Per Hüttner
Photographer and Mixed Media Artist
The Swedish born Per Hüttner is known for his photographic work, drawings on paper and video installations. Past artistic practices are project and/or process based in that he exercises different fitness activities (jogging, stretching, working out, etc.) in varying situations, which he then photographs and/or films. The videos are short loops that are often projected, as well as he often relates to the history of painting while producing these videos. The subject matter of his videos often deals with questions relating to the human body, media and ageing. In contrary, his photographs are much more documentary as he wishes to challenge the notions of authenticity and the language of representations in photography and its history. In 2002, Hüttner received a grant from the International Artist Studio Program in Sweden to fund his residency at 18th Street Arts Center. While at 18th Street, he allowed the contemporary culture of Los Angeles as well as the artistic approach that many local artists take, to influence and develop his work.
Installation Artist
Cecilia Wendt is a Swedish installation artist, who in 2001 with a grant from the International Studio Program in Sweden, came with her group, N55, to Los Angeles to work as artists-in-residence at 18th Street. While here, the group work on their installation called LAND, which was built in an effort to discuss the meaning of ownership of and access to land. LAND is literally constructed from pieces of land from different places in the world. The various parts are added by persons who guarantee that anybody can stay in LAND and use it. In a democratic stance, the artists say that any individual is entitled to and is allowed to use the installation. The manual for LAND states, “Attention is directed to the logical relation between persons and the rights of persons. Persons should be treated as persons and therefore as having rights. If we deny this assertion it goes wrong: here is a person, but this person should not be treated as a person, or: here is a person, who should be treated as a person, but not as having rights. Therefore we can only talk about persons in a way that makes sense if we know that persons have rights.” Wendt is also part of the international group called Learning Site. This group of artists engages with local situations (wherever they may find themselves) and developing art projects which are learning platforms and demonstrations about the economic, political and social structures of unused materials, recycled waste or conditions of production in societies. As their name suggests, Learning Site understands art as being related to forms of knowledge production and thus also to dialogue and learning.
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