SEMINAR: CURATING STORIES

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The seminar Curating Stories, is a collaboration between Magasin 3 and students at the International Curating Art Program at Stockholm University.

Based on Andrea Zittel exhibition Lay of My Land, a guest panel discuss creativity in curating from the perspective of storytelling.
Whether taken literally or otherwise, what kind of implications do these stories have for Curators, Artists, Artworks, Spaces, Audiences and Society at large?

Panel: Richard Julin, deputy director and chief curator at Magasin 3, Magdalena Malm, artistic director of the Mobile Art Production, Bo Nilsson, artistic director of Artipelag and Liv Stoltz, a freelance curator. The panel represents both the institutional and non-institutional spheres. They share their knowledge and experiences in a discussion led by Moderator, Anders Karnell. Anders is the Art Editor of Nöjesguiden magazine, and also works as a Pedagog at Moderna Museet.

The seminar was held at Magasin 3. Language: English

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PODCAST: LECTURE BY MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM “EYECATCHER”

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

In her lecture “Eyecatcher” Marijke van Warmerdam talks about her films, photographs and sculptures since the early 1990s. In her work she focuses on the seemingly insignificant and allows these occurrences to widen and deepen into poetic studies. During fall 2011 Magasin 3 presented a selection of van Warmerdam’s films.

Marijke van Warmerdam was born in 1959 in Nieuwer Amstel in the Netherlands. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale and institutions such as Wiener Secession, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, ICA in Boston, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Her collected works can be seen in a large traveling retrospective starting at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam this fall. Van Warmerdam lives and works in Amsterdam and has a professorship in Karlsruhe at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste.

The lecture was a collaboration between Magasin 3 and the Royal Institute of Art. Language: English

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PODCAST: LECTURE WITH ANDREA ZITTEL

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The artist talks about her work and how she uses her home and studio A–Z West in Joshua Tree, California to explore ideas about what humans need for survival.

Since the early 1990s, I have used the arena of my day to day life to develop and test prototypes for living structures and situations. By using myself as a guinea pig I often use my own experiences to try to construct an understanding of the world at large. The experiments have at times been extreme – such as wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, living without measured time. However one of the most important goals of this work is to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life, and how arbitrary any choice of structure can be. I do not mean to deny the personal significance of these decisions, instead, I use my work in order to try to comprehend values such as “freedom,” “security,” “authorship,” and “expertise.” I am interested in how qualities, which we feel are totally concrete and rational, are often subjective, arbitrary or invented.
/Andrea Zittel

The lecture took place at Bio Rio, Hornstull, Stockholm, Sweden. Language: English.

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PODCAST: ARTIST TALK WITH CHOREOGRAPHER BJÖRN SÄFSTEN

APRIL 14, 2011
A conversation between Chief Curator and Deputy Director Richard Julin and choreographer Björn Säfsten and dancers Anja Arnquist, Sophie Augot, Allison Ahl, Linda Blomqvist and Madeleine Lindh.

From April 14th to 18th, Björn Säfsten’s ”Corduroy de-constructed,” a conceptual performance in which the choreographer presents movements for observation, inspection and inspiration, was performed at Magasin 3. Richard Julin discusses the process of deconstructing and remounting the work “Corduroy” with Björn Säfsten and his dancers. They explore what happens when a work originally created for a large stage is broken down into three separate yet corresponding parts and moved from a traditional stage to the more intimate gallery space at Magasin 3.

”Corduroy de-constructed” is part of the Spring 2011 series “Performancexhibition” at Magasin 3.

Language: Swedish

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PODCAST: LECTURE BY HANS BLOMQVIST ON FRANZ KAFKA

”Investigations of a Dog. Kafka as artist and mystic”

10 MARCH 2011

In his lecture ”Investigations of a Dog. Kafka as artist and mystic” Hans Blomqvist speaks about Kafka’s life and work and how it has been interpreted over time. Blomqvist also gives insight into Kafka’s original way of crafting his stories and his particular esthetic, in which mystical ideas take center stage.

Hans Blomqvist is a translator and author based in Gothenburg. Together with Erik Ågren he has translated Franz Kafka to Swedish for many years. Hans Blomqvist has written “Den oerhörda värld jag har i mitt huvud (The Tremendous World I Have in My Head)” in 2006, a book about Kafka’s literary technique and esthetic based on his own explorations about his writing and the compilation of essays “Gemenskapen har sina demoner och ensamheten sina (Community has Demons and So Does Loneliness)” published 2009.

Language: Swedish

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PODCAST: LECTURE BY JERZY J. KIERKUC-BIELINSKI

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25 2010

Sir John Soane: Architecture, Collecting and ‘…the Museum of museums…’

Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most innovative and forward thinking architects in British history. He was also one of Britain’s most important collectors of art and antiquities creating unprecedented installations of objects within his house. These have provided inspiration for many contemporary artists. Whilst looking at Soane’s architectural career this lecture will also focus on his equally important role as a collector.

Jerzy J. Kierkuć-Bieliński is curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. Richard Julin, Deputy Director at Magasin 3, opens the lecture by presenting the Magasin 3 collection. Language: English.

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LECTURE AND ARTIST TALK ABOUT THE STUDIO

You specify it, we fabricate it: The art of production

20 OCTOBER 2010

Wouter Davidts is professor of modern and contemporary art at VU University in Amsterdam and co-editor of the book “The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work”. The starting point for his lecture is the conceptualist turn in studio production that was initiated by Tony Smith’s ”Die”, a sculpture of which he ordered the production by telling the instructions over the phone to the steel company. The lecture is followed by an artist talk with Maria Hedlund and Carl Hammoud who share their view on the studio and work process. Moderator: Curator Tessa Praun. Language: English. (Image from Carl Hammoud’s studio)

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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Chief curator Richard Julin talks to Tom Friedman about his artistry and the exhibition ”Up in the Air”. From February 5.

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HEAR THE DRAWINGS!

SOL LEWITT AUDIOGUIDE 2009-2010

About the work and thoughts behind the exhibition: link to podcast. Duration: 20 min. Language: Swedish.

Annika von Hausswolff “Ich bin die Ecke aller Räume”, 2008
Duration: 9,36 min. Language: Swedish
Annika von Hausswolff talks about her works in the exhibition.

“To be continued…”, 2007
Duration: 43 min. Language: Swedish, some in English
Magasin 3s curators and some of the participating artists talk about the works in the exhibition.

“Fleeing away from what bothers you most”, 2007
Duration: 14 min. Language: English
The participating artists talk about their works and their context.

Gunnel Wåhlstrand, 2006
Duration: 6.42 min. Language: Swedish.
Gunnel Wåhlstrand talks about her work process and her relation to the original photographs.

Fabrice Gygi, 2006.
Duration: 11 min. Language: English.
Fabrice Gygi guides us through the exhibition and talks about his works.