January 2021
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Michael Cedlind was awarded the Bernadotte Scholarship 2020 for a project that revolves around film's ability to convey knowledge. The Filmstaden exhibition is carried out as part of the Bernadotte scholarship. Michael Cedlind, born 1986 in
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Michael Cedlind was awarded the Bernadotte Scholarship 2020 for a project that revolves around film's ability to convey knowledge. The exhibition Film city is carried out as part of the Bernadotte Scholarship.
Michael Cedlind, born in 1986 in Stockholm, took his master's degree in art at Konstfack in 2019. He has a file. BA in Literature at Linköping University and has studied at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague.
His project revolves around film's ability to convey knowledge. Based on early film, and the technology of the moving image, he reflects on the function of film for memory and thinking by making use of theory from the area of competence of literature. It also reflects the relationship of music to moving images and the social role of film in Swedish folk culture. The exhibition is carried out as part of the Bernadotte programme.
Film city
Video (HD, 26 min), mixed media.
A story that takes place in the dark space behind the screen. An attempt to bring the repressed self-awareness of the machine into the light. A kind of therapy for a technology lost to the wind. A meditation on the DV video format, its inability to distinguish between good and bad, rich and poor, funny and boring.
The work starts from the emergence of the moving image and its technical, narrative and spatial possibilities to explore the border between the real and what seems real. Moving image as a way of thinking and being. The image material has been added in the studio and in the field. A spiritual guide has been the method of editing film using an optical printer. The moving image is recorded in the hard drive's memory but also something that is performed in a changeable now. This tension between the recorded, the signified and the signifying provides the opportunity to both discover the familiar and recognize the unfamiliar.
Michael Cedlind
ABOUT THE BERNADOTTE PROGRAM
Studio grant with the aim of contributing to encounters between arts and interdisciplinary development
Since 2016, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Swedish Academy and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture operate a joint grant programme to promote inter-Academic work for the benefit of researchers and young artists.
The Academy of Fine Arts' Bernadotte Program fellows have access to a studio at Fredsgatan 12 during the scholarship year and each receive a one-year work stipend. The scholarship also provides opportunities for exhibitions, seminars, conferences, etc., in collaboration with the other academies and their fellows.
Justification
Michael Cedlind has been awarded the Bernadotte Scholarship for his artistic work, which is driven by an aspiration to map reality realistically and objectively. Michael Cedlind follows a tradition of pioneers, such as Dan Graham and Nam June Paik, where filmed bodies, spatiality and popular culture are examined and portrayed. But the artist eludes the viewer with his claim. Based on his playful, tactile and idiosyncratic processing of image, sound and text, the viewer is lured into a reality film created by the artist.