Opening graduation show 21. May, 5-8pm, Inter Arts Center, Malmø

I’m graduating from two years of hard work on the MFA in Artistic Research at Malmø Art Academy.
Press release:

(Re)turning
/a practice of attention

Line Kallmayer attends to the question of how something begins, how something comes into form. Is this even a viable question? (Re)turning to when she first “picked up a camera,” she muses over the role of the “lens” and some old material tucked away under her old bed at her mother’s house.

(Re)turning is a first step into a longer investigation on the concept and mechanics of Attention, approaching a preliminary question from within a series of probes, initiated as part of her work on the MFA program in Artistic Research.  

Line Kallmayer uses writing as a tool to reflect on a lens-based practice, which is essentially at the core: engaging with, (re)working narrative structures explored over longer periods of research, attempting to push and exploring the borders of language, of our imagination. With that gesture she tries to approach and make sense of an ever-changing context wherein images and our relationship to images reside –where stories are written and told.

(re)turning, video projection (23:13) on plexiglass screen. Collection of objects on floor. Video on monitor (5:32), mother’s bedroom (archival work, 2007). Polaroid print on glass plate.

CASE NO. 05CR498: FROM NO ONE TO SOMEONE is case study in new book

David Houston Jones, professor at University of Exeter, writes in his newly published book Visual Culture and the Forensic, of my performance lecture Case No. 05CR498: From No One to Someone in which I investigate the photographic impulse of Dennis L. Rader, also known as the BTK killer “The figure which emerges from the unstable ground of the BTK killer, then, is that of the artist-researcher: in her delivery of the lecture-performance, Kallmayer constructs a forum at the interface of the gallery, the university and the archive. In this, Case No. 05CR498 contests and extends understandings of the crime scene and of the legal archive in ways which resonate with many of the artists discussed in this chapter, ironising and subverting the objectification of women as silent artefacts of a ‘dump site’ and reinstalling their agency at the heart of the forensic. In granting precedence to the artist-researcher as speaking subject, the stark knowledge of past violence is critically recontextualised.”

group show in London

I am happy to be part of this group exhibition this week in London at Art Hub, opening Thursday 3.10. Unfortunately I cannot be there in person this time around. xLine

A group of 12 artists celebrate 10 years since graduating from Goldsmiths BA Fine Art.

ARTISTS:
Aliceson Carter,
Mi-Young Choi
Liam Fogerty
Justin Hicks
Line Kallmayer
Hanna Lagerlund
Dorothea Magonet
Graham Sayle
Nina Wakeford
Malin Weidenbusch
Stuart Mel Wilson
Na’ama Yuria.

EVENTS:
Artists Talk: Sat 05 Oct / 2PM
Finnisage: Sun 06 Oct / 4-6PM

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