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30th of September at The Cinematheque in Stockholm

The video work Scream will be screened in the programme Nature Films, curated by FilmForm and Anna Linder at the Cinema Sture, 30th of September 2007 at 4.30 pm
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PERHAPS WE WANTED TO WEAR HIGH HEELS JUST TO GET CLOSER TO THE SKY

High Heel Sisters ended their collaboration with their participation in the group show gaze.space.desire at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen June 8-July 2, 2007. A memorial sign over their collaboration is mounted in the sidewalk outside the exhibitionspace.










































performance, 50 min, 2007, Copenhagen

screaming mountain

In the exhibition gaze.space.desire High Heel Sisters will premier their new video work Scream within an installation, and make a new performance at the opening reception at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning in Copenhagen, June 8, 5-8 pm. Welcome!

scream

video still, 2007, 2:04 min (looped)

Kom Ut #1/07

High Heel Sisters met in Berlin during some cold days in January to implement Stand Piece #11 #12 #13, on account of our participation in the art theme number of the monthly newspaper Kom Ut. Have a look at p. 11-14 and read a little about our art practice on p. 3 and 21.

You will find Kom ut in every LGBT-friendly place and all RFSL places in Stockholm and all around Sweden

never too much at Kulturhuset

performance, 50 min, stockholm (2004)

never too much at ICA

performance, 50 min (2003), london

the last straw

performance, 180 + 60 min, (2006) helsinki

TEXTs ON HHS

Writings:
- ”Konstkamp i högklackat”, article by Sanna Björling, Dagens Nyheter, 15.06.2006
- “Feminisme gir handlingsrom”, article by Nina Schjønsby, Billedkunst #4/2006
- ”Trace: Installaction Artspace”, article by Debra Savage, New Welsch Review, p. 2-4
- ”Varför står ni där? Flytta på er!”, article by Bo Borg, Konstperspektiv, 4/04, p. 32-37
- ”Die Skaninavische Kunst der Handlung”, NRZ, Essen, 15.07.2004
- ”Kvinnokamp med humor som vapen”, article by Malena Rydell, Dagens Nyheter, 14.06.2004
- ”Bilden av feminister är nedvärderande”, article by Erika Strand Berglund, Stockholms Fria Tidning, 04.04.2004
- ”Långbenta systrar går till attack”, review by Anna Ångström, Svenska Dagbladet, 07.03.2004
- ”Inga nya grepp om elvispen”, review by Maria Lind-Garreu, Dagens Nyheter, 07.03.2004
- ”This is Art”, review by Natalia Kazmierska, Expressen, 06.03.2004
- ”Kulturhuset bjuder på det oväntade i vår”, article by Henric Tiselius, 15.03.2004
- ”Långa donnor på höga dojor”, article by Johanna Paulsson, Dagens Nyheter, 03.03.2004
- “Aktionskonst som provocerar”, Kommunalarbetaren, nr 17, 2003
- ”Ju högre klackar desto mer politiskt”, article by Johan Lundh, www.omkonst.com, 07.09.2003
- ”Kuddkrig på plattan med konstens aktivister”, article by Mårten Arndtzén, Sveriges Radio, 28.08.2003
- ”Dagens aktivister tror inte på utopin” article by Ingela Lind, Dagens Nyheter, 30.08.2003
- ”Fem Frågor”, Annika Nilsson, 27.08.2003
- ”Staden tillbaka - utan våld”, article by Lena Sohl, Aftonbladet, 14.05.2003
- ”Laglös konstvärld”, article by Sonia Hedstrand, Dagens Nyheter, 15.02.2003
- ”Störande systrar”, review by Lena Sohl, Aftonbladet, 09.11.2002
- ”Långa konstnärer ställer ut på Galleri Lars Bohman”, article by Henric Tiselius, 07.11.2003
- “Disturbing Sisters”, article by Lena Sohl, Bang #4/2002

Publications:
- Performing theory in practise or a new trinity in patriarchy, essay by Johanna Rosenqvist, En blick från sidan - Genusforskning under tre decennier, Linda Fagerström, Maria Nilsson (ed.), DISA/Förlags AB Gondolin, 2006, p. 179-186.
- Trace Installacation Artspace Cardiff 00-05 published by SEREN books, ISBN: 1854114085, edited by André Stitt, 2005.
- "Med motstånd mot förändring", article by Eva Hallin, Art Feminism, Strategies and consequenses in Sweden from the 1970s to the present, catalogue, 2005, p. 156-165.

high art franktione

performance, 120 min, (2004) essen

group exhibitions & screenings

2010
- "Screaming Mountain", Gestures - Performance and Sound Art at Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
2009
- "Scream", video screening, "13 Lessons in Performance Art", Top Kino, Vienna, Austria.
2008
- ”Stand Piece #11-#13", video, 6808, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
- “Shoe Piece”, “Tree Piece”, “Swim Piece”, video screening, Arka Video festival, Sardinia, Italy.
- “Scream”, Film Forms programme “Nature Films”, Cinema Sture, Stockholm, Sweden
- ”Scream”, video screening, ”Put the light out, erase a line”, Studio44, Stockholm, Sweden
- "Stand Piece #11", "Stand Piece #12", "Stand Piece #13", video documentation, exhibition, ”Put the light out, erase a line”, Studio44, Stockholm, Sweden. Curated by Malin Arnell.
- "Scream and Screaming Mountain", installation/video/performance, “space.gaze.desire”, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen.
2006
- “Shoe Piece”, “Tree Piece”, “Swim Piece” in "Hit The North", video archive, curated by Filmform, Stockholm, Sweden.
2004
- “Shoe Piece”, BLICK 2004, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
- VIDEO ZONE - The 2nd International Video - Art Biennial in Israel, curated by Anna Linder (catalogue), Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Best Regards, in ”A Living Group portrait”, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts 250 years, Charlottenborg Exhibitions space, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- We Love YOUko – Hommageparty for Yoko Ono, curated by Anna Efraimsson & Eva Broberg, The Culture house, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Lá-Bas_Space Contentions Performance Symposium, Helsinki, Finland.
- Ladyfest, Malmö, Sweden.
- Women Jubilee – 96 Years, Q The Art Academies Exhibition space, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Feminism 2004, Malmö, Sweden,
2003
- Net Guest Exhibitors at www.fiberartsweden.nu
- Trønderlags utstillningen, County exhibition, selected by a jury, Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art, Trondheim, Norway.
- The Biennale of Thisted, Denmark.

solo exhibitions

2005
- "Art Holes. High Heel Sisters", Installation/video/performance. Trace; Installaction Artspace, Cardiff, U.K.
2004
- "High Art Franktione", Installation/performance. Scandinavian Performance Event, Performance Art in NRW – 2004, Machinenhaus Essen – Produktionsort der Künste, Germany.
2004
- "Never too Much", performance (3 shows), Black Box - "Kilen", The Culturehouse, Stockholm, Sweden.
2003
- "Never too Much", performance, Black Box, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, U.K, comissioned by ICA, and at Live Arts Festival in Hull, U.K.
2002
- "Art Holes. High Heel Sisters". Installation/video/performance. Gallery Lars Bohman Projectroom, Stockholm, Sweden.
2002
- "Three pieces by High Heel Sisters at Blunk". Installation/video/performance, Gallery Blunk, Trondheim, Norway.

stand piece #6

#6, performance, 15 min, mörby centrum, stockholm (2002)

a united walk across a square

action/performance, 60 min, stockholm (2003)

high heel sisters wank off and make power

Performance, 20 min (2003)

it comes as no surprise

performance/sound/text, 25 min (2006), trondheim

climbing up ladders falling down

performance, 50 min (2002)

peace piece

performance, 20 min (2002)

mix master piece

performance, 20 min (2002)

stand piece #11 #12 #13

#13, performance, 15 min, siegessäule, berlin (2007)


#11, performance, 15 min, potsdamer platz, berlin (2007)


#12, performance, 15 min, augsburger strasse, berlin (2007)

Johanna Rosenqvist writes about High Heel Sister’s “Stand Piece” in her text Thoughts on theory in practice or a new trinity in the patriarch.

“When the High Heel Sisters perform the “Stand Piece”, each Sister silently takes notes on the level of happiness in the surrounding environment, by means of counting little dogs, ladies with perms etcetera. It is a way to measure the immeasurable happiness, within the framework of positivistic science. Who will tell us what is important in life, what really counts? Since objective, measurable science has been a male prerogative, persistently excluding women and others not thought of as being able to distance themselves from the object studied, feminist historians of science have been giving this thought considerable attention. / / When the High Heel Sisters do their 15 minutes of standing in the Subway system, or whatever place they choose, it is a statement. What they do with their time is significant not only as a measurement of time past but also as a marker of history. They make the space into a significant place to spend time and thus mark it in the historical time line. So what if nothing comes out of it, if it does not make a difference? They will still stand side by side with their historical predecessors and their contemporary sisters. / / The three High Heel Sisters bring on the image of the (in this case) solid trinity of space, time and immobility.”

video works

2007
- ”scream”, 2:04 min (looped)
2002
- ”shoe piece”, 2 min
- ”tree piece”, 2 min
- ”swim piece”, 2 min

shoe piece

shoe piece, videostill, 2 min (2002)

tree piece

tree piece, videostill, 2 min (2002)

swim piece

swim piece, videostill, 2 min (2002)

performance

2007
- "Screaming Mountain”, gaze.space.desire, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- "Stand Piece #11", "Stand Piece #12", "Stand Piece #13”, Berlin, Germany.

2006
- "The last straw", in "The Human Factor", performance program curated by Roi Vaara, ARS06, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland.
- "It comes as no surprise", Bastard Theatre Festival, Trondheim, Norway.
- "Fire (Flower, Kiss) walk with me", Art Parade, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2005
- "Art Holes", Trace; Installaction Artspace, Cardiff, Wales.
- "Stand Piece #10", S:t Davids City Mall, Cardiff, Wales.

2004
- "High Art Franktione", Scandinavian Performance Event, Performance Art in NRW – 2004, Machinenhaus Essen – Produktionsort der Künste, Germany.
- "Stand Piece #9", Essen, Germany.
- "Stand Piece #8", Drottninggatan, Stockholm, Sweden.
- "Down Up" and "400 meters Midnight Run in High Heeled", La-Bàs_Space Contention Performance Symposium, Gallery August/Nifca, Finland.

2003
- "High Heel Sisters wank off and make power", Fylkingen 70 Years Anniversary Festival, Fylkingen New Music and Intermedia Art, Stockholm, Sweden
- "A united walk across a square" and “Peace Piece” performed at Sergels Torg in connection with the seminar "The artist as an activist" held at SAM, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
- "Stand Piece #7", Angel Station, London, U.K.

2002
- ”Mix Master Piece”, "Peace Piece" and "Climbing Up Ladders Falling Down", in connection to "Artholes. High Heel Sisters", Gallery Lars Bohmann Projectroom, Stockholm, Sweden.
- "Stand Piece #2-6", performed at five different sites along the red tube line, Stockholm, Sweden.
- "Stand Piece #1", Munkegata, Trondheim, Norway.
- "Cut Piece", "Peace Piece", "Walk Piece" and "Dream Piece" in connection to ”Three pieces by High Heel Sisters at Blunk”, installation/video/performance, Gallery Blunk, Trondheim, Norway.

contact information

The four of us will continue our individual practises.
Regarding our collective works we welcome you to contact us on email:

Anna Linder mail@annalinder.se

Karianne Stensland kariannestensland@gmail.com

Line S Karlström lineskarlstrom@hotmail.com

Malin Arnell malin_arnell@hotmail.com

high heel sisters

Between 2002 and 2007 Malin Arnell, Line Skywalker Karlström, Anna Linder and Karianne Stensland collaborated as the feminist performance and artists’ group High Heel Sisters.

With a large dose of humour and a burning feminist zeal High Heel Sisters examined and took on many of society’s (and their own) expectations and accepted norms primarily associated with gender, sexuality and class. Their activity focused on negotiation different forms of privilege in the public space while simultaneously disturbing and playing with the notion of aesthetics and frames of contemporary art. The starting point for High Heel Sisters collaboration was Malin Arnell’s, Line Skywalker Karlström’s and Karianne Stensland’s shared yet varying experiences of physical attributes of height (minimum 178 cm), shoe size (minimum 41) and age (minimum 30yrs).

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Solo Exhibitions:
2005
- "Art Holes. High Heel Sisters", installation/video/performance. Trace; Installaction Artspace, Cardiff, U.K.
2004
- ”High Art Franktione”, Installation/performance, Scandinavian Performance Event, Performance Art in NRW – 2004, Machinenhaus Essen – Produktionsort der Künste, Germany.
2004
- “Never too Much”, performance (3 shows), Black Box - Kilen, The Culturehouse, Stockholm, Sweden.
2003
- “Never too Much”, performance, Black Box, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, U.K., comissioned by ICA, and at Live Arts Festival in Hull, U.K.
2002
- ”Art Holes. High Heel Sisters”, installation/video/performance, Gallery Lars Bohman Project room, Stockholm, Sweden.
2002
- ”Three pieces by High Heel Sisters at Blunk”, installation/video/performance, Gallery Blunk, Trondheim, Norway.

Performances/installations:
2007
- "Screaming Mountain", space.gaze.desire, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen.
- "Stand Piece #11", "Stand Piece #12", "Stand Piece #13", Berlin, Germany.
2006
- "The last straw" in The Human Factor, performance program curated by Roi Vaara, ARS06, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland.
- "It comes as no surprise", Bastard Theatre Festival, Trondheim, Norway.
- "Fire (Flower, Kiss) walk with me", Art Parade, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2005
- "Art Holes", Trace; Installaction Artspace, Cardiff, Wales.
- "Stand Piece #10", S:t Davids City Mall, Cardiff, Wales.
2004
- "Stand Piece #9", Essen, Germany.
- "Stand Piece #8", Drottninggatan, Stockholm, Sweden.
- ”Down Up” and ”400 meters Midnight Run in High Heeled”, La-Bàs_Space Contention Performance Symposium, Gallery August/Nifca, Finland.
2003
- “High Heel Sisters wank off and make power”, Fylkingen 70 Years Anniversary Festival, Fylkingen New Music and Intermedia Art, Stockholm, Sweden.
- “A united walk across a square” and “Peace Piece” performed at Sergels Torg in connection with the seminar The artist as an activist held at SAM, The Culturehouse, Stockholm, Sweden.
- "Stand Piece #7", Angel Station, London, U.K.
2002
-"Mix Master Piece", "Peace Piece" and "Climbing Up Ladders Falling Down", in connection to Artholes. High Heel Sisters, Gallery Lars Bohmann Project room, Stockholm, Sweden.
- "Stand Piece #2-6", performed at five different sites along the red tube line, Stockholm, Sweden.
- "Stand Piece #1", Munkegata, Trondheim, Norway.
- "Cut Piece", "Peace Piece", "Walk Piece" and "Dream Piece" in connection to Three pieces by High Heel Sisters at Blunk, installation/video/performance, Gallery Blunk, Trondheim, Norway.

Group Exhibitions & Screenings:
2010
- "Screaming Mountain", Gestures - Performance and Sound Art at Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
2009
- "Scream", video screening, 13 Lessons in Performance Art, Top Kino, Vienna, Austria.
2008
- ”Stand Piece #11-#13", video, 6808, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
- “Scream”, Film Forms programme Nature Films, Cinema Sture, Stockholm, Sweden
- ”Scream”, video screening, Put the light out, erase a line, Studio44, Stockholm, Sweden
- "Stand Piece #11", "Stand Piece #12", "Stand Piece #13", video documentation, exhibition, Put the light out, erase a line, Studio44, Stockholm, Sweden. Curated by Malin Arnell.
- "Scream" and "Screaming Mountain", installation/video/performance, space.gaze.desire, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen.
2006
- “Shoe Piece”, “Tree Piece”, “Swim Piece” in Hit The North, video archive, curated by Filmform, Stockholm, Sweden.
2004
- “Shoe Piece”, BLICK 2004, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
- “Shoe Piece”, “Tree Piece”, “Swim Piece”, VIDEO ZONE - The 2nd International Video - Art Biennial in Israel, curated by Anna Linder (catalogue), Tel Aviv, Israel.
- "Best Regards", in A Living Group portrait, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts 250 years, Charlottenborg Exhibitions space, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- "We Love YOUko" – Hommageparty for Yoko Ono, curated by Anna Efraimsson & Eva Broberg, The Culture house, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Lá-Bas_Space Contentions Performance Symposium, Helsinki, Finland.
- Ladyfest, Malmö, Sweden.
- Women Jubilee – 96 Years, Q The Art Academies Exhibition space, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Feminism 2004, Malmö, Sweden,
2003
- Net Guest Exhibitors at www.fiberartsweden.nu
- Trønderlags utstillningen, County exhibition, selected by a jury, Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art, Trondheim, Norway.
- The Biennale of Thisted, Denmark.

Writings:
- “Feminisme gir handlingsrom”, article by Nina Schjønsby, Billedkunst #4/2006, p. 4
- ”Trace: Installaction Artspace”, article by Debra Savage, New Welsch Review, p. 2-4
- ”Varför står ni där? Flytta på er!”, article by Bo Borg, Konstperspektiv, 4/04, p. 32-37
- ”Die Skaninavische Kunst der Handlung”, NRZ, Essen, 15.07.2004
- ”Kvinnokamp med humor som vapen”, article by Malena Rydell, Dagens Nyheter, 14.06.2004
- ”Bilden av feminister är nedvärderande”, article by Erika Strand Berglund, Stockholms Fria Tidning, 04.04.2004
- ”Långbenta systrar går till attack”, review by Anna Ångström, Svenska Dagbladet, 07.03.2004
- ”Inga nya grepp om elvispen”, review by Maria Lind-Garreu, Dagens Nyheter, 07.03.2004
- ”This is Art”, review by Natalia Kazmierska, Expressen, 06.03.2004
- ”Kulturhuset bjuder på det oväntade i vår”, article by Henric Tiselius, 15.03.2004
- ”Långa donnor på höga dojor”, article by Johanna Paulsson, Dagens Nyheter, 03.03.2004
- “Aktionskonst som provocerar”, Kommunalarbetaren, nr 17, 2003
- ”Ju högre klackar desto mer politiskt”, article by Johan Lundh, www.omkonst.com, 07.09.2003
- ”Kuddkrig på plattan med konstens aktivister”, article by Mårten Arndtzén, Sveriges Radio, 28.08.2003
- ”Dagens aktivister tror inte på utopin” article by Ingela Lind, Dagens Nyheter, 30.08.2003
- ”Fem Frågor”, Annika Nilsson, 27.08.2003
- ”Staden tillbaka - utan våld”, article by Lena Sohl, Aftonbladet, 14.05.2003
- ”Laglös konstvärld”, article by Sonia Hedstrand, Dagens Nyheter, 15.02.2003
- ”Störande systrar”, review by Lena Sohl, Aftonbladet, 09.11.2002
- ”Långa konstnärer ställer ut på Galleri Lars Bohman”, article by Henric Tiselius, 07.11.2003
- “Disturbing Sisters”, article by Lena Sohl, Bang #4/2002

Publications:
- Performing theory in practise or a new trinity in patriarchy, essay by Johanna Rosenqvist, En blick från sidan - Genusforskning under tre decennier, Linda Fagerström, Maria Nilsson (ed.), DISA/Förlags AB Gondolin, 2006, p. 179-186.
- Trace Installacation Artspace Cardiff 00-05 published by SEREN books, ISBN: 1854114085, edited by André Stitt, 2005.
- "Med motstånd mot förändring", article by Eva Hallin, Art Feminism, Strategies and consequenses in Sweden from the 1970s to the present, catalogue, 2005, p. 156-165.
- VIEW, Feminist Strategies in Danish Visual Art, by Women Down the Pub, p. 91-93 and 228-229.
- Fabrik #1-2/04.
- “This Is Power”, documentary on High Heel Sisters, by Linda Hagberg and Liza Carlefred, 20 min, 2004.

Grants:
2006
- Sleipnir, Travel Grant Programme for Young Professional Artists in the Nordic Countries
- Danish Art Council, Production Support
- OCA (Office for Contemporary Arts in Norway), International Support
2005
- IASPIS (International Studio Program in Sweden), Support for exhibition abroad
- OCA (Office for Contemporary Arts in Norway), International Support
- Längmannska Kulturfonden
2004
- IASPIS (International Studio Program in Sweden), Support for Exhibition Abroad
- Production Support, Stockholm City Cultural Department
- Danish Arts Council, Support for Exhibition Abroad
2003
- Sleipnir, Travel Grant Programme for Young Professional Artists in the Nordic Countries
- IASPIS (International Studio Program in Sweden) Support for Exhibition Abroad.
- The Norden Association; Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre, residency at Hanaholmen, Finland and travel grant.
2002
- BUS (Association of Visual Artists Copyright)

Other information:
Malin Arnell, Born in Uppsala, Sweden, 1970.
MFA, Konstfack, University Collage of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 2003
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and Berlin, Germany.

Line S. Karlström, Born in Karlstad, Sweden, 1971.
MFA, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, 2006
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Anna Linder, Born in Storuman, Sweden, 1967.
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden

Karianne Stensland, Born in Bodø, Norway, 1969.
MFA, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, 2005
Lives and works in Trondheim, Norway.