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Bibliography; writings by the artist:
(this is a complete listing of all that has been published, with the only exception made for some experimental writing published in school magazines in the seventies, and one or two articles in punk fanzines around 1980)
An Artist's Text Book, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, 2007
"Att bygga en skorsten", 43 daily reports from the building of the Wanås chimney, Kristianstadsbladet, 13 May - 24 June, 2007
"Sprachverschmelzende Mitteilungen", in: OEI, # 31-32 / 2007
"Controlled Production of Virtual Geopolitical Reality through Failure", in: Human IT 8:3: Dynamic Maps, University College of Borås /Göteborg University, 2006 (essay expanding on a lecture given at a conference on "dynamic maps" at Umeå University in 2004)
"Stormens öga", in catalogue for exhibition "You are invited" at Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2006 (the final year exhibition for the MFA students of the School of Photography, Gothenburg University)
"A Dialogue between Tom Nicholson and Jan Svenungsson", in folder for exhibition "course" at Ocular Lab, Melbourne, 2005
"Coffee-to-go / Coffee-to-go", in: SITE, 15.2005 (about a Berlin memory, for the Berlin theme issue)
"A Park in London", in: Dispatched, Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå Universitet 2005 (on Ingela Johansson's video work, for the catalogue of the final year students' show at Bildmuseet)
"Att pejla verkligheten – en intervju med Paul Osipow / Reality check – an interview with Paul Osipow", in: Svenungsson, Jan & Valjakka, Timo: Paul Osipow Paintings 1980 - 2005, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 2005 (extensive interview with Paul Osipow for major retrospective book)
Quand les artistes font école - vingt-quatre journées de l’Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques 1988-1990, tome I, Musées de Marseille/ Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004 (extensive transcriptions of the discussions at IHEAP during J.S. study period. Several exchanges involving J.S. - not possible to reproduce here)
"La langue de l'artiste cosmopolite", in Les écrits d'artistes depuis 1940 - Actes du colloque international Paris et Caen, 6-9 mars 2002, Textes réunis par Françoise Levaillant, edtions imec, Paris 2004 (lecture developed into essay; on the Hebdomeros project and language issues in the contemporary art world)
"Skapandet av Man Ray / The Making of Man Ray", in catalogue Man Ray Moderna Museet 2004, Stockholm 2004 (extensive essay on the reasons behind MR's creation of his persona, combined with the story of J.S' discovery of M.R.)
"Man Ray", in catalogue Xposeptember Stockholm Fotofestival, september 2004 (short presentation text for the Man Ray exhibition at Moderna Museet)
"Samtal med Kjell Strandqvist", in catalogue: Kjell Strandqvist – Transparenser, published for the exhibition at Konstakademin, Stockholm, 2004 (extensive interview with J.S' former professor for drawing...)
Historien om ett konstverk: KOD 352, book published by AstraZeneca, 2004 (on the sculpture installation KOD 352 and its context. Illustrated text in two parts; the first part by J.S alone; the second part a composite interview with Karl Axel Pehrson, Maria Anvret, Alexander Bard - on the subject of the usefulness of art...)
"Lieber zu viel als zu wenig. Kunst, Musik, Aktionen zwischen Hedonismus und Nihilismus (1976-1985)", collaborative text with Jörg Heiser, in: Neue Review, Ausgabe 3, Oktober 2003 (email dialogue review of exhibition about Berlin punk...)
"Questions and Answers", in catalogue: Contemporary Art From Sweden, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, 2003 (text related to "Psycho-Mapping Europe")
I morgon kommer något underbart att hända!, // Tomorrow something wonderful will happen! Statens Konstråd, Stockholm 2001 and 2002, for the English translation (a book with text and drawings)
"Rundgång. Om Henrik Rylanders konst.", Paletten, # 4-5 2001 (on the sound art of H.R. and the instruments of Lev Termen and Robert Moog)
"Mauerstrasse", in Artes - Tidskrift för Litteratur, Konst och Musik, Nr 3/2001 (Text and 16 colorphotos describing a street in Berlin)
"La série des cheminées: De l'image a la place publique", in De la sculpture au XXe siècle, (sous la direction de Thierry Dufrêne et Paul-Louis Rinuy), Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 2001 (on the implications of building chimneys, including descriptions of all projects until The Fifth Chimney)
"The '80s, what was it good for?", NU - The Nordic Art Review, answer to enquiry in Vol. III No 3-4/01
Interview with Daniel Birnbaum, Göteborgs-Posten, 21/8 2001 (published under the following headline: "Birnbaum rör om i den internationella konstgrytan")
"Former som liknar något", Göteborgs-Posten, 3/5 2001 (on a new book with Dawid's photographs)
"Rulla in på torget / Roll onto the square", Den stora skalan/At a large scale, Statens Konstråd, Stockholm 2000 (ed. Catharina Gabrielsson) (on Philip Johnson's Berlin building & "Gate House", New Caanan, as well as Claes Oldenburg's "Houseball")
"Hjälte eller förrädare", Göteborgs-Posten, 19/7 2000 (on Marinus van der Lubbe and his role in the Reichstag fire 1933)
"När bilden drunknar i mängden", Göteborgs-Posten, 17/7 2000 (review of two photo-books)
"Återklang", text for an internet-text-relay called Omstilling, June 2000 (on working with carpentry machines...)
"Schornsteine bauen" / "Building Chimneys", Norden, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 2000 (narrative catalogue text in which all chimney projects are discussed, ending with the project for Vienna)
"Samtal mellan Annika von Hausswolff och Jan Svenungsson", Crac in Context, internet publication, end of 1999 (a hyper-text conversation between AvH and JS)
"Duty Now For The Future - Färgfotografi", Bruksanvisning till konsten i Pontus och Bipontus, Statens Konstråd, 1999 (on the second version of the photo-series originally made for the Norrköpings Museum exhibition "Brytningstider")
"Målaren i dockskåpet", Göteborgs-Posten, 22/8 1999 (short piece about a visit to the new museum located in Magritte's former apartment, at rue d'Essegheim in Brussels)
"Tillbaka till brottsplatsen - Minnesmärken ber om förlåtelse", Göteborgs-Posten, 6/8 1999 (on monuments; by Micha Ullman, Frank Thiel and Philip Johnson; in Berlin)
"Huset är en kamera - Le Corbusiers arkitektur tillhör informationsåldern", Göteborgs-Posten, 27/7 1999 (essay on a book by Beatriz Colomina: Privat och Offentligt - Modern arkitektur som massmedium)
"Visuellt minne", Paletten, June 1999 (short text with two photos on visual memories) .....
"Bild och Ord - att umgås med Hebdomeros", Ord&Bild, # 3 1999 (on the translation/photo/exhibition project, with artist's insert).....
"Ständigt på topp - Leni Riefenstahls filmer påverkar än", Göteborgs-Posten, 20/2 1999 (on the retrospective exhibition at Potsdam Filmmuseum)
"Om att bjuda på 'verklighet'",Moderna Museets Vänners tidskrift, # 3, 1998 (commissioned text on the future prospects of photography's role in art)
"Mina Man Ray"/"My Man Rays", 12 short texts in catalogue Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Sollentuna 1998 (each text written to an image)
"En konceptuell basist/A Conceptual Bass Player", Sw. vers. publ. Göteborgs-Posten, 25/6 1998/ Eng.vers publ. in anthology We are all normal, ed. Katya Sander & Simon Sheikh, Black Dog Publishing 2001 (on Steven Severin's bass-playing, Marcel Duchamp and the fight to not become too good)
"Kraftwerk - Musikmaskinen går igen./Robot-Pop", Göteborgs-Posten, 3/6 1998 (on "does kraftwerk really exist?", life on the list, and the future of the most mysterious of bands)
"Short Dictionary of Words and Names", text distributed at h., Melbourne, during exhibition in April 1998
"Under en tid av ett år...",in Vasteras, exhibition catalogue Västerås Konstmuseum 1998 (text on a work by Maria Magnusson)
"Marie-Louise Ekman och jag började samtidigt..."/"Marie-Louise and I both arrived...", in marie-louise ekman, Carlsson Bokförlag, Stockholm 1998 (written for book published with MLE's first major retrospective at Kulturhuset, Stockholm, and at 6 subsequent places in Sweden during 98-99)
"Om att förstå allt" - Hebdomeros väg till insikt." in AT 60, Fazola, Lund 1997 (essay written for Anders Tornberg)
"Konstens estetiska ekon - Duchamp satte igång tolkningsmaskinerierna." Göteborgs-Posten, 15/7 1997 (a review of Calvin Tompkin's book Marcel Duchamp (Chatto & Windus); discussing the possibilities for interpretation of an art-work)
"Project for Fourth Chimney ist eine handgedruckte..." Text in catalogue SüdwestLB Druckgraphik Kunstpreis '97, Stuttgart 1997 (this text, and the following, are short but precise captions for reproductions of prints)
"Dem Holzschnitt First Chimney liegt..." Text in catalogue SüdwestLB Druckgraphik Kunstpreis '97, Stuttgart 1997
"Sommaren 1987 fann jag..." Göteborgs-Posten, 13/5 1997 (full page artist's project with two photos + text; discussing the Berlin Wall...)
"Vad är svensk kultur?/What is Swedish Culture?" Stockholm 98, # 1, 1997 (commissioned short text - no easy task)
"Text for Drewen." in Partie 4 Brandenburgische Kunsttage 1996, exhibition catalogue, Internationales Kunstforum Drewen, 1997 (text written about the chimney projects in general - and the Drewen project in particular. Catalogue published 9 months after exhibition ended...)
"In October 1969 the GDR celebrated.../Lokakuussa 1969 DDR juhli..."Valokuva, # 6, 1996 (with photographs) (a project for the photo-magazine Valokuva on the subject of Germany and photography)
"...we all fall down - Alex Rizkalla and Jan Svenungsson in conversation/...we all fall down - Alex Rizkalla im Gespräch mit Jan Svenungsson." Be, # 4, 1996 (J.S. interviews A.R., at Künstlerhaus Bethanien)
"Oszillation zwischen Polen/Oscillation Between Poles." a conversation between Jan Svenungsson and Kay Heymer, Be, # 4, 1996 (a working discussion for Etwas über L. - spanning a wide range of ideas, edited by J.S.)
"Sing Along with Johnny." SIKSI, # 3, 1996, also publ. in anthology We are all normal, ed. Katya Sander & Simon Sheikh, Black Dog Publishing 2001 (on the Sex Pistols, after visiting a concert on their comeback tour)
"Als ich Pontus Hulten zum ersten Mal begegnete..." in Das gedruckte Museum von Pontus Hulten, exhibition catalogue, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1996 (a portrait of P.H.)
"Serien om 110 teckningar...", in Till Filmen 100 år, catalogue, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, 1996 (a short presentation of the video "110"+ favourite film info)
"Lösningen på problemet./The Solution to the Problem." in Vägen - en antologi om att göra bra konst, Bonnier Alba, Stockholm, 1995. (the whole book) reprinted in Tidningen Papper, # 0, 1998 (ambitious description/analysis of the creative process)
"På golvet framför mig.../On the floor in front of me..." in Stockholm, a book by Ola Billgren and Jan Svenungsson, Propexus, Lund, 1995 (collaborative book; one text by each artist discussing their photoseries "Stockholm") reproductions
"En arkitekturfotografs uppdrag.../The task of an architectural photographer" MAMA, # 12, 1995 (with photographs) (a project on architectural photography, for the architecture magazine MAMA) re-published with illustrations as "När byggnaden framträder i sin helhet", F- Fotografisk Tidskrift, # 1, 2001
"Maximal närvaro i handlingens nu." Göteborgs-Posten, 13/7 1995 (on Ellen von Umwerth + Bernd&Hilla Becher)
"Viljan till kontroll möter lusten till kaos/The Will to Control Meets the Lust for Chaos /Der Wille zu Kontrolle trifft die Lust am Chaos." unpublished (written for the application for Künstlerhaus Bethanien, early 1995)
"I am interested in systems.../Olen kiinnostunut järjestelmistä", exhibition catalogue Rauma Baltic Biennale, Rauma, 1994 (catalogue text/poem/statement for the 110 drawings later used in the video "110")
"Byteshandel." exhibition catalogue. Ten makes Ten, Galleri Ahnlund, Umeå, 1994 (on the collaborative work of J.S. and Carl-Johan Eriksson)
"Det Perfekta Fotografiet./The Perfect Photograph/Das perfekte Foto" Bulletin från Moderna Muséet, # 4, 1994 (about a photograph representing the First Chimney) (German version of text published in catalogue Kunstverein Recklinghausen, 1998)
"Rembrandt" Svenska Dagbladet, 11/10 1992 (about the 1992 exhibition in Stockholm)
PARAD, artist`s book with 10 photo-etchings in colour, edition 25, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund 1991 (text-part is very minimal... - the whole book available here in virtual version)
"Total Förvirring", Dagens Nyheter, 23/11 1991 (continuing debate over exhibition at Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg)
"Fusk med Fotokopior",Dagens Nyheter, 30/9 1991 (attacking exhibition at Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg)
"Bort med moms på galleriprovision." with several others, Dagens Nyheter, 23/3 1991 (short version of "Orimlig effekt för konstnärer.", with more signatories)
"Orimlig effekt för konstnärer." with C. Edefalk, F. Gmelin, M. Wickström, Dagens Nyheter, 3/3 1991 (attacking new tax on gallery exhibitions)
"Allt resande är en flykt undan ålderdom och död." on Ernst and Helene Billgren, in exhibition catalogue, Billgrens: Kultur - Samlevnad - Inredning, Göteborgs Konsthall, 1991 (tongue-in-cheek interview with the Billgrens, for their joint exhibition at Göteborgs Konsthall)
"Man Ray."Fotografisk tidskrift, # 4, 1990 (ambitious double portrait; M.R.+ J.S...)
"Tout donne à penser que l'evacuation de la ville.../All observations indicate that the evacuation of the city...", exhibition catalogue, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, 1989 (text as integrated part of exhibition)
"Observatörer som beskrev läget i staden .../Observers describing the atmosphere of the city.../Les observateurs qui décrivaient l'atmosphère de la ville.../Die Beobachter, welche die Atmosphäre der Stadt beschrieben..." exhibition catalogue, Galleri Engström, Stockholm, 1989 (text as integrated part of exhibition)
"Under rekognoscering en natt.../One night during reconnaissance.../Kaksi tiedeustelupartiota..." exhibition catalogue, Aurora 3, Helsinki, 1989 (text as integrated part of exhibition)
"Först trodde jag att jag skulle kunna befästa en stad.../At first I thought I should be able to fortify a city..." Siksi, # 2, 1988 (a project on photography)
"När han framåt eftermiddagen..." in Konstföreställningar, exhibition catalogue, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 1987 (text written for "still video objects", paraphrasing "Hebdomeros")
"Cindy Sherman - gåtfullt gripande." Aftonbladet, 30/12 1987 (on the attraction of C.S.)
"...och det regnar in i hans hus." on Le Corbusier, Aftonbladet, 29/12 1987 (written after a visit to the Villa Savoye)
"Souvenirs!", a text supplied with the serigraph Souvenirs!, published by Bankgirot (sic!)
"På stadiga ben i 80-talets kvicksand." on Giorgio De Chirico`s novel "Hebdomeros", Aftonbladet, 4/8 1987 (review of Swedish translation of favourite book)
"I glappet mellan olika verkligheter." on Max Book, Aftonbladet, 10/1 1987 (first art-review written)
"Musik i skuggan av muren", Schlager # 15, 24/4 1981 (first text published, on music in West-Berlin; interviews with Gudrun Gut, Frieder Butzmann, Trance Plast)
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