Past Residents
Johannes Heldén
Johannes Heldén’s interdisciplinary works deals with artificial intelligence, ecology, poetry, science fiction, sentience, nature and interactive narrative structures. He is the author of sixteen books, the most recent being New New Hampshire & Clouds, 2017, and Astroecology, 2016. Astroecology was published simultaneously in three languages, made into an interdisciplinary performance at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and into a digital artwork published by Bonniers Konsthall. He has published four music albums and seven interactive online works of poetry and visual art.
Johannes Heldén has exhibited work at the Riga Biennial; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others. He is the recipient of the inaugural N. Katherine Hayles Award.
Johannes Heldén, Encyclopedia, 2015-18, AI-generated extinct species, each one unique, dimensions variable.
Johannes Heldén, Astroecology, 2016-17, poetry book, performance, animation, sound, photographs, and watercolor, dimensions variable.
Johannes Heldén, Evolution, 2013-15, AI, www.textevolution.net.
Johannes Heldén, Jackdaw (Mutations 2015-2047), 2015, 3D-printed sculpture, 4.7 x 2 x 6 in. each.
Johannes Heldén, First Contact, 2011, mixed media, 12 × 7 × 2 in. (30.48 × 17.78 × 5.08 cm).
Residents from Sweden
Past Resident2019: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Helene Førde
Helene Førde is an interdisciplinary artist working with installation, sculpture, sound, mechanical or interactive elements, and performance. She uses a site sensitive approach throughout her practice. Førde is interested in exploring perception, awareness, memories, context, and the particular history and character of a space. Her recent works also reflect on cultural history, traditions and patterns of living, in the face of new times, change and prevailing politics.
Helene Førde has exhibited at Galleri F 15, Moss Norway; Møre & Romsdal Art Center, Molde, Norway; and has shown work as part of Bonn Hoeren, Bonn, Germany, among others. She is the winner of the sound art competition Sonotopia 2015.
Helene Førde, Pælgard, 2018, wood installation.
Helene Førde, Natural Capital (Salarium), 2018, salt installation.
Helene Førde, Skvalpesonen/Skvulpesonen (The Splash Zone), 2017, offshore scaffolds, seaweed, straps, and metal installation.
Helene Førde, Jordnært, 2015, wood, paint, and potato sculptural installation.
Helene Førde, Escaping Practice, 2014, wood, metal, textile, cables, and light installation.
Past Resident2019: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz produce installations that choreograph the tension between visibility and opacity. Their films capture performances in front of the camera, often upsetting normative historical narratives and conventions of spectatorship, as figures and actions across time are staged, layered and re-imagined. Their performers are choreographers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about the conditions of performance, the violent history of visibility, the pathologization of bodies, as well as companionship, glamour and resistance.
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz have exhibited work at PARTICIPANT INC, New York City; Kunsthalle Zürich; and Gwangju Biennale, among others. Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz will represent Switzerland at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2018
November 9–November 10, 2018
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Silent, 2016, film installation at Biennale of Moving Images, Geneva.
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, HE EAR R, 2017, microphones, two theatre spots, and rotating stage. Installation view at Participant INC.
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Telepathic Improvisation, 2017, film installationn at CAMH Houston.
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, I WANT, 2015, film installation at Kunsthalle Zürich.
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Loving Repeating, 2015, film installations at Kunsthalle Vienna.
