Andreas Engman
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mail: andreas.engman@agitera.com
cell: +46(0)704155739
Studio / Public platform: Harald Stakegatan 2, 415 15 GBG
I'm an artist, educator, and former chef living and working in Gothenburg. My artistic practice is rooted in a conceptual and research-driven methodology. A long-standing interest in my work is investigating the many productive entanglements formed in the intersection of institutional critique, political philosophy, politics of food, and performance practices. My works are associative, open-ended assemblages that often meet the public through installations, performances, and soundscapes. I frequently seek counter-rational strategies and speculative forms of meaning-making when producing work. I'm interested in how metaphor can open up speculative reframings and new interpretations of a specific subject. And how to practice methods of cross-pollination to try to see things in a new light by borrowing the specificities from one field of study to contaminate old customs in the crossover between subjects and new ways of knowing. My experience as a professional chef offers material knowledge and practical skills to my work on food and commensality.
Further investigations into the many political, aesthetic, and affective intersections of art and food are performed through the collaborative platform AFTERWORKS, which is run together with artists Rose Brander and Kjell Caminha.
Continuing my deep interest in the fabric of institutions through their structures, attitudes, and ecologies, I initiated the artist-run platform Temporary Stabilisations with artist Annie Johansson. Temporary Stabilisations can be seen as another vehicle and strategy to explore expanded practices tied to "the institutional." This practice-based research project aims to establish a space to gain further insights into the complex ecologies of institutions. The space is a studio and a public transdisciplinary platform for contemporary art and related practices, situated in a former convenience store in Gamlestan in Gothenburg, Sweden.
In collaboration with Kjell Caminha, MC Coble, and Jeuno Kim, I also formed the group Public* Display* of Actions*. P*D*A* is an anti-fascist platform using performance and speech tactics from street and guerilla theater, agitprop, Speakers' Corners, and political assemblies to initiate contexts for collective experience and demonstration. How can the visual and performative literacy of art be shared and used collectively among artists, activists, researchers, and the general public to navigate the swiftly changing social and political climate in a time when white power and institutional violence are gathering in the wake of political instability driven by post-factual politics, white fragility, and entitlement?
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