Resonance
Resonance draws up a non-linear world that indicates the power of informal networks as a step stone and creative well. It is an art installation on friendship, motivation, networks, as well as the urge to produce. It is a segment of contemporary artist’s and curator’s reflections on the very cusp of being in and out of mainstream. It is focusing on thoughts and process positioned beneath the surface of their work that they ordinarily are represented by. It also refers to exile identity and the artistic process, inner and outer rooms of ten women - casting resonance of thoughts, ideas, dialogues and friendship.

Resonance explores the installation as a medium for a documentary on artists and their reflections on the boundaries of informal networks, the image of the artist, responsibility, position in the contemporary society as well as in a historic perspective. It is an artistic exploration of time and space in relation to society and an active demonstration of a contribution to history writing.

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 called Resonance, Conversations

In Resonance, Installation the scenes in the photographs as well as in the moving images build on imagery from private spheres as well as poetic urban landscapes. An ambient soundscape with excerpts from the interviews with the ten women fills the room. The silhouettes of people standing in front of the screens can be read as part of the work. All elements are important for the readability of the entire framework, an elusive balance. Yet the main focus is to provide the viewer with diverse narrative information.

Resonance, Conversations is a 1 h 20 m video piece with the ten participants talking, and twenty documentation photographs from the process of making the project. It poses questions concerning life choices, strategies and power and presents thoughts on professional identity as well as possibilities and ideas for cooperation within the field of contemporary art. Appearing in Resonance: Annika Eriksson (SE/Berlin), Annika von Hausswolff (SE/Gothenburg), Annika Larsson (SE/New York), Maria Lind (SE/Stockholm), Annika Lundgren (SE/Berlin), Tone Olaf Nielsen (DK/Copenhagen), Ann-Sofie Sidén(SE/Berlin), Annika Ström(SE/Hove), Gitte Villesen(DK/Berlin) and Annika Öhrner (SE/Stockholm).

Grants: Swedish Arts Grants Committee, University of Gothenburg and Längmanska kulturfonden.

Technical brief:
Resonance, Installation Loop dual projection with sound: format HDV 16:9 (b/w), screening Dual HDV projection from server, two projectors, two screens, each 365 x 205 cm and four loudspeakers, Language: Swedish and Danish (subtitles in English available).
Duration: 11m 53s
Photographs: Private Premises, variable numbers, fiber prints (b/w), wooden frames, 90 x 72 cm.

Resonance, Conversations One monitor HDV 16:9 (b/w), hard drive media player, three headphones. Runtime: 1h 21m 11s Process photographs: 20 fiber prints (b/w), passepartout, metal frames, 27 x 47 cm.

Exhibited at:
::: State of Mind and Resonance, ROSPHOTO, St Petersburg, 2008
::: Today Tomorrow Forever, Annica Karlsson Rixon Selected Works 1991 - 2006, Norrköpings Art Museum, 2006, Göteborgs Konsthall, 2006 and Uppsala Art Museum, 2007

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Collaboration Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg