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Magnus Bärtås
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Email
Magnus.Bartas@konstfack.se
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08-450 4121
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Vice-Chancellor
Description
I am an artist, writer and head of research at Konstfack, working mainly with text and video. I am an editor of VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, and a member of SUHF:s (The Association Swedish Higher Education Institution) borard for quality. My dissertation in artistic research, You Told Me – Work stories and video essays, was presented in 2010 at The University of Gothenburg. The stories in focus in the dissertation-text are the stories behind an artwork. I call them work stories [verkberättelser]. A work story is, to use a very condensed description, a written or oral narrative about the forming of materials, immaterial units, situations, relations and social practices that is, or leads to, an artwork. The You Told Me-title of the dissertation refers not only to relations and social practice, but also to interrelations between the narrator, the viewer, images and the artist within the practice of the video-essay. In this practice of the narration is reflecting and commenting on its own process; its practical, relational, and ethical aspects. Thus, in the video essay, the work story is present to different degrees, even though often fragmentized or embedded. Here it exists in a polyphonic situation. It is a story among multiple narratives. One of the works of the dissertation, Madame & Little Boy, won the Grand Prize at Oberhausen International Filmfestival. Between 2013 and 2015 I lead the research project Microhistories (funded by National Research Council), which expanded some questions of my dissertation. The objective was an investigation of how a mutual exchange can come about between the historical perspective/approach used in microhistory, and visual art, especially the video essay genre. The project gathers knowledge from artistic practice/artistic research and the field of history and has resulted in a number of artworks, screenings, seminars and the anthology Microhistories (ed. Magnus Bärtås and Andrej Slávik). Since 2019 Mikrohistorier is a postgraduate course at Konstfack, and thereby this research project has been given a pedagogical and practical application. Beside showing my works in filmfestivals and exhibitions in galleries and museums I frequently publish essays (most often in collaboration with Fredrik Ekman). Our book All monsters must die (together with Fredrik Ekman) was shortlisted for the August Prize 2011 and is published by House of Anansi, Canada in 2015. In 2016 Göteborgs Konsthall presented a larger retrospective exhibition of my work. In my current research/practice I investigate visual/spatial text practice, based on assemblage of embroidery. An anthology with a similar theme of text art was published at Konstfack 2013 – Texst (ed. Magnus Bärtås) with contributions by Swedish authors and visual artists. The assemblage works has, beside Göteborgs Konsthall, been shown in a number of exhibitions. It has also been published in The Catalyst Experiment, by Project Art Writing at Aaarhus Litteraturcenter (Catalyst Press 2017, together with an exhibition at KH7 Artspace, Aarhus). See also “Svensk textkonst” in Samtidskonst för vanligt folk, Sveriges Konstföreningar 2013.
Publications, artistic output and conference papers
2022
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2022). Correspondences - Hyun A and Mishima Yukio. In Hyun A (ed.).
Reflex of the Flower
Seoul: Mediabus p. 211-220.
2021
Books
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Ekman, F. (2021).
Orienterarsjukan och andra berättelser.
Stockholm: Kaunitz-Olsson
Conference admissions
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2021). Are You Interested in Hair? - An Introduction to Artistic Research.
Konstfack Research Week 2021
Konstfack Research Week 2021, 25-29 January 2021
2020
Books
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M (ed.). (2020).
VIS Nordic journal for artistic research, nr 3.
Stockholm: Stockholms konstnärliga högskola
Articles and book chapters
Refereed
Bärtås, M. (2020). Stills from The Miracle in Tensta (Theoria). In Peter Aronsson, Andrej Slávik & Birgitta Svensson (ed.).
Images in History/History in Images : Towards and (audio)visual historiography
Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien p. 237-251.
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2020). The Miracle of Tensta (Theoria). In Maria Lind and Lars Bang Larsson (ed.).
The New Model : An Inquiry
Berlin: Sternberg Press p. 91-100.
Conference admissions
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2020). The Photo Object.
Changwon Sculpture Biennale International Conference 2020, Changwon, Sydkorea, 17 september - 1 november 2020
2019
Books
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M (ed.). (2019).
VIS Nordic journal for artistic research, nr 2.
Stockholm: Stockholms konstnärliga högskola
Articles and book chapters
Refereed
Bärtås, M. (2019). Bye Bye Monkey.
Roadkill : a project based on the photos of Anders Ängsvik
Stockholm: Praun & Guermouche
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Ekman, F. (2019). Det reaktionära avantgardet - Om Romaine Brooks och Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Paletten
p. 30-37.
Bärtås, M. (2019). Forskning pågår!. In Susanne Helgeson (ed.).
175 år av kamp, glädje och misslyckanden
Stockholm: Konstfack p. 146-146.
Artistic output
Refereed
Bärtås, M. (2019).
The Three Great Stimulants.
[Mixed material].
2018
Artistic output
Refereed
Bärtås, M. (2018).
Age of Anger.
[Mixed material].
Bärtås, M. (2018).
Kumiko, Johnny Walker & The Cute.
[Moving image].
Conference admissions
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2018). Who is a Researcher? - art making and densified knowledge.
Nordic hands
Aarhus: HINT project
2017
Books
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Ekman, F. (2017).
Bebådaren - Gabriele D'Annunzio och fascismens födelse.
Stockholm: Bonnier
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2017). Notes on texts and warning and fear. In Lise Haurum, Trine Rytter Andersen (ed.).
The catalyst experiment
Aarhus: CatalYst
2016
Books
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Slávik, A (ed.). (2016).
Microhistories.
Stockholm: Konstfack / University College of Arts, Crafts & Design
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2016). Epilogue - Big ships and small boats. In Magnus Bärtås, Andrej Slávik (ed.).
Microhistories
Stockholm: Konstfack / University College of Arts, Crafts & Design p. 294-299.
Bärtås, M. (2016). Script card used in the making of the video essay Madame & Little Boy, 2009. In Roger von Reybekiel and Julie Cirelli (ed.).
Text not necessarily meant to be viewed as art
Stockholm: Konstfack Collection p. 123-124.
Bärtås, M. (2016). The miracle of Tensta (Theoria). In Magnus Bärtås, Andrej Slávik (ed.).
Microhistories
Stockholm: Konstfack / University College of Arts, Crafts & Design p. 24-32.
Bärtås, M. (2016). The strangest stranger. In Magnus Bärtås, Andrej Slávik (ed.).
Microhistories
Stockholm: Konstfack / University College of Arts, Crafts & Design p. 210-239.
Artistic output
Refereed
Bärtås, M. (2016).
The Strangest Stranger and Other Stories.
[Mixed material].
2015
Books
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Ekman, F. (2015).
All monsters must die - an excursion to North Korea.
Toronto: Anasi International
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2015). Biographies. In Maria Lantz, Staffan Lundgren (ed.).
Radical Re Re Re Re Re Rethinking
1 uppl. Stockholm: Konstfack / University College of Arts, Crafts & Design p. 96-105.
2014
Books
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Ekman, F. (2014).
Yezidier - en reseessä.
Farsta: Molin & Sorgenfrei
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2014). The Emergence of Texts.
Worlds don’t come easy
Reykjavik: FUMF
Artistic output
Refereed
Bärtås, M. (2014).
Miraklet i Tensta (theoria).
[Moving image].
2013
Articles and book chapters
Refereed
Bärtås, M. (2013). Work stories revisited. In Hannula, Kaila, Palmer, Sarje (ed.).
Artists as Researchers
: A New Paradigm for Art Education in Europe
Helsingfors: Academy of Fine Arts p. 105-115.
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2013). Om det gulliga.
Ett lysande namn
(22-23)
Bärtås, M., & Ekman, F. (2013). Titos lustgård.
Granta : arena för ny litteratur
(2)
Bärtås, M. (2013). Verkberättelse som pilgrimage.
ArtMonitor
(10), p. 11-31.
Bärtås, M. (2013). Svensk textkonst.
Samtidskonst för vanligt folk
Limhamn: Sveriges konstföreningar
Bärtås, M. (2013). Work Stories and Life Stories - Afterword by Magnus Bärtås.
Seven pears in a line
Oslo: Flamme forlag
2012
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2012). Paradise found.
Curiosity and method : ten years of Cabinet Magazine
New York: Cabinet Books p. 364-367.
2011
Books
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Ekman, F. (2011).
Alla monster måste dö - gruppresa till Nordkorea : ett reportage.
Stockholm: Bonnier
Articles and book chapters
Refereed
Bärtås, M. (2011). You told me - work stories and video essays.
MaHKUzine : Journal of Artistic Research
(10), p. 43-56.
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Ekman, F. (2011). Strålverk - Japansk kultur är besatt av det radioaktiva hotet.
Aftonbladet
(24 mars)
Bärtås, M. (2011). Det hände sig / It Happened.
Found text and borrowed ideas
Stockholm: Björkholmen Gallery
Bärtås, M. (2011). The Barbieri Palace. In Sarah Kim (ed.).
The island : a case study of a collector's mind
Berlin: Revolver Publishing
2010
Books
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M. (2010).
You told me - work stories and video essays / verkberättelser och videoessäer.
Diss. Göteborg: Nämnden för konstnärligt utvecklingsarbete vid Konstnärliga fakulteten, Göteborgs universitet
Articles and book chapters
Refereed
Bärtås, M. (2010). Work stories.
ArtMonitor
(8), p. 127-142.
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Plax, D. (2010). Hägrar mot elefanter.
OEI
(48-49-50)
2009
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Bärtås, M., & Ekman, F. (2009). All monsters must die - Gojira’s children go to North Korea.
Cabinet
, 35(Dust, Fall)
Bärtås, M. (2009). Kumiko, Johnnie Walker and the Cute.
ArtMonitor
(6), p. 6-21.
Bärtås, M. (2009). Laganda.
Expressen
(1 juni)
Bärtås, M. (2009). Efter ord.
Sent items
Stockholm: Bokbål
Bärtås, M. (2009). Kumiko, Johnnie Walker and the Cute. In Karolina Pahlén (ed.).
Between the Images : imaginable experiences for future memories
Stockholm: Xposeptember - Stockholms fotofestival p. 33-42.
Updated: 21 August 2020
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