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

 

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 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

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Motståndets Tid 2019 Antonie Grahamsdaughter . En internationell utställning med tretton konstnärer om Urfolkens Motstånd och Dekolonisation. Utställningsplats: Tegen2 Stockholm

Decolinizing Futures, Book, SEMiPoS. Exhibition Hoikkaido,Japan and Uppsala University 2017-2022
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
FLYKT 2022.Tegen2 Stockholm. En utställning om flykt med sju konstnärer.
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

Still from film: ”The voice of indigenous woman and activism” with Shizue Ukaij, Conferance Tokyo,2022, Japan, 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

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EWVA European Women Video Artist The selection includes 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 will be shown. These include experimentation exploring the possibilities of the medium, video installation, multi-media and performance. The selected themes address: 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. Featured artists: Anna Valeria Borsari, Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter, Madelon Hooykaas, Živa Kraus, Federica Marangoni, Elaine Shemilt, Annegret Soltau, Elsa Stansfield EWVA will be participating at the BNL Media Art Festival in Rome. This takes the form of a screening programme held at MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome. Curated by Laura Leuzzi

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

Verk: The Route                                                                                                                                                                                                                    more
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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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Vernissagekort-1-12015 PAB  Photographic Artist’s Book.  Project year .  The Royal Institute of Art. Publication: ”Vittnesmål” work in progress

 

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Island utställning

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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

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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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Observation Bild2014  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

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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.

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