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Recent Activities of and on Anna Viola Hallberg
About me
Anna Viola Hallberg (staravatos)
- Biography
Anna Viola Hallberg is a lens based artist working with video, sound and photography often in the format of installations. Hallberg has a BA from Stockholm University with focus on Cinema and Curatorial Studies. In 2008 Hallberg recieved an MA in International Museum Studies from University of Gothenburg, writing her thesis on contemporary art in museum exhibitions outside the paradigm of the art institution. Hallberg has worked both in experimental documentary film as well as in advertising in the US (New York) and Sweden. Since 2004 Hallberg has collaborated on three major installations with Annica Karlsson Rixon. With yet three more projects planned in the timeframe of 2009-2011.
In her practice she investigates issues of power relations, politics/poetics of visual representation and history writing. The group and group identity are central matters. The works are often presented in spatial installations interlocked with seminars or workshops. Hallberg has a special interest for civil liberties and issues of democracy. In an ongoing project she explores how it has been carried in public space especially the tension in between order and disorder, as well as functionality and uselessness linking contemporary society and the Renaissance. The two disciplines, Museum Studies and contemporary art are not to be regarded as separate entities rather as aspects of the public space being examined. From a museum studies perspective general issues of access and collecting are of interest as well as the transition between contemporary art and heritage concerns from both Cultural and Natural perspective. Highlighting conditions and criteria’s for contemporary art in such a context. Central to all work is the constructing of legacy via oral history and visual imagery into public memory.
- Exhibitions
Please see; www.aview.se
Anna Viola Hallberg wrote on February 24, 2010 22:13:
State of Mind opens at 7 pm on March 5th at Ygallery, Minsk, Belarus.
The exhibition is funded by Swedish Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. The exhibition will be inaugurated by Olle Wästberg (Swedish Institute) and Anna Ekberg (Swedish Embassy in Minsk). State of Mind in Minsk is a collaboration between Y Gallery for Contemporary Art and Aview Nomad Gallery.
AVIEW NOMAD GALLERY & YGALLERY PRESENTS WORK BY SWEDISH ARTISTS IN MINSK BELARUS, March 2010
The Swedish artists Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg are currently based in California together with Ygallery and the Swedish Institute they bring attention to the LGBTQ situation in Minsk by showing the installation State of Mind, conducting the Lezzie Think Tank and doing video documentation of the situation in Minsk for LGBTQ people.
The video, photography and sound installation State of Mind consists of some 40 people in St Petersburg, Russia. The work explores boundaries between ethics, legislation, prejudice and civic expectations in the LGBTQ life of Russia focusing on lesbians and bisexual women. It discusses subjects such as shortcomings vs. possibilities, belonging vs. alienation, appointed- vs. selected identity. And reintroduces these issues to the local communities.
The foundation of the work is captured in personal stories and group portraits. The artists have been collaborating with organizations, activists and select individuals in St Petersburg during returning visits 2006-2008.
State of Mind introduces a discussion of intercultural perspectives to identity politics. The stories are selected from documentary material collected in great trust between the artists and the interviewees in fieldwork. Leadership, democracy and human rights are central matters.
State of Mind has been exhibited at Rosphoto in St Petersburg, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Gothenburg Art Museum, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery and Gogol Fest 09/Art Aresenal Kiev. On March 5th at 7 pm it opens at Ygallery in Minsk.
Title: State of Mind
Artists: Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg
Media: Installation, 11 color photographs (c-prints), seven monitors (sd) and one projection (hd) with sound (stereo).
Duration: 7 x 35 min of interviews, running independently (7 loops), 1 x 30 min backdrop (loop)
Voice: Russian, English, Swedish
Subtitles: English & Russian
Production year: 2008 (2006-2008)
Lezzie Think Tank (LTT) is a traveling think tank on issues of community, activism, based on local needs infused with pan-national experience - forming coalitions between organizations and individuals. LTT was launched as a forum for exchange of ideas and thoughts towards an empowering network among activists within the LGBTQ scene using State of Mind as a step stone for not only the think tank but for seminars as well.
Artists webpage: www.aview.
Venue: Ygallery, Independence Ave 37 a, Minsk, Belarus
Aview Nomad Gallery: www.aviewnomadgallery.com
Ygallery for Contemporary Art: www.ygallery.by