Johanna Billing Swedish , b. 1973
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Johanna BillingPulheim Jam Session, 2015HD blu-ray, 22:40 LoopDimensions VariableEdition 3 of 6 + 2 APs
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Johanna BillingI’m Lost Without Your Rhythm, 2009DVD looped duration 13:29/loopedvariable dimensionsEdition 5 of 6 + 2 APs
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Johanna BillingI’m gonna live anyhow until i die, 2012HD blu-ray DVD duration, 16:29 loopedDimensions VariableEdition of 6 +2AP’s
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Johanna BillingI’m Lost Without Your Rhythm, 2016Digital print on paper33 x 47 in
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Johanna BillingPulheim Jam Session, 2016Digital print on paper33 x 47 in
83.8 x 119.4 cmEdition 3 of 5+2APs
Johanna Billing (Jönköping, Sweden, 1973) is a conceptual filmmaker who lives and works in Stockholm. Since 1999, Billing has been making video works that weave together music, movement and rhythm in ways that blur the lines between documentary and fiction.
In her works, Billing often addresses political climates and cultural specificities, but more importantly she transforms, through a documentary method, her filmmaking in a fictive space to examine actual and contrived events and how that filmed compression illuminates their overlap. Billing’s films often involve music, which in her hands becomes a tool for communication, memory and reconstruction. About the musical aspect of her work, she has said: “I have a background in working with music in various forms. During many years I used to work parallel both with a record label, and with lots of live music events, as well as working as a DJ and a music journalist. In my films I have also come to work a lot with the musical soundtracks, which I arrange together with musicians whom I have an ongoing collaboration with. In the films there is always some kind of performance, but then the performance is most of the times only for the camera. [I am interested in] how to work with live events, in the music world – as well as in the art scene, and to explore this in different places and venues.”
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Johanna Billing, Learning How To Drive A Piano
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 4 Jun - 6 Aug 2016Learning How to Drive a Piano features a striking and immersive presentation of two films and their accompanying albums by Johanna Billing at Kavi Gupta’s Elizabeth Street space.Read more -
Johanna Billing, I’m Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Feb - 30 Mar 2013Johanna Billing (b. 1973 in Jönköping, SE) lives and works in Stockholm, SE.Read more
Working in video and performance, Billing has become renowned for her participatory or collaborative works that make transparent the complexities of human intersubjectivity. -
Johanna Billing, This is How We Walk on The Moon
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 3 Mar - 12 Apr 2008Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present Johanna Billing’s most recent film This is how we walk on the moon, 2007, which debuted this past summer at documenta 12. Billing...Read more -
Johanna Billing, Magic & Loss // Magical World
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 17 Mar - 22 Apr 2006 -
Johanna Billing, You Don't Love Me Yet
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 30 Apr - 6 May 2004