Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter , Director, Artist.
Born in Toronto Canada. Living and working in Stockholm. Working with Film, Videoart, Installation, Performances, Poetry.Writes about colonization, film, art, based on the indigenous peoples’ decolonization. Also works as a curator and curated several exhibitions in Stockholm.
She is educated at the Art Academy’s video department, Jan Van Eyck Academy / Time Based Art and Konstfack / MFA. In 1996, she received FilmForm’s honorary scholarship for experimental film art. In 2016, she was recognized by EWVA European Women Video Artist, as an innovative pioneer in video art. Her reports and articles, as well as her latest films – ”In case of Detroit”, ”Studies of resistance” and ”Under the Mulberry Tree” – revolve around vulnerability, racism and colonialism
2019 Book: EWVA European Women Selection of Video Artist Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter. /Curaters; Laura Leuzzi and London based curators Giulia Casalini and Diana Georgiu.
Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter has been selected for EWVA European Women Video Artist 2016.
The selection included artworks by some of the most influential European women artists who were video pioneers in the 1970s and 1980s. A broad range of topics and approaches to video were shown. These include experimentation exploring the possibilities of the medium, video installation, multi-media and performance. The selected themes addressed: the critic to broadcast TV, identity, the relationship with their body, ephemerality of life, perception, pregnancy and maternity, the opposition between Nature and civilisation, how women are represented by the media, the role of women in society.
http://www.ewva.ac.uk/artists.html
With Hiroshi Maruyama, Antonie Grahamsdaughter, Brita Markatt Labba, Juli Edel Hadenberg,Tomas Cohlbengtsson, Matti Aikio, Shizue Ukaij,Amareya,Katarzyna Pastuszak,Louise Fenger- Krog and many more. Bild: Decolinizing Family,Canada, Antonie Grahamsdaughter
Bild från ”40 Days” av Antonie Grahamsdaughter.
[OM] Samtidskonst.Tegen2 Stockholm. [OM] – I fyra undersökande berättelser som följer i spåren av minnen, möten och sår, men också av pånyttfödelse. Bild; Whitewash,rumslig installation och video.av Antonie Grahamsdaughter
2019 Filmfestival Toronto.Kanada.”Uprising” Awards, Best director, Best documentary, AltFF, Alternative Film Festival in Toronto is a quarterly IMDb-approved film festival. Uprising Documentary Film | 43 min | Language: Swedish | 2019
CAST & CREW: Directed, filmed & edited by: Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter, Cast: Lars Larsen, Soundmix: Per-Henrik Mäenpää,Subtitles: Lars Tillberg Galsgaard, Produced by: Andreas Nordblom, Production Company: Hjärta Nikki https://www.hjartanikki.com/uprising
Exhibitions and Activitities
2022. FLYKT en utställning och samtal om Flykt. Installation, Video, Arkiv, Fotografi. Deltagande konstnär: Mourad Kouri, Oscar Lara, Moa Israelsson, M. Backman, Mariana Ekner,Margareta Klingberg, Antonie Grahamsdaughter
2021 [OM] Samtidskonst.Tegen2 Stockholm. [OM] – I fyra undersökande berättelser som följer i spåren av mörka minnen, möten och sår, men också av pånyttfödelse. Deltagande konstnärer: Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Paula Urbano, Antonie Grahamsdaughter, Hanna Sjöberg, M. Backman.
2020 News: Stipendium Japanstiftelsen. Arbetsresa Japan Hoikaido.2021
2020 Stiftelsen Längmanska: Stipendium/”The voice of indigenous woman and activism”
2021 News: Film: ”The voice of indigenous woman and activism” Sweden
2021 News Film: ”The voice of indigenous woman and activism” Japan
2019 Motståndets Tid-om Dekolonisation Tegen2. En utställning om Urfolkens motstånd och dekolonisation. Deltagande konstnärer: Sissel M. Bergh, Norge, Carola Grahn, Sverige, Gord Hill, USA, Antonie Grahamsdaughter,Julie Edel Hardenberg, Grönland, Olando Whyte, Jamaica, Rut Karin Zetterberg, Sverige, Marit Shirin, Sverige,Liselott Wajstedt, Sverige, North Stories, USA.
Recension. Birgitta Rubin DN https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konstrecensioner/sariga-minnen-och-motstandskamp-pa-tegen2/
2019 Filmfestival Toronto.Kanada.”Uprising” Awards, Best director, Best documentary, AltFF, Alternative Film Festival in Toronto is a quarterly IMDb-approved film festival
2019 Mini Mix Media Festival Powerplant Akt#3 Fylkingen 3X3 Installationer2019 Sverige Arbetsresa.Föredrag ”Challenging Stereotypes”. Dellie Maa. Kulturfestival Tärnaby,Västerbotten.
2019 Kanada arbetsresa.”The voice of indigenous woman and activism”
2019 Japan. Arbetsresa ”The voice of indigenous woman and activism” (Konstnärsnämnden)
2019 Tegen2 Samlingsutställning. ”Do you know”
2019 Växelbruk Tegen2 Samlingsutställning.
2019 Japan ”The voice of indigenous woman and activism. Kulturutbyte Konstnärsnämnden.
2018 Lecture Cemfor. Uppsala University. Lecture ”Imagining the ´Other`: Perspectives on racist stereotypes of Indigenous peoples and POC in Sweden”
2018 Lecture: Vägra Döda FilmForm The Royal College of University of Arts Stockholm
2018 VEMS Fylkingen Filmvisning We are still here 2017
2018 CFF / Centrum för Fotografi/ Stockholm
2017. Japan, Sapporo.”Whitewash” Workshop International Conference on Policy towards Indigenous peoples.
2016. KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stories of the Anthropocene. Stockholm Vidoessä.12 min. Om Dekolonisation och Anthropocene, We are still here. Videowork.Dekollonisation.
2016 Self/portraits: Relating Narratives.
Dundee Contemporary Arts Visual Research Centre, Centrespace.This screening weaves together the visual narratives of 12 international women artists or collectives who have worked around questions of identity and self-determination, often in confrontation to their respective social and political contexts. Employing real and interpreted voices, lyrics and unorthodox visual techniques, their works address female sexuality, motherhood, ecology and violence. http://www.ewva.ac.uk/self-portraits-vrc-2016.html
BNL Media Art Festival in Rome.
EWVA European Women Video Artist
This took the form of a installed screening programme held at MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome.Featured artists: Anna Valeria Borsari, Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter, Madelon Hooykaas, Živa Kraus, Federica Marangoni, Elaine Shemilt, Annegret Soltau, Elsa Stansfield .Curated by Laura Leuzzi. http://www.ewva.ac.uk/media-art-rome-2016.html
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Mejan Arc /The Royal Institute of Art.
2016 Alpha–Beta Research-Lab
Art & Architecture KKH / Beta space: Passagen, NK Stockholm Sweden.
https://www.riksutstallningar.se/content/moving-art-project
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2016 Moving Art Project
Jurybedömd turnerande utställning som under våren 2016 besöker 10 olika städer i Sverige.Moving Art Project jury består bla av Karin Mamma Andersson Konstnär, Suzanne Osten, Dramatiker, Mathias Strömer
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2015 PAB Photographic Artist’s Book. Project year . The Royal Institute of Art. Publication: ”Vittnesmål” work in progress
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Undir berum himni Island
Under the Open Sky Short experimantal film Whitewash. Trailer. HD video/ QR code An outdoor art exhibition of more than 100 artists, Under the Open Sky provides a unique opportunity to see the works of some of Iceland’s best known, as well as emerging artists. The exhibition takes place in public spaces and private gardens in the center of Reykjavík and the artworks range from sculptures to paintings, performances and graffiti, giving a good overview of the diversity of Reykjavík’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition is part of the Reykjavík Arts Festival 2013, supported by the city of Reykjavík and in collaboration with Nýló.Curator GERLA – Guðrún Erla Geirsdóttir
http://undirberumhimni.is/listafolk/
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To the Beat at My Tounge En serie Lecture Performances
[Observation]Performance / Fallskärmshopp ( 2015) 11-12 april 2015 ”Personligt och specifikt har en grupp konstnärer satt samman varsin programpunkt Projektet genomförs med stöd från Stockholm Stad, samt Kulturrådet via Säfsten Produktion och Emma-Lina Ericson
http://www.studio44.se/exhibition/beat-my-tongue
Studio 44
Projektrummet ”Att omvandla den andre till sin egen avbild” Om kolonialism och assimilation. Filmisk rumslig Installation med urval av arkivfilmer. http://www.studio44.se/
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2014 Performativ Kritik Scen. Stdh Stockholm Performance [Observation]
Installation och performance om ett fallskärmshopp
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Meetingpoint Akt [2] Curated by: Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter & Erik Peters
”Crossing Borders” experimentella riktningar uttryck, dragningar, visioner och kontext! PERFORMANCE FILM SOUND INSTALLATION Medverkande:Bianca Maria Khon Barmen, Jennifer Rainsford, Erik Peters, Barthelemy, Massot, Charlotta Smith och Samuel Samantha Pfeiffer, James Hamilton, Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter, Sten Sandell, Cheap Imitation med Ann-Charlotte Rugfelt och Anders Olofsson, Camilla Ericson, Caroline Taracci Nilsson, Stuart Mayes, Britta Forestier, Andreas Jonasson, RutKarin,Zettergren, Ingrid Olterman, Paul Pignon, Beatrice Orlandi, Katerina Mistal, Martin Küchen, Katrin von Rettig, Lennart Westman, Gunnar Jutelius, Jutelius, Rami, Medhat Abdel-Salam, Anna Stina Erlandsson https://www.fylkingen.se/om
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”Vittnesmål”
Audio installation The established theme for our course, for which this guidebook is an extension, is ‘Spatial Justice’. What that means, how it is inscribed or not in the social fabric of a city was the object of our collectiveinvestigation. Utställningsansvarig: Corey McCorkle NY Plats:Galleri Mejan, —————————————————————————————————————————————–
2014 URBAN RE-MIX Video ”Dokument 13 mars 2014 ” ”Avhysning”
URBAN RE-MIX Advanced critical research Kungl. Konsthögskolan
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SUPERMARKET 2014 – Stockholm Independent Art Fair 2014Supermarket is an annual international art fair for artist-run galleries and other artists’ initiatives. The art fair itself is arranged by artists. The goal of SUPERMARKET is to provide a showcase for artists’ initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish and international art scenes. It is also an art fair that strives to offer the visitor an experience, rather than focusing on sales. Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in central Stockholm. ”VALÅRET 2014
https://www.riksutstallningar.se/supermarket_talks
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2014 Tensta Konsthall Haunted by Shadows of the Future Art & Architecture.
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NATIVE MOVING IMAGES Challenging stereotypes
Curated by Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter
Konstnärshuset. Stockholm 2012 / Sweden-Canada-USA Presenation av [WHITEWASH] Trailer/ Installation HD video ( Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter) Native Moving Images showcases a range of video works and films that address, dismantle and satirize stereotypes of ‘the Indian’. In an extensive presentation of works by contemporary native artists from Canada, The United States and Sweden, the exhibition brings forward common myths, prejudices and romanticizations existing toward indigenous peoples. Artist: Kent Monkman+ Chrise Bose, Kevin Lee Burton, Terill Calder , Nitanis Desjarlais , Steven Forster, Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter ,Carola Grahn , Anna Linder , Minda Martins ,Gail MauriceJuse Norris,Travis Shilling ,Liselotte Wajstedt Seminar Johan Gurt, Tobias Hübinett
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2327&artikel=5303826
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Supermarket 2013
[WHITEWASH] 3 min./Video HD. /Trailer/ Antonie Grahamsdaughter
Artist Talk/ Work in progress Canada 2012
Supermarket is an annual international art fair for artist-run galleries and other artists’ initiatives. The art fair itself is arranged by artists. The goal of SUPERMARKET is to provide a showcase for artists’ initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish and international art scenes. It is also an art fair that strives to offer the visitor an experience, rather than focusing on sales.