Our lines have crossed at several occasions before.

Carina Gunnars and Ingrid Eriksson were part of Stig Sjölunds ballet. Anna Kindgren och Carina Gunnars ran the A/C StarBar, a bar with its own show in Umeå.

We share some points of reference that remain important, such as having had a whole range of great artists, thinkers, writers, lecturers, critics, curators, etc as teachers and not to forget our fellowstudents at The Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå.

We all showed our work at Y1 (Ynglingagatan 1), Ingrid Eriksson from -95, Carina Gunnars from -96, Anna Kindgren and Karin Johnson from -97. We were part of the artistgroup SweDe (1997-2000) that among other things organized "Wednesday projects" at Y1 as well as some of the shows with other artists.

Bibliography:

Sandra Nolgren "Med små medel"
Rum Tidskriften om arkitektur, inredning och design, no 4, 2003

Catrin Lundqvist "v.51 love and devotion at Moderna Museet"
Udda Veckor
Catalogue, Moderna museet, Stockholm, 2003

Milou Allerholm
"Platforms and Meeting Grounds a view on Swedish art now"
IASPIS 010101-010630, June 2003

Thomas Olsson "På plats, Moderna museet c/o, Konstnärer visade mod"
Svenska Dagbladet, January 13th, 2003

Milou Allerholm "Odogmatiskt. Love and devotions tilltal är sympatiskt."
Dagens Nyheter, December 21st, 2002

Carina Dahlberg "Kärlek och hängivenhet x fyra"
Aktum extra, Aktuellt vid Umeå universitet, November 8/2002

Mårten Arndtzén "Konsten som socialt rum"
Svenska museer, Museernas branschtidning, 1/03

Sonia Hedstrand "Konstnärer i samhällets tjänst"
Dagens Nyheter/Kultur, torsdag 27 maj, 2004





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