Lina Persson makes situated interventions through narrative storyworlds and animated worldbuilding. Her art often brings some conditions attached that transform the routines of the environments she enters, as a way to world them.
She is currently a senior researcher at Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm.
Lina Persson makes situated interventions through narrative storyworlds and animated worldbuilding. Her worldbuilding practice often includes building sustainable infrastructures that are part of the aesthetic forms.
The art sometimes brings some conditions attached that transform the mindset and routines of the environments she enters, as a way to world them.
Currently a senior researcher at Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm.
Constructing alternative inner storyworlds has always been the basic mode for me to perceive the world, process the world, and to find ways to act in the world.
Worldbuilding as an artform also serves my interest in systems and the whole. An interest that brings about the desire for sustainability, for things to be fair, balanced, for the whole to sustain and thrive.
The art sometimes brings some conditions attached that transform the mindset and routines of the environments she enters, as a way to world them.
Currently a senior researcher at Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm.
Constructing alternative inner storyworlds has always been the basic mode for me to perceive the world, process the world, and to find ways to act in the world.
Worldbuilding as an artform also serves my interest in systems and the whole. An interest that brings about the desire for sustainability, for things to be fair, balanced, for the whole to sustain and thrive.
Persson’s artworks often materialize as a response to something in her environment, a response that carefully takes form within the fictive storyworld.
Examples of her responses are a proposal to update the permanent exhibition on mining at Tekniska Museet, staging a shutdown of her university or introducing climate budgeting into film courses.
This method of careful responses aligns with the concept of worlding, a term from material feminist thought about making cuts in the world, enacting interventions that produce the world we inhabit.
Worlding is acknowledging the relations, how we are entangled in the world, while acting. Being embedded in a storyworld gives her the critical distance that enables her to respond more creatively, as if things could be a whole lot different.
Examples of her responses are a proposal to update the permanent exhibition on mining at Tekniska Museet, staging a shutdown of her university or introducing climate budgeting into film courses.
This method of careful responses aligns with the concept of worlding, a term from material feminist thought about making cuts in the world, enacting interventions that produce the world we inhabit.
Worlding is acknowledging the relations, how we are entangled in the world, while acting. Being embedded in a storyworld gives her the critical distance that enables her to respond more creatively, as if things could be a whole lot different.
Due to her interests in the full range of things, from material to structural to epistemological and ontological, she prefers to make interactions on all levels simultaneously in order to trace their effects, how they are connected, how they interact and affect one another.
In order to reach initiated understanding into all parts of the wholes Persson often engages in collaborations with researchers from other disciplines.
In order to reach initiated understanding into all parts of the wholes Persson often engages in collaborations with researchers from other disciplines.
