Molly Haslund

B. 1969 in Denmark, lives and works in Glasgow and Copenhagen.

Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen 1999-2003. Moved to Glasgow to continue studies at the MFA, Glasgow School of Art, Completed two MAs in June 2005.

First sound art work: I Want To •••• Your Hand, 2005.

The projects I do, and have done previously, are mainly collaborative and performative, highlighting physical play, humour, songs and narratives. I have often worked in relation to a site, a public space or a community, or have used an open structure/set-up, to engage the public or the viewer to participation and collaboration.

Recently I did one project in Sweden (7 songs Umeae) and one in Glasgow (10 Songs Pollokshields) collaborating with local participants from various backgrounds, staging the process of writing and performing songs, taking their starting-point in places in the local neighbourhood – both projects exhibited as “Open Productions”, with announced performances of the song of the day, and after the end of the open productions as videos picturing the chosen places and with the outcome of each day’s sound recorded production as sound track.

Also recently at Tramway, Glasgow, I completed a residency working on the ongoing project Every Morning now consisting of more than 2000 photographs from each morning of the past 5 years picturing self portraits from the very moment I wake up.

Earlier I have made series of bigger and smaller structures made in wood called Coordination Models always functional with an inbuilt invitation to challenging physical participation. Simple structures, minimalist in appearance and related to places or made for specific situations but also shown and used out of context; a Skipping rope pillar for 7 skipping ropes to be activated by between 7 and 14 participants. A swing-seat construction with 8 swings inbuilt, placed so close to each other that all 8 participants would need to swing in time not to be hurt.

Since November 2005 I have also been involved in developing, making music and performing with ‘Lone Twin Theatre’. We have until now shown our first piece Alice Bell in Berlin, Brussels and in the U.K.

mollyhaslund@hotmail.com