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5/6/2011

Three exhibitions

BildMuseet, Umea

Spare Time

What makes us experience well-being and satisfaction in our free time? How do we detach ourselves from work and our everyday responsibilities? The participating Swedish and international artists are: Gerd Aurell, Brice Bourdet, Christian Jankowski, Anna Lidberg, Roland Persson, Åsa Sonjasdotter, SpY and Helena Wikström.

The exhibition includes photography, video, sculpture and installation, which in various ways make us reflect upon our relationship to spare time. Among other things the exhibition visitors will have the opportunity to hula hoop to the accompaniment of Chinese pop music; watch a potato field sprout and grow during the summer and climb into a bird watching tower to find out more about Swedish outdoor life.

An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Texts by Katarina Pierre, museum director, Sofia Johansson and Brita Täljedal, curators.

Spare Time is part of an international project, and exhibitions on the same theme will be displayed in Latvia, Czech Republic and Bulgaria this year. The project has been funded with support from the European commission.
Contact information

Sofia Johansson, curator Bildmuseet
sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se
+46 (0)90 786 93 53

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Edith Marie Pasquier: 13 983 birds

London based artist Edith Marie Pasquier works with moving image, photography, sound and text installations. Wild birds and animals are her subject and she presents a philosophical and performative enquiry into our relationship with the wild and nature. In this, her first major solo show, she will include a number of new works produced in Sweden.

Edith Marie Pasquier has developed a persistent body of work photographing and filming birds and other wild animals. Through her artistic practice Pasquier explores our relationship with animals – how animals are made to represent human myths and conditions – a complex relationship that is particularly pertinent with regards to global ecology and our impact on the environment.

A number of works have been developed specifically for this exhibition such as Consider the Birds: On Intimacy, shot during the ringing of migrating birds in Falsterbo, Sweden, this past spring. “A wild bird or animal cannot be controlled, they allow you a moment, but it is always ephemeral - you blink and there is nothing”, Pasquier says commenting on her photographic practice. The title of the exhibition – 13 983 birds – is also the title of a specific work included in the show, a text installation which references a current Swedish court case, of a man obsessed with capturing and collecting wild birds. Pasquier considers the various levels of morality that exists in our dialogue around the animal and her work draws upon new research that overturns our historical understanding of their moral makeup.

In the photographic series Conundrums: Study of a Howling Wolf she looks at the issue of re-wilding predators in the UK as wolves are due to be introduced back into the wild in Scotland. In these black and white photographs she is asking us to question our preconceptions of the wolf, portraying a pack of European Wolves in England awaiting transfer to Scotland.

With a background in sound, performance and writing, Pasquier has developed a poetic visual language in her conceptual approach to photography. She is interested in the failure of vision, in its seeming transparency, as well as with the activity of looking.

Edith Marie Pasquier graduated with an MA in Fine Art (Photography) at the Royal College of Art in 2008. Her interdisciplinary practice has included awards and commissions by The Serpentine Gallery, Film London, Artsadmin and Soho Theatre. She has also contributed as a writer and critic to art catalogues and magazines in America and in the UK to include amongst others Words Without Pictures (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), The Museum of Modern African Art (New York).

Contact information
Katarina Pierre, museum director Bildmuseet
katarina.pierre@bildmuseet.umu.se
+46 (0)90 786 96 32

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Everybody is Entitled to Security

The exhibition is the result of the second year of the Kulturverket project Where’s the Art in Research?. This year’s theme has been "everybody is entitled to security", taken from the UN Child Convention, and under that theme Professor Tommy Bergenheim has visited schools in Umeå to talk about his research on brain tumours. Two of the articles in the child convention are about the child’s right to be safe, and Tommy Bergenheim's research aims to make the life of those sick more secure.

Participating are 3rd and 5th graders from Stöcke school, 4C and 7D from Sävar school, 7C from Bräntbergsskolan, and class 7-10 from Ålidhemsskolan. After meeting with Tommy Bergenheim, the pupils between the ages of 5 and 17, have thought and talked about what makes them feel secure or unsecure, and together with professional artists from Kulturverket, their feelings and thoughts have been visualized in music, film, dance, words and pictures.

Participating from Kulturverket:
Lenita Brodin Berggren, artist and librarian
Jan Ferm, teacher in composition and composer
Frida Hammar, artist and animator
Emmalo Lundström, choreographer and dancer
Fredrik Oskarsson, director of film
Kajsa Sandström, choreographer and dancer
Annica Styrke, choreographer and dancer
Göran Wretling, teacher in composition and composer

Kulturverket is a part of the municipal activities of Umeå. Its aim is to find and use the creativity of young people and children, to increase their participation in the public cultural life and to develop aesthetic learning methods for the classroom. One of the ongoing projects is Where’s the Art in Research in cooperation with Umeå University, and with support from the Swedish Inheritance Fund. It continues for three years and will end in June 2012. During the project, researchers from the university have visited schools in Umeå and given lectures on their specific research. Different articles from the Convention of the Rights of the Child have been discussed in connection with the lectures, and the children/young people have then created art, inspired by the research. Project leaders through this process have been professional artists from Kulturverket.

Tommy Bergenheim is a professor and senior physician at the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University.
Contact information

Beatrice Hammar, producer Kulturverket
beatrice.hammar@umea.se
+46 (0)70-583 63 43

Image: Brice Bourdet

Media Relations:
Carina Dahlberg
Phone: +46 (0)90-786 53 62 carina.dahlberg@adm.umu.se
Therése Ekström
Phone: +46 (0)90-786 90 69 therese.ekstrom@adm.umu.se

Opening: June 6, at 2 pm (Swedish National Day)

BildMuseet
Umea universitet, SE- 901 87 - Umea
Bildmuseet
Umeå University SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden
Opening hours:
tue - sat 12.00 - 16.00
sun 12.00 - 17.00
monday closed
Admission free

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