Archived Announcements

2009

::: Meeting with Senior Exhibition Developer/Writer Monterey Bay Aquarium
October 21st & 23rd in Monterey as part of the research for the development of a new exhibition concept.

::: Relocating to California
October 9th - June 20th Annica Karlsson Rixon and Anna Viola Hallberg relocates to East Bay Area.

::: Video documentation of installations
State of Mind installed at Art Arsenal, Kiev and Gothenburg Art Museum >>>

::: Gogol Fest09 included State of Mind
It was held in the Art Arsenal in Kiev, Ukraine, with a total area of 20.000 sqm showing contemporary art, music, theatre, film and dance.
Slideshow 1>>>
Slideshow 2>>>

::: Swedish Institute & Swedish Embassy in Kiev grants support for State of Mind at Gogol Festival
State of Mind will be installed at The Gogol Festival in Kiev, Ukraine, September 11th 2009. Next to two works by
Ukrainian video artists presented via The Municipal Gallery in Kharkiv >>>

::: Re-visit the exhibition Today Tomorrow Forever
Look at the documentation from 2006 by Dorota Lukianska, Göteborgs Konsthall. >>>

::: Rancorous Call has been selected for touring exhibition.
The exhibition starts 7 September at Utstallngshallen, Hallefors and ends in spring 2010.
The exhibition consist of works from Art Video Screenings archive. >>>

::: Anna Viola Hallberg awarded The Iris Foundation Grant
For the research phase of a new project in Russia.

::: Annica Karlsson Rixon awarded The Bo Samuelsson Grant
Karlsson Rixon will be on a PhD exchange at UC Berkeley for the academic year 2009-10 via University of Gothenburg.

::: Rancorous Call has been selected for screening.
The International video and contemporary arts festival Waterpieces 2009, Riga, Latvia, 4-6 September.
The programme will consist of works from Art Video Screenings archive. >>>

::: Installation views, State of Mind, (construction, reception, LTT) >>>

::: Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg
From the opening of State of Mind at The Municipal Gallery in Kharkiv, Ukraine
(photo: Xenia Nikloskaya) >>>

::: For Leaving Your Trace & Lezzy Think Tank
Process photos from Agata bar and at Ploshyad Poezii/Square Poetry, Kharkiv, Ukraine July 19th
(photo: Tanyusha) >>>

::: The organization Sphere has made a page dedicated to State of Mind
For text in Ukrainian, video and images >>>

::: Innaguration of State of Mind at The Municipal Gallery in Kharkiv at 18.00, July 17th.

::: Karlsson Rixon & Hallberg dates set for trip to Ukriane
July 12th - July 23rd most of the time will be spent working in Kharkiv.

::: Poster for State of Mind in Kharkiv
The Municipal Gallery has in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy in Kiev produced posters for
the State of Mind Exhibition in Kharkiv. It will be posted all over the city starting today. Preview of poster. >>>

::: Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg holds masterclass and workshop
At The Municipal Gallery in Kharkiv, Ukraine on July 20th at 4 pm. Please contact gallery directly to request to participate.

::: For Masterclass on July 20th
Please contact the gallery directly to participate.

::: Kharkiv News Spot of State of Mind
From the opening at The Municipal Gallery. Interview made by local media in Russian. >>>

::: Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg holds Leaving Your Trace Workshop and Lezzy Think Tank.
To participate please contact the organization Sphere directly to request to participate. >>>

::: The Embassy of Sweden in Kiev supports the exhibtions of State of Mind in Ukraine.

::: Anna Viola Hallberg granted membership of Corpus Collective
The New York City based collective founders William Brovelli and Ektoras Binikos has invited Anna Viola Hallberg to become a full and active member of Corpus Collective from June 2009.

::: Artist Run Video Gallery in Public Space
In Gothenburg, Sweden Hallberg & Karlsson Rixon initiates an art video project in public space

::: State of Mind opens at The Municipal Gallery in Kharkiv, Ukraine >>>
Reception is set to 5 pm on July 17th. It is the first time Hallberg & Karlsson Rixon exhibits in Ukraine.

::: State of Mind in collections
Both Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg Sweden and Stena Foundation, Gothenburg Sweden has brought segments of the installation to their collections.

::: State of Mind (slideshow, installation views) >>>

The photography, video and sound based installaiton installationState of Mind explores boundaries between ethics, legislation, prejudice and civic expectations in the LGBTQ life of Russia focusing on lesbians and bisexual women. It discusses subjects such as shortcomings vs. possibilities, belonging vs. alienation, appointed- vs. selected identity. Installation views from Gothenburg Artmuseum (Gothenburg,SE), ROSPHOTO (St Petersburg, RU) , Kulturhuset (Stockholm, SE) 2008 and also installation views of State of Mind - Prologue from 2006.

::: State of Mind on Tour via substantial support from SI
The generous support from Swedish Institute secures the State of Mind Tour in Ukraine. The exhibition travells with Lezzie Think Tank/LTT and a videoworkshop called Leaving Your Traces.

LTT is based on issues of community, activism, based on local needs infused with pan-national experience - forming coalitions between organisations and individuals.

The exhibition tour becomes the path for the LTT/Lezzie Think Tank. In addition to touring the photograpy and videobased installation LLT was launched as a forum for exchange of ideas and thougts towards an empowering network among activists within the LGBTQ scene using State of Mind as a stepstone for for not only the think tank but for seminars as well. Leaving Your Traces adds new video footage as the exhibition travells.

::: State of Mind at 7th European Feminist Research Conference >>>
Annica Karlsson Rixon presents a paper on State of Mind in the section Sexuality: Public, Private & Beyond.

The section focuses on the frictions between local sexualities and the dislocations of a globalizing world. We are interested in two lines of investigation: on the one hand, how sexuality is “on the move”, in several senses of that term: the ways in which sexuality and sexual ‘identities’ change when individuals, ideologies and media move across literal and figurative, across public and private spaces. And how do normative and non-normative, e.g. queer, sexualities relate in particular spaces? On the other hand, and at the same time, we would like to see explorations of the intersecting lines between sexuality, gender, “race”/ ethnicity, religion and nation, Utrecht June 4-7 2009

::: Private Premises >>>
12 works from the ongoing series. Private Premises is often installed with Resonance.

::: Resonance & Resonance Conversation >>>


Resonance is a documentation of the contemporary art scene based on filmed portraits, photography and interviews with artists, curators and art historians who have, in one way or another, made an impression within the art world. The installation entail two segments one called Resonance, Installation and one segment called Resonance, Conversations. Installation views from Norrkoping Art Museum, Uppsala Art Museum and Konsthallen Göteborg. (slideshow)

::: Moderna Museet c/o BAC, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden, 2003 (curator) >>>
A curatorial selection by Annica Karlsson Rixon of documentary photographs from the 50s, 60s and 70s by five Swedish photographers Christer Strömholm, Hans Malmberg, Tore Jonsson, Anders Petersen and Walter Hirsch corresponding to Ann-Sofi Sidén’s work filmed in the city of Dubi, situated in The Czech Republic close to the German border.

::: Rancorous Call >>>
Collaboration by Anna Viola Hallberg and Björn Perborg in Off-LOOP, LOOP Videoart, International Festival & Fair for Videoart, Barcelona, Spain, May 21-31 2009

::: Queer Photography >>>

Lecture by Annica Karlsson Rixon at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, April 21st
Public lectures and discussions on photography, the series seeks to explore the position of photography, both historically and in connection with several of the current exhibitions at Moderna Museet. Curator: Jonatan Habib Engqvist

::: Rancorous Call >>>
Collaboration by Anna Viola Hallberg and Björn Perborg in "Urban Jealousy, The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran", Belgrad, Serbia, April 2009

::: Other Art
Staffan Lamm, Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg in panel discussion on outsider art in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition, Göteborg Museum of Art, April 15th

::: Attending, Queer Curation
(Harmony Hammond, Jonathan D. Katz, and Pamela Peniston), California College of the Arts, San Francisco, March 9, 2009

::: In Los Angeles to attend the CAA 2009 Annual Conference
February 25-28

::: Attending the symposium Queer Bonds
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, February 19th - Feburary 21st, 2009

::: Headlands Center for the Arts
March 2nd - March 16th

::: Time set for trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles
Feb 20th - March 16th.

::: Karlsson Rixon and Hallberg in Minsk, Belarus
Meeting with representatives of contemporary art scene as well as museums. In addition to this networks and academics relevant to the work State of Mind, January 18th-24th.

::: In Oslo, Norway to work with Arts Council Norway
January 13th-15th.

::: Supported by Kungl och Hvitfeldtska stiftelsens forskningsstiftelse
Karlsson Rixon and Hallberg are set to be on a research journey to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

::: Commissioned to write an essay for Arts Council Norway
In the spring of 2009 Hallberg & Karlsson follows the pilot project on contemporary art in cultural heritage institutions in Norway. Information about the pilot project Museale forstyrrelser. >>>

::: Swedish Institute granted support for contact trips to Ukraine & Belarus
Towards realizing a tour the installation State of Mind during 2009.

2008

::: Support from The County Administrative Board of Vastra Gotaland, Cultural & Natural Heritage Section towards the installation Code of Silence

::: Sveriges Radio, Snittet, November 26, 2008, Lars Hermansson in conversation with the artists Ann Edholm and Annika Karlsson Rixon, Mp3 (Swedish only) >>>

::: State of Mind at Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweden, in the group show Talkin Loud and Sayin Something - Four Perspectives of Artistic Research, September 24 - November 16, 2008. Download Full Exhibition Catalog as Pdf >>>

::: The group exhibition Talkin Loud and Sayin Something - Four Perspectives of Artistic Research, focuses on the positively controversial and challenging theme of visual artist research. This event is the first comprehensive contemporary art show that deliberately and openly seeks to combine artistic expression with research means and methods, and which also aims at effecting a productive and thought-provoking collision. The exhibition consists of four artistic research projects in and through each particular practice. The participating artists represent a wide variety of artistic strategies and have also worked coherently and consistently with research aims and methods.>>>

::: 50%-seminar Annica Karlsson Rixon, School of Photography, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Opponent: Dr. Jan Kaila, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland, Wednesday October 29, 2008,

::: State of Mind and Resonance at ROSPHOTO, St Petersburg, Russia, September 4 - October 19, 2008. Link to poster and exhibition folder (Ru) >>>

::: State of Mind at Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, July 25 – August 24, 2008.

::: First Lezzy Think Tank (LTT) was held in Stockholm during Europride 2008, on August 1st. Participants came from Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and US. Swedish General Consulate in St Petersburg and Stockholm Pride supported all in all four individuals to fly to Stockholm to participate in the activeties around State of Mind. >>>

::: Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg participate in group exhibition MAKE OUT! in Stockholm >>>

::: State of Mind partner organization in Kharkiv, Ukraine. >>>