003-09-07, article by Johan Lundh

Dagens Nyheter, 2003-08-30, article by Ingela Lind

Aftonbladet 2003-05-14, article by Lena Sohl

Aftonbladet 2002-11-09, review by Lena Sohl

Bang #4/2002, “Disturbing Sisters”, article by Lena Sohl


Catalogues:

Gaze. Space.Desire, Den Frie/Sanne Kofoed Olsen/LEAP

Performing theory in practise or a new trinity in patriarchy, essay by Johanna Rosenqvist, En blick från sidan-Genusforskning under tre decennier, Linda Fagerström, Maria Nilsson (ed.), DISA/Förlags AB Gondolin, 2006

Trace Installaction Artspace 5 Years, André Stitt, 2006

Art Feminism Strategies and consequenses in Sweden from the 1970s to the present, Atlas Förlag, Sweden 2005

ARTfog, Museum Anna Nordlander, Sweden 2004

VIEW, Feminist Strategies in Danish Visual Art, by Women Down the Pub, p.91-93 and 228-228, Denmark 2004

Mur og Rum Bog, Denmark 2004

VIDEO ZONE, The 2st International Video-Art Biennal in Israel, Israel 2004

This Is Power, documentary film on High Heel Sisters, by Linda Hagberg and Liza Carlefred, 20 min, 2004

The Dictatorship of the viewer, 50th Venice Biennale, 2003

Residencies:

2008 Residency Berlin Mitte, Danish Arts Council

2004 The Norden Association; Swedish- Finnish Cultural Centre, Residency Hanaholmen, Helsinki, Finland (HHS)


Grants and prizes:

2008 The Danish Arts Council Committee for Visual Arts

The Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Art.

Nordic Culture Point, Mobility funding

IASPIS (International Studio Program in Sweden), Support for collaborative works (the YES! Association)

Swedish National Board of Youth Affairs, Support for women's organization, (the YES! Association)

2007 One Year Work Grant, Swedish Art Council

Danish Arts Council, Production Support

Swedish national board of youth affairs, Support for women's organization, with YES!

2006 Danish Arts Council, Production Support (HHS)

Sleipnir, Travel Grant Programme for Young Professional Artists in the Nordic Countries

OCA (Office for Contemporary Arts in Norway), International Support (HHS)

2005 Längmanska Föreningen (HHS)

Nordic Exhange for Culture Workers, Stockholm City Cultural Department

IASPIS (International Studio Program in Sweden), Support for Exhibition Abroad (HHS)

OCA (Office for Contemporary Arts in Norway), International Support (HHS)

2004 IASPIS, Support for Exhibition Abroad

Danish Arts Council, Support for Exhibition Abroad

Production Support, Stockholm City Cultural Department

2003 IASPIS, Support for Exhibition Abroad (HHS)

Sleipnir, Travel Grant Program for Young Professional Artists in the Nordic Countries

NORD PLUS, Sholarship for Internordic Exhange

2002 BUS ( Association of Visual Artists Copyright) (HHS)

NORD PLUS, Sholarship for Inter Nordic Exhange

Letterstedtska Föreningen, Support for Nordic Publication



Other assignments:

2006 Hearing part for Scenkonstutredningen Plats På Scen, with YES! Association


Education:

2006 MFA The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen/Trondheim Academy of Fine Art

2002 - 2004 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Wall & Space, Prof. Yvette Brackmann/Martha Rosler/Julie Ault

2000 - 2003 BFA Trondheim Academy of Fine Art/NTNU, Trondheim

1995 - 1997 University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, Faculty of Art History,
Architecture and Philosophy Section; Gender Studies



Homepage:

www.lineskykarlstrom.blogspot.com



Contact:

Line Skywalker Karlström
Voilerupgade 17 DK-4297 Askeby