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Denmark: Re.Act.Feminism #2

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To Dance a Prison (13:00 min with sound) by Line Skywalker Karlström, 2010. Camera and photo: Frederike Hansen

re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive is a continually expanding, temporary and living performance archive travelling through six European countries from 2011 to 2013. It presents feminist, gendercritical and queer performance art by over 120 artists and artist collectives from the 1960s to the beginning of the 1980s, as well as contemporary positions. The exhibition is Denmark now:

Re.Act.Feminism #2
Museet for Samtidskunst
Roskilde, Denmark
June 15 – August 19, 2012
www.reactfeminism.org

Performance Artist Line Skywalker Karlström
Three of Swedish artist and queer woman Line Skywalker Karlström’s performance videos has been selected for the archive and Re.Act.Feminism #2 touring exhibition. Line is based in Denmark and uses different locations in the countryside for her performances. Her videos are:

Queens Deers (2004) – a Beckett’s crash course on feminist art history, performed by an unsuccesful elk for an audience of absent deers.

Screaming Mountains (2007) – documents the last performance made by the group of High Heel Sisters. See photo below.

To Dance a Prison / At Danse Et Fængsel (2010)  - is a semi improvised dance at the (building) site of a future prison and a physical ritual meditation about dominance, transformation and restriction. See the video above.

 

Press photo: Queens Deers, performance by Line Skywalker Karlström, 2004

Press photo: Queens Deers, performance by Line Skywalker Karlström, 2004

Screaming Mountain, performance by High Heel Sisters, 2010

Screaming Mountain, performance by High Heel Sisters, 2010

About Line Skywalker Karlström
Line is an interdisciplinary artist (sculpture, performance, video), whos work is invested in art-as-life, processes of power and identity, lesbian and gay identity and the perception of space, and the notion of the “normal” “female” body. She is based in Denmark. She was a member of the feminist performance group High Heels Sisters and she is also a founding member of the group of Swedish artist activists, The YES! Association (2005).

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Line Skywalker Karlström’s art blog

Line Skywalker Karlström Performance: Queens Deers

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Line Skywalker Karlström, Performance, 2004 Published at Youtube by MrLineskywalkerful, 11/09/2009

Feminist performance artist and queer woman Line Skywalker Karlström (Sweden/Denmark) is blurring the boundaries between humans and animals in this performance from 2004. Line descibes her performance, as one in which she “appears as a somewhat deranged elk, running around in the forest and summoning the animals living there. She [the elk/the artist] would like to give them a lecture about feminist artists like Yoko Ono and Meret Oppenheim. “Hoho! Hello The Queens deers, I’d like to tell you about all the great women artists. I’d like to tell you about Yoko Ono. Hoho, come!” ”

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Line Skywalker Karlström’s art blog

Blurring The Bounderies Between Human And Animal

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Ich Tier! (Du Mensch) – Du Tier! (Ich Mensch) is a thematic group exhibition spanning, between two art spaces lying in proximity of each other – Perla-Mode and Dienstgebäude in Zurich, Austria, – a bridge between two worlds: the animal and the human world.
“The participating artists demonstrate a special interest in the moments of shade and silence in which the categorizing boundaries between human and animal are blurred. Their works of art are saturated with intensities, drawing on a range of art devices derived from reality and action, narrative and criticism, wisdom, rituals, phantasmagorias, science, feelings or passions, exoticism all the way to banal everyday observations.”

Ich Tier! (Du Mensch) – Du Tier! (Ich Mensch)
at Perla-Mode and Dienstgebäude in Zurich
April 10 – 25, 2010
Opening: April 9 2010, 6 pm

Videos By Performance Artist Line Skywalker Karlstroem
I want draw your attention to the videos of queer artist Line Skywalker Karlstroem, which will be screened at the exhibition. Line is an interdisciplinary artist (sculpture, performance, video), whos work is invested in art-as-life, processes of power and identity, production of space and the notion of the “normal” “female” body. The videos are ‘Queens Deers’ (Denmark, 2004, 4:01 min) and ‘The Fall’ (Denmark, 2010, 8:35 min, with Habibi Hansen Karlstrøm), which document her performances. ‘Queens Deers’ is a performance in which Line S. Karlstroem appears as a somewhat deranged elk, running about in the forest and trying to summon the animals of the forest. ‘The Fall’ is performance, which is set in a forest on a stormy day. The performers are two, Line S. Karlström and the artist’s Siamese cat, Habibi. Go to Lines’ blog to see a trailer of ‘The Fall’ performance video.

Lecture By Judith Jack Halberstam
Program of Events in collaboration with Corner College at Perla-Mode, Langstrasse 84 / Brauerstrasse 37, 8004 Zürich:
Sunday, 25 April, 7 pm: Creative Anthropomorphism – animal forms of sociality and cross species desires, a lecture in English by Judith Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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Line Skywalker Karlstroem’s profile on the website of Ich Tier! (Du Mensch) – Du Tier! (Ich Mensch)
Line Skywalker Karlstroem’s blog
Judith Halberstam’s website