Last week of UN PLACE

In UN PLACE, Jakob Krajcik, Michael Kwiecinski, Susanne Persson, Kajsa Sandström, Jeffrey Tranchell and Penelope Umbrico meet in a kind of ethnological documentation. The separate pieces in the exhibition together form a perceived archive where the repetition of apparently unimportant and prosaic matters, movements and activities form a psychological investigation where accustomed meanings and hierarchies are upended and we are left with a rather dystopian image of beingness.

The exhibition will be open Sunday and by appointment until June 30.
Call or e-mail us to book an appointment at any time.

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agorafobi/agorafobia/agoraphobia

a release of the book

agorafobi/agorafobia/agoraphobia

by
akcg (anna kindgren och carina gunnars)

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date: 27 June 2011 Monday

time: 6-8 pm

place: PUBLIC SURFACE

release price: SEK 160,-

more information: http://akcg.org/files/2011/04/akcg_omslag.gif

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Between 6 pm and 8 pm the interview film "the coordinator" (20 min) will be looped.

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Welcome!

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OEI Release

Release på PUBLIC SURFACE onsdag 8 juni 18:30!

OEI editör presenterar:
Häftad serie n°2
Mellan eller En annan närhet
av Helena Eriksson

Medverkande: Helena Eriksson, Martin Högström m.fl.
Poesi, bildvisning, karneval, mingel och vin

Mellan eller En annan närhet är poeten Helena Erikssons nionde bok och tar sin utgångspunkt i maskbärandet – och i de masker och dräkter som s.k. felos uppträder i under karnevalen i Maceda i Galicien. Via Frankrike och poeten Claude Royet-Journoud hamnade Helena Eriksson 2010 på denna karneval. Boken är ursprungligen skriven på svenska men har i en tidigare form publicerats på galiciska som Entre ou A outra proximidade (Amastra-n-Gallar, 2010). Den innehåller även ett urval bilder ur Emilio Araúxos fotografiska dokumentation av karnevalen.

Mellan eller En annan närhet är den andra boken i OEI editörs ”Häftad serie”. Böckerna i denna chapbook-serie trycks i 200 exemplar och finns primärt tillgängliga vid själva releasen som samtidigt fungerar som distributionstillfälle. Ett högintensivt och koncentrerat publikations- och distributionsformat för ny svensk och översatt poesi mm.

Inträde: 60 kr. I priset ingår boken Mellan eller En annan närhet + ett nummer av OEI + vin. Endast kontanter. (Inkomsterna kommer att användas för att täcka kostnaderna för produktionen av boken, och lägga grunden till nästa bok i serien. Så var med och stöd Häftad serie på detta karnevaliska sätt!)

Välkomna!

http://www.oei.nu/

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Darger reviderad

Performance / Reading
from the coming book »Darger reviderad»
by Leif Holmstrand and Jonas Örtemark
In collaboration with Drucksache and Radiowy

Wednesday June 1, 6 – 9 pm
The reading will begin at 7 pm

Welcome!

http://www.drucksache.se/
http://radiowy.se/

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PUBLIC SURFACE presents: UN PLACE

UN PLACE
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a group show with:

JAKOB KRAJCIK
MICHAEL KWIECINSKI
SUSANNE PERSSON
KAJSA SANDSTRÖM
JEFFREY TRANCHELL
PENELOPE UMBRICO


Opens Sunday May 29, 3 - 5 p.m.
On view May 29 - June 26

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PICTURES OF PICTURES

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

KYLE KNODELL
PICTURES OF PICTURES

On view April 10 - May 8
Open Sundays, 1 - 4 p.m. or by appointment

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Release för OEI editörs nya publikationsserie “Häftad Serie”

Välkommen till release för boken Folkets bio (OEI editör “Häftad Serie” #1) av Peder Alexis Olsson och Pär Thörn.

Poesi, projektioner, kritiska reflektioner och repliker

Medverkande: Beata Berggren, Magnus Bremmer, Jörgen Gassilewski, Peder Alexis Olsson, Pär Thörn, Christopher West och Anna Ådahl.

Mingel och varma drinkar inomhus/utomhus.

Tid: Fredag 28 januari, kl. 18:00

BOKEN KOSTAR 60 KRONOR. TA MED KONTANTER!

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Folkets bio är den första boken i OEI editörs nya "Häftad serie". Böckerna i denna chapbook-serie trycks i 200 exemplar och finns primärt tillgängliga vid själva releasen som samtidigt fungerar som distributionstillfälle. Ett högintensivt och koncentrerat publikations- och distributionsformat för ny svensk och översatt poesi mm.

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An Exhibition in a Package

An Exhibition in a Package is a project initiated by Sara Ludvigsson, in collaboration with Adam Asnan, Nabil Ahmed, James Holcombe, Richard Owen, Kari Rittenbach and Joseph Clayton Mills/Adam Sonderberg.

Sara Ludvigsson has been working towards a realisation of an ‘exhibition in a package’ for Public Surface. An Exhibition in a Package is a digital file that contains all the necessary components of an exhibition, sent to the gallery for us to unpack, print and exhibit using our resources. The primary object for consideration is the premise of the package itself (ultimately, its efficacy), containing introduction, instructions, invitations, press release, e-mail addresses and 6 text-based descriptive ‘examples’ of works, to act as the artistic props in the model.

The exhibition is open November 28 - January 23

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THE PUBLIC SURFACE

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

THE PUBLIC SURFACE
SUSANNE PERSSON

Opens October 17, 1 - 4 p.m.
and will be on view until November 14

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Susanne Persson has created a visual enterprise where logos, matters, product design and historically and culturally important symbols are intertwined in a way that raises questions both of heritage and cultural relations and semiotics and the human process of creating meaning.

In two untitled mixed media works that are part of a series, elementary symbols, that historically have been used with both religious, political, artistic and commercial aims, are taken from packages for food and cleaning supplies. First isolated and magnified they are then painted on to prints of images from Persson's archives collected for their semiotic or symbolic value. The process at the same time points out and elucidate the symbol's values, as it renders them indecipherable. The collages become impossible riddles, heavy with signs they solicit a decoding, pointing to our linguistic and emotional need for creating meaning.

With Red Triangle, a triangular shape is blown up and covers one of the walls. The perfect shape, formerly a pristine logo, is made flaccid. The sculpture, carved out in foam rubber, bends from the shape of the room. Leaning against the wall, the triangular shape and its red color becomes a reminiscent of an ancient wall painting or poses as a remainder from a religious rite.

The as yet untitled installation on the floor consisting of 50 alabaster sculptures of dildos becomes a modern play with the phallus symbol. At once playing with the Greek idealizing statues of the male body, celebrating the beauty of man, but here leaving only the portrayed penis, using a replica of what's already a replica the sculpture also turns to ideas of reproduction and sexuality and yet becomes something else entirely where the portrayed body parts become separate from the body all together and is emphasized as symbol.

In White Series Persson is using the shapes of obsolete electrical and mechanical domestic appliances, where all other markers of identity is removed. The machines are combined in to new formations and covered in white paint they suggest both the ruin and the freshly formed new product alluding to cultural and consumption patterns.

Book an appointment to see the exhibition at 0705- 45 92 41 or publicsurface@gmail.com, or visit us Sundays between 1- 4 pm.

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Jacob Grönbech Jensen

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

RIT

Jacob Grönbech Jensen


An ongoing installation.

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http://www.grnbch.se/

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The exhibition will open August 29, 3 - 6 p.m.
and will be on view Aug 29 - Sep 26,
during which time it will continuously evolve and change form.

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Value Transformers: Yes You May Do as You Please

MORGAN JONES
Value Transformers: Yes You May Do
as You Please

PUBLIC SURFACE is proud to present a solo show with the american artist Morgan Jones. In a series of animated vignettes ranging from 15sec to a little less than 3 minutes we are presented with a cavalcade of images of disparate subjects that together present a bizarre parade of life and death. Value Transformers: Yes You May Do as You Please is like a digital memory bank infected by a virus.

In an interrelated, yet indeterminate stream of images we are met by disaster, consumption and the idea of the apocalypse as redemption. With a sense of being stuck in the memory of something rather than the thing itself we are led through this cathartic dream. Like a Shaman Jones enters a supernatural realm to alleviate us from our traumas.

Jones presents us with heavily manipulated digital backgrounds that continuously morph in shape, texts produced with the use of stream of consciousness, images from web archives pertaining to search themes such as nature, the internet itself, disease, waste and disaster in different capacities (one is from a dermatology website, another depicts blots of blood and cocaine on the floor), while other videos refer to blank space and basic raw materials such as paper in the form of wood, trees, sawdust and packaging. This is intermingled with abstract videos, pixelated and built up like fractals, mimicking mathematical and biological structures, together with short vignettes of real space. We see footage of a US truck stop in the desert, a giant meteor crater, a sea side village.

Jones is both a minimalist and a maximalist, presenting us with an inner/outer perspective where personal and global sentiments are merged. With themes of chaos, freedom, mathematics and transformation Value Transformers: Yes You May Do as You Please functions as an exorcism of the mind.


http://www.morganrushjones.com/mineral.html

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The exhibition will open May 9, 4 - 6 p.m.
and will be on view May 9 - June 6

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Henning Lundkvist + Christina Ouzounidis

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

Henning Lundkvist
New Time Based Works

Come by thursday March 25 for the opening, 6 - 10 pm.

During the opening night Förskjutningar by Henning Lundkvist & Christina Ouzounidis will be performed in three parts at 7, 8 & 9 pm.

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New Time Based Works (2010) - Henning Lundkvist

skådespelare: Petra Hultberg
text, ljud, iscensättning: Henning Lundkvist
25.03.10 - 25.04.10


I Henning Lundkvists nya verk New Time Based Works, producerat för utställningen på Public Surface, har Lundkvist helt tömt utställningsrummet så när som på den högtalare som presenterar det ljudbaserade verket. Men inte heller högtalaren är i egentlig mening placerad i galleriet, utan ställs endast fram då besökare kommer in i gallerirummet för att sedan, efter presentationen av det ett par minuter långa verket, direkt plockas bort igen i väntan på nästa uppspelning. Verket, liksom utställningen i sig, existerar därför endast under de tider som det spelas upp, endast vid de tillfällen då det betraktas och upplevs av besökaren, och kan därmed till viss del sägas låna sin form från teaterföreställningen eller radioteatersändningen. Referenser till teater, inte minst till radioteater och hörspel, är också ständigt återkommande i lundkvists arbeten som ofta har beröringspunkter med en tyskspråkig tradition av experimentell radioteater och litterära ljudverk. Det är också på idén om ett “här och nu”, en av teaterföreställningens viktigaste grundförutsättningar, som New Time Based Works grundar både sin form och sitt innehåll. I detta “här och nu” kan verket sägas vara helt självupptaget av sin egen utsträckning i tid, av det nu i vilket det existerar. Det bygger upp ett slags slutet system av det självrefererande nu som sammanfaller med verket självt, och av en labyrintisk text där varje moment ger ny betydelse åt sitt nyss förflutna.

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Förskjutningar I-III (2010) - Henning Lundkvist & Christina Ouzounidis

skådespelare: Sandra Huldt
text: Christina Ouzounidis
ljud: Henning Lundkvist
25.03.10, kl 19, 20 & 21


Förskjutningar I-III är ytterligare ett steg i konstnären Henning Lundkvist och dramatikern Christina Ouzounidis samarbete. Det består av en serie hörspel som arbetar med relationen mellan texten och det akustiska. Hörspelen vill undersöka temporala och geografiska förskjutningar, bland annat utrymmet mellan avsikt och perception. Hörspelet kommer att bestå av tre delar, utvecklade ur varandra. Varje uppförande kommer att vara en iscensatt ljudupptagning som också ligger till grund för nästkommande uppförande, där texten enligt förutbestämda strukturer bryts sönder mer och mer. Ljudupptagningarna görs med delvis förarbetade ljud, en skådespelare och publik. Alla tre kommer att uppföras under en och samma kväll på galleri public surface i stockholm för att därefter föras samman till ett ljudverk som ska framföras på textival i göteborg 27 mars. Verket kommer även att publiceras på radiowy.se senare under våren. Christina Ouzounidis (f. 1969) arbetar som dramatiker och regissör och är en av de drivande bakom teatr weimar i malmö. Hon tilldelades 2009 års Mankell-stipendium och är under året aktuell med ett gästspel av sin föreställning Heterofil på c/o Stadsteatern och med en iscensättning av ida börjels diktsamling konsumentköplagen på Helsingborgs Stadsteater samt med en nyskriven pjäs på teater Galeasen.

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Human Achievements

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PUBLIC SURFACE presents:
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Human Achievements


PHIL BIRCH
PAUL CHAN
BRIAN CLIFTON
BON DUKE
SUSANNE PERSSON

An attempt to break as many Guinness world records as possible in three hours.
Banners awaiting their moment. Nations of product. Declaring commercial liberty. Hear hear evangelic sales.
SEX DEATH FLOWERS
Phase transitions in the Meaning Field.
cum yes yes yes more more do it

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Opens February 21, 3 - 6 p.m.

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Brian Clifton & Morgan Jones

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PUBLIC SURFACE presents:
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MORGAN JONES
arithmetic sculpture

BRIAN CLIFTON
I want to believe in something. My stepfather recently passed away. NFS. ‘Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind’. Self-stylization distorts a genuine personality. Feeling openly influenced by someone, and this being a sign of love. February 2008. My sense of self as formless and relative. Compassion. I enjoy nice lighting

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Opens December 13, 1 - 6 p.m.
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http://www.briancliftonstudio.com/
http://www.morganrushjones.com/
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The Modern extended

The Modern will be extended until November 15
Make an appointment at any time or come by Sundays between 1 & 6 p.m
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The Modern
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a group show with:

JEFFREY TRANCHELL
JACOB GRØNBECH JENSEN
KYLE KNODELL
SUSANNE PERSSON
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”Art has shown that it is a question of determining the relations. It has revealed that the forms exists only for the creation of relationships; that forms create relation and that relations create forms. In this duality of forms and their relations neither takes precedence.” – Piet Mondrian, “Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art (Figurative Art and Nonfigurative Art)”

”These visions call themselves new planes, because of their meeting in a new unknown (the plane of non-agreement). [---] it will pass from its false absolute, through a series of relative values, in to a new absolute value, true and poetic.” – Max Ernst, “What is the mechanism of Collage”

”Reason has robbed man of his roots. He leads a tragic life.” – Jean Arp, “Abstract Art, Concrete Art”


The Modern

Ever since it emerged in Europe between the two world wars, artists have sought to relate to modernism and it's different expressions. For this exhibition Public Surface is proud to present a group of artists that unite in an exploration of modernist traditions.

Having in common the usage of montage or assemblage and a play with surface and the plane of field, the show includes work that in different ways work with plasticity and the extension of visual limits.

All artists work with various collage techniques, creating new meanings through a poetic language built by remnants from the everyday.

Jeffrey Tranchell's collages consists of magazine pages that are "price marked" with tags like the ones to be found on fruits in the grocery stores in the US. The popular theme in the three pieces, the usage of the fashion industry and the enhancing of that industry's commercial tone, got a pop art quality, but Tranchell is above all engaged in a play with surface and dimensions. By sticking price tags on the prints Tranchell focus on the pure form of the two elements. The rectangle forms in bright solid colors break down the illusion of depth in the photograph that makes up the ad, and stubbornly points to the two-dimensional surface.

Similarly, Susanne Persson's untitled print shows us a photograph, taken from a website where people post machines for sale, with a part of the photograph blocked out. A white rectangle, stretched across the surface negates the image. While breaking down the illusive elements that constitutes photography, it simultaneously creates new ones.

In his digital collages, Kyle Knodell creates optical illusions simply by pasting one photograph on top of another. Like the abstract expressionists he acknowledges and challenges the eyes physical procedure. The three-dimensional scenes in the photographs of building materials scattered in different rooms are in the process of viewing transformed into two-dimensional blocks of color.

In this remix of modernism the artists sample and play with artistic leftovers. Weaving together disparate ideas they create collages not only in a physical sense but also intellectually. Whereas the modernist period gave us clear definitions and opposed tendencies, they are here merged together. In the modernist tradition the figurative and non-figurative where held separate as two different ways to approach and view the world. Since then this separation has been dissolved. Now, everything is transformed into the same thing.

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