Who is involved
Magnus Liistamo
Magnus Liistamo is an artist who creates social contexts for the development of a dialogue around representation within the contemporary art field. He investigates the relation between the artist, the institution and the interconnecting areas from within by setting up informal institutions. Liistamo was a co-founder of the collaborative gallery ak28 in Stockholm and initiated FrontierGoodies in 2008 to support the online representation for artist, curators and critics by providing a website builder.
Katja Aglert
Katja Aglert is a Swedish artist based in Stockholm. During Nov 2008 -Feb 2009 she works as project coordinator at FrontierGoodies, and she also has a web site at FrontieGoodies which she will use to present specific projects of hers (can be seen online in spring 2009). For info and documentation of Katja Aglert’s work at large, please visit www.katjaaglert.com
Fredrik Brånstad
Fredrik Brånstad, born 1973, live and work in Stockholm. He graduated the academy of fine arts in Stockholm 2002. His work deals with spatial issues visually, physically and psychologically. Using references such as art history, public places and christian idioms. Please visit Brånstads FrontierGoodies website at www.fredrikbranstad.com
Alissa Firth-Eagland & Johan Lundh
Together with artists, curators and writers, Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh engineer frameworks that function as testing grounds for artistic and discursive actions. Their practice address questions concerning the development, production, presentation and dissemination of art and ideas. Please visit www.firtheaglandlundh.net for more info.
Etta Säfve
Etta Säfve works with drawing, video and 8 mm film. She was born in Uppsala, Sweden and educated at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Holland, where she lives and works. Etta Säfve’s works are situated in the intersection between nature and culture and deals with questions of being and time, of the transitory and the permanent. Please visit Säfve’s FrontierGoodies website at www.ettasafve.com
Saskia Holmkvist
Saskia Holmkvist’s art practice moves between video, social process and performance in an ongoing artistic investigation into the relations of the politics of authenticity, methodology and media to the process of what different forms of communication represent. Please visit www.saskiaholmkvist.com for more information.
Johan Tirén
Johan Tirén, born 1973, live and works in Stockholm. From 1998-2003, Johan Tirén attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and holds a MFA from Malmö Art Academy (2004). He works with different media, ranging from drawings, posters and prints to video. Thematically, Tirén’s work is concerned with the construction of history and ideology, and has often involved critical studies of various social issues. A large part of his work are collaborations of different kinds. Please visit www.johantiren.com for more information.
J Tobias Anderson
J Tobias Anderson grew up on Gotland and has now his base in Stockholm. Working mainly with video and animation Anderson moves between narrative and non-narrative works and through the years he has created almost 40 films. He has also experimented with different forms of music and sound installations. He’s attended the University College of Arts, Crafts & Design, where he graduated in 1998, as well as the Royal College of Art in Stockholm. Website: www.tobiasanderson.com
Jakob Anckarsvärd
Jakob Avenius Anckarsvärd is a Swedish artist based in Stockholm/Glasgow. He is involved in the artist run project space Brickworks, Midsommarkransen in Stockholm. He is also involved with the publishing house A Schoal of Mackerel in Glasgow and Styx förlag in Stockholm. Anckarsvärd works with installations, artist’s books and painting and is mainal educated at Glasgow School of Art, UK. For info and documentation of Jakob Anckarsvärd’s work at large, or to check out tha studio-logg please visit www.jakobanckarsvard.com.
Approach at Sea
[approach at sea] is an international and interactive art- and environment project going offshore on the Baltic Sea with a sailing yacht from Sweden. A sailingboat, contemporary artists, the Baltic Sea and the countries around it are the components of the project that starts this summer. It is planned to continue for three years. Website at www.approachatsea.eu
Johanne Nordby Wernø
Johanne Nordby Wernø, born 1980 in Oslo, is a writer, critic and curator. She lives and works in Stockholm, where she recently graduated from Konstfack´s MA program in critical writing and curatorial practice. Prior to this, she pursued a BA in aesthetic theory, art history, rhetorics and media studies at the University of Oslo. She has a long-standing curiosity about various kinds of encounters between art and words and particularly in practices of experimental art writing. Website: www.jnw.nu.
Brenda Goldstein
Brenda Goldstein, born 1973, lives and work in Toronto and Berlin. A recipient of many Canadian grants and commissions, her short films, videos and installations have screened at Canadian and International festivals, including the 24th Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest (Kassel), Germany; Oberhausen, Germany; and the 21st Images Festival in (Toronto). She use film, video and performance both as tools of representation and to create immersive environments that transport the viewer into another state of consciousness. Her work seeks to affect the viewer through visceral imagery with a strong emotional resonance. It is not, however, romantic: it has a political edge, and through elision and conceptual frameworks the work leaves it to the viewer to assemble his or her own manifold personal readings. Website: www.brendagoldstein.info/.
Magnus Monfeldt
Magnus Monfeldt currently lives in Amsterdam, where he graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy (BFA) in 2000 and Sandberg Institute in 2002 (MFA). His artwork has taken the shape of video installations, animations, photography and drawing and is informed by his interest in the interdisciplinary sciences of the mind. In order to give his own research a form he frequently re-visits his memories of growing up in a small-town. At www.magnusmonfeldt.com you can find out more.