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3 2010 | Henrik Hedinge | Thematically what happened. From vjing, to large hand sewn installations, to iPhone apps, to bread making, to traditional visual art methods such as life drawing. Video performances screened in 10 countries. Live performances presented in 6 countries. Participated in group exhibitions in 4 countries. Media mentions in 6 countries. 2010 was largely centered around the following projects: el Piramide (2009) Performance that was filmed and photographed in Venezuela during 2009. The video and photos have been presented twice in Australia and once in Vietnam. It was also shown in Argentina during 2009. Male Pregnancy | Life Drawing As life drawing performance it has been performed in four countries. The life drawing performance was also presented for the PerfoArtNetBiennale in Bogotå, Colombia as a web performance. Male Pregnancy | Collaborations with artists The collaboration with the Serbian artist Marina Markovic lead to the participation in a group exhibition in Sweden. Together with the Paraguayan artist Ann Lee we participated with a sewn collage in a group exhibition in Slovenia about taboos. GenderFluxβ | Video performance The initial GenderFlux experiments lead to that a video performance was recorded in Sweden during 2009 and later on edited in Serbia during 2010. The video performance was screened in 6 countries during 2010.
4 GenderFlux | LIVE! The live performance was presented at events in three countries. The participation in Italy was cancelled due to illness. GenderFlux | Adhesive The original exhibition concept that was shown in Paraguay (2009) and later on developed into a photo performance project in Venezuela (2009) was presented as a happening in Macedonia. GenderFlux | Installation & LowTechApp Considerations around how to make the personal experience stronger and more relevant for the individuals in the public encountering the GenderFlux project lead to the development of an interactive installation for the Exist-ence performance festival in Brisbane, Australia and later on to beta-testing of an iPhone application. Body | Talk (working title) This was the newest project of the year. Basically paper, pens and people. From a small experiment in Halmstad, Sweden, with two people it quickly ended up in Madrid, Lisbon and Tarragona developing into larger and larger performances and environments. Large photos Experiments were initiated with large scale printing of photos such as 1x1.2 m, 2x3.2m and 3x5.2m. Pedagogical experiments Different puzzles, memory games and quizzes were developed about performance art.
5 2010 | Henrik Hedinge | Chronologically what happened. January Piramide (2009) video and photos at Exist-ence performance festival, Brisbane, Australia. Performance workshop at the senior centre of Slomarp, Sweden. February Video performance Tango Terrible (2009) at Arte en las Loberias curated by Ronda de Poetas, Uruguay. Performance lecture at Fria målarskolan, Halmstad, Sweden March Participation in a group exhibition on taboo together with Ann Lee (Paraguay) curated by Artevida Zavod, Ljubljana, Slovenia Performance workshop for Fria målarskolan, Halmstad, Sweden April Performance at the Peş Peşe… performance event, Istanbul, Turkey Performances at ÜsküdarArt, Istanbul, Turkey Participating in group exhibition together with Serbian artist Marina Markovic in Malmö, Sweden. May Three performances and a talk at Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia. Donating of the Latin American performance anthology Performance en cartón (curated by Henrik Hedinge, published by Felicita Cartonera, Paraguay), to the ASA performance art library, Cologne, Germany. June GenderFluxβ screened at el Galpon Espacio Cultural, Lima, Peru
6 July GenderFluxβ at the Enzaubert festival, Berlin, Germany Fika-lecture in Blåvik, Sweden August Selected to do a web performance for the PerfoArtNetBiennale, Bogota, Colombia. el Piramide (2009) video and photos showed at IN:ACT festival, Hanoi, Vietnam GenderFluxβ screened at Enlaces festival cultural, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Large article in the regional newspaper Corren.se, Sweden. Exhibiting at the art event Konstrakan, Tranås, Sweden. Septembre Participating in the group show Peripheral Zones at Hamilton Artists Inc curated by the Argentinean project Zona Arte de Acción, Hamilton, Canada. GenderFlux performance at IMAF festival, Odžaci, Serbia. Performances curated by Jovanka Popova at at the Open Grafic Art Studio at the Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia. Performances and lecture at a high school in Novi Sad, Serbia. Article in the BLIC newspaper, Serbia. el Piramide (2009) video and photos shown at the Brisbane festival, Brisbane, Australia. . GenderFluxβ screened at 2nd Moving Frames Festival, Mytilene, Greece GenderFluxβ screened at namaTRE.ba 4 project, Bosnia. Performances at the Yttre Vång art event, Älmhult, Sweden. Open studio events, Halmstad, Sweden. Octobre GenderFlux performance at Arte en Acción, Madrid, Spain. Body | Talk performance for the Transfiguarte project at the Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain Participated in SoftPower (Biotech and Art) workshop, Bilbao, Spain.
7 Novembre Body | Talk performance at the Epipiderme performance event, Lisbon, Portugal. Body | Talk performance and lecture at the Lovella Vermella, Tarragona, Spain. GenderFluxβ screened at the 3rd Festival Internacional de Vídeo Arte, Camagüey, Cuba. GenderFlux | Installation at the Existence Performance festival, Australia. Participating in the group show Artistas / ZONADEARTE at EMBA Escuela de Bellas Artes Carlos Morel, Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Startup of ArtProjectMjøsa2, Feiring, Norway. Cultural journalist writes article about my art, Sweden.
Decembre GenderFlux LowTechApp, startup of experiments with a phone app. GenderFlux | EatLab, Halmstad, Sweden. DNA-extraction experiments.
8 2010 | Henrik Hedinge | Conceptually what happened. The year took of with a presentation of the el Piramide in Australia. A project which I suppose have things do with persona and gender. So far it does not really have any text good enough to accompany it, so the concept is presented by an illustration. Revising the year I was a positively surprised that the project now has been shown four times in three countries. This will probably lead to a re-edit of the video, since more material is available now, and a search for possibilities of doing it as a live performance.
Secondly, the year led to the Male Pregnancy project which developed itself into a work as research project. From life drawing sessions with
9 students in Sweden and Serbia, via gallery performances in Serbia, Turkey and Macedonia to web based performances and to artistic collaborations with artists from Paraguay and Serbia presented in various group exhibitions. Part of conceptual text for one of the presentations: “She doing me from behind."" She doing me from the front."" Woman getting the man pregnant. "Protection."" Don’t we need protection? "I haven’t taken my pills."" I don’t have a condom.""It doesn’t matter. It is just a fuck."" 'Come on get me pregnant' "Do me pregnant." Fuck me over."" From behind."" Protection is not necessary, it is just a fuck. Come on woman. Get me pregnant. The woman getting the man pregnant.” Then the GenderFlux concept appeared: "People looking for their persona. Their personality. Looking for their body of desire or being lost in their own body. Hetero normal ways of living are changing. Hormones changing bodies and personas voluntarily, or forced by pollution. Fast information flux in the era of internet making us dream and feel many more things than before."" Before maybe you felt that you were a man or a woman or gay. In today's twitter flow of quick information, desires and conceptions change quicker and quicker. No time to change your gender. Your gender has become a constant flow of gender metamorfis. GenderFlux." It turned into a video performance, live performances, an interactive installation and experiments with phone applications. By the end of the year the Body | Talk (working title) appeared due to the experiences of the earlier projects pointing in the direction of the individual experience rather then the collective audience watching a performance. This was the newest project of the year. Basically paper, pen and people. From a small experiment in Halmstad, Sweden, with two people it quickly ended up in Madrid, Lisbon and Tarragona developing into larger and larger performances and environments. Still analyzing the result of it.
10 2010 | Henrik Hedinge | 2011ually what might happen. More workshops. Drawing on the experience of the GenderFlux and Body | Talk presentations, shifting the experience of the audience from looking at something happening to something that all participate in and discuss. More conceptual texts. This year saw the conceptual text (the GenderFlux text) appearing in all parts of the world. It was the trailer. This year more and a bit longer ones. More biotech. Diversifying the palette of materials and substances used trying to display and explore the human and its human interactions. More interactive tech. Focusing more on the individual experiences of the art works. More apps and programming. Interactiveness from the performance concepts into more platforms.
More ACTION. And LOVE. Thanks all for 2010. Now let’s make 2011. All the best, hHH+
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