{"id":2345,"date":"2015-10-31T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2018-05-25T02:53:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:53:20","slug":"mats-hjelm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/mats-hjelm\/","title":{"rendered":"Mats Hjelm"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4778\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2345-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/matshjelm.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/matshjelm.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/matshjelm.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2353 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MATS_HJELM_portrait.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"MATS_HJELM_portrait\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MATS_HJELM_portrait.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MATS_HJELM_portrait.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MATS_HJELM_portrait.jpeg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MATS_HJELM_portrait.jpeg?w=1126&amp;ssl=1 1126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matshjelm.se\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mats Hjelm<\/a> is a visual artist and a documentary filmmaker.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">With a 20-year long personal attachment to Detroit, beginning with studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, he has done several video installations inspired by the city\u2019s political history.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacknationthefilm.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Black Nation<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2008) was his first feature documentary film about a Black nationalistic church in Detroit known as the Shrine of the Black Madonna, which premiered at the International Dubai Film Festival in 2008. In recent years, Hjelm has followed the work of the Shrine\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">in West Africa, the subject for the upcoming feature\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackmissionary.com\/\"><span class=\"s4\">Preston &amp; the Black Madonna<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2016). While filming in Liberia, the ebola epidemic broke out, and unable to remain in the country he left a camera with a social worker who sent back memory cards with video reports from the field. His most recent installation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matshjelm.se\/who-the-fool\/\"><span class=\"s4\">Who the Fool\u00a0<\/span><\/a>shows the fragility of a country in a crisis situation.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Since 1993, he has had film installation and shows in Europe, the US, Russia, Canada and Japan.\u00a0His work can be seen at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matshjelm.se\/\"><span class=\"s3\">www.matshjelm.se<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0.\u00a0Hjelm lives in Stockholm, Sweden and has three sons.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2354\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2354\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BILD_FB.jpeg?resize=625%2C404&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BILD_FB\" width=\"625\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BILD_FB.jpeg?w=572&amp;ssl=1 572w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BILD_FB.jpeg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Money, No Love (The Ambassador Club at Ducor Palace Hotel) Infrared photography, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2355\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2355 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/REDRIVER.jpeg?resize=625%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"REDRIVER\" width=\"625\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/REDRIVER.jpeg?resize=1024%2C558&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/REDRIVER.jpeg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/REDRIVER.jpeg?resize=624%2C340&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/REDRIVER.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibition view WHO THE FOOL, 2015. In the foreground: Liberian Time, double-sided widescreen projection with anamorphic lenses, 22 min, 2015 In the background: Where One is the Other Must Be, neon sign, 4 meters wide, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/matshjelm.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMats Hjelm is a visual artist and a documentary filmmaker.\u00a0With a 20-year long personal attachment to Detroit, beginning with studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, he has done several video installations inspired by the city\u2019s political history.\u00a0\u00a0Black Nation\u00a0(2008) was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[83,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-2345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists","8":"category-filmmaker","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-germany"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/REDRIVER.jpeg?fit=1280%2C697&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-BP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}