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LifeArt – Can life itself be art? The stylization of life is currently a common trend—from stem cell research to cosmetic surgery, and from life-coaches to the politics of everyday life. In this lecture, Mr. Brand addresses the construction of life situations and experiences as a new medium for art. He approaches this subject through artists such as Tino Sehgal, Marina Abramović and others who abandon the usual and traditional art objects and attempt to shape life through direct encounters in which the encounter and life itself constitutes the art. Dr. Roy Brand is a Lecturer of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and the Director and Chief Curator of Yaffo 23 – a center for contemporary art and culture in Jerusalem. He is the editor and translator of Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Habermas and Derrida, and editor and consultant curator of Bare Life: Contemporary Art Reflecting on the State of Emergency. His book LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from

Recorded April 5, 2013 Listen to the fifth episode of our critically acclaimed ArtPod. Magasin 3 ArtPod #5 features legendary artist Chris Burden (1946, USA), who guests our studio. Chis Burden, first received considerable attention in the early 1970s for his controversial performances during which he frequently put his own safety at risk. In autumn 2013, the New Museum, New York will host a large solo exhibition of Chris Burden’s work. Language: English

On April 5th 2013, Magasin 3 invited the Los Angeles-based artist Chris Burden to Stockholm to give an artist talk coinciding with his exhibition. The legendary artist spoke about his artistic practice, addressing both his new works and how he relates to his earlier performances. Burden specifically discussed works that are in the collection at Magasin 3, many of which propose technical solutions for man’s movement through space. Chris Burden has been active artistically since the 1970s, when he achieved notoriety for controversial performances in which he put his personal safety at risk. These works often went on for several days, and to a closed audience, which even in that day fostered a sense of legend and myth around the artist’s works. Recorded April 5, 2013 at Bio Rio, Stockholm Language: English

Recorded March 16, 2013 Is it problematic when art critics change their minds? The discussion builds on the American art critic Peter Schjeldahl’s shifting perspective on Gustav Klimt’s painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. This episode’s special guest is Niclas Östlind, curator and Ph.D. candidate at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. Language: English

Recorded February 8, 2013 In the third episode of Magasin 3 ArtPod, the artist Mika Rottenberg is our special guest in the studio. The discussion centers around the term “political art” and Swedish Television’s new program Fråga Kultureliten? Language: English

In this podcast Mika Rottenberg talks with curator Tessa Praun about art and the process of putting together the exhibition Sneeze to Squeeze which was exhibited at Magasin III in the spring of 2013. Mika Rottenberg explains how various works evolved, including Tropical Breeze, Dough, Squeeze, and Cheese, tracing from conception through execution and finally to the presentation at Magasin 3. Mika Rottenberg reveals various sources of inspiration, including Karl Marx’s labor theory, the multifaceted nature of New York City, and a farm in rural Florida. She describes how the factories in her artworks portray closed economic structures that she considers no more peculiar than our absurd reality. The talk also touches upon intriguing questions of how value is created, the effect of different spaces on the body, the symbiotic relationship between exhibitionism and voyeurism, alchemical transformation, the mystique surrounding certain products and what it is like to participate in a hair convention with the Long H

Recorded January 17, 2013 Why are oil portraits of public figures so often problematic? “Konstkuppen,” the latest culture program on SVT (Swedish public service television), aspires to popularize art. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Lastly, the love affair between the art world and luxury brands is examined. Will it continue? Language: English

Recorded december 10, 2012 Carl Mikael von Hausswolff chose to speak about his controversial exhibition exclusively on Magasin 3 ArtPod. Language: English

...Richard Julin, Kristina Jansson and Fredrik Söderberg Deputy Director and Chief Curator Richard Julin discusses painting with artists Kristina Jansson and Fredrik Söderberg in relation to the exhibition Anton Henning Too Much Skin, Taste & Turpentine. Recorded November 22, 2012 at Magasin 3, Stockholm Language: Swedish

In relation to the exhibition with German painter Anton Henning at Magasin 3 in 2012, Olle Granath, former Director of the Moderna Museet, and the National Museum, gives us a a close portrait of the charismatic artist Francis Picabia (1879-1953). Picabia, close friend to Duchamp, was a restless pioneer in Dada, constantly striving for total artistic freedom, while challenging the good taste with his nude portraits. With approval from the Dance Museum we also showed Entr’acte by René Clair, the classic film from 1924 in the transitional period between Dada and Surrealism. Olle Granath is a critic, writer and a recognized figure in the Swedish art scene. He was previously head of the Museum of Modern Art (1980-1989), Director of the National Museum and art director of the National Museum (1989-2001), Granath is an honorary member of the Academy of Arts since 1987 and author of books on Swedish and Nordic artists including The dog’s Vision: explorations of contemporary life (2008). Recorded November 8, 2012 a

Janine Antoni, John Chamberlain, Wim Delvoye, Tom Friedman, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Denise Grünstein, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, James Turrell, Lawrence Weiner, Rémy Zaugg The curator of the exhibition Tessa Praun presents Something Turned Into a Thing and talks about how the works found their way into the Magasin 3 collection. The audioguide is produced by Tomas Rajnai in collaboration with Magasin 3. Language: Swedish.

In relation to the exhibition Too Much Skin, Taste & Turpentine at Magasin 3 2012, Curator Richard Julin discusses painting, exhibition making, taste and conformism with the artist Anton Henning. Henning’s work is often described as a Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art – where he mixes painting, sculpture and video and assembles the works to a single spatial installation. Recorded September 7, 2012 at Magasin 3, Stockholm Language: English.

Listen to museum director David Neuman talk about the exhibition Museum Magasin 3 – Works from the collection. Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby and Tal R that he has curated. He tells about the background for the exhibition as well as presenting the individual artworks and artistry. The audioguide is produced by Tomas Rajnai in collaboration with Magasin 3. Language: Swedish.

Listen to museum director David Neuman talk about the exhibition Museum Magasin 3 – Works from the collection. Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby and Tal R that he has curated. He tells about the background for the exhibition as well as presenting the individual artworks and artistry. The audioguide is produced by Tomas Rajnai in collaboration with Magasin 3. Language: Swedish.

Few artists have packed such an extraordinary range of both clear and covert references to art movements and other artists or to particular locations and intermittently specific objects into the sequencing of their works. Focusing on the “marine core” of Cosima von Bonin’s art this lecture examines how metaphorical meanings are found, produced and relayed in the work of the artist. John C. Welchman is Professor of art history in the Visual Arts department at the University of California, San Diego and co-director of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Recorded March 29, 2012 in Magasin 3, Stockholm Language: English

0:00:001:04:12 The seminar Curating Stories, is a collaboration between Magasin 3 and students at the International Curating Art Program at Stockholm University. Based on Andrea Zittel exhibition Lay of My Land, a guest panel discuss creativity in curating from the perspective of storytelling. Whether taken literally or otherwise, what kind of implications do these stories have for Curators, Artists, Artworks, Spaces, Audiences and Society at large? Panel: Richard Julin, deputy director and chief curator at Magasin 3, Magdalena Malm, artistic director of the Mobile Art Production, Bo Nilsson, artistic director of Artipelag and Liv Stoltz, a freelance curator. The panel represents both the institutional and non-institutional spheres. They share their knowledge and experiences in a discussion led by Moderator, Anders Karnell. Anders is the Art Editor of Nöjesguiden magazine, and also works as a Pedagog at Moderna Museet. Recorded November 30, 2011 at Magasin 3, Stockholm Language: English

In her lecture Eyecatcher Marijke van Warmerdam talks about her films, photographs and sculptures since the early 1990s. In her work she focuses on the seemingly insignificant and allows these occurrences to widen and deepen into poetic studies. During fall 2011 Magasin 3 presented a selection of van Warmerdam’s films. Marijke van Warmerdam was born in 1959 in Nieuwer Amstel in the Netherlands. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale and institutions such as Wiener Secession, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, ICA in Boston, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Her collected works can be seen in a large traveling retrospective starting at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam this fall. Van Warmerdam lives and works in Amsterdam and has a professorship in Karlsruhe at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste. Recorded on September 23, 2011 at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm Language: English

In conjunction with the American artist Andrea Zittels exhibition Lay of My Land at Magasin 3 fall of 2011, she held a lecture about her work and how she uses her home and studio A–Z West in Joshua Tree, California to explore ideas about what humans need for survival. For over two decades she has created minimal households where everyday activities like sleeping, eating, cooking and social situations become artistic acts. Recorded September 9, 2011 at Bio Rio, Stockholm Language: English

A conversation between Chief Curator and Deputy Director Richard Julin and choreographer Björn Säfsten and dancers Anja Arnquist, Sophie Augot, Allison Ahl, Linda Blomqvist and Madeleine Lindh. From April 14th to 18th 2011, Björn Säfsten’s Corduroy de-constructed, a conceptual performance in which the choreographer presents movements for observation, inspection and inspiration, was performed at Magasin 3. Richard Julin discusses the process of deconstructing and remounting the work Corduroy with Björn Säfsten and his dancers. They explore what happens when a work originally created for a large stage is broken down into three separate yet corresponding parts and moved from a traditional stage to the more intimate gallery space at Magasin 3. Recorded April 14, 2011 at Magasin 3, Stockholm Language: Swedish

In his lecture Investigations of a Dog – Kafka as artist and mystic Hans Blomqvist speaks about Kafka’s life and work and how it has been interpreted over time. Blomqvist also gives insight into Kafka’s original way of crafting his stories and his particular esthetic, in which mystical ideas take center stage. Hans Blomqvist is a translator and author based in Gothenburg. Together with Erik Ågren he has translated Franz Kafka to Swedish for many years. Hans Blomqvist has written Den oerhörda värld jag har i mitt huvud (The Tremendous World I Have in My Head) in 2006, a book about Kafka’s literary technique and esthetic based on his own explorations about his writing and the compilation of essays Gemenskapen har sina demoner och ensamheten sina (Community has Demons and So Does Loneliness) published 2009. Recorded March 10, 2011 in Magasin 3, Stockholm Language: Swedish