The group exhibition Talkin’ Loud and Saying Something! focuses on the positively controversial and challenging theme of visual artist research. This event is the first comprehensive contemporary art show that deliberately and openly seeks to combine artistic expression with research means and methods, and which also aims at effecting a productive and thought-provoking collision. The exhibition consists of four artistic research projects in and through each particular practice. The participating artists represent a wide variety of artistic strategies and have also worked coherently and consistently with research aims and methods.

Of the participating artists, Sopowan Boonnimitra (film maker, film activist and researcher at Chulalongkorn university, Bangkok) was among the first three to be awarded a Ph.D. in Art from the University of Lund in 2006. Jacqueline Donachie, who graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in the early 1990’s has spent 5 years working with a Professor of Human Genetics from the University of Glasgow, mapping a story of how certain genetic diseases worsen from generation to generation. Heli Rekula, one of Finland's most distinguished photographic artists, is currently doing her Ph.D. project at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, and Annica Karlsson Rixon, one of Sweden’s most interesting photographic artists of the last decade, is working on this project with her partner Anna Viola Hallberg, (Gothenburg). She also is studying for her Ph.D. at the School of Photography at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg.

The catalogue, which consists of a programmatic essay by curator Prof. Mika Hannula, individual statements made by the artists/researchers, and important visual documentation, will also constitute the basic material for the deliberations of this symposium.

At the Gothenborg Centre for Contemporary Art (Konsthall), which is situated next to the Göteborg Museum of Art, there will be another exhibition on artistic research produced as an independent curatorial project.

The diverging perspectives of these two exhibitions will certainly enliven the conference symposium Talking loud and saying something?

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