Lezzie Think Tank - Berkeley
A relay on Queer issues
In Stockholm during EuroPride 2008 people from St. Petersburg (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine) were especially invited to participate to jointly make the format for - State of Mind Think Tank, and exchange ideas. The session was only 45 minutes as it was obligated to follow the concept of the co-host's sessions at the Pride House/City Theater (Bandler room). The 25 participants in the first LTT came from Sweden, Ukraine, US and Russia. The artists, Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg were the hosts for the session. The space was provided by EuroPride 08/Stockholm Pride and was part of the official PrideHouse Program.
The path of LTT (on the right) is building on set of topics selected by the host and passed on to the next. The LTT in Warsaw (July 2010) will construct the topics for the group in Berkeley (Feb/March 2011).
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::: Berkeley, CA, US, 2011 (TBD)
::: Minsk, Belarus, 2010
::: Kiev, Ukriane, 2009
::: Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2009
::: Gothenburg, Sweden, 2008
::: St Petersburg, Russia, 2008
::: Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
LTT Aims
::: Increased awareness of human rights
::: Development of female leadership
::: Development of a politically and socially active community
::: Development of an understanding of queer activism, theory and lifestyle
State of Mind exhibited at
Y Gallery for Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus, March 2010
The Kharkov Municipal Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine, July-August 2009
Art Arsenal/Gogol Fest 09, Kiev, Ukraine, September 2009
Gothenburg Art Museum, Sweden September-November 2008
ROSPHOTO, St Petersburg, Russia, September-October 2008
Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden, July-August 2008
State of Mind and the artists
State of Mind is an art installation by Annica Karlsson Rixon and Anna Viola Hallberg exploring the boundaries between ethics, legislation, prejudice and civic expectations in the LGBTQ life of Russia focusing on lesbians and bisexual women. It discusses subjects such as shortcomings vs. possibilities, belonging vs. alienation, appointed- vs. selected identity.
Annica Karlsson Rixon and Anna Viola Hallberg are visual artists with a strong engagement for the social issues such as gender, class and sexuality. They are working on an installation trilogy Resonance, State of Mind and Code of Silence dealing with socially and culturally constructed identity-based groups in contemporary society.
Essay by Annica Karlsson Rixon and Anna Viola Hallberg, (Pdf) >>>
Full exhibition catalog from Gothenburg Art Museum/Monitor
Reviews for State of Mind >>>
Video spot from the mulitmeda magazine 34 >>>
Contact the artists via e-mail: info (at) aview.se
More about the artists
Annica Karlsson Rixon and Anna Viola Hallberg
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