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I think I have some very, very interesting news.
At least I am very exited!!!

http://nordenstam.marvelhill.vze.com

Great news indeed and good to see that V2 is still updating the Stina newspage. Thanks for translating Dani?l.

good to hear and it sounds very interesting; i'll guess we'll have to come to stockholm then yea?

Daniel, are you going to visit the exibition?

Uppsala isn't that far from Stockholm, right?

I wonder if the sound installation has anything to do with the request Stina made last year for people to send her sound samples,etc? I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
I got an invite but alas never did anything about it. [b)]
I would love to visit but haven't got the readies...unless I craftily arrange a family holiday in the North.I love sound installations!
Maybe someone could go along with some recording equipment... [:o]

Yeah I live like 40 minutes from Stockhilm so I will most likely be going ... but not anytime soon I'm afraid. I'm going out to work on a biological research station in the west-coast archipielago in about a week and I'll be gone until June 2nd. And then I'm going home directly for the summer. So I will probably be attending the exhibition sometime July-August.

I think it'll be MOST interesting to hear. And then even more interesting to see if bits and pieces or complete songs even end up on her next album. It's lways good to hear that she's creating.

I've been meaning to travel to Stockholm for an age.
(I spend a lot of time on the Ryanair website, drooling)

Is Vasteras or Skavsta the best airport to travel to?
(I know it's Ryanair, so both are probably 100 km outside the city...
as a matter of fact Vasteras looks like it's in Uppsala.

red: V?ster?s is its own city... it's not part of Uppsala. And to answer your question: either airport works fine... they both have busses to Stockholm so you could probably just step off the plane and take the bus directly to Stockholm city in either one.

"Artist, born 1969, lives and works in Stockholm

Stina Nordenstam is best known for her music. Since 1991 she has released six full-length albums. She has also worked with photography, film and radio. Stina Nordenstam?s world is characterised by conflicts and challenges. In a clear and fragile voice, she sings about the darkest of subjects. The beautiful and the brittle is intermingled with the coarse and the awkward; vulnerability and violence with the heartfelt.

In the Magasin 3 Projekt gazebo, Stina Nordenstam presents the new sound installation ?T?nk dig en m?nniska? (Imagine a person), which deals with catastrophes, traumas, UFOs, love and life in general. We hear the voices of people telling their stories. How much of what they say is actually true? Documentary narration blends with fiction and newly composed music. The work centres round the unique human ability of recovering from traumatic experiences. Forgetting and fantasizing, fiction and lies play a vital role. Stina Nordenstam explores human conditions and has chosen to use some fiction in her representation, congenial with the human condition. Our minds and memories are creative; they do not simply record. There are many stories, perhaps mainly in the USA, about people being abducted by aliens in UFOs. People have given detailed accounts of abuse, which occasionally have lasted for years.

She created the music for the piece at the same time as she was working on the texts. There is a common touch that, in Stina Nordenstam?s words, reflects ?the somewhat black-edged joy of being alive, and the acceptance of the fact that it will not last. It?s like nature at the time before the school summer holidays: overpoweringly beautiful but it fades and ends almost before one has time to bat an eyelid.?

The documentary in contrast to the fictitious is central to Stina Nordenstam?s artistic practice. She is located in between these two fields, a striking example of which is her new work for Magasin 3 Projekt. A previous autobiographical exploration is her record People Are Strange. Stina Nordenstam questions the idea that one?s ?own? history makes for more personal or true art. For her record, she reworked and appropriated several popular songs. She suggests that everyone, despite one?s point of departure, has to work through layers of recognition in order to reach an authentic and personal expression. Intuitively, she seems to work with perhaps the most difficult subject an artist can tackle: challenging the idea of taste by constantly demanding of the viewer or listener a reappraisal of the familiar.

Stina Nordenstam has a reputation for being media shy. She seems to be uncompromisingly rejecting of, or perhaps completely uninterested in, media exposure. For more than a decade she has declined to give interviews, appear on television or be photographed. Instead, she circulates her own images in which she wears wigs and looks different each time.
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Don't we have anyone living near to Stockholm who has seen this installation? I wonder what the new material is like. maybe someone who visits can record it? (like with mobile phone/smarthphone and then let us hear some of it... )

NEWS

2005-09-01

Magasin 3 Projekt:
MARTI GUIXE, JURGEN BEY, ANNA KOCH, STINA NORDENSTAM Djurg?rdsbrunn, Stockholm
Open until oktober 2
Thursday 12-7pm, Friday-Sunday 12-6pm
Free admission
NOTE! ONLY SHORT TIME LEFT

update anyone???

FUCK! I have to go soon. Maybe this weekend. I've been pushing it ahead all year it seems.