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Annika Ström – the fifth show (2008)
The After Film Trailer, 2008
DVD, 3:20 min
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by visitors touched drawing listening to the audioguide in the fifth show,
2008
Drawing Paper, metal cramps, 70 x 100 cm
Candy Girl, Opening Performance, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen 2008
Popcorn Performance, Opening Performance, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen
2008
Press Release
Annika Ström
the fifth show
Exhibition duration: September 26 – October 24, 2008
We are very pleased to announce our fifth exhibition with the Swedish artist
Annika Ström. Annika Ström will present her current film project
during this new show with c/o – Atle Gerhardsen. To date, the artist
is especially known for her video art, songs, music clips and text pieces.
In the exhibition the announcement of a full-scale film to be produced in
2009 takes on the form of a five-minute film "After Film – trailer"
(2008), hereby becoming an artistic event in its own right.
In her art, Annika Ström always entertains the option to disrupt and
derail the course of events, often in an amusing manner, serving to trigger
thought processes and question things with a sense of humour. Failure is a
recurring theme in the artist's work, and similarly to in the video "The
missed concert" (2005) she alludes to this human quality in "After
Film –trailer": "Failing as an artist and failing as a human
being are recurrent themes in Annika Ström's work. Her songs, text pieces
and films all touch on the question of inadequacy – if not miserable
failure. The content and aesthetics repeatedly play with the notion of imperfection.
Ström's text pieces are clearly hand painted, the videos include shaky,
blurred images, and her rhythm-box compositions flirt with an amateurish Eurovision
aesthetic.
(…)
After film (…) documents Ström's incompetence even before the failure
has become a fact. The video predicts the artist's first feature will be a
total flop. Upon the film's release in 2009, friends from Ström's neighbourhood
in South England are questioned about the sudden disappearance of the film
maker and her son. Some speculate that she has quit her career as an artist
to join an aid program for children in Argentina – or was it Indonesia?
All in all, After film is not only about failing. It plays with the romantic
notion of secretly leaving your old life behind to begin a new." (Lotte
Møller)
Parallel to this show onestar press will be launching Annika Ström's
third artist book.[1] The book poses as a link between the artistic and actual
reality: it finally seems to provide the visitor with a sign of life from
the vanished artist.
In 2008, Annika Ström's work is included in the following group exhibitions:
Divas. Les interprètes de Berlioz, Musée Hector Berlioz, La
Cote Saint André (June 27 – December 2008); No more reality.
Step 3: SHARED FOLDER, curated Claire Staebler & Jelena Vesic´,
De Appel, Amsterdam (July 5 - September 7, 2008); Sonic voices, Rocking hard,
Montevideo, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (August 29 - November
2, 2008); Spaport, curated by Ana Nikitovic, Protok, Banja Luka (September
2008); Intimacy, Curated by Anna MacDonald, ACCA, Melbourne (October 2008).
In autumn two solo exhibitions in the Bohuslän Museum, Uddevalla and
Ystad Konstmuseum will be showing the artist's work.
[1] onestar press is specialized in the publication of artist books. MoMA
in New York recently purchased the entire onestar press collection in a bookcase
designed by Lawrence Weiner. The publication "Live!" by Annika Ström
provides an overview of her videographic work and painting from the years
1995-2008, and also refers to the forthcoming film project through the multifarious
analyses of her work (including contributions by: Jennifer Allen, Ina Blom,
Staffan Boije af Gennäs, Christophe Boutin, Jacob Fabricius, Dominic
Eichler, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Mark Kremer, Thomas Millroth,
Lotte Møller, Tom Morton, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Monica Ross and Cecilia
Wendt). The publication is a collaborative effort with the Swedish publishing
house Fälth & Hässler.
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Annika Ström
the fifth show
Ausstellungsdauer: 26. September – 24. Oktober 2008
Wir freuen uns sehr, unsere fünfte Einzelausstellung mit der schwedischen
Künstlerin Annika Ström ankündigen zu können. Annika Ström
wird in ihrer neuen Ausstellung mit
c/o – Atle Gerhardsen ihr aktuelles Filmprojekt präsentieren. Bislang
ist die Künstlerin vor allem durch ihre Videos, artist songs, music clips
sowie text pieces bekannt, in der Ausstellung wird die Ankündigung des
großen Films, der 2009 fertiggestellt wird, mit dem fünfminütigen
Film „After Film – trailer“ (2008) selbst zum eigenständigen
künstlerischen Ereignis.
Annika Ström hält sich in ihren videographischen Arbeiten immer
die Möglichkeit offen, auf witzige Weise Geschehen zu stören und
zu konterkarieren, um so Denkprozesse anzuregen und die Dinge mit Humor zu
hinterfragen. Oft durchkreuzt das Thema des Scheiterns das Werk der Künstlerin,
und ähnlich wie das Video „The missed concert“ von 2005 bezieht
sie sich „After Film – trailer“ auf diesen menschlichen
Zustand: „Failing as an artist and failing as a human being are recurrent
themes in Annika Ström’s work. Her songs, text pieces and films
all touch on the question of inadequacy – if not miserable failure.
The content and aesthetics repeatedly play with the notion of imperfection.
Ström’s text pieces are clearly hand painted, the videos include
shaky, blurred images, and her rhythm-box compositions flirt with an amateurish
Eurovision aesthetic.
(…)
After film (…) documents Ström’s incompetence even before
the failure has become a fact. The video predicts the artist’s first
feature will be a total flop. Upon the film’s release in 2009, friends
from Ström’s neighborhood in South England are questioned about
the sudden disappearance of the film maker and her son. Some speculate that
she has quit her career as an artist to join an aid program for children in
Argentina – or was it Indonesia? All in all, After film is not only
about failing. It plays with the romantic notion of secretly leaving your
old life behind to begin a new." (Lotte Møller)
Parallel hierzu publiziert onestar press das dritte Künstlerbuch von
Annika Ström.[1] Das Buch funktioniert als Verbindungsglied zwischen
künstlerischer und tatsächlicher Wirklichkeit: es scheint dem Besucher
endlich ein Lebenszeichen der verschwundenen Künstlerin zu geben.
Annika Ström ist zur Zeit mit Arbeiten in den folgenden Gruppenausstellungen
vertreten: Divas. Les interprètes de Berlioz, Musée Hector Berlioz,
La Cote Saint André (June 27 – December 2008); No more reality.
Step 3: SHARED FOLDER, curated Claire Staebler & Jelena Vesic´,
De Appel, Amsterdam (July 5 - September 7, 2008); Sonic voices, Rocking hard,
Montevideo, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (August 29 - November
2, 2008); Spaport, curated by Ana Nikitovic, Protok, Banja Luka (September
2008); Intimacy, Curated by Anna MacDonald, ACCA, Melbourne (October 2008).
Im Herbst widmen sich zwei Einzelausstellungen im Bohuslän Museum, Uddevalla
und Ystad Konstmuseum dem Werk der Künstlerin.
[1] onestar press hat sich auf die Publikation von Künstlerbüchern
spezialisiert. Die gesamten onestar press Publikationen sind kürzlich
vom New Yorker MoMA in einem von Lawrence Weiner entworfenen Bücherregal
angekauft worden.
Die Publikation „Live!“ von Annika Ström leistet einen Überblick
über ihr videographisches Werk und Malerei aus den Jahren 1995 bis 2008,
und weist gleichzeitig durch die vielfältige Analyse des Werkes (u.a.
schreiben: Jennifer Allen, Ina Blom, Staffan Boije af Gennäs, Christophe
Boutin, Jacob Fabricius, Dominic Eichler, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie,
Mark Kremer, Thomas Millroth, Lotte Möller, Tom Morton, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz,
Monica Ross und Cecilia Wendt) auf das kommende Filmprojekt hin. Die Publikation
entsteht in Zusammenarbeit mit dem schwedischen Druckhaus Fälth &
Hässler.