OLA STAHL :

Ola Stahl is a writer, cultural theorist and artist based in Malmö, Sweden. He received his BA with First Class Honours from Sheffield Hallam University, and his MA with Distinction and PhD from the Department of Fine Art, Art History and Cultural Studies at The University of Leeds. He is a founding member of artist collective C.CRED with which he has participated in several international art exhibitions and festivals including BIG Torino 2002: BIG Social Game (Turin, Italy), ISEA 2004 (Tallinn, Estonia), Version>05 (Chicago, USA), and Urban Festival 2005 (Zagreb, Croatia). His work has also been shown in exhibitions at venues such as Public Space With A Roof (Amsterdam, Holland, 2004), South Hill Parks Arts Centre (Bracknell, UK, 2007), Kunsthaus Erfurt (Erfurt, Germany, 2007) and Esbjergs Kunstmuseum (Esbjerg, Denmark, 2008). In 2003-2004 he collaborated with NYC based artist collective 16Beaver on a series of projects and in 2006-2007 he worked, and at times lived, with Philadelphia-based artist group/space Basekamp on, amongst other things, a contribution to the Locally Localized Gravity exhibition at the ICA, Philadelphia (USA). His writing has been published in several journals including parallax, Angelaki, Journal of Visual Culture, and Pequod, as well as in a forthcoming volume edited by Simon O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepfke under the title Deleuze and Contemporary Art (Edinburgh University Press). He has contributed papers, readings and performances to many international festivals and conferences including the annual conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature on the theme Writing Aesthetics (Leeds, 2003), the CentreCATH conference The Ethics and Politics of Indexicality and Virtuality (Bradford, 2005), The Living Thought of Gilles Deleuze at Copenhagen Business School and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art (Copenhagen, 2005), and the Beckett & Company centenary conference at The Tate Modern and Goldsmiths College (London, 2006). Between 2001-2003 he was one of the editors of parallax, an international journal of cultural studies and between 2003-2008 he taught at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He is currently working out of shared studio and project space Ystadvägen 13 in Malmö where he is also part of the editorial collectives of the journal FASAD and the independent publishing house Edition / In Edit Mode Press.

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