The 4th of September a SQUID event will be held as part of the opening of the exhibition Plattform at Röda Sten. The event will start at 14.00hrs. Read more about the exhibition here.

Off to Kiruna, photographing for 'This land is a land and a land and a land'. Something with windmills....

Please find in the archive two new works: 'This land is a land and a land and a land' and 'The truth lies in the middle'.

Welcome to the Valand Spring Exhibition, which runs from the 21st of May until the 30th of May.
Konsthögskolan Valand, Vasagatan 50, Göteborg.

I am proud to launch this new website and present a new work 'Made in Sweden'. Feel free to browse the menu and dive further into the website. Welcome back!

We are proud to release five new texts at the SQUID archive and invite you to the coming event, the 19th of February, starting at 18.00 hrs, at Studio Johan Tobias on Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. The event will consist of two performances by Toine Horvers, one of the contributing artists to this release, followed by an informal artists’ talk on different approaches to independent art publishing with the Finnish artist duo IC-98. Refreshments will be served.

The new contributions to be released are:
#44: Clip Kino: Helsinki and beyond, by Andrew Gryf Paterson (Helsinki)
#43: Buying The Museum, by Alessandra Di Pisa (Stockholm)
#42: Sound Scape, by Toine Torvers (Rotterdam)
#41: Alienation Stories, by Jari Silomäki (Helsinki)

In an ongoing project at SQUID, notes for a book have been dispersed around the world. Please take a look at the latest addition from São Paulo:
#8 Untitled [In Progress], by A. S. Bessa (New York)

Furthermore, one of our previous contributions has now been translated into English: #37: The Publicly Private And The Privately Public, by Adriana Seserin (Stockholm)
#37: The Publicly Private And The Privately Public, by Adriana Seserin (Stockholm)

The adress to Studio Johan Tobias on Suomenlinna is:
http://www.squidproject.net/english/map.htm

We hope to see you!
/Katja Aglert, Martijn van Berkum, Janna Holmstedt

Two-week stay in the HIAP artists residency on Suomenlinna in Helsinki, Finland.

C:Art:Media 1st year exhibition
Opening December 4th 17-20.
Gallery Rotor, Konsthögskolan Valand, Vasagatan 50.
Open 4-13 December:
Sat-Sun 12-17
Tue-Fri 12-19

During Nov 7, 2009 - March 13, 2010 the SQUID archive will be part of ”Labyrint 09 - Writings and Observations” at Botkyrka konsthall in Sweden. "Writings and Observations" refers to the artistic practice of writing as a way of seeing, a way of altering the world. This year’s edition will focus not only on artist’s books, but also text art, and the aspects of writing in contemporary art.

In conjunction with the opening of ”Labyrint 09”, Saturday the 7th of November, a new text will be released at SQUID. IC-98 from Finland presents a family album where a partly arbitrary selection of characters, who have influenced the artists’ work, are introduced:
#40 Family Album, by IC-98 (Turku)

In an ongoing project at SQUID, notes for a book have been dispersed around the world. Please take a look at the latest addition from the Public Library in Bronx:
#8 Untitled [In Progress], by A. S. Bessa (New York)

In November 2008 Katja Aglert, Janna Holmstedt and I organized a round-table discussion in the context of the SQUID project. The discussion was inspired by the fact that urban and narrative were the most common search words, or themes, used in the SQUID archive. We were challenged by the question how these terms were related to one another and decided to organize a discussion with three experts - Antonio Scarponi, Meira Ahmemulic and Elin Wikström - on the theme "Urban Narrative".

That discussion has been adapted to text by Katja, Janna and I and was part of todays text release at SQUID.
Read the text here.

Today we released eight new texts at SQUID. This release includes reading about cooking and storytelling, mapping, the parochialization of public space, exformation, the vandal as city planner, theme-workers, art as tool box or exceptional state, the body-fobia of modernism, dreaming walls, a poetry sale in Chicago and an attempt to write history after the end of History. Please click here to read the new contributions.

By the first of September I will be living in Göteborg, Sweden where I have been admitted to the C:Art:Media master, which is part of the Valand Academy. Furthermore, I am priviledged to have received a scholarship for this study from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. YES! and great many thanks to all my dear friends who helped me accomplishing this!

Despite stopping with Point of view I have decided to continue blogging, since the need to digest information, to reflect on ideas is necessary in order to keep my mind sharp. Please check out martijnvanberkum.wordpress.com.

After working for two years together with a fantastic team of seven people, Point of view was finalized in January 2009. Point of view was a dynamic framework, but I felt that my practice was getting too crowded with too many fantastic activities. I am very grateful to Sergio, Antonio, Po, Fredrik, Katja and Janna, with whom I have a had an inspiring time and who have created a diverse, challenging and discursive archive of great articles.

Click here for more information about the event.

As part of the public event in Gothenburg (see news item underneath), my new text 'Scrambles Amongst The Alps' will be released. Click here to read the text.

Click here for more information about the event.

We are proud to release five new texts and also invite you to the coming SQUID event, the 29th of November, from 7 - 10pm, at Hit in Gothenburg, Sweden. Click here for more information about the releases and the event.

From Monday, Dec 1 to Saturday, Dec 6 the SQUID display will be put up at Hit and will be available both as a reading room and an open archive. We will be present at Hit during the entire week. Feel free to drop by and have a chat over a cup of coffee, or to sit down and read the texts. Click here for more information.

Thurday 25th of September I will hold a public lecture at the INHolland University College in Rotterdam, on invitation by the research group CBRD. The lecture will deal with 'Artistic research and collaboration, the relevance of alternative research practices'. I will present Point of view and SQUID as two case-studies for alternative research practices in the cultural field.

The lecture will take place at INHolland Univeristy College, 25th of September from 16.00hrs - 17.00 hrs. Posthumalaan 90, Rijngebouw room 4.01.

Together with Katja Aglert and Janna Holmstedt I run the SQUID project. Today we launched, in addition to our English website, the Swedish website.

Furthermore we are working with preparations for the forthcoming event, Nov 29th 2008, which will take place at Hit in Göteborg, Sweden. More info will follow shortly.
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September 4th I will give a lecture at the Nordic conference "Contemporary art and education" in Svolvaer(NO), which is part of LIAF. The conference deals with the subject of contemporary art in education, and gathers leading Nordic researchers and actors within the field of art pedagogy.

Since 2007 I run together with Katja Aglert and Janna Holmstedt (SE) SQUID. SQUID is an online archive of texts written by professionals from the cultural field, but also a context to use for live arrangements such as public events. Today we launched our new website. For more information about the ideas behind SQUID, read here.

Today the new website of the group blog Point of view was launched. It functions as a platform to publish articles, but also as a tool to surface the common grounds of the authors and organize them in an organic manner. The blog currently consists of seven members from different countries that write on art, design, culture and politics.

Last stage in of the travelling exhibition More than this in Kulturmagasinet in Sundsvall. The exhibitions runs until the 3rd of June.

Today the website of point of view was officially launched. Point of view is a weblog on which contributors write from different cities over the world. I work as both editor and webmaster for the blog.
www.point-view.net

Oskar and I have returned from Madrid where we have done research for a project we might carry out in collaboration with Intermediae, an art institute located in Matadero (the former slaughter house of Madrid). The entire area is still under construction and Intermediae will open its doors February 2007. Check out some photos of Matadero and the Intermediae space here

Pictures from the opening in Jyväskylä, photographed by Oskar. Click here