The Association for Temporary Art [a:t] is a forum for presenting and discussing contemporary art. Since 1995 it has been my and other artists interface for organising art. Activities include internet projects, exhibitions and seminars.
www.temporaryart.org
The first [a:t] project I organised together with Åsa Andersson Broms was an web art exhibition. The project involved 20 Swedish and Danish artists, and just as many companies and institutions in the field of information. The exhibition opened in 1996 with net based works by Annika von Hausswolff, Gunnel Petterson, Tomas Björk, Måns Wrange, Åsa Andersson, Karl-Johan Stigmark, Glenn Sorensen, Knud Romer Jørgensen, rasmus knud, Maria Hedlund, John Øivind Eggesbø, Peter Hagdahl, Jes Brinch, Susan Hinnum, Pär Broman, Jan Hietala, Tommy Støckel.
The project was above all concerned with the medium in itself, and the questions that are consequently raised in and around the Internet - such as democracy and freedom of expression.
A collaborative work by and an alias for Jennifer Cowling, Monica Renman, Hanna Samsioe, Marisol Savedra-Irribara, Richard Rymer-Rythén, Robert Lindelöv, Fredrik Lundin, Tobias Karlhager, Cristoffer Bergmark, Frida Andersson, Cecilia Wiman, Maria Lauri och Johanna Lundgren, students at Roden Gymnasiet.
Organised by Karin Hansson, thanks to Torun Ekstrand.
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In this project about the information society I and Åsa Andersson Broms continued the investigation of the questions in the first [a:t] project. Best Before opened as a web site and an art exhibition at Tensta Konsthall in September 1999 with works by Ken Friedman, Ted Hansson, Eva-Lotta Holm Flach, Ola Larsmo, Maria Monteiro, Karin Hansson, Paula Stenström, Gustaf Trotzig, Åsa Andersson, Anders Boqvist, Johan Fowelin, Mikael Lindgren, Kari Mjåtveit and Ola Pehrson.
The exhibition Best Before became the winner of the magazine Nöjesguiden's Stockholm Prize 1999!
www.temporaryart.org/best_before
2000 The Swedish Museum of Contemporary Art (SMUFSA) opened, The Association for Temporary Arts first own web and list server. The server was first placed at the Center of Culture in Stockholm, and later on at the Interactive Institute. It contained works by Dmitri Plax, Anna Kindgren, Denis Romanovski, as well as several e-mail lists and the home pages for among other National center of contemporary art in Kaliningrad, Net Art Meeting in Minsk, and Stockholm Surveillance Camera theathre.
The Art of Organising opened in October 2000 as an exhibition on the net and at Gallery Enkehuset in Stockholm. The twenty participants came frome eight different countries and their common denominator was that they had all worked in different forms of artistic collaborative projects, such as Konstakuten, Navinki Festival, Association for Temporary Art, Swe.de, Katastro.fi, Irational.org and Soc.–all attempts to question traditional organisations and find new ways to express themselves through new organisations.
www.temporaryart.org/artoforganising
What is money? What does this symbol of trade and power consist of? This simple question was the point of departure for an art exhibition about the new economy at The Culture Center of Stockholm 2001 with participants from Russia, Scandinavia and the Baltic states. I organised the project together with Nils Claesson and in coorporation with CRAC and Swedish Institute/ Partnership for Culture.
www.temporaryart.org/money
Public opinion is the title of an exhibition were we tried to describe how public discussion is formed. The exhibition took place at The Culture Center of Stockholm during 2002 years election campaign. Participants were Bongi Jarne MacDermott, Paula Stenström, Måns Wrange, Jon Brunberg, Annika Drougge, Anna-Lena Lundmark, Johan Malmström, Tobias Sjödin, Pernilla Carlsson Sjödin, Karin Willén, Lars Almroth, Maija Suomalainen, Maria Lantz, Åsa Andersson Broms, Karin Hansson, WochenKlausur, Nils Claesson, Liv Fjellander, Erik Rosshagen, among others.
www.temporaryart.org/publicopinion
Transimage was a collaboration with French, Austrian and Italian artists and writers, in the form of seminars and exhibitions in four countries, 2002-2003.
www.synesthesie.com//transimages
The aim with Re.produktion (2004-2006) was to discuss the old conflict between production and reproduction. A group of artists met regularly during a year to discuss questions raised by common texts. Participating artists were among others Dorinel Marc, Simina Astilean, Lars Arrhenius, Karin Hansson, Nils Claesson, Åsa Andersson Broms, Lena Gustavsson, Maria Friberg and Front design. The result of the project was presented on the net as an idea bank.
www.temporaryart.org/re.produktion
Gör något åt vädret (Do something about the weather!) was an art project about the climate changes. Participating artists were Peter Johansson and Barbro Westling, Ola Pehrson and Lena Gustavsson, Marianne Lindberg de Geer and Carl Johan de Geer, Association for Temporary Art [a:t], FA+, Akay, Eric Ericsson and Klisterpete. The result of the project was presented on the net 2006 as an idea bank.
www.temporaryart.org/klimat
The aim with the ongoing project Kroppen i nätet (The Body in The Net) is to create a critical Internet culture by exploring counter strategies against the sexualisation of the public space. This we will do by creating a series of net-projects that plays with the same set of tools used by the media industry. The project is a collaboration with the artist Nils Claesson.