Diana Riesco-Lind

See video: http://vimeo.com/user4576696/videos A feminine game is a brief that comments on two role-plays: the game of fitting in what is traditionally feminine and the role of being successful in a male dominated sport. It is a documentary on a chain of ideas developed on reflecting on being a woman from the view of a rugby player. Starting with the thought “I have always been told that the most aggressive animal is a female with her child” the brief suggests a glimpse of the author’s own reflections about the topic of femininity and rugby. Being an athlete all my life and a rugby player myself, I reflected on this phrase and the role-plays in rugby. Rugby is considered a very aggressive and therefore a traditionally masculine sport, but if the most aggressive animal is in fact a female with its child, then this game can be seen as two tight “female” packs fighting for the same child that would be symbolized as the rugby ball, that in itself has a form of an e...

Legacy: a gift of property Video Installation, mixed media. This video installation is based on interviews that questions different aspects of a specific group of family related immigrants that came from Peru to Sweden in different years 1973 to 2008. It reflects on the individual construction of identity through migration and suggests the creation of new individual nations or islands from the association we have with different lands, and of our memories creating the feeling of belonging to all of them or none. ...I had finished my studies and I was working at a gas station waiting for tickets to come to Sweden... ...I don’t see a difference between me and a Swede. Maybe they see me differently, but I don’t see the difference... ...I always say that I am from Peru, from Pucallpa, from the Amazon region of Peru. .. ...I don't feel now neither Peruvian nor Swede. I am a universal person... ...I have never thought about teaching my kids about Peru. Maybe I have forgotten. I ...

Historia del Abuelo works on the theme of origin and influence and the exploration of ideas of migration, oral tradition and family. . This is a video installation of a narrative nature attempting to create family and generational parallels. The story told is of my grandfather Harry Lind, as it was related to my brothers and I, by my grandmother when we were children as a bedtime tale after his death. Harry Lind was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in the year 1904. He left Sweden during the great depression for South America. Upon his arrival in South America in Buenos Aires, Argentina he continued on to Chile, Bolivia and ultimately Peru where he fell in love with the Amazon and its people. The story develops progressively and chronologically by the narrative of my grandmother who chose the moment of her marriage as finish point. Upon entering the installation there is a space with a wide, comfortable bench in front of a large flat screen television. In the video shown you can hear a v...