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 Located in one of downtown's largest office buildings, this basement level office space houses up to three artist projects or arts groups at a time, providing much-needed workspace to filmmakers in post-production, arts festival coordinators, visual artists doing project research, or cultural organizations that just need a short-term home on a project-basis. Space at One Chase Manhattan Plaza is generously donated by JPMorgan Chase.
Katja Aglert is a Swedish artist based in Stockholm. She works in different media such as video, sound, interventions and text: I often collect material for a project as a documentary process, and with the assembled material I strive to re-create and concentrate the essence, with the aim to interpret and decode it, and by that create a shift in “reality” to make it more ambivalent, playful and dramaturgically interesting. Aglert exhibited internationally at Overgaden-Instute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark and at Gigantic Art Space, New York, USA. Her work has been shown in Sweden at museums and art centers including Liljevalchs konsthall, Bildmuseet Umeå, and Örebro Konsthall. She screened her work in contexts including KonstBio, Stockholm; Made in Video, Copenhagen; TRUNK/Östersund. Aglert is one of the co-founders of the web based project SQUID, hosted by Tensta konsthall, ak28, Ersta konsthall and IASPIS in Sweden; and Pro Arte Institute in Russia and Manifesta 6 in Cyprus. In 2006 Aglert was awarded with a 2 years working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Visual Arts Fund. She attended Umeå Academy of Art in Sweden where she graduated in 2003 with a Master of Fine Arts. Katja is currently working on a project which has light pollution as the point of departure, and produces video-based documentary and staged work related to this topic. As part of this project she hopes to realize a large scale art intervention at Times Square in spring 2008. |
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