hello from the south!

my name is melanie, i'm from zurich, switzerland. i finished my studies in photography last year and at the moment i'm living in berlin, till the end of the year, as an artist in residence. me and jorun were neighbours! you can have a look at my projects here:

http://www.fraeulein-m.ch

and here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/meluzifer

see you soon!

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link to Pictura

This is the last post from me today! I promise.
But I wanted to give you the link to the gallery Pictura. I think I got it in English. There you can find information about the place and some pictures of the space. If you still have questions about the gallery maybe Susanne or I could help you with further information.

http://www.galleripictura.se/index_eng.html

/Jorun

About me...

...And also, I wanted to write something about myself and my work and I hope that we all can do this so that we get to know something about each other. My name is Jorun Jonasson and I am from Stockholm but go to the Art Academy in Malmö, so I work and live here. But sometimes I wish I didn't, so I try to go other places as much as I can. I mainly work with photography, text and installations. My work is often narrative and I like to blend facts with fiction so that you don't know what is what...

I don't have a homepage but if you do, please post a link to it so that we can see it!
/Jorun

This is sort of what I wrote to Lily and Melanie...

Hello everyone of the Blog.
To start things of I thought I would post what I wrote in the emails to Lily and Melanie so that we all are on the same page (I hope).

Me (Jorun Jonasson) and Susanne Svantesson were thinking that we should apply for a show at Pictura, a gallery in Lund. We started to think about what kind of show that would be and we both got interested in doing some kind of group show, but also something that sort of reacted on the "common" way on how to curate it (no theme and no non-theme). I talked about how rap artists make contributions on each others records and adjust to the artist's song in a way that they can guest rap on it without losing their own identity. So we thought "How can we make a group show where we work together as a group without loosing our own identity as an artist?". And "How do we not fall in to the roles as curators when we are the ones who started the project"? We haven't really came up with any answers yet, but we realized that we couldn't have any answers before we started talking with the others that we wanted to work with. We don't want any hierarchy, so everyone's opinion is equally important. We were also interested what would happen to the "quality" of the pieces put together when the frames for the project are this free. In Sweden there has been a discussion about that you can't have women in a show just because they're women because that would effect the "quality" of that show... But who are the ones who decides what quality is? (Me and Susanne have read about this in the Swedish book "Konsten så funkar det (inte)" by Vanja Hermele.) Therefore it is important for us that the people that take part of this collaboration is very open for the other one's ideas, but of course we want a discussion so if you have an opinion please speak it. And as I tried to write, this idea is not fully developed and me and Susanne really want us all to work together. Therefore we started this blog, so that several persons can discuss this together when they have the time. If you have any ideas on how to further develop this idea for the group show, please write it on the blog.

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