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Swedish is an artistic choice.
I won’t replace my innermost process just to fit in,
or to land a project.
Because what matters most to me
isn’t that everyone understands me,
but that we have a conversation—
one where we truly reach one another.

This spring’s Klein improvisation course has been a journey of discovery.
Since improvisation was already woven into the classes,
the spaces between the course’s intense moments
have been filled with more poetry and sculpture.
I need to let it all ferment.
It will likely take years.

"Conscious leadership in artistic processes"

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A (Art): Fluid and responsive to context, rooted in body-based materiality.

Framing my current artistic practice “kindful weapons”, that always is in

development/shifting/growing

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R (Research): Grounded in personal poetics, working through iterative question

around collective and inner empathy. Choosing “collective self-empathy” as my

research

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T (Teaching): Performed through ritual-like workshops that resist hierarchy and

promote co-creation. Exploration of, “anarchistic rituals” as my teaching

BKN @bkn.bjorko.konstnod

Art is a choice to move through the world without giving up. In times of crisis, I choose reform and protest. Often, the process is the work itself—finding balance between engagement and trauma processing, between a journal and work of art, between narcissism and empathy, is what art breathes for me

EVERDAYLLIFE

Hade hittat sin hamn

Den hade skapad sitt bo

Vaknat med våren och funnit ro

Kanske ristat ett rop

Kanske ropat ett minne

Kanske drömt en skog

Kanske sörja allt som dog

Jag hörde att skuld

Hade badat i guld

Gömt sig under det som glittrar

Lockad fram hud och kropp

Låtit frossa blir till hopp

Kanske glömt tystnaden

Kanske överlevt saknaden

Kanske gräva yxan i försvar

Kanske kämpat klar

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parallell kurs under våren 2025

History repeats itself!!!
over and over again,
like a parasite.

Their children,
my children,
our children,
one child,
thousands of children—

we still keep playing silence,
they still keep losing futures.

...reflected on the poetic tension in my material choices — clay, skin, and coffee — and how these elements act as “kindful weapons.”

Through this process, I reaffirm that my skin, bones, and poetic voice method are both my research tools and my theory. With kindful weapons — I sculpture the space between resistance and tenderness — as a vocabulary in themselves. They speak of care as strength, ritual as pedagogy, and of the self as a shared.

My a/r/tographic process continues to evolve around the concepts of “kindful weapons”, collective self-empathy, and anarchistic rituals. These emerge from the intersections of art, pedagogy, and personal narrative.

workshop with a group of 4–5-year-old children, using air-drying clay mixed with coffee grounds to explore the act of “pressing” — creating imprints as traces of their presence. What began as a technical act grew into a ritual of expression and sharing, where children developed their own methods of “avtryck” (imprinting) finding their “mellanrum” (inbetween) and shared them with pride.

The concept of kindful weapons challenges dominant associations of weaponry with violence by returning to their roots as tools of survival, care, and community.