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Students Curating Art

Publicerades: 19 Apr 2011, 15:41

 

Have you noticed new art on campus? Eight international students are having their exhibitions from mid March to the end of May at Glasburen.

International Master Program in Curating Art, including Management and Law, is a 2-year master program that started in 2009 and has become very popular within two years.
The program only admits between seven and nine students, whereas no exchange students are accepted. International students, so called “free movers”, are on the other hand eligible to apply.

Artist Tove Kjellmark (left) and curator Kristyna Müller (right), in Tove’s studio, presenting “Real Anatomy” (the picture above).
What is it like to have Kristyna as a curator? And what of your work will we see on the exhibition?
– Me and Kristyna agreed that both of our voices should be heard during this process, which they have. We connected since the beginning, so the collaboration has worked out as we hoped. To have Kristyna as a curator has worked perfectly, we have different responsibilities but the same understanding, which feels really good.
– So far we’ve decided on three objects that will work as a red thread during the exhibition: the film “Naked”, “Real Anatomy” and an illustration called “Post-Its”. These are, like most of my work, strongly focused on the inner and outer realities and also the connection between Man and machine, says Tove.

About Tove

Skin protects you. Losing it is painful, we are vulnerable. But we are open, to others, and to a new start. What is distinctive in Tove Kjellmark's work is a faschination for behavior, dynamics and movement. This is an artist who creates work in a very spontaneous way using advanced technology, robotics and digital media as a tool for artistic expression. Kjellmark draws on psychoanalysis and neuroscience to explore people's relationship to that which is alien, or non-human, with focus on humans in relation to machines. Sculpture, photography and drawings in parallel all revolve around the question of how to represent vulnerable, mute, bodily states of being. An interactive toy is often the starting point in these artworks which Kjellmark cuts open, tears off the soft covering, makes strange, and controls with computer code. Sometimes she inverts the scale so that the interactive sculptures becomes menacing and monstrous giants, in other cases, she goes under the skin to uncover the psychological notions that problematizes the human. Tove articulates in a deeply perverse way essential questions about the contemporary human condition.
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One Response to gaudeamus

  1. Earnhardt says:

    IMHO you’ve got the right ansewr!

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