A visit to Norrköpingsvillan by architect Sverre Fehn

Quynh Vantu and Bo Sylvan,  discussing the architecture of Villa Norrköping.

 Last monday, me and Quynh Vantu had the opportunity to visit Villa Norrköping, one of the houses made for the Norrköping Expo in 1964. It is made by architecht Sverre Fehn, and it is an extremely beautiful villa. We were kindly welcomed and shown around by Anna and Bo Sylvan, who have been living in the house for 50 years. Thank you for the generosity to let us into your home, and for sharing your knowledge!

Beautiful reflections in one of the bays.

Kultursidan.nu on Quynh Vantu

The online magazine Kultursidan.nu writes about Norrköping AIR and resident Quynh Vantu and her work.
Read the article here.

Article on Quynh Vantu in the local press Norrköpings Tidningar

Here´s an article, published on Thursday the 24:th of July in the local newspaper Norrköpings Tidningar. Our artist-in-resident Quynh Vantu is talking about why she is here, architecture and art.

Read Kultursidan.nu about Vanja Sandell Billström

Photo credits: Kultursidan.nu

Kultursidan.nu is writing about Vanja Sandell Billströms cellphone videoproject. Read the report here. (In Swedish only).

Evening of art at Verkstad: Rum för konst

 

Norrköping AIR and Verkstad would like to welcome you to an evening of art:

Norrköping AIR and Verkstad are arranging an evening of art on Saturday the 19:th of July. The audience will meet our artists in recidence: Quynh Vantu (US), Vijai Patchineelam (BR) och Vanja Sandell Billström (SE).

During the evening Quynh Vantu will do an artist talk. Mattias Åkeson, artist from Söderköping will present his videowork The kindergarten and Vanja Sandell Billström will do a brief presentation of her work-in-progress. 

18:00 Introduction of Norrköping AIR 

18:15 Presentation and screening of The kindergarten with Mattias Åkeson. 

19:00 Presentation, Quynh Vantu 

19:30-22:00  DJ Yasmine

In August Norrköping AIR will present a similar event at Norrköping Museum of Art. 

Residents Vijai Patchineelam and Vanja Sandell Billström will make a further introduction of their work. 

This event is realised in assiciation with Nemcom.

Norrköping AIR is a collaboration with the Municipality of Norrköping, Regionförbundet Östsam and Iaspis. Upcoming productions are made with support from Kulturrådet.

SVT Östnytt about Vanja Sandell Billström´s project

SVT Östnytt about Vanja Sandell Billström´s project:
Din mobilfilm kan bli konst

Radiointerview with Vanja Sandell Billström

Listen to the radio interview with Vanja Sandell Billström here.
And don´t forget to upload your videos at the homepage.

Meet, Vanja Sandell Billström

– How would you describe your art practice?

I’m an artist and a filmmaker often using fiction and documentary together since they often intertwines for me. The presence of the person behind the camera has been one of the subjects in my work of the recent years. Creating situations where the photographer, the cast and the audience are being addressed, I’ve wanted to raise questions about our relations to film and how we structure our perception of reality and the image of ourselves.

– What is your usual working process?

The moving image is constantly in my focus and as a part of my work I often try to figure out why I am interested in a certain image. In my latest film What There Is (Det Som Finns) I explored what filming with the cell phone meant to me. Earlier I asked myself whether the videos I’d made with my cell phone was a part of a professional practice or a more common wish to store an experience of the moment. In this film I intended to blur the line between these practices and treat even the most boring everyday-videos as a part of the work.

During my residency here in Norrköping I’ve started a project where I’m working with the videos of other peoples cell phones. I find it interesting that a large amount of the videos and images that we produce soon will be lost on aging hard drives or stolen cell phones. At the moment I am collecting videos from a lot of different people and my plan is to make a video installation that visualizes different stories of what we felt was important at a certain moment. Hopefully it can become an opportunity to experience our own everyday life connected to each other's stories.

Please visit http://telefonfilm.se/ if you want to be a part of the project or get to know more!

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– How important is the place or site where you practice your art?

I’m always dependent on having something or someone in front of my camera in order to make a film, so the people and the area of where I’m currently located is usually of great importance. When I’m lifting my camera the things around me could most likely end up in the film. But then I also bring myself into the situation and things start to transform. I don’t call my work site specific even though I think almost everything is that, in a way.

– Can you describe an encounter with one or more members of your audience that have inspired you particularly in your artistic practice?

When you work with a film for a longer period of time your eyes almost gets blind or at least at bit distorted. Even when you think that you have a good overview of the project you get surprised of how much the viewers sees and how many readings there are. For me that reminds me of that I’m doing one part of the work but then the viewers are doing theirs part and suddenly the work becomes much more than it was before. I remember being at a film festival and experiencing the luxury of having people approaching me and commenting on my film. Most of the time you don’t get to know what the audience thinks.

– What would you like to get out from a residency?

Spending time at a new place and meeting new people to discuss things with, make me reflecting about my work in new ways. Sometimes my work takes a long time to finish and a residency is a good way to get time to really focus at a certain part in a new context. It’s important that the organizers have confident in the artist. Allowing the work to take unexpected turns and being investigative is part of the nonlinear practice that art making is. My work of collecting cell phone videos is hopefully a good way to quickly get to know the city of Norrköping.

Vanja Sandell Billström @P4 Radio Östergötland

Tomorrow, the 8:th of July at 8:15, Vanja Sandell Billström will be interviewed by P4 Östergötland about her project using cell phone video.
Read more about the project at http://telefonfilm.se/

Norrköping Air 2014 Residents Announced

The team of Norrköping Air is happy to announce the selection of artists for the 2014 Residency. We have had a wonderful and inspiring time going through the applications and all the interesting projects that have been submitted. It has been a very difficult journey to decide. We really wish that we could have hosted many more of the projects that were sent in and that we would have had the pleasure of seeing more of the projects realized in Sweden.

After long consideration and much discussion we have decided on three winning projects: