Clara Diesen

Biography

Poet, artist, creative director who lives in Stockholm. Poetry, performance, objects, texts, drawings.

CV

Education

1991-1995

Studies in Italian - Florence

Comparative Literature and Film Studies - Stockholm University

Courses in creative writing; poetry - Skrivarakademin

2000-2002

Writing - Nordic Biskops Arnö Writers' School

2010

Copywriting - Bergh's School of Communication

Work and projects (selected)

1995-2019

Assistant director to Jurek Sawka with the theatre group Replica
Assistant director to Linus Tunström at Teater Galeasen
Playwright and director- Elverket, Dramaten - Falling Water
Playwright - Teater Galeasen - Monolog II
Assignment - Landscape Park, Wij Gardens, artist responsible together with Patrik Qvist for conceptual and artistic design of the permanent Landscape Park: idea, text, sculpture.
Teacher - Drama Teacher Skrivarlinjen, Skrivarakdemin, Workshops in Creative Writing
Guest teacher in creative copywriting - Forsbergs
Workshops in cretive processes and self reflection
Creative Director - Equalate consulting agency

Artistic work

My own projects: concept, manuscript and direction

I'm in a room in Sweden - Teater Scenario
Traveling light - Kilen, Kulturhuset
Summer dress - moment: theatre
Falling Water - Elverket, Dramaten
Now my heart is full - moment: theatre

Performances by selection

It’s only make believe - Fylkingen, 2005
The sanatorium - TUPP, performance festival Uppsala Stadsteater, 2009
Dream - Performance with the theme comfort, at home, 2017
Conversation Piece I - interactive performance at c.off May, 2019
Strategies for solace - performance c.off 2020

Books

glömskans bok - Albert Bonniers förlag, 2004
staden, din resa - Albert Bonniers förlag, 2007
När du är som yngst - Albert Bonniers förlag, 2010

Exhibitions

The things we never said - Gallery Niklas Belenius, 2009

Drawings, animation and sound - interviews with participants who told me "what they never said".

Family tree of memories - Art in the green box, Skottvångs Grufva, 2012

I collected memories from friends from when they felt "connected" and when they felt "disconnected". Memories were written inside cups that are mounted hanging in a thread in the forest.

Dreamcatcher, fearcatcher - Hangmen Projects, 2015

Friends told me their fears and I transcribed them into a great dream-catcher, a collage, that the fears would be removed from them

Tremendous trust - Snickarbacken 7, 2015

Drawings and objects

About a winter´s night a traveler - Rönnell's Antiquarian, 2017

An interactive reader path with newly written texts by authors "smuggled" in books - and the exhibition of drawings and objects

Chains in chains - Rosendals Trädgård, 2018

Drawings and collages

OTHER: Currently pursuing a master's degree in interdisciplinary artistic practice at Stockholm University College of Art (Uniarts)