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Sculptural Installation & Projection of Live Streamed Web Video Footage from inside the enclosure where the footage of the three cameras is dictated by soundtrack dialog though a peer-to-peer software application.

The sculptures are made up of bodycastings taken from a multitude of people from different age groups and with varied ethnic backgrounds.

Basho Video

Selection of past exhibitions

July 2011 Lars Bolin Gallery, Östersund, Sweden

Dec 2010- Jan 2011 The Logic of Basho < Here’s Looking at You Kid > Gallery Pictura, Lund, Sweden

Dec 2010 The Logic of Basho Streaming ASPEX Gallery, Hampshire, UK

Nov 2010 The Logic of Basho  Kid> GASP Gallery Art Space Portsmouth, UK

May 2010 Clouds of Witness, Roda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden
Dec 2009, In My Secret Life, Konstepidemin,Gothenburg Sweden
Dec 2009, In My Secret Life, Konstepidemin,Gothenburg Sweden Drawing
Nov 2009 Drawing So Far Drawing Museum Halland, Sweden
Dec 2008 Galleri Rotor, Göteborg,What happened to November?
September 2008 Röda Sten, Göteborg, Read Me
April 2008 Art Multiple, Ke Artceneter, Shanghai, China
Feb 2008 Intrude Art and Life 366, Zendai MoMA Shanghai, site specific installation
52nd Venice Biennial Italy 2007, “Migration Addicts” collateral event art in public space
DDM Warehouse presented by Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Kina Curator Biljana Ciric
Spinello Gallery (LiquidBlue) [Project] Analysis, Wynwood Arts District, Miami, USA
Temporarycontemporary Art Space, London, GB
“Check-in/Check-out” @-Scope Art Fair Miami, Miami Beach, FL
Selection of the Jury, Salon International de Arte Digital VI, National Museum of Fine Art, Havanna, Cuba
M.A.I.S Paradise @ Art Forum Berlin, curators Torsten Roemer / Georgy Nikich
The Moore Space Miami,”Surveillance” with Andres Serrano and more curator Silvia Karman Cubina
The Leisure Club MOGADISHNI Gallery, Copenhagen, DENMARK
Site specific installation, Art League Houston,  Houston, TX
Berkley Art Center – Juror Nancy Mizuno Elliot, Berkley, CA
OPTIC NERVE IV Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA , Miami, FL
San Francisco Art Institutes118th annual site-specific exhibition HOOVER, San Francisco, CA

Bibliography

BBC Radio, UK, TV 4 Gothenburg, Sweden, Shanghai TV, Ps1 Radio, NY, The News, Local Newspaper Portsmouth UK, Hallands Nyheterna, Newspaper Falkenberg, Sweden, Paletten, Swedish art publication, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm newspaper, Kultur i  Väst, Gothenburg, Sweden, Konsten Swedish on line art review, Kulturstan, Stockholm Sweden, NY Arts Magazine, New York, China Arts Magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Rodeo magazine Shanghai-Stockholm, Buzz Magazine, Shanghai, That’s Shanghai, Shanghai, CBN Newpaper, Shanghai, ArtNexus, Miami Nuevo Herald Arte & Letras, Miami New Times, Beach Blanket Basel by Jennifer Rubell in Food and Wine Magazine, MAG Miami Art Guide, Lincoln Road Magazine, Featured Artist, Berliner Morgen Zeitung, Nuovo Herald, Miami, SurLaTerre-Miami, Jyllands -Posten, Denmark, ArtNet, Letter from Miami, 19 sessions, A survey of the Art Scene in Miami Where Art is happening, by Mark Coetzee director Rubell Family Collection, 2003 ISBN 0-9719492-0-4 Street Miami, Miami New Times, Sun Post, Best Art Installation in Miami, Miami Herald, El Pais, Spain, Levante, el Mercantil Valenciano, Las Provincias,

Education, Residencies, Grants & Professional Practice

2010 Exhibition Grant, Skane Art Association, 2010 Nov ARC offered one on one surgeries for emerging artists, ARC at aspex gallery,Hampshire,UK 2010 October Lecturer at University of Portsmouth and aspex gallery, Hampshir, UK, 2010  September-November Artist-in-Residency Portsmouth Art Center, England, UK, 2010 MFA with specilization in Digital Media, Valand School of Fine Arts – Sweden. 2009 Exhibition Grant, City of Gothenburg,

2009 Hvitfeltska Foundation grant from Gothenburg University, 2009 Lecture Gothenburg School of Art, Gothenburg, 2009 Lecture at Galleri Box in conjunction with the release of Kåt A4 exhibition collaboration with the art magazine Paletten, 2009 Co-curator of Kåt A4 exhibition at Galleri Box, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2008 Unidee Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy Artis in residency, Dena Foundation grant, 2008 Lecturer Angereds Ateljen, Göteborg, 2008 Sculpture Space, NY funded artist-in-residency, 2008 Lecturer Syracuse University, USA,2008 Otto och Charlotte Mannheimers Fond stipend, 2008 Arnulfska Fonden grant, 2007-2008 Guest Artis Fellowship, Independent Study, Konsthögskolan Valand, Gothenburg,2006 Lecturer-work shop Duolon Museum of Modern Art Shanghai,2006 Duolon MoMA, Shanghai, China Artist-in-Residency,2006 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY, Grant , 2006 Tigertail Artist Access Grant, 2005 Artist Enhancement Grant, Division of Cultural Affairs, 2004 Leo Chestler Contemporary Art Award 2004 Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade 2002 Residency Art Center / South Florida, Miami Beach, FL

2008-2110 MFA in Fine Arts with specialization in Digital media Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg University, Sweden, 1993-98 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA

Professional associations

Director of Snowball Cultural Productions – Producer of Guerrilla Girls Nordic Tour 2011 www.snowballproductions.com
Board member Gallery Box, Gothenburg Sweden
Representative for Gothenburg independent cultural organizations at Gothenburg chapter of IASPIS (International Artist Studio Program In Sweden)

Philosopher Jean Baudrillard warned, “we breathe an ether of floating images that no longer bear a relation to any reality whatsoever”. * While much of modern life is mediated through technology, this statement has different connotations when applied to how we experience art. Looking at artwork via documentation or Internet is a common occurrence – most of us will see more art in this manner than in person – but for artist Josefina Posch, there is a risk of losing the significant, firsthand experience when we accept this complacent viewer-ship. As Josefina explains, we encounter the “IRL as opposed to the real “.

In her installation at Röda Sten, she controls our engagement as viewers so that we are aware of the act of looking. The inside of a freestanding, wooden pentagon is closed to us except for small portholes on each side, which we can see through if we kneel down – an act that is simultaneously voyeuristic and submissive. Inside are life-size, idolized forms of a man and a woman made of silicone, which looks similar to flesh, and viewing them feels intimate and forbidden. The sculptures are bathered in ultraviolet light, which the artist chose because it does not register on the RGB color scale used by (digital) photographic devices, and therefore there can be no true reproduction. Near the installation is a video showing close-ups of the figures, a vantage point we cannot have access to, and it encapsulated the frustration and limitations of the mediated experience of an art object.

* Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton, Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext, 1983), p.11.

by Laura Mott, “Clouds of Witness” catalogue text.

The work that I am proposing for the Rencontres Int. Paris/Berlin/Madrid is a projection with sound of the live video feed from an installation that could either be mounted in a small town in rural Sweden or shipped and installed at your venue or a venue of you choice. A custom created software application that utilized a relatively unknown part of Flash 10’s peer-to-peer possibilities allows the live footage from three web cameras to be streamed live over the Internet without having to utilize any expensive or advertisement based Internet TV channels. The application takes the footage from the three cameras and decides what footage is being shown and for how long dictated by a soundtrack dialog created by me. Thus creating a new video piece that can be received in another location.

My idea behind this was to explore new ways of experiencing art installations as an option for shipping actual artwork. It was my intention to see if this set up could be used for artists and art organizations in rural areas to have a presence in metropolitan cultural centers on a relatively small budget. The inspiration came from hearing of the New York Metropolitan Opera’s live streaming of their performances, where audiences can buy tickets in movie theatres e.g here in Sweden to view the performances live. I was curious what it was about the “live” that made it more interesting than to watch a recording of the same Opera and if this “Live” factor could be utilized in the experience of art installations as projections via the Internet as well.

The Logic of Basho «Here’s Looking at You Kid»  is a continuation of  my ’’ In My Secret Life series. It is the result of my latest project, which I have been working on during my three month artist in residency at Art Space Portsmouth in the UK. While there, I collected fragments of body parts from people of different ages and ethnical backgrounds; all with the aim of creating the stature and composition of the average human being. The approach derives from the techniques used by the great masters of the renaissance, where for instance Leonardo Da Vincis “The Vitruvian Man” was an attempt to re-create the ideal human body. My view on the socially constructed ideals and the correlated notion of beauty is highly relevant to our modern western society.

The dual exhibition names originate from two different sources; on the one hand is Kitaro Nishidas philosophy of “The Logic of Basho”. The second part, «Here’s Looking at You Kid», draws from the movie Casablanca and it is part of a soundtrack that belongs to the exhibition. This soundtrack is a collage of dialogues from the 20 most popular romantic movies of all times as selected by the Motion Picture of America.

The sculptural installation is placed in a pentagon. Through two peepholes, the viewer perceives the naked bodies of a man and a woman; hence turning the very same viewer into a voyeur in the distance. The sculptures are illuminated by an ultraviolet light, chosen by me because it cannot be registered on the RGB scale and thus not “correctly” by any digital media. In other words, my installation can never be reproduced authentically. The exhibition also entails a projection of moving close-ups of the man and woman, which are streamed live from within the four walls. This is made possible by a peer-to-peer system specially developed for me by software engineer and artist Mike Blackman. The system cuts between the moving images from three web-cams located within the installation itself and do so in tune with the soundtrack of the movie dialogues. These projected images are closer to the sculptures than we can ever be as peephole-viewers, creating a frustration and sense of limitation that can only be truly mediated by an art object viewed on location. Artworks are increasingly observed through internet documentation and most people experience art through the internet instead of in real life. The risk of such an alternative way of viewing is that we lose the important and direct experience with the work itself – a fact that I wants to emphasize by engaging the viewer and making them aware of the existence of their vision

Projection of Live web stream from 3 cameras inside pentagon

Recorded Video of Live Streaming

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Short segment and interview from Shanghai TV

For Kierkegaard Revised the artist reversed the video of an exotic dancer removing her off-stage clothing.

The split screen is created to be projected in a corner.