CURRICULUM VITAE : OLA STÅHL

Qualifications

2000 – 2007: Across the most Radical Terrain: Toward an Aesthetics of Dissention, PhD, Department of Fine Art, Art History and Cultural Studies, The University of Leeds, UK.

1999-2000: MA, The Social History of Art, Department of Fine Art, Art History and Cultural Studies, The University of Leeds, UK. Graduated with Distinction.

1996-1999: BA (Hons), History of Art, Design and Film, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Graduated with First Class Honours.


Work Experience

2003 - 2008: Associate lecturer, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK.

2008: Visiting lecturer, Department of Cultural Sciences, The University of Lund, Sweden.

2007: Visiting lecturer, K3 (Konst, Kultur, Kommunikation), Malmö University, Sweden.

2004-2007: Associate lecturer, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.

2003-2004: Visiting lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

2001-2003: Editor of parallax, an international journal of Cultural Studies published by Taylor and Francis, London, UK.


Projects

2008 – ongoing: Founding member and co-editor of Malmö based publishing house In Edit Mode Press.

2008 – ongoing: Founding member of improv/sound poetry ensemble Tre Advokater alongside Peder Alexis Olsson, Pär Thörn & Carl Lindh.

2008 – ongoing: Founding member and co-editor of façade journal FASAD, Ystadvägen 13, Malmö, Sweden.

2000 – 2007: Founding member of the London based artist collective C.CRED – Collective CREative Dissent.


Selected Exhibitions , Performances & Events

2009: ‘#4: Restaged’ (with Carl Lindh & Peder Alexis Olsson), sound performance, part of Verbale Pupiller, Århus, 2009.

2009: ‘FILM, ‘Concrete, & The Smear,’ and ‘RANT,’ a series of performances and restagings, part of the exhibition Descent to Revolution, Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

2009: ‘SPOOLS,’ sound installation, ISEA 2009, Ormeau Baths, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2009: ‘Concrete, and the Smear,’ sound installation, N E O N Gallery, Brösarp, Sweden.

2009: ‘A T L A S,’ sound/text installation, part of The Art of the Overhead, Stapelbäddsparken, Malmö, Sweden.

2009: ‘Chapter 13:3’ (with Tre Advokater), sound performance, Stanza, Inkonst, Malmö, Sweden.

2008: ‘Improvised Set #2’ (with Tre Advokater), sound performance, FASAD, Malmö, Sweden.

2008: ‘Concrete, & the Smear’ (with Kajsa Thelin), text and audio installation part of The Map is not the Territory, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark. Catalogue: ISBN 978-87-89311-26-5.

2008: ‘Improvised Set #1’ (with Tre Advokater), sound performance, Inkonst, Malmö, Sweden.

2008: BUNKER (with the alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Groups), presentation/performance, part of the New Dark Age exhibition at Hats Plus Gallery, London, UK.

2008: … alt.SPACE presents… (with The alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Groups), a series of talks, lectures and events staged at various locations in Malmö and webcast as part of a Red76 exhibition at Franklin’s VDC Copy Centre, Columbus, USA.

2007: ‘Queen Kelly: Soundtrack’ (with Carl Lindh), sound performance in conjunction with a screening of Stroheim’s film Queen Kelly, Filmstudion KINO, Lund, Sweden.

2007: Permanent Ignition: The Stasi Edits (with C.CRED), audio-installation at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK. Catalogue: ISBN 3-938964-04-9.

2007: Permanent Ignition: The Stasi Edits (with C.CRED), audio-installation at Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany. Catalogue: ISBN 3-938964-04-9.

2007: alt.SPACE Festival 2007 (with the alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Groups), event series hosted by South London Gallery, Gasworks, Beaconsfield and various public spaces, London, UK.

2007: Learning is Fun and Dangerous (with the alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Groups), events and presentations part of a program organized by Red76, Reed College, Portland, USA.

2007: alt.SPACE research centre (with the alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Groups), residency and events program, Basekamp, Philadelphia, USA.

2007: Team Players for Plausible Artworlds (with Basekamp), installation and events program, ICA, Philadelphia, USA.

2006: Walk-Talk-Eat-TalkSomeMore (with Basekamp & C.CRED), exhibit and display at Common Room 2, New York City, USA.

2006: ‘RANT / Beckett Borderwords’ (with C.CRED), performance, part of the Beckett and Company Centenary Conference at Tate Modern and Goldsmiths College, London, UK.

2006: Plausible Artworlds (with C.CRED), events program, Basekamp, Philadelphia, USA. 2006: alt.SPACE Festival 2006 (with the alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Groups), event series hosted by South London Gallery and E:vent Network, London, UK.

2006: ‘Walk-Talk-Eat-Talk Some More’ (with Basekamp & C.CRED), installation/program of public conversations and temporary IT-radio station, part of the Miss Mao exhibition at Blacklist Projects, London, UK.

2005: ‘alt.SPACE Festival 2005’ (with C.CRED and the alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Groups), installation and event series, part of Operacija Grad/Urban Festival, Zagreb, Croatia.

2005: ‘counter/cartographies’ (with C.CRED), archive installation, walks and events program, part of Version>05, Chicago, USA.

2004: ‘counter/cartographies’ (with C.CRED), installation, walks and events program, Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam, Holland.

2004: ‘counter/cartographies’ (with C.CRED), installation, walks and events program, ISEA 2004, Helsinki and Tallinn, Estonia/Finland. Catalogue: ISBN 85- 89730-02-6.

2003: counter.cartographies (with the 16Beavergroup & C.CRED), exhibitions at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2003: counter.cartographies (with the 16Beavergroup & C.CRED), exhibition part of the Get Rid of Yourself exhibition at ACC, Weimar and Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany.

2003: counter.cartographies (with the 16Beavergroup & C.CRED), exhibition at Exnergasse Kunstahlle, Vienna, Austria.

2002: ‘Permanent Ignition: Turin’ (with C.CRED), interventions, installations and public symposium, BIG Torino 2002 – BIG Social Game, Italy. Catalogue: ISBN 88-900196-1-1.

2001: ‘The Internationale,’ part of Sounds Recorded for an Empty Nightclub, Capitol, Sheffield, UK.

2001: de’face (with Carl Lindh), installation, The National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield, UK.

2001: de’face (with Carl Lindh), installation, Protoacademy, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2001: de’face (with Carl Lindh), installation, Haus Ennepetal, Ennepetal, Germany.

2001: de’face (with Carl Lindh), installation, Industriemuseum Heinrichshütte, Hattingen, Germany.

2000: Dereliction, Blauhaus Gallery, Xanten, Germany.

1999: Dereliction and Monument, Bloc Arts, Sheffield, UK.

1999: Booby Prize (with Chris Andrews & Jenny Baines), Bloc Arts, Sheffield, UK.


Selected Published & Edited Work

2010 (forthcoming): Chinese Whispers,’ volume co-edited with Carl Lindh (Malmö: In Edit Mode Press, 2009). ISBN: 978-91-977853-2-7.

2010: ‘Counting Each Step of the Sun,’ volume co-edited with Carl Lindh (Malmö: In Edit Mode Press, 2009). ISBN: 978-91-977853-1-0.

2010: ‘BLOODCRYSTALPOLLENSTAR’ (with Neil Chapman), in Simon O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepfke (eds.), Deleuze and Contemporary Art (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2009). ISBN: 978-0748638383

2010: FASAD No 6, edited series, façade journal featuring the work of artist group VITALforms (issue 2, vol 2, 2010).

2010: FASAD No 5, edited series, façade journal featuring the work of graphic designers and illustrators Emma Holmberg & Trine Natskår (issue 1, vol 2, 2010).

2009: FASAD No 4, edited series, façade journal featuring the work of storytellers Joseph Collins and Andrew Brown (issue 4, vol. 1, 2009).

2009: FASAD No 3, edited series, façade journal featuring a prose text by script writer Daniel Karlsson (issue 3, vol. 1, 2009).

2009: ‘Inverse Image,’ in webjournal Unrealized Projects (vol. 4, 2009).

2009: FASAD No 2, edited series, façade journal featuring a graphic piece by Lovisa Witt (issue 2, vol. 1, 2009).

2009: ‘Metronom’ (with Peder Alexis Olsson), in Pequod (issue 45, 2009). ISSN: 1102-6499.

2008: FASAD No 1, edited series, façade journal featuring a text piece by Peder Alexis Olsson (issue 1, vol. 1, 2008).

2008: ‘Counter.Cartographies: Notes towards a Future Atlas (002)’ (with C.CRED), in Pequod, (issue 42, 2008). ISSN: 1102-6499.

2008: ‘At an Intersection: Towards a Wildly Mutating Space Praxis,’ in Q:2, artist publication edited by Lee Simmons and funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

2007: ‘Counter.Cartographies: Notes towards a Future Atlas (001)’ (with C.CRED), in ‘Inchoate Cartographies’, parallax (vol. 13, issue 1, 2007). Print ISSN: 1353-4645. Online ISSN: 1460-700X.

2007: Review of Simon O’Sullivan’s ‘Art Encounter Deleuze and Guattari’, in Journal of Visual Cultures (vol. 6, no 1, 2007). Online ISSN: 1741-2994. Print ISSN: 1470-4129.

2006: ‘A 12x12 Interview Game’ (with C.CRED), interview series and article in Artquest (issue 5, 2006).

2006: ‘Contours and Case-Studies of a Dissenting Subjectivity; or, how to live creatively in a fearful world’, (with Simon O’Sullivan), in [eds.] Felicity Coleman and Charles Stivale, Anglaki (vol. 11, issue 1, 2006). Print ISSN: 0969-725X. Online ISSN: 1469-2899.

2004: ‘counter/cartographies’ (with C.CRED), text, graphics and posters, in Joris Brouwers, Jeroen Bruin and Inga Zimprich [eds] / Adi Hollander and Katrien Otten [special editors], ‘This is Public Space’, HTV (issue 52).

2003: ‘Mourning Revolution,’ edited volume and cover image ‘Permanent Ignition: Turin #3’ (with C.CRED), parallax (vol. 9, issue 2, 2003). Print ISSN: 1353-4645. Online ISSN: 1460-700X.

2003: ‘Writing (in) Terror(ism),’ edited volume, parallax (vol. 9, issue 1, 2003). Print ISSN: 1353-4645. Online ISSN: 1460-700X.

2002: ‘Having Sex,’ edited volume, parallax (vol. 8, issue 4, 2002). Print ISSN: 1353-4645. Online ISSN: 1460-700X.

2002: ’Permanent Ignition: Turin #2’ (with C.CRED) cover image of ’Levinas and Politics,’ parallax (vol. 8, issue 3, 2002). Print ISSN: 1353-4645. Online ISSN: 1460-700X.

2002: ’The Internationale,’ sound piece, on Sounds Recorded for an Empty Nightclub, Host (ed.), Sheffield, UK.

1999: ‘Mellem tanke og udtryk: noter på subjektivitet, autorfunktion og eksil’, trans. Simon Sheikh, article in Simon Sheikh and Katya Sanders [eds.], Ojeblikket – Tidskrift for kunst og visuelle kulturer (issue 41.9). ISSN 0906-1169.

1999: Double Trouble, review of an exhibition by Jakob Tellufsen and Kristian West, and Inside/Out, review of a group exhibition, Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, in Simon Sheikh and Katya Sanders [eds.], Ojeblikket – Tidskrift for kunst og visuelle kulturer (issue 41.9). ISSN 0906-1169.


Selected Conference Papers, Artist Talks & Presentations

2009: RAF – A Public Conversation, Ola Stahl, Bo Cavefors & Pär Thörn, KRETS Gallery, Malmö, Sweden.

2008: Artist Talk, Ola Stahl & Carl Lindh, part of the Sound Project organized by Anthony Castronovo, The University of Florida, USA.

2007: REVISIT: Ulrike Meinhof, lecture at Signal Galleri, Malmö, Sweden.

2007: Artist Talk (with The alt.SPACE Network of Artist Research Grouops), South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK.

2007: Towards a Stray Dog Practice, paper given at Goldsmihts College, University of London, UK.

2006: Artist Talk, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK.

2006: ‘Beckett’s Borderwords’, paper given as part of the Beckett and Company Centenary Conference at Tate Modern and Goldsmiths College, London, UK.

2005: ‘To Blow Into That Freezing Night’, paper given at The Living Thought of Gilles Deleuze, conference at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2005: ‘To Blow Into That Freezing Night’, paper given at Ethics and Politics of Indexicality and Virtuality, conference organized by centreCATH/The University of Leeds, Bradford Museum of Film and Television, UK.

2004: ‘Towards a Minor Practice’, paper given as part of panel discussion on Cy Twombly and the Minor, part of the Sweatshop Series, The Serpentine Gallery, London, UK.

2004: ‘counter/cartographies’, paper given at the conference ‘Networked Experience’, part of ISEA 2004, Tallinn Art Academy, Estonia.

2004: RAF – Aesthetics and Dissidence, paper given as part of a postgraduate research symposium on ‘the terroristic’, at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

2003: ‘The Expansion of Aesthetics and the Creation of Specificity’, conference paper, Writing Aesthetics, The Annual Conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, The University of Leeds, UK.

2002: ‘(im)permanent ignitions’ (with C.CRED), symposium organized in collaboration with calc as part of ‘p.i. – the permanent ignition project’, BIG Torino 2002 – BIG Social Game, Italy.

2001: De/face: In Abstract Violence, paper given at research symposium, The Department of Fine Art, Art History and Cultural Studies, The University of Leeds, UK.

2001: De/face: In Abstract Violence, guest lecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2001: De/face: In Abstract Violence, guest lecture, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden.

2000: ComplExiles & ReMembranes, paper given at postgraduate degree symposium, The Department of Fine Art, Art History and Cultural Studies, The University of Leeds, UK.