Artists

Artist Home Country Stay
Ramón Esono Ebalé Equatorial Guinea 25 June – 3 July 2011
Takahiro Yamaguchi Japan
Sara Starkström Sweden
Keiko Uenishi Japan 3 July – 11 July 2011
Lauren O’Farrell England
Kaja Marie Lereng Kvernbakken Norway

Equatorial Guinea

Ramón Esono Ebalé

is a drawer and Comic-Artist aka Jamón y Queso. He is a self-taught drawer and graffic artist and has already released several comics. His comics, caricatures  and graffic art is even though the are there are some   dictatoriship-like terms and condition very socio-critical. Ramon likes to give drawing lessons to young Kids and works now in a spanish cultural center of the spanish embassy in Paraguay.

Vita

Born in 1977 in Nkoa-Nen Yebekuan, he used to live in the capital city Malabo and recently moved to Paraguay.

Exhibitions

  • Centro Cultural de España en El Salvador
  • 29 Feria de Arte Contemporaneo de Madrid
  • Festival de Cine Africano en Guinea Ecuatorial
  • Festival International Hip Hop Malabo

Ramón Esono did come carikatures in the documentary „Subvaloradas, sin ser vistas. Voces literarias de Guinea Ecuatorial“ directed by Mischa G. Hendel (2009) and actually works on an animated movie called 10000 elefantes

Term

25 June – 03 July 2011

Internet

www.jamonyqueso.info


Japan

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Takahiro Yamaguchi is a Designer and Street Artist. His Street Art transforms signs,  case shift and language in Kalligraphy, Graffiti und Typography. In his Installation “Urbanized Typeface: Shibuya 08-09”  he was able to turn writing into something physical by his art.

Vita

Born 1984 in Kanagawa, Japan he graduated in 2009 at the Tama Art University.

Exhibitions

  • EXTENDED SENSES (Seoul, Korea)
  • INDAF 2010 (Incheon, Korea)
  • Interferenze Seeds Tokyo 2010 (Tokyo)
  • KUALA LUMPUR DESIGN WEEK 2010 (Kuala Lumpur)
  • TDC Exhibition 2010 (Tokyo)
  • 2009 Asia Digital Art Award (Fukuoka)
  • [13th] Japan Media Arts Festival(Tokyo)
  • redundant web (Internet only)
  • Typologic Exhibition (Tokyo)
  • ICC OPEN SPACE 2009 (Tokyo)

Term

25 June – 03 July 2011

Internet

www.yang02.org


Schweden

Sara Starkström

Sara is a 30 year old Blogger und Writer. She wrote the Book   GameGirl about social competence and dating for modern women in the 21h century.

Game Girl also exists as a blog where the readers may share their experiences from using the book in their personal dating life and update themselves about new challenging ideas about the subject. Sara holds courses in flirting and dating and gives new unconventional tips and tricks to women who want to increase their social skills and to meet the men they desire. She also appears in different Blogs and even in TV-Shows.

 

Vita

  • Born in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Has studied literature at the Stockholm University
  • She live in Stockholm and works for the publishing house Nicotext
  • 2010 her Book GameGirl was released and is soon to be translated to other European languages
  • She currently works on another book-project

Books

Sara is a Blogger und Writer. She’s not doing exhibitions, she writes books.

  • The List, List your life, 2010
  • Game Girl, 2010
  • Mission Stockholm, VÖ 2012

Term

25 June – 03 July 2011

Internet


Japan

Keiko Uenishi

Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat) is a Sound artivist, social composer, and a core member of SHARE  o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) is known for her works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one’s relationship with sounds in sociological, cultural, and psychological context. Exploring aural space, o.blaat created Car décalé (légèrement), a series of performative installation/exploration to re-define space utilizing audio feedback e.g.

Vita

Exhibitions

  • Whitney Museum of American Art
  • P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Museum
  • ClubTransmediale
  • ZKM
  • Munich University
  • ICA London
  • Tate Britain
  • Sydney Opera House

Term

03 July – 11 July2011

Internet


England

Lauren O’Farrell

Deadly Knitshade is the pen name of Lauren. She mysteriously turned to the darkside of the Knit one fateful night. Mild-mannered Miss X fell asleep on a London Underground train and barely escaped the dreaded ‘tube sanitiser’ with her life. Details of how she made her escape are unclear, but since that night part of her awoke as Deadly Knitshade. Instilled with eerie knitting powers. She is subject to constant unexpected ‘knitblasts’ leaving woolly debris around the city. She struggles to control her knits, which seem to have taken on a life of their own, appearing at times in the least expected places. It is her yarn-flavoured burden to bear.

 

Vita

  • Born in Cheltenham, England
  • In June 2005 she learned to knit during a cancer disease
  • Februar 2009 explored her pseudonym Deadly Knitshade and her knit-style
  • Februar 2011 she released her book Knit the City – Maschenhaft Seltsames (the german title at Hoffmann und Campe.

Exhibitions

None. Guerilla Knitting is like Graffiti.

Term

03 July – 11 July 2011

Internet


Norwegen

Kaja Marie Lereng Kvernbakken

Kaja Marie Lereng Kvernbakken is a 28 year old author and yarn creative. Kaja Marie started her studies at the University of Bergen, transferring to Oslo in 2003. She has a bachelor’s degree in Norwegian and French, as well as a degree in creative project management. She started out her professional life as a copywriter in an advertising agency, but after a while moved over to designing knit wear and managing the marketing of one of Norway’s largest yarn importers. Kaja Marie had her debut as a fictional writer in 2010, with the dialogue 384. She is now a full-time writer

Vita

  • Born in Haukeland Sykehus, Bergen, Norway, she grew up on a naval base
  • Studied French  und Norwegian as well as Creative Management
  • Since 2010 she is a fulltime writer
  • Currently she is writing a new book

Books

Kaja is a writer and is not doing exhibitions, but writes poems, plays and novels.

  • Dum (Stupid), fictional prose, written 2011. Published in Kunnskapens mellomrom/Litteratur på Blå, 2011
  • 9 poems and fictional prose, written 2011. Published in Splittet kjerne 13, 2011.
  • 3 novel excerpts, written 2010. Published in Litteraturtidskriftet Lasso #2, 2010.
  • Strikk fra scratch (Knitting from Scratch), a beginner’s book on knitting, written 2010. Published by Du Store Alpakka, 2010
  • 384, stage play/fictional dialogue, written in 2009. Published in Signaler by Cappelen Damm, 2010 and filmed in 4 versions by the Norwegain School of Creativity, 2011
  • Myke masker (Soft Stitches), translation to Norwegian from Swedish, translated 2010. Published by Cappelen Damm, 2010

Term

03 July – 11 July 2011

Internet