Scott Holmquist

Scott Holmquist (born in Minneapolis) is a US-born American French conceptual artist who produces books, archives, and multi-media installations. He is best known for his work on African immigrant drug dealers in Berlin and Northern California cannabis growers.

Scott Holmquist
Scott Holmquist in a panel discussion at Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Salon Berlin, 2018
Born
Minneapolis, USA
NationalityAmerican, French
Other nameswilly mal
Known forresearch art
Websitescottholmquist.com

Life

Holmquist grew up in Minneapolis, where he worked summers in the building trades with his father. Besides the US, he has lived in Sweden and France, residing in Berlin, Germany, since 2011. He reads and speaks French, German, and Swedish.

He studied the socialist economics of Sweden's Löntagarfonderna (Employee funds) at the University of Gothenburg and social theory at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked as a researcher for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC.[1]

Work

Holmquist's work has received considerable media and institutional attention. Research on the Swedish raggare led to invitations to speak on the subject at Stockholm's Nordic Museum (Nordiska Museet). In 2013 The Washington Post described his work in Peace.Love.Insurgency.[2] as “political yet whimsical.”[3]

About Holmquist's 2014 solo exhibition, The Third Wall and the Last Hero at Berlin's Kreuzberg Museum,[4] Lothar Müller observed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung “[Holmquist has] monumentalised the insurgency of cannabis growers in Northern California against the U.S. government in the form of art books, then moved across the Atlantic and immersed himself in the revolutionary spirit of Kreuzberg.”[5]

In 2016 Artnet reported that Holmquist's petition for a “monument to be erected in a park in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in honor of African drug dealers […] even gained political support” referring to the Pirate Party, then in Berlin government.[6] Dozens of media outlets in several countries covered the intervention. In 2017 Holmquist's Other Homelands: Origins and Migration Routes of Berlin Park Drug Dealers[7] supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, provoked outrage and received support across Germany.[8][9]

In October 2017, CDU Berlin political leaders initiated proceedings in the district assembly to oblige the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum[10] to cancel the Other Homelands exhibition. These efforts were thwarted by Green and Left Party assembly members.

Holmquist's March 2019 exhibition DEALER POSES: Photographed and Remembered[11] at the IG Bildende Kunst gallery,”[12] Vienna, Austria, elaborated on the themes of how public drug dealing is represented in dozens of collages made from press photos including those used to illustrate articles on the artist's exhibitions and interventions, for instance proposing a monument to the park drug dealer.

Selected artist books and publications

• Low Tide – object index draft 2 (2015)

• BGzSReb und BuUmZoG Jahre 2090 (Laws Protecting and Promoting German Traditions of Rebellion and Squatting Zones High Income Urban Districts - Year 2090), for the exhibition Peace.Love.Insurgency. (2013)

• 50 x 50 – object index draft 1 (2013)

• Hippies & Weed Portable Insurgent, “chronic freedom series,” book – sound-images broadsheet (2013)

• Big Drug Factory – Unfound, “chronic freedom series” (2011)

• chronic freedom, “chronic freedom series” (2010)

• dirt, “chronic freedom series” (2010)

• light, “chronic freedom series” (2010)

• 3 books, “chronic freedom series” (2009)

• Hot Cars and Cool Media: The Swedish Raggare Subculture, In: The Global Village: Dead or Alive? ed. Ray Brown and Marshall Fishwick (1999, Bowling Green State University Popular Press)

• ‘Pope in transit; dictator 'in transition,' In These Times (April 29, 1987)[13]

• Vital Resources: An Annotated Bibliography in Community Economic Development, Community Information Exchange, National Urban Coalition and Institute for Policy Studies (1987)

Organizations

• Co-founder of the Humboldt Area Peoples Archive, Eureka, CA.[14]

• Founding board member of The Queer Library, Berlin, Germany[15]

Selected press and bibliography
gollark: The proposal should declare what each operation should do on integers.
gollark: Are they IEEE 754 fløæts or what?
gollark: Also, this doesn't provide any operations.
gollark: > There is currently no way to create a Float literal; they should be generated from operations on Integers.
gollark: You should call then NAP Augmentation Proposals, though, or NAPs for short.

References
  1. Scott Holmquist website; accessed 19 February 2018.
  2. Peace.Love.Insurgency., with Kenseth Armstead, curated by James Huckenpahler and Jose Ruiz, Furthermore, Washington D.C. (2013);
  3. Jenkins, Mark: Peace. Love. Insurgency., The Washington Post, November 8, 2013.;
  4. The Third Wall and Last Hero, curated by Kata Krasznahorkai, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin (2014);
  5. Müller, Lothar: Die dritte Mauer, Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 2, 2014. Translated into English;
  6. Neuendorf, Henri: Artist Proposes Monument for Drug Dealers in Berlin: The proposal has even gained political support, Artnet.com, July 22, 2016.;
  7. Origins and Migration Routes of Berlin Park Drug Dealer, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin (2017-2018);
  8. anon. „unerschrocken und tapfer“, Berliner Museum feiert Drogen-Dealer!, Bild, October 25, 2017. Cover story.;
  9. Schmoll, Thomas: Umstrittenes Kunstprojekt: „Dealer-Ausstellung wichtig und mutig“ – Interview mit Kriminologin Bettina Paul, n-tv.de, December 2, 2017.;
  10. FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum;
  11. "DEALER POSES: Photographed and Remembered";
  12. IG Bildende Kunst;
  13. Scan of the article on Scott Holmquist's website;
  14. Humboldt Area Peoples Archive;
  15. The Queer Library, Berlin;
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