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)