• Krister Olsson
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• About

• In Progress
• 在宅勤務 #1: Work From Home #1 (2009- )

• Body, Boundaries
• Lipstick Traces (2010)
• Don't Fence Me In (Little Prick) (2010)
• Red, Yellow, Green (2010)
• Last Gasp (2008)
• Salt and Hair (2005)
• Memorials to Time Well Spent (2005)
• Astrid (2004)

• Instruments
• Practice Makes Perfect (2008)
• Transitive Property (2007)
• Xylophone (2005)

• Toys
• This is How Everything Works (2008)
• Egg (2004)

• Social Engagement
• The King Has... (2005)
• Friendster Pachinko (2004)
• Pretendster (2003)

Copyright

Krister received his BA from Swarthmore College, his MFA from UCLA.

He lives in Tokyo and Los Angeles.

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I am interested in how location and boundaries shape identity; through my practice I strive to understand more about how my experiences have shaped me. I test my hypotheses on the public through sculpture and installation.

Often my work begins as a self-reflexive gesture, expanding to become less a selfish exercise and more an exploration of shared experiences and encounters that vacillate between the ridiculous or impossible and the mundane.

I am interested in using materials at hand, including scrap wood, metal and dust. I am interested in using readily available intellectual material: the mechanics behind my kinetic work are developed using Wikipedia entries and YouTube videos of machines posted by proud factory owners. This material not only acts as surrogate to a background in woodworking, metalworking or engineering but creates a secret bond between my activities and the activities of those outside my discipline.

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