"Art/Sensation consists of crew and advisory board members who are active researchers, artists and curators."
Susanne Fessé
Founder, Artistic leader
Susanne Fessé is an art historian with a Master of Arts from Uppsala University.
She is the founder and artistic leader at Art/Sensation.
She has presented her work “Writing about emotions: a study of how theory of affect can be applied at the intersection of place and work” at AICA Online International Conference 2020, AICA Turkey, 2020 and "Art - What is it good for? Education, mediation, criticism". An international conference arranged at Linnaeus University, in Växjö, Sweden, 2020.
2021 the work was presented at Landskrona Foto, The Hasselblad Foundation and The department of Sociology, Lund University as part of the international Symposium A System Among Others? Power, Balance, Self-reflection on and with the Photographic image. The symposium will take place on-site at Landskrona Theater, Landskrona, Sweden on the 30 September & 1 October.
In addition to museum or gallery shows, she has curated a number of temporary site-specific exhibitions in public space supported by culture administration, City of Stockholm. Susanne is a member of AICA Sweden and ICOM international. www.susannefesse.se
Lundahl & Seitl
Art/Sensation Advisory Board
Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. In their work, simulated realities are left incomplete, with triggers and nudges that activate the visitor's ability to create independent meaning from a web of mental and physical objects.
Lundahl & Seitl's works and projects have been exhibited worldwide, including (but not limited to): in the UK at Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, Battersea Arts Centre, Royal Academy of Arts, Cell Project Space and NOMAD Projects; in Germany at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berliner Festspiele, Hamburger Kunsthalle, MMK2 and Kunstmuseum Bonn; in France at Center Pompidou-Metz, and Avignon Festival; in Belgium at S.M.A.K, STUK and Museum M; in Switzerland at Kunsthalle Bern; in Austria at Steirischer Herbst and Museum der Moderne; in India at the Kochi Muziris Biennalen; in South Korea at Wooran Foundation; in Iceland at Cycle Festival; in Norway at Momentum 8 – Tunnel Vision, Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art; in Sweden at Weld, Nationalmuseum, Dramaten, Accelerator and Magasin III; and in the USA at SOCAP California. Photo: Gustav Almestål www.lundahl-seitl.com
Vendela Grundell Gachoud
Art/Sensation Advisory Board
Vendela Grundell Gachoud is as an art historian focused on how photography shapes seeing and being in a digital world. This topical theme informs her commissioned and independent output as well as research projects like her PhD onhow glitch art disrupts digital interfaces (2012-2016), her postdoc on photographers with visual impairments (2018-2020) and her study on how metadata governs cultural heritage images (2020). She consistently contributes to international interdisciplinary events, courses, publications and collaborations combining creative and scholarly practices. Recent examples include organizing the symposium “Normal Now! Art and Dis/ability in a Digital World” (2020), participating in panels on diversity in digital humanities (e.g., Europeana Tech x AI 2021, KTH 2018 and 2019), engaging in artistic research in the performance project Living Documents (2018-2019) and writing chapters for the anthologies Error, Ambiguity, Creativity (2020), Socially Engaged Art History (2021) and Visual Activism in the 21st Century (2021). Hermultisensory and multimodal approach emerges through her artistic practice – photography following a transition from dance – presented individually and collectively in Sweden and abroad since 1998. www.vendelagrundell.com
Ashik Zaman
Art/Sensation Advisory Board
Ashik Zaman is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online contemporary arts magazine C-print Journal and a curator at SKF/Konstnärshuset in Stockholm. Moreover, he is the local correspondent of the Vienna-based publication Collectors Agenda and previously held position as the Artistic Manager of Market Art Fair.
www.c-print.se
Caitlin E. Littlewood
Text Editor
Caitlin E. Littlewood is a Melbourne-born visual artist and text editor working in artistic research, photography, installation, publications and moving image. She has a foundation education in fine art, having received Honours in Arts (Visual Culture) from Monash University in 2013 and a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) at RMIT University in 2017. More recently she completed an MFA in Photography at HDK-Valand in 2020.
As a practitioner, Littlewood’s imagery involves investigating archives and collections that form part of our collective past. Her academic research explores who has agency over colonial photographic collections with a focus on knowledge production, institutional critique and archive theory.
Littlewood is living and working in Gothenburg, Sweden and is part of an artist collective studio in Hisingen. In 2021 she was awarded a one year working grant from Konstnärsnämnden.
www.caitlinlittlewood.com
Photo: Oskar Kardemark.
Elin Mejergren
Creative Director
Elin graduated from Beckmans College of Design in 2012 with a degree in advertising and graphic design. Since then she has been working as a freelancer with both her own projects and as part of the design studio Design by Atlas. In 2019 she started her own studio, Studio Elin Me, which focuses on concept-driven projects, from research to development. Works include identities for museums and independent film festivals, graphic work for communal ritual performances, film and theatre magazine design, photo and artists' books and beyond …
Through the years she has had the honour of winning (in collaboration with awesome people) D&AD Awards (London), LAUS (Barcelona) and 50 Books|50 Covers (New York).