Anagram

Artist: Annika Eriksson (SW)
Genre: Art Film
Sweden, 2001 / 7 min loop (DV), colour & sound
Music: John Caldor


The Film

Annika Eriksson works with groups who are used to doing things together, and asks them to do something over and above their ordinary activities. In Anagram the artist collaborates with the MOOMS teatern in Malmö, Sweden. The troupe performs a swinging choreography, based on and including a sentence chosen by the artist. Usually the unedited videos are filmed in one go and with a steady camera, and they document and accompany each project. Like a visual echo, the films are often also shown, either in the vicinity of, or in the place, where they were filmed. A characteristic of Annika Eriksson’s art, in terms of subject and design, is seeming simplicity—with the stress on »seeming«. She is interested in the almost invisible bonds and contexts, which for better or worse, work to glue society.
Extract from a text by Maria Lind, 2002.


Annika Eriksson

Annika Eriksson (b. in Malmö, Sweden), lives in Berlin.
Professor at the Art Academy in Malmö
DAAD stipendium, Berlin 2002/2003

Selected exhibitions:
2004
“Do you want an Audience?, commission for Frieze Art Fair, London
“BerlinNorth”, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2003
“Arbeitswelt”, Kunstverein, München
“Spectacular”, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf”
2002
“Fixation:Notions of Obsession”Lopez Memorial Museum, Manilla
25th Bienal de Sao Paulo
2001
“Everything can be different”, ICI, Independent Curators International, New York
“Vi-Intentional Communities”, Rooseum, Malmö and CAC, Villnius
2000
“Democracy”, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
“Organizing Freedom”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Charlottenburg, Köpenhamn
1999
”Sociale Sabotage”, Der Standard, Museum in Progress, Vienna
”Art and Entertainment”, Chicago Project Room
1998
”Collectors”, Moderna Museet Projekt, Stockholm
”Do all Oceans have Walls?”, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
1997
”X-squared”, Sessesion, Vienna
”Letter and Event”, Apex Art, New York
1996
”Now-Here/Work in Progress”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
”I am curious/Come and see us”, Independent Art Space, London