Artist Talk | Anna Viola Hallberg and guests

Ami Skånberg, PhD in Dance from University of Roehampton, is a performer and artistic researcher. She is the current Head of  M.A.D.E. – Master Dance Education at the Stockholm Universtiy of Arts, and also works at the University of Gothenburg. She has co-chaired Nordic Summer University Study Circle of Artistic Research. She is a board member of NOFOD (Nordic Forum for Dance Research) as well as the Peer Review Board of Journal of Artistic Research. She has held keynotes at Stockholm University of the Arts, Latvian Academy of Music and Dance, University of Philippines, Royal College of Art (UK) and the University of Bologna.

Her research interests are practice-led and concern Japanese dance, screendance, gender codified movement practise, non-hierachical treatment of global dance techniques, and auto-ethnographic accounts from within the practise.

Ami creates stage work, dance films and documentaries about dance. A collection of her films are released by Njutafilms. She is a Doctor of slow walking with her thesis ”Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage in Urban and other spaces”.

For Becoming Landscape Skånberg is represented with two new collaborations with Hallberg. Fakk The System and CONSEQUENCES.

Oona Hyland is a visual artist and a recent graduate with an MA in art research and collaboration from IADT (Institute of Art, Design and Technology) in Dublin (2022) and has a Mfil in Irish Art History at Trinity College Dublin (2017). She received the Emerging Artist Award from DLR, Dublin (2022). Hyland represented Ireland at the Irland Onsaemiro Projekt, a research and exhibition in the Joint Security Area between North and South Korea in 2019 and the Sao Paulo Biennale event ”Beyond the Horizon” in 2018, the LAF17 Festival France. In 2016, she participated in ”Patrons Prizes Paradigms”, The Ernie O’ Malley Art Awards Ireland.

Hyland studied Cinematography at the BCFE (Ballyfermot College of Further Education) Dublin and was elected to the Royal Society of Painter/Printmaker in London (2021). She is a member of  Graphic Studio Dublin und 9 Dragonheads. For 17 years she founded and managed the fine art printworkshop Clo Ceardlann na Gnonc.

For Becoming Landscape Hyland is represented with Touching Time, a collaboration with Hallberg.

Patrik Qvist is a Stockholm-based artist with a background in architecture and Land art. He works in a variety of media and has primarily been engaged with topics that relate to climate change and the environment over the past 10 years. Qvist’s work is often text based and operates between public and private space.

For Becoming Landscape Qvist is represented with Attempt at Ambition.

Anastasia Zhikhartseva graduated from Saint Petersburger Academy of Arts in 2021 with specialization in graphics and printmaking. Due to personal and political reasons, she moved to Sweden in April 2022. Her inital residency was with BKN followed by SWAN emergency residency. Now Zhikhartseva lives between Sweden and France. In her current artisitc practise she comments on her personal experiences of oppression. She works with a variety of media including painting, drawing, sewing and performance (both infront of the camera and as interventions).

For Becoming Landscape Zhikhartseva is represented with the drawing ”HОMO – Russan riot police”.

Thierry Mortier works both as an independent visual artist (BE/SE) as well as a semiotician. For the election year 2022 in Sweden, Mortier initiated KVADRENNALEN as a response to political threat.

For Becoming Landscape Mortier is represented with the video installation ”UNTITLEMENT”.