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Laura Ortman + Matilda Tjäder – FREE ENTRY
We're very proud to house Brooklyn-based White Mountain Apache artist Laura Ortman on her first time in Sweden. Also on stage; Matilda Tjäder, an artist building fictional worlds via text, sound, performance and moving image.
Laura Ortman
A soloist musician, composer and vibrant collaborator, Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) creates across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks. She has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Jeffrey Gibson, Caroline Monnet, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Martha Colburn, New Red Order, and as part of the trio, In Defense of Memory. An inquisitive and exquisite violinist, Ortman is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and amplified violin, and often sings through a megaphone. She is a producer of capacious field recordings. Ortman has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, The Stone residency, The New Museum, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, The Toronto Biennial, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, and Europe. In 2008, She founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis’s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast.
Ortman is the recipient of the 2023 Institute of American Indian Arts Fellowship, 2022 Forge Project Fellowship, 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists, 2020 Jerome@Camargo Residency in Cassis, France, 2017 Jerome Foundation Composer and Sound Artist Fellowship, 2016 Art Matters Grant, 2016 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship, 2015 IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Residency, 2014-15 Rauschenberg Residency, and 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room. Ortman was also a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Matilda Tjäder med Angelina Petrovic
Matilda Tjäder is an artist and musician building fictional worlds via text, sound, performance, installations and moving image. In her sonic work, storytelling is weaved with looped voices, haunted pianos, broken beats, and field recordings.
In 2022 her debut album ”Clones” – a sonic fiction of 20 tracks/ chapters – was released and in 2020 ”Music for 1 Piano and 4 Hands” – a collaboration between herself and Alex Pierce/ Yem Gel – released on ArachHe. In fall 2023 she and her brothers formed the sibling trio and band project da-ni-ma. She is a resident on independent radio station Retreat Radio with monthly show ”Scaling” and founder of the eponymous sound series taking place across various locations in Malmö.
Tjäder is the recipient of Sven and Ellida Hjorts Minnesfond Award (2022). Recent and forthcoming projects include skēnē (Malmö), SKF Konstnärshuset (Stockholm), ICA (London), Skånes Konstförening (Malmö), Le Bourgeois (London), Mayhem (Copenhagen), Norbergfestival (Norberg), Cell Project Space (London), MOCA (Los Angeles) and Country Music presents: Doom Spa (Berlin).
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