Lina Persson

Sweden (citizenship) °1978
en

Lina Persson makes situated interventions through narrative storyworlds and animated worldbuilding. Her art often brings some conditions attached that transform the mindset and routines of the environments she enters, as a way to ”world” them.
Currently a senior researcher at Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm.
 
-Constructing alternative inner story worlds has always been the basic mode for me to perceive the world, process the world, and to find ways to act in the world.
worldbuilding as an artform also serves my interest in systems and “the whole”. an interest that brings about the desire for sustainability, for things to be fair, balanced, for “the whole” to sustain and thrive.
 
Persson’s artworks often materialize as a response to something in her environment, a response that carefully takes form within the fictive storyworld. Examples of her responses are a proposal to update the permanent exhibition on mining at Tekniska Museet, staging a shutdown of her university or introducing climate budgeting into film courses, as responses to requests or invitations.
 
-This method of careful responses aligns with the concept of “worlding”, a term from material feminist thought about making “cuts” in the world, enacting interventions that produce the world I inhabit. “Worlding” is acknowledging the relations, how I am entangled in the world, while acting. Being embedded in a “storyworld” gives me the critical distance that enables me to respond more creatively, ”as if” things could be a whole lot different.
 
Due to my interests in the full range of things, from material to structural to epistemological and ontological, I prefer to make interactions on all levels simultaneously in order to trace their effects, how they are connected, how they interact and affect one another.


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works

  • Greening Cells (10/03/2016)
    Art object: Painting, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    series of paintings on celluloid. 50*70. Based on samples from animated films where a action or power materialize in its own shape. The paintings makes living images together with its environment, by merging with it. Appropriating the materials and mediations from the cellanimation practice.
  • Reding Cells (10/03/2016)
    Art object: Painting, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    series of paintings on celluloid. 50*70. Based on samples from animated films where a action or power materialize in its own shape. The paintings makes living images together with its environment, by merging with it. Appropriating the materials and mediations from the cellanimation practice.
  • Being Animated, video essay (15/03/2016)
    Art object: Video, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    HD, 19 min A fan-fiction essay on the artistic and ecological possibilities in animation practices, from the mushroomcloud in Barefoot gen via the animation-stand to the ecosexual relationships in Asparagus. https://vimeo.com/166354339 https://vimeo.com/163269963
  • Wolf wind stone shudder (10/03/2016)
    Art object: Video, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Animated ecosystem map over natural elements that take on active roles, sampled from different animated films.
  • Being Animated, text essay, english (15/03/2016)
    Publication: Paper, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Essay with reflections on the artistic and ecological possibilities in animation practices, from the mushroomcloud in Barefoot gen via the animation-stand to the ecosexual relationships in Asparagus.
  • Att bli animerad, textessä svenska (15/03/2016)
    Publication: Paper, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Essä med reflektioner över möjligheterna för praktiker inom konst och ekologi, från svampmolnet i Barefoot gen via animationsstället till de ecosexuella relationerna i Asparagus.
  • Outsourcing animation (23/03/2016)
    Publication: Paper, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Essay reflecting on the artistic and ecological problems with the outsourcing logic and industrial production of animation in a free trade market. From the Chronocyclograph via Disney picket line to the vfx diaspora of Hollywood.
  • Sci-Fi & Makt (15/01/2015)
    Publication: Paper, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Reflektioner kring Science fiction och makt i några av mina arbeten. Av Lina Persson
  • fanmo jimte (16/04/2008)
    Art object: Video, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    fanmo jimte, DV, 26 min (2008) text by Magnus Bärtås: The town of Vulcan in Alberta, Canada was established as a farming community during the expansion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the beginning of the 20th century. The town’s symbol was nine silos which rose majestically over the flat landscape. In the 1960s conditions for agriculture deteriorated, farming became unprofitable for economic and climate reasons. The nine silos – “9 in line” – had become a collective symbol of hard work and industry, but burned down in 1971. During this time of recession for Vulcan, another Vulcan arose in the world of fiction: the planet Vulcan in Star Trek. The series, which began in 1966, is one of the greatest and most long-lived successes in television history and has generated a world-wide devoted fan culture. Early on, Star Trek fans began to make pilgrimages to Vulcan in Canada to express their devotion. Later on, the town embraced this linguistic mix and tried to exploit it to attract tourists. In 2003 a sculpture was made representing the Star Trek ship Enterprise which became the symbolic as well as real replacement of “9 in line” and marked a new era. In the film the story of Vulcan is told in Lojban, a language that has been created by linguists and technologists and absorbed by the Star Trek culture. Lojban and the example of Vulcan show how Star Trek fiction functions as a media text that shapes reality at the same time as it is taken over and extended by a group of consumers inventing their own social culture. Lina Persson talks about her film on Vulcan as a semiotic monument. The monument is recreated in the film through combining different levels of reality, though a fusion of material from documents, archives and scenarios. Uploaded on Youtube, the film generates constant comments on Lojban and has become a part of fan culture. In the centre of the story is the farmer Nora, who has been hit by crop failure and shadowed by apocalyptic reports. Nora experiences a transformation into an alien.
  • The Desert Planet (02/11/2015)
    Publication: Article, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Essay on the film project fanmo jimte. Published: Geografier #2, 2015, p. 20
  • Filmwork/Textilework workshop documentation (15/12/2015)
    Event: Workshop, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
  • FAULT (23/01/2014)
    Art object: Video, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    In the film essay FAULT, the terminology of geology finds its equivalents in the terminology of dramaturgy and they merge into a new language in order to describe the social, economic, political and ecological developments of four different mountains. In the project I collaborated with scientists and institutions of the natural sciences in China, Germany, Sweden, USA. Right and left are concepts that are based on a subjective position and won’t do as a guide to subject with ever new directions and rotations. But the direction of up / down remains. No matter how I twist or turn or mirror myself up remain up and down remain down. The up/down direction does not relate to my position, but from the Earth's center. Gravity is a fundamental interaction of life on Earth, it is a rule that is the basis of all our interactions. As I travel up a mountain gravity decreases by approximately 0.000002 m / s2 per meter upwards. According to Literature Professor S.Rabkin the Fantastic occurs when a basic rules of a narrativ make a 180 degree turn, when the prevailing view is completely contradicted. The movement up the mountain points out the direction of the Sci-fi genre's domains. Beyond the atmosphere gravity ceases, up becomes down, down becomes up. The total turn following the movement through the landscape with a new geo-dramaturgical model result. The turns are also under way inside the mountain through various faults. Thanks: Helena Kiel, BergAB, Naturhistoriska Museet Stockholm, Konstnärsnämnden, TCG Nordica, Kunming, Lou Fei, Elke Marhöfer, Cynthia Peterson, Ron Mallett, Statens Geologiska Undersökning uppsala, Kajsa Hult, Lövö geomagnetiska observatorium, Patrik Johansson, Emily Mennerdahl, Cecilia Widenheim, Mari Lagerquist, Angelica Roberts, Nelly Sandell, Johnny Sangskär, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, The Archenhold Observatory, Västra Götalandsregionens internationella gästateljéstipendie, Göteborg Vatten, Sven Särnbratt, Kortedala museum Text excerpt: The large valleys around Gothenburg especially Götaälv valley introduces what the geologist calls “faults”. Faults may create a displacement between two mountains, or even divide a moun¬tain in two. The tension in the rock gorges and chasms, marks the bedrock in Västra Götaland with a syntax of splits and ruptures, and it testifies of large fault movements in the area’s history. The rearranging and flattening of the landscapes when building the suburb, sets unforeseen course of events in motion at Bergsjön. Set during the economic record years, the shift from rural to urban society overturn essential habits and ways of living. When the area’s hydrogeological flows reverses, water flows change directions, dry areas get flooded and vice versa. The architecture indebted to the emerging fantastical literature of technological imagination rises in an unreliable extension of the landmass. It projects itself above the surrounding into the future, extracting values belonging to coming inhabitants. The Mid-Atlantic ridge educes severe tensions between the conti¬nental plates, conveying us the coming movements. As these divergent boundaries are forcing apart the enormous mountain ranges with 2-4 cm per year, the tensions are concentrated in weak zones with earthquakes as a result. The tremors are minor, but sometimes they intervene, for example when the glasses clinked in the cabinet of the preserved suburban apartment from the 60’s. Located at the highest point of this turbulent bedrock, drained of resources, in the presence of time travelling colonizers, It allows for new and larger tensions in the bedrock increasing the risk of major faults, and tremors. In the scuffle of the aftershock the ground rules are forced to make a reversal with the truly fantastic as a result. Hovering above like the dot over the i.
  • Mountain tales (28/08/2014)
    Art object: Video, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Mount Huan 6:13 min Sheshan Mountain 4:47 min Bergsjön 2:30 min Teufelsberg 3:49 min Through collages of photographs, reconstructions, animations & archive materials, four mountains are portrayed. The images play agains texts found when researching the mountains. Sampled texts: Mount Huan: Pu Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese studio Sheshan Mountain: Joakim Enwall, A Myth Becomes Reality Teufelsberg: Wilhelm Landig, Goetzen gegen Thule, Bergsjön: Sam J. Lundwall, Uppdrag i universum
  • Return of the (21/10/2017)
    Art object: Installation, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Return of the Silurians, 2017. two-channel HD video, clay animation, compositing, stereo sound
  • Silurian Alive (22/10/2017)
    Art object: Installation, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
  • Silurian Awakening (21/10/2017)
    Art object: Installation, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
  • Techno-Fantasy and Sci-Fi Images (08/02/2011)
    Event: Seminar, artist(s)/author(s): Lars Kristensen, Lina Persson
    KURS: Techno-Fantasy and Sci-Fi Images / Past, Present, Future 7,5 högskolepoäng Ansvarig institution: Högskolan för fotografi Innehåll: Att tänka Science Fiction innebär att navigera de tre tidszonerna dåtid, nutid och framtid samtidigt. Med Sci-Fi förenas fantasier om teknologi och tid och är därför en intressant utgångspunkt för att tala om den fotografiska bildens teknologiska och historiska förutsättningar. Sci-Fi och teknologiska fantasier speglar hur vårt samhälle, ekonomi och kultur konstrueras. I kursen kommer vi att analysera den världsbild som presenteras i olika Sci-Fi berättelser genom att granska olika ideologiska systems tänkande av framtiden. Genom filmvisningar, seminarier, workshops och handledningar studerar vi hur genren har mobiliserat politiska och sociala rörelser i en projicerad bild av framtiden. Vi kommer även att diskutera bilders förhållande till tid i mer generella termer, t.ex. ögonblicket for en bilds tillblivelse, en bilds roll i olika tidsskeenden, och en bilds fördröjning aspekt i fallet med rörliga bilder. Med utgångspunkt i studenternas egna arbeten diskuterar vi de hur de tidsbundna och teknologiska aspekterna kan förskjuta eller förstärka bildens innehåll och mening. Vår avsikt är att använda sf genren som en plattform för ett aktivt deltagande i diskussionen och utformandet av framtiden. Mål: Efter avslutad kurs förväntas studenten kunna: • Beskriva och identifiera olika framtidsformer inom Science Fiction genren • Kunna forhålla sig till sina arbeten utifrån de temporala aspekter dåtid, nutid och framtid. • Redogöra för olika sätt att kritiskt undersöka olika framtidsbilder; samt deltaga i diskussion om möjligheten att omformulera och infiltrera dessa bilder. • Studenterna ges tillgång till filmbilder från SFI’s arkiv och möjlighet till handledning i appropriering av och skapandet av en egen kontext för bilderna.
  • Ultimate Limits (08/02/2017)
    Publication: Publication, Nack konsthall Södertälje konsthall, artist(s)/author(s): Niklas Wallenberg, Debora Elgeholm, Andreas Sandström, Kira Karpelan, Fredrik Svensk, Robert Stasinski, Lina Persson
  • Shifting the Real Three Case Studies from the Nordic Art Scene by Sinziana Ravini.pdf (11/02/2018)
    Publication: Article, artist(s)/author(s): Sinziana Ravini, Lina Persson
    Shifting the Real Three Case Studies from the Nordic Art Scene
  • Beskrivningar och spekulationer (11/02/2018)
    Publication: Paper, artist(s)/author(s): Fredrik Svensk, Lina Persson
    Katalogtext. The Ultimate Limits of Infinity – beskrivningar och spekulationer
  • SELF-FULFILLING POST-CONSTRUCTS (15/05/2008)
    Publication: Paper, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    MFA essay
  • agreement, change of legal identity (02/09/2020)
    Art object: Art object, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Do you own land that you want to set free? - Sign this agreement. Print two copies, sign the agreement together with the land. Send both copies to Lina Persson, Climate-Just Worldings, Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola, Valhallavägen 189, 115 53 Stockholm. You will recieve one copy back in the mail, with the artist's signature. The other copy will be part of a growing archive within the research project Climate-Just Worldings. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/266314/266315 You can also contact lina.persson@uniarts.se to have two printed copies sent to you.
  • Anmälan, övergrepp på vattenkropp (14/04/2020)
    Art object: Art object, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Do you know a water body that has been subjected to harassment? File a claim! Print and send two copies to Lina Persson, Climate-Just Worldings, Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola, Valhallavägen 189, 115 53 Stockholm. You will recieve one copy back in the mail, with a artist's signature. The other copy will be part of a growing archive within the research project Climate-Just Worldings. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/266314/266315 You can also contact lina.persson@uniarts.se to have two printed documents sent to you.
  • Climate-Just Film logo (15/01/2020)
    Art object: Art object, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
  • AGENCY AGREEMENT (10/09/2020)
    Art object: Art object, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Has it come to your awareness that a natural entity is being deprived of its liberty? Sign an agreement to act as agent to ensure it's liberties and rights! Print and send two copies to Lina Persson, Climate-Just Worldings, Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola, Valhallavägen 189, 115 53 Stockholm. You will recieve one copy back in the mail, with a artist's signature. The other copy will be part of a growing archive within the research project Climate-Just Worldings. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/266314/266315 You can also contact lina.persson@uniarts.se to have two printed documents sent to you.
  • Performativity & Quantitative Analysis. Proposal for symposium (25/06/2020)
    Publication: Paper, artist(s)/author(s): Lina Persson
    Proposal for the symposium for artistic research: Working Together. Performativity & Quantitative Analysis Transforming practices - a collaboration with Anna Björklund, associate professor/docent, Dept. of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED), KTH

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