Katja Aglert runs SQUID together with Janna Holmstedt and Martijn van Berkum. She is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. She works in different media such as video, sound, interventions and text.
www.katjaaglert.com

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#39 Urban Narratives. A round table discussion with Meira Ahmemulic, Antonio Scarponi and Elin Wikström. Adapted to text by Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum and Janna Holmstedt. (ENG)
#18 The Main Character Of The Scene (ENG)
#14 Yet Another Artist With A Project (ENG)

Meira Ahmemulic is an artist based in Göteborg. Most of her work – be it video, text, actions or curatorial practices – uses the city as point of departure. She is a collector of signs, stories, coincidences and occurrences. Walking through the city is for Ahmemulic an act of writing, the city being a language in itself, and her artistic practice can be seen as a constant dialogue with the city as place, space and phenomenon.

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#46 Pojken (SV)
#46 The Boy (ENG)
#39 Urban Narratives. A round table discussion with Meira Ahmemulic, Antonio Scarponi and Elin Wikström. Adapted to text by Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum and Janna Holmstedt. (ENG)

Beata Berggren is an artist who lives in Malmö, Sweden. She graduated from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts 2005 (MFA). She works mostly with text, video and performance.
beataberggren.blogspot.com

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#25 Ett parallellmanus till filmen: The Dream Of A Book (SV)

Camilla Bergqvist is an artist who works with video and animation. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.camillabergqvist.com

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#3 Crystal Palace (ENG)

Martijn van Berkum runs SQUID together with Janna Holmstedt and Katja Aglert. He is an artist whose work deals with the way we perceive, construct, mediate and understand our surroundings through stories and images. Much of his work is generated through a dialogical, collaborative process with peers, participants and audiences.
www.martijnvanberkum.com

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#39 Urban Narratives. A round table discussion with Meira Ahmemulic, Antonio Scarponi and Elin Wikström. Adapted to text by Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum and Janna Holmstedt. (ENG)
#32 Scrambles Amongst The Alps (ENG)

Is a writer. Lives in New York, USA.

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#8 Untitled [In Progress] (SV)

Michael Blum studied history at Paris University and photography at ENP, Arles, France, before turning to an artistic practice. His videos, installations and publications aim at humorously and critically re-reading the production of culture and history. He's based in Vienna, Austria.
www.blumology.net

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#20 Dear Tom (ENG)

My name is Kalle Brolin, I am an artist working mostly with videoinstallations, and I also write for an alternative Swedish newspaper about social art projects and the definition of the term 'political art'. The published newspaper articles are included in my installations whenever topics congregate, adding different perspectives to the question at hand - the articles provide historical facts and reports on social trends, the videos show associative imagery and symbols, as well as portraits of people concerned. The third component is performative live talks commenting upon the installation, wherein I connect the same story to my own personal experiences.

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#47 The Great Satan (ENG)

Veronica Brovall is a Swedish artist based in Berlin, Germany. She works with sculpture and collage.
www.veronicabrovall.com

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#7 Through The Home Tunnel (ENG)
#7 Genom Home Tunnel (SV)

Mairead Case is a writer. She grew up in Omaha and Seattle, and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, where she works in the arts and community organizing.
www.fabulouscolor.blogspot.com

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#34 DESIRE (ENG)

Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson have worked collaboratively since 1998. They live and work in New York, USA. Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper.
www.dubbin-davidson.com

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#17 Lost Homing Pigeons (ENG)

Linus Elmes is an artist and curator. He works in several collaborations, among them, the Stockholm based artists initiative ak28. He founded Ersta konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.erstakonsthall.se

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#26 Obligatory Passage Point (ENG)

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Marc Ganzglass has exhibited internationally and has recently produced projects in China, Croatia and France. Exhibitions in 2007-2008 include, Americans in New York, at Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, Field Trip, at HDLU in Zagreb, Croatia. The 2008 Young Artists Biennial in Bucharest. Since 2006 he has been publishing a journal called Escrow, now in it 5th edition.
www.marcganzglass.com

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#30 20th Century Type Coins (ENG)

Fredric Gunve is an artist based in Göteborg, Sweden. He works among other things with text, installations, teaching and situation based art.
www.framtidskonsten.se

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#23: THEMES, AGAIN. (Part two of  “All Talk, No Action”) (ENG)
#23 Tema, igen. (Part 2 of "All Talk, No Action") (SV)
#22 All Talk, No Action (ENG)
#22 Mycket snack, lite(n) verkstad (SV)

Po Hagström is a Swedish artist who primarily works with the clashing and fusion of theories and worldviews. He works in Stockholm, Sweden, with mediums such as installation, text, video and painting.
www.trialerror.org

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#5 The Melancholy Of Evolution (ENG)
#5 Evolutionens melankoli (SV)

Saskia Holmkvist, born 1971, is a conceptual artist from Stockholm, Sweden, working mainly with video. Her work hovers between the languages of fiction and documentary in an attempt to uncover the apparent reality that is being presented to us.
www.saskia.frontiergoodies.com

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#13 How I Became An Artist (ENG)
#13 Hur jag blev konstnär (SV)

Janna Holmstedt runs SQUID together with Katja Aglert and Martijn van Berkum. She works with text, image, video, installation and interventions, usually in relation to a specific site or situation. She often employs storytelling as a tool for critical engagement and as a way to deal with and make sense of the constant flow of information in everyday life.
www.jannaholmstedt.com

Contributions:
#39 Urban Narratives. A round table discussion with Meira Ahmemulic, Antonio Scarponi and Elin Wikström. Adapted to text by Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum and Janna Holmstedt. (ENG)
#18 The Main Character Of The Scene (ENG)
#10 The Heroes Of Absolute Zero (ENG)
#10 Den absoluta nollpunktens hjältar (SV)

Toine Horvers is an artist who uses text and language in both visual and audio media.
Visually this results in books of written drawings and works with electronic text displays in buildings and in public space.
In the audio media it results in sound installations and performances with text and voices.
The textual material for those works is related to time and space.
www.toinehorvers.nl

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#42 Sound Scape (NL)

IC-98 consists of Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää. They live and work in Turku, Finland. IC-98 is interested in events which did not take place, fantastic connections between things, heresies and pure systems of though, the presence of history in everyday life; the body politic, social formations and architectural constructions, control mechanism and techniques of escaping them.

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#40 Family Album, Writers In No Particular Order (ENG)

Yukie Kamiya is Chief Curator at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan. She has curated a exhibitions internationally as independent curator since 1998. Kamiya has also contributed extensively to publications including Art Asia Pacific, Asahi Newspaper and catalogue essays. She has lectured at universities in Asia and Europe, also served on panels at the Istanbul Biennial, the Kiev Art Festival in Ukraine, ARCO in Madrid and others.

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#2 The Story As Seen From A Moving Viewpoint (ENG)

Born in 1983 in Lund, Sweden. Works with sound, makes music, writes. Is fascinated by identities, bodies, languages. By theory and how it intertwines with practice. Has huge issues with categories and essentialism. Loves intimacy, listening to the quiet, looking for the hard to find.
johanlandgren.wordpress.com/

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#48 Technology Of The Voice (ENG)
#48 Röstens teknologi (SV)

Peeter Laurits. Photo based artist. Born 1962 in Tallinn, lives in the South Estonian woods. Founder and curator of the Kütioru Avatud Ateljee (Kütiorg Open Studio). He has been active in the field of photography, theatre, advertisement, fashion and writing.
www.metsas.ee

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#12 Labyrinth (ENG)
#12 Labürint (ES)

Anna Lundh is an artist who lives and works in Stockholm and New York. She graduated in 2008 with a MFA from Konstfack, Stockholm, where she also has completed a Post Graduate research project. Her work investigates and interprets cultural and social phenomena, technology and language and takes the form of installations, video, text and various experiments.
www.annalundh.com

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#49 OPERATION: Sagan om den Stora Datan - Akt II (SV)
#45 OPERATION: Sagan om den Stora Datan - Akt I (SV)

Ylva Mazetti was born in 1973 and has an Associate in arts degree in Arts and Philosophy from Santa Monica College, US (1998) and a Masters degree in Fine Arts from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts (2003). Mazetti's work often strive for the burlesque but never quite get there, somehow ending up organized and sanitary instead. The body of the house has had a recurring position in her work, serving as a useful backdrop to the various subjects discussed, as well as symbol for the distinction between mine and yours.

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#9 Poetry Is What Gets Lost In Translation (ENG)

Ellen Nyman Born 1971 in Eritrea, grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress educated at The Actors' School at Aarhus Theater, Denmark. Since 1997 she has worked within theater, film, performance and television. Parallel to her acting career Ellen runs a political project entitled SPACECAMPAIGN which includes posters, stickers, t-shirts, and press cards, as well as activities such as talks, fictitious articles, spam-mail, and actions.

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#1 "I Have Never Seen A Girl Wearing A Muslim Headscarf On Television Without It Being About The Scarf..." (ENG)
#1 "Jeg har aldrig set en pige med tørklaede vaere i fjernsynet uden at det har handlet om tørklaede..." (DK)

Andrew Gryf Paterson is a Scottish artist-organiser, cultural producer and independent researcher, currently based in Helsinki, Finland. His work involves variable roles of initiator, participant, author and curator, according to different collaborative and cross-disciplinary processes. Andrew works across the fields of media/ network/ environmental activism, pursuing a participatory arts practice through workshops, performative events, and storytelling.
agryfp.info/

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#44 Clip Kino: Helsinki And Beyond (ENG)

Alessandra Di Pisa is a conceptual artist working with video, publications and speech. Her interests lie mainly in theories of propaganda, public relations and the power structures of communication.

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#43 Buying The Museum (ENG)

Marjetica Potrc is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Americas, with solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2001), the PBICA (Lake Worth, Florida, 2003) and elsewhere. She has taught at several well-known institutions in Europe and North America, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005) and has published a number of essays on contemporary urban architecture.
www.potrc.org

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#28 New Territories In Acre And Why They Matter: Notes On Hope And "The Game" Of Coexistence (ENG)

random people was founded by Daniel Ladnar and Esther Pilkington in Aberystwyth (Wales) in 2007 as a platform for collaborative projects in the field of performance.
www.random-people.net

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#51 How To Prevent The Apocalypse With Performance Art (ENG)

Francesca Recchia (1975) is a researcher and lecturer. Her work intersects the fields of Social, Postcolonial, Visual and Urban Studies with a particular attention to the geo-political dimension of cultural process. She deals with questions of ethics, migration, social conflicts, cultural translation, creative responsiveness and urban transformation. Francesca holds a PhD in Cultural Studies at the Oriental Institute in Naples and collaborates with the interdisciplinary research groups of Multiplicity and Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade. Her text is based on a blog where she collects weekly stories from her stay in Iraqi Kurdistan:
http://www.veleno.tv/bollettini/?lang=en

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#36 Dolma, The Taste Of Kurdistan (ENG)

Jelena Rundqvist, born 1967 in Stockholm, is a curator and artist. Together with Ylva Ogland and Rodrigo Mallea Lira she is part of Konst2, who ran Tensta konsthall 2005-2008. Rundqvist has previously worked as stylist, set designer and producer. Between 2001-2003 she ran After shopping and the project room SAM at Kulturhuset in Stockholm.

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#24 06.04.02 (SV)

Imri Sandström is an artist based in Malmö. She works with sound, text, video and performance.

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#33 Behind The White Door (ENG)

Antonio Scarponi develops projects using cognitive tools and practices from architecture, visual culture and design with the aim to engage social practices and behaviors in everyday life. His work operates through a shift of symbolic values due to the social utility and social responsibility of art and design. He studied architecture at Cooper Union and at Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) and holds a PhD in Urban Design from the same institute. In 2008 he was nominated among the five recipients of the Curry Stone Design Prize.
www.conceptualdevices.com

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#39 Urban Narratives. A round table discussion with Meira Ahmemulic, Antonio Scarponi and Elin Wikström. Adapted to text by Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum and Janna Holmstedt. (ENG)
#38 URBAN NARRATIVE: A MANIFESTO (ENG)

Adriana Seserin, born in 1978, is an architect and artist based in Stockholm. She works with performative architecture, architectural actions, installations and temporary spatial structures, combined with textual and graphical representations. Her works mainly examine the social implications of architecture and the city as a bearer and producer of fantasies and projections.

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#37 The Publicly Private And The Privately Public (ENG)
#37 Det publikt privata och det privat publika (SV)

Paula von Seth, Visual artist who works with issues concerning gender, performative and participatory forms, art value in relation to economical and political value and social development. Her practice focuses on ways of addressing the question of how to meet "the other" on an individual, social and political level. Von Seth was born 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden where she also lives.

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#16 Coca-Cola Holy Water (SV)

Jari Silomäki (born 1975) is a Helsinki based artist working with photography.
His work is narrative and about personal and social issues.
www.jarisilomaki.com

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#41 Alienation Stories (SV)

Marcus Steinweg. Philosopher, born in 1971, lives in Berlin, Germany.

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#19 Love, Pain And Self-Erection (ENG)
#4 For The Love Of Foucault (ENG)

For most of his career Barrie has been using a collage aesthetic to investigate how we relate to each other, the world, and to technology. He is interested in creatively using research from the physical and natural sciences and the question about how to approach research in the fine arts. Presently Barrie has been working with sound installation and noise music performance.
www.inforeftech.com

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#50 Knowing You, Knowing Me: An Appendix for Why We Cannot Speak. (ENG)

Ninia Sverdrup was born 1971 in Lund, Sweden. She graduated from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts 2004 (MFA) and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her medium today is primarily video.

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#27 Ma And The Four Dimensional Concept Of Reality In Today's Tokyo (ENG)
#27 Ma och den fyrdimensionella verklighetsuppfattningen i dagens Tokyo (SV)

Torbjörn Säfve has published 25 works, mostly novels; he has been honored with a lifesize bronze statue in his home town, so he knows what it means to be "larger than life". Love and knowledge are his greatest passions, anyhow.

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#21 Excerpts from "Bridge Over Deep Ditch", poems written in Ubud Nov 05 - Jan 06 (ENG)

Based in Berlin, works as a contributing editor for Frieze and writes for Afterall, Metropolis M, Springerin and Camera Austria, among others.

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#6 This I Know About Home (ENG)

What is to be done/Chto delat?" is a group of artists (Tsaplya and Glucklya, Nikolai Oleinikov, Kirill Shuvalov, and Dmitry Vilensky), philosophers (Artem Magun, Oxana Timofeeva, Alexei Penzin), and writers (David Riff, Alexander Skidan) who are based in Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Berlin. The workgroup publishes an English-Russian newspaper on issues central to poetics and politics today, with a special focus on the Russian artistic-intellectual situation. It also engages in a variety of art projects, including videos, installations, public actions, radio programs, and artistic examinations of urban space.
www.chtodelat.org

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#11 Drifting Through Incomplete Renovation (ENG)

A. K. Westin is a Swedish artist, working with gender related issues, mainly in the domains of textile art and comic books.

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#29 Genusvägrarmanifestet / The Manifesto Of Gender-Refusal / Le Manifeste Anti-Genre (SV/ENG/FR)

Elin Wikström is an artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work - with roots in performance, conceptual, and context based art - deals with being subjected to a constructed situation, which leads to reflections on social issues and include her own participation, along with collaboration and exchange with those who commissions her work, audiences and specially invited participants.

Contributions:
#39 Urban Narratives. A round table discussion with Meira Ahmemulic, Antonio Scarponi and Elin Wikström. Adapted to text by Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum and Janna Holmstedt. (ENG)
#31 Aquatic Aliens Versus Norwegian Marines, Part I - IV (ENG)
#31 Aquatic Aliens Versus Norwegian Marines, Part I - IV (SV)

Thomas Wingren has been a professional musician and DJ for over 10 years. He is working mostly in Stockholm, Sweden but is sometimes touring with various groups. He has been studying percussion in New York, Havana and Santiago de Cuba. While he is specialized in Cuban and Brazilian music he is also working with drums from other cultures, trying to have a wide approach to the world of percussion and the various musical styles that comes with it. He has also been the driving force behind a lot of projects on the music scene in Stockholm.
www.expansionsmusic.com

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#15 Reflections Of A Percussionist (ENG)

Carl Åkerlund is born and raised in Umeå. He is now living in Stockholm. He works with text and performing arts, and has a bachelor in theatre studies.

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#35 Krönika över 20:e århundradet (ENG)
#35 Krönika över 20:e århundradet (SV)