Forelesning
Artist Talk: Anna Ådahl
The Swedish artist Anna Ådahl has been examining the relationship and the politics between the individual and the mass using mediums such as film, installation, collage and performance.
Anna Ådahl is a Swedish artist and researcher. She uses the tools of assemblage and montage where found footage meets newly shot images and where ready-mades are used as props in spatial narratives. Over the past decade the notion and politics of crowds has been central in Anna Ådahl´s artistic practice. In numerous works she has been observing and examining the relationship and politics between the individual and the mass as well as the language of the body in relation to the psychological or physical space that surrounds it. Within her current practice based research her focus has turned towards the aesthetics and the politics of contemporary crowds, operating in a new computational realm.
Since 2012 she has been a member of the editorial team of OEI magazine and her works has been presented at venues such as the Marabouparken Art Gallery, Stockholm; Whitechapel Gallery, London; CCA Derry-Londonderry, Northen Ireland; Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm ; Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin/ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; LIAF, Norway; NJIAF, Nanjing, China and INCA Seattle, US.