Fredrik Svensk is active as a writer, critic, educator, editor and curator. Lecturer in Art Theory, Editor-in-chief of Paletten Art Journal. Critic at Kunstkritikk.com and Aftonbladet, and member the research collective OTCOP. In his research and teaching he is specialized on the biopolitics of art.
In his teaching at Valand focus on the intersection between artistic research and practice, history of aesthetics and art, continental philosophy; and critical perspectives on art and society such as queer feminist, post-colonial, marxist theory, institutional critique and non-anthropocentrism. Co-translater of Gilles Deleuze's Différence et Répétition.
Selected curatorial projects include ÄKTA VARA (True Being / True Commodity), 2007 investigating different contemporary processes of subjectivation, with artists Debora Elgeholm, Annika Eriksson, Isabell Heimerdinger, Saskia Holmkvist, Katya Sander and Carey Young. ART AFTER EDUCATION, 2008 re-examined the critical aspects of the method used in Adrian Piper’s work Bach Whistled, 1970, by putting it into a contemporary socio-political context in tandem with works by artists Elke Marhöfer, Ida Börjel and Malmö Free University for Women.
Links:
Paletten.net
Kunstkritikk.com
http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/
Recent essays:
Selected recent criticism:
Contemporary, all to contemporary, 2014
http://www.kunstkritikk.se/kritikk/contemporary-all-too-contemporary/
Selected book essays
OTCOP in
Work, Work, Work, Sternberg Press:2012
http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1389&bookId=284&l=en
Bodil Furu - the aesthetics of investigation, Torpodo press: 2012
http://cargocollective.com/torpedopress/Bodil-Furu-The-Aesthetics-of-Investigation
No, I am not a toad, I am a turtle!, Elke Marhöfer, Archive books: 2012
http://www.archivebooks.org/books-elke-marhofer.htm
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