Restaurant Allemansrätten is a guided walk/performance in the woods. In this mystical, real political and playful hike, we meet different characters, experience various situations, take part in discussions, and tickle our taste buds along the way.
Allemansrätten, ’the freedom to roam’ or ’everymans right’ has become second nature to most people in Sweden, but it is a relatively new legal construct. One often first notices when encountering other approaches to these laws abroad, how obvious it should be to have the right to move freely in the nature. Sagovolvo (Bella Rune and Jonas Nobel), in collaboration with Parkteatern, invites you to a gastro-political performance where the audience, during a hike in the woods, examines our desire to share with eachother. The tasty treats offered are inspired by Allemansrätten and created in consultation with the meal ecologist Ayhan Aydin.
Sagovolvo is a new art collective comprised of artists Jonas Nobel and Bella Rune. Sagovolvo is interested in examining, through a rainbow-colored fairytale filter, politics, production, and global love. Through various design experiments and performative approaches Sagovolvo searches for a different discourse around these issues. They hollow out the caverns where visionary ideas can expand.
Sagovolvo is convinced that the driving force for human evolution is our ability to love and communicate in large groups. Their mission is to create a counterpart to the belief that survival of the fittest, greed, and abuse is human ”nature.” Sagovolvo portray objects and situations based on which the thoughts of another possible world can grow. Sagovolvo runs a sculpture park in the village Lindris, in northern Roslagen where experiments with farming and art production are conducted. Sagovolvo is part of the project Farmer’s Gold, which is initiated by Editions in Craft. This project is about straw as a material, it’s history and the knowledge fields around it is researched and questions around the craft, handicraft and industrial production are evaluated. Farmer’s Gold was exhibited at Wanås in May 2012, Malmö’s Form and Design Center, November 2012, Uglycute, Stockholm November 2012 and at Halmens hus Dalslånged, December 2012.
Bella Rune has besides her artistic practice, experience in costume and set design within both film and dance, as well as in commericial contexts. She has also worked with various food related assignements for newpapers and TV including ”Middagen” on tv 3, DN and the magazine Gourmet. Bella Rune is a professor of art for the textile department at Konstfack in Stockholm. Jonas Nobel works as an artist and is also in the design /architecture group Uglycute who have designed several exhibitions, mainly in the art context, as well as interior decoration for restaurants and set design work for choreographer, Anna Källblad.
Restaurant Allemansrätten is the latest project in a series of ”art restaurants” produced by Mossutställningar, where cooking and art merge in performances and interactivity with the audience is in a focus.
Direction, script, stage design, costume design: Sagovolvo (Bella Rune and Jonas Nobel)
Dramaturgy: Sagovolvo and Mossutställningar (Anna Efraimsson and Sarah Kim)
Chef/meal ecologist: Ayhan Aydin
Graphic Design: Jonas Williamsson
Cast: Per Sandberg, Tove Sahlin med flera
Editors: Bella Rune, Jonas Nobel, Jonas Williamsson, Sarah Kim, Anna Efraimsson
Food workshops: Ayhan Aydin, Bella Rune, Jonas Nobel, Sarah Kim, Anna Efraimsson
Production: Anna Efraimsson, Sarah Kim, Sofia Lundin Mossutställningar
Co-production: Parkteatern
With the support of the City of Stockholm, The National Arts Council, LRF.
Thanks to: Swedish Royal Court and Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation
For more information and images contact Anna Efraimsson
Tel: 070 494 18 86, anna@mossutstallningar.com
NOTE! Limited tickets, book your tickets at Stadsteatern’s box office: www.stadsteatern.stockholm.se
Tel. 08-506 20 200
The show is free.
Comfortable and warm clothing is recommended!
A series of enquiries concerning the consequences of “broadened financing”, arranged by Botkyrka Konsthall, Konsthall C, Marabou Park, Mossutställningar, and Tensta konsthall in collaboration with ABF.
The Mystery of Added Value—About Art’s Role in City Renewal
Panel discussion 3: Monday 4.2, 18:30 at ABF House, Sveavägen 41
Participants: Berit Svedberg, Stockholm city, Elisabeth Lilja, sociologist, Stockholm University and Lars Mikael Raattamaa, architect and poet.
Moderator: David Karlsson, cultural historian and writer, part of Nätverkstan in Gothenburg. Author of En kulturutredning: Pengar, konst och politik (A Cultural Enquiry: Money, Art and Politics) (Glänta 2010).
City development projects, initiated by politicians and businesses, increasingly aim to associate themselves with artists and art institutions. In big city renewal-projects like Järvalyftet and Söderortsvisionen, who's main objective is to make suburban areas into places that attracts new residents and economic growth, funds have been reserved for art and culture. When creating a living community, cultural activities and artists are brought up as important players and are invited to participate in different ways. Telefonplan, Hökarängen and Kista Science Center are all examples of art been integrated into the branding of a place.
Parallel to this development, the demand made by politicians that cultural institutions financed by public means are to find new ways to acquire funds by offering commercial services and engaging in joint ventures involving businesses are increasing. Branches of government in charge of distributing public funds are openly stating that they are more likely to financially support projects and institutions that manage to find new, commercial, sources of revenue. Funds like these often come from real estate owners, housing companies and managment companies, looking to increase the attractiveness and value of their property by offering subsidized locales to artists, sponsoring art-projects or comissioning art-works for public display in the neighborhood.
Many artists and art-institutions actively engage in the local area where they operate and are active participants in the local community. These targeted ventures often bring increased funds and influence. But the pairing of commercial and artistic interests are not without conflict. Therefore, discussions of the role played by the arts in city development projects needs to take place. What kind of values are attributed to the arts? What expectations are made of artists and art-institutions? Which types of art and ways of working with art are rewarded? How does art and the artist participate in the gentrification of the city?
Through this hearing we aim to examine the connections between art, finance and city planning and discuss the consequences of these. This is the last in a series of three hearings arranged by Botkyrka Konsthall, Konsthall C, Marauboparken, Mossutställningar and Tensta Konsthall that aims to illuminate and discuss the current cultural politics and the streams of revenue available to artists and art-institutions. All organizers are affected by issues surrounding city development, either by being participants in some sort of public venture or by collaborating with property owners.
Who Should Finance Art? The Artist as Entrepreneur and Art as a Creative Industry
Panel discussion 2: Monday, 22.10, 18:00 at ABF House, Sveavägen 41
Participants: Martin Q. Larsson, member of the Council for Cultural and Creative Industries; Karin Willén, Chairman, KRO (Swedish Artists’ National Organisation); Måns Wrange, Vice-chancellor, Royal University College of Fine Arts
Moderator: David Karlsson, cultural historian and writer, part of Nätverkstan in Gothenburg. Author of En kulturutredning: Pengar, konst och politik (A Cultural Enquiry: Money, Art and Politics) (Glänta 2010).
Welcome to the second panel discussion in a series that highlights prevailing cultural policies and art institutions’ and artists’ opportunities and possibilities for financing.
In 2009 the government decided upon a plan to develop entrepreneurs and business skills within the cultural and creative sectors, with the aim of attaining increased collaboration between culture and business and industry. Cultural policy, economic policy and regional growth policy were meant to interact and lead to cooperation that would promote both cultural and business interests. The question is, what this looks like in reality?
Different supportive mechanisms and investments exist, but how many artists today work as entrepreneurs in a market? What do the so-called creative industries look like? How does this development affect art education and expectations for young artists and their possibilities for earning a living? Is it a way for national and local government to withdraw from commitments to or engagement in culture—to privatize investments in culture? Or is it a strategy for encouraging a multi-facetted cultural life, according to the notion that cultural freedom is strengthened by being safeguarded by many? Or is this mainly about spreading economic risks?
During 2012, we—Botkyrka konsthall, Konsthall C, Marabouparken, Mossutställningar and Tensta konsthall—have been arranging a series of panel discussions concerning currently prevailing cultural policies and the financing possibilities of art institutions and artists. The first panel discussion in June took up the broadened financing of the cultural sector; now in October, we look at the creative industries and the artist as entrepreneur. November’s panel will focus on art and gentrification.
Jonas Andersson, former director of Framtidens Kultur (Future Culture)
Ingrid Lomfors, Administrative Director, Kulturbryggan (Culture Bridge)
Madeleine Sjöstedt, Culture Commissioner, Stockholm (Folkpartiet/Liberal Party)
Moderator:
David Karlsson, historian and cultural journalist, working at Nätverkstan in Gothenburg, author of En kulturutredning: pengar, konst och politik (A Culture Enquiry: Money, Art and Politics) (Glänta, 2010).
The phrase “broadened financing” has appeared more and more often during recent years. It refers to the rising demand for publicly financed cultural institutions to find new possibilities for funding. The authorities that allocate public cultural funding have made it clear in various ways that they prioritize projects and institutions that have succeeded in finding new private sources of financing. In certain cases, public funding is awarded only on the condition of matching funds or shared financing.
Is this demand for “broadened” or diversified funding a way for the state and the municipality to avoid cultural responsibilities privatizing cultural commitments? Or is it a strategy for encouraging a multi-facetted cultural life – in accordance with the motto “cultural freedom is strengthened by being upheld by many”? Or is it primarily about sharing economic risks? What will the long-term consequences of this be? How will it affect the content and organization of work in cultural sectors? What kind of diversity will it lead to? And, on a more comprehensive level, what does it mean, what might the consequences be, when cultural policy is totally oriented towards economic models - methods of financing?
In 2012, we – Botkyrka konsthall, Konsthall C, Marabouparken, Mossutställningar and Tensta konsthall - plan to arrange a series of enquiries in order to highlight and discuss the current prevailing cultural policy and the financing possibilities available to art institutions and artists. During the autumn there will be several enquiries taking up the themes, “the creative industries” and “gentrification”.
WHO IS NYA KONTORET?
Tuesday October 16, 2012
6 PM - 8 PM
Birger Jarlsgatan 18 A, 4th floor.
Nya Kontoret launches this season's seminar series with three lectures by Nya Kontoret residents: Anna Ådahl, Charlotte Elsner and Rättviseförmedlingen followed by a bar mingle.
Anna Ådahl is an artist who works with various media such as, film, installation, collage and performance art. Anna's work stems from different stories that become re-creations through other forms of aesthetic narrative.
http://www.annaadahl.com/
Charlotte Elsner works as an architect and designer, and is a part of the design group Objecthood.
www.charlotteelsner.com
Rättviseförmedlingen has since 2010 built up the beginnings of a grass roots social movement. Today, Rättviseförmedlingen includes around 35 000 individuals collaborating each day on Facebook to voluntarily help projects, organizations and the media to practice competency-based recruitment, supporting those who tend to get overlooked because of their gender, origin and physical conditions. The director Sofia Embrén explains more.
http://rattviseformedlingen.se/
Since 2006, Mossutställningar has been running Nya Kontoret, a studio complex at Stureplan with over 1500 square meters and 70 cultural workers (musicians, artists, designers, writers, animators, etc.) Mossutställningar is a non-profit organisation founded to widen the possibilities for artistic productions outside the traditional institutional framework.
You are warmly welcome to enjoy this October evening with us! Free entrance.
WHO IS NYA KONTORET?
Tuesday May 29, 2012
6 PM - 9 PM
Birger Jarlsgatan 18 A, 4th floor.
In this last episode of this seasons seminar series presenting the work of the workers based at Nya kontoret, we proudly present two lectures on happiness featuring Katarina Blom from Lyckolabbet and Dan Hasson from Karolinska Institutet and the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University.
Katarina is up to date with the latest research on what makes us happy, and what we think will make us happy. She likes to explore the discrepancy in between these findings, and help organizations and individuals apply positive psychology to both feel and function better. Katarina's lecture is on "Positive psychology in practice." Dan Hasson is an author and researcher at Karolinska Institutet and the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University. Dan has a PhD in stress management and health promotion at Uppsala university. Dan's lecture is on "The truth about subjective well-being and longevity." Each lecture will be 30 minutes, followed by questions from the happy audience. Afterwards we will provide some rippling yoga music and for very little money some trickling happy drinks.
WHO IS NYA KONTORET?
Thursday April 19, 2012
6 PM - 10 PM
(Free entrance)
Music, beer and mingle
The monthly seminar program Who is Nya Kontoret? presents the third installment of Stocktown's Show and Tell series, which entails inviting guests to show and talk about a movie clip that inspires them. For this occasion Stocktown has invited Göran Olsson (director of Black Power Mix Tape)as well highly regarded old and new Nya kontoret residents.
Live on stage 6:30 PM
Host: Teddy Goitom - Stocktown.com
Göran Olsson - Director of Black Power Mixtape
Marika Heidebäck - Documentary filmmaker / animator
Apollo - "Activist Voguer" Dj
Carl M Sundevall - Concept manager of Kåken & Spybar
Welcome!
Check out the latest trailer from Show & Tell at the Tempo film festival http://vimeo.com/39005254
Nya Kontoret's first monthly seminar program featuring presentations by three Nya Kontoret residents.
Short, 15 minute presentations and discussions with moderator Mariana Silva Varela.
Beer and snacks for sale.
1. CECILIA DREYFERT will talk about her working method and how she forms from idea and concept and creates spatial experiences, based on a specific design order she received. She will describe how a jazz song like 'Mood Indigo' can be transformed into spatial design. The presentation weaves together her motivation, design philosophy and approach to design. http://www.ceciliadreyfert.com/
2. MOSSUTSTÄLLNINGAR is the mother of Nya kontoret and a redeemer of art in public spaces. Today, were running a few major art projects that seek to provide small steps towards global change using the inherent powers of art: Visionary goods, Samhällsverkstad, and Public art dis-embellishments. We would like your advice along the way! www.mossutstallningar.com
3. TORA MÅRTENS, filmmaker, will show clips from her first feature length documentary "COLOMBIANOS" which premieres during the spring of 2012. The film will also participate in the Tempo Festival, March 9th at Victoria cinema in Stockholm, and has been nominated for the Tempo Award. Tora will also show clips from a work in progress, a dance film titled "Martha & Niki". http://www.toramartens.com
ENPAP presents: Going Public - Telling it as it is?
Going Public – Telling it as it is? is a three-day symposium aimed at exploring storytelling as a mode of production and reception of public art. It features a series of lecture performances and artist commissions spread throughout the city of Bilbao, Spain and is accompanied by a closed network meeting in Vitoria-Gasteiz that draws together selected professionals in the field.
Programme:
22-24 March: Locating the Story in the City
Throughout the city of Bilbao and in local mass media
Participating artists: Itziar Barrio (ES/USA), Phil Collins (UK), Jeleton (ES), Alex Reynolds (UK/ES), Martha Rosler (USA) and María Ruido (ES)
23 March: Performance lectures
BizBAK UPV/EHU, Bilbao
Participating artists: Asli Cavusoglu (TR), Patricia Esquivias (ES/VE), Goldin + Senneby (SE), Asier Mendizabal (ES), Olof Olsson (SE) and Falke Pisano (NL) & Francesco Pedraglio (IT)
23 March: Expanded stories
Pavilion6/ ZAWP, Bilbao
Begoña+La Jawara DJs (ES), Institut Fatima (DE/ES), OJO (USA)
24 March: ENPAP Caucus
ARTIUM museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Closed session by invitation only
ENPAP - The European Network of Public Art Producers was formed in 2009 and unites six art organizations that share an affinity for expanding the notion of public art. Its main aim is to raise criticality in public art commissioning practice through promoting knowledge exchange, development of new working methods and establishing common vocabulary for new forms of production and public engagement in contemporary art.
ENPAP has been supported by: The EU Culture Programme, 2012 Euskadi, Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, The City Hall of Bilbao, Donostia 2016, The Foundation for the Culture of the Future, The Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm Arts Council, IASPIS, SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain and The Romanian Cultural Institute.
The programme in Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz is made possible through the collaboration with BizBAK UPV/EHU, ARTIUM museum and Basque Television (EITB).
Samhällsverkstad brings together political and artistic engagements reflecting on contemporary society and the emptiness and disorientation many struggle with. Samhällsverkstad wants to help change the world for the better, through peaceful, creative and pleasurable means. We create community workshops to encourage critical and visionary thinking and actions for the development of various potential future realities.
Samhällsverkstad #3
May 12, 2012
A Guided Tour of the Future
Curious about what the future holds?
- We can tell you!
Join us for Samhällsverkstad Nr.3 "A guided tour of the future," which takes the form of a bus trip into the future. We will visit the society of the future, and see how it operates. What will the notions of family be like? How does the economy of the future work? What are the processes used for decision-making in the future? How does nature look?
In a fragile world, where public debate is fragmented and short-sighted, it is very important to use our imaginations in searching for possibilities and asking ourselves what we want. Therefore, we are taking a moment to look beyond the realistic and further into another possible future, perhaps even finding the way there.
Want to join us?
RSVP to sarah@mossutstallningar.com by May 10th, limited number of seats.
Samhällsverkstad is supported by the Swedish Arts Council and Stockholm Art Council.
Thanks to: Rättbuss
2011
IF YOU COULD DECIDE!
- Exercises in political fantasy
PROGRAM DECEMBER 2011
Workshops at Mossutställningar, Nya Kontoret
Samhällsverkstad #1:(Dec 2, 10AM-4PM) Political Resistance to Political Creation
A one day seminar on critical practices, the composition of contemporary social struggles and the art of political organization.
Participants:
Feministiskt Initiativ: Zakia Khan
Prekariatet: Karin Bähler Lavér, Axel Gagge, Anja Lisa Rudka and Cesar Tafoya
Rätt att bo: Mathias Wåg
Occupy Stockholm/Hagsätra: Steven Cuzner, Sarah Degerhammer, Mårten Holmberg
Piratbyrån & Hemliga Trädgården: Rasmus Fleischer
Joanna Gustafsson & Lisa Nyberg
Brand: Samira Ariadad
The Psychic Warfare: Cameron Vale
Kris Kommittén
Samhällsverkstad #2:(Dec.10 & 11, 12PM - 4PM) Political Words.
A two-day workshop about the interplay between rhetoric and politics, focusing on the everyday usage of political words. The goal for the workshop is to construct a vocabulary list together consisting of words we want to reload, re-launch, and abolish. This word list will then be launched and spread to encourage new ways of using these terms in our daily lives.
Bring your language skills and your passion for politics, and together we will create the groundwork for something that can grow and become a tool for continuous proliferation.
RSVP before 12.00 PM by Friday to: Sarah Kim, sarah@mossutstallningar.com, 0704-835071
Samhällsverkstad is commissioned by Mossutställningar and led by:
Apollo de Azizi: musician and sociologist
Eis Larsson: musician
Michele Masucci: artist, translator and writer.
An introduction to a few of the country's Stureplan-based artists, designers and writers. In an uptown stretch of the street Birger Jarlsgatan, 2000 square meters of bohemia lie hidden, leased to more than 70 different "cultural workers." Nya Kontoret (The New Office) was established in 2006 in a building slotted for demolition, and so will not last forever, but perhaps some of the creations and communities will survive. Come see it while it's still around!
STOCKHOLM FUTURE IMPERFECT WORKSHOP 17 - 22 OCTOBER
By JOANNA RAJKOWSKA
LECTURE ABOUT AND WITH JOANNA RAJKOWSKA
Friday, 21 October, 10am
Konstfack, LM Ericsons Väg 14
PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF WORKSHOP'S RESULTS
Sunday, 23 October, 6pm
Mossutställningar's ”Nya kontoret”, Birger Jarlsgatan 18 A, 4th floor.
Soup will be served!
Join us to talk about the city’s public institutions and their future!
On Sunday 23rd of October at 6 pm Mossutställningar will present the results of the workshops Stockholm Future Imperfect with Joanna Rajkowska and ten students from Konstfack (School of Art Design) and Kungliga konsthögskolan (Royal Academy of Art). Meet the artist and the participants to ask about urban heterotopias and their impressions from visiting various public institutions in Stockholm. During a week’s time the group has visited the Swedish Migration Board in Märsta (Migrationsverket), War Archives at Karlaplan (Krigsarkivet), the Creamatorium at Skogskyrkogården, Old People’s Home in Roslagstull.
The Stockholm Future Imperfect workshop is an attempt to think about the future – to trigger fantasies about the city’s future life, its potential development, aberrations and all kinds of changes in the life of the community. The workshop will take place in stages, each starting with a visit to a place important for the community, e.g. the crematorium, the archive, the cemetery, the animal shelter. We will ask: what will Stockholm be like fifty, seventy, a hundred years from now? How will the archives look? Will the zoo be still in operation? What will old people’s homes look like? What will happen with the cemeteries? Will the urban heterotopias change their character and, if so, how? And what will happen with the multi-layered and complicated memory of the city’s history? We will try reflecting on all these issues from a future position in order to activate areas of the unknown, uncertain, future imperfect. All that to avoid falling into the toxic trap of the past and instead to use memory to fantasise about the future of the here and now, of what is important and possible for the city.
Joanna Rajkowska (born 1968 in Bydgoszcz, Poland) is an author of objects, films, installations, ephemeral actions, as well as interventions in the public space. Her projects reflect the changes in the reception and expectations towards art and its social functions, referring to the complexity of identity problems affecting the Eastern European countries after the economic and political transformation of the 90s.Rajkowska’s most widely discussed works, Pozdrowienia z Alej jerozolimskich/ Greetings from the Jerusalem Avenue (2002-2009) and Dotleniacz/ Oxygenator (2006-2007), functioned as contemporary “social sculptures”, activating layers of meanings (both historical and ideological), provoking conflicts, serving as specific platforms interwoven into the urban tissue of Warsaw, used for debates, arguments and manifestations.
Joanna Rajkowska studied painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Krakow and history at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She received the "Paszport Polityki" award in 2007 and the Culture Foundation Grand Prize in 2010.
In collaboration with the Polish Institute in Stockholm
With support from Kulturrådet (The Swedish Arts Council)
Mossutställningar presents the Unreliable Tour Guide by Momus at Moderna Museet and Östasiatiska museet
Sunday 16th of October 2011
Moderna museet 3 pm
Östasiatiska museet 4 pm
The tour takes off from the foyers of the museums
Entrance: 0 kr
Since 2006 — when he first incarnated the role in the Whitney Museum, New York — the Scottish storytelling artist Momus has been conducting tours of art institutions. He improvises and delivers incorrect yet intriguing information about the artworks on display. Following his own maxim that "every lie creates the parallel world in which it is “true", Momus proposes that these pieces of institutionally - endorsed misinformation are productive, creating a series of dizzying vistas of alternative possibilities. At Moderna Museet he will intervene in the exhibition Magritte-Foucault, inserting provocative, previously - unknown and knowingly - false details about the lives and philosophies
of both men. At Östasiatiska Museet, Momus will guide a tour through the exhibition entitled Mishaps in the Travels of Bernhard Karlgren, which presents the great Swedish Sinologist's lesser-known misadventures and travels to China and the Far East.
Momus is a musician and artist
imomus.com
Supported by The Swedish Arts Council
Thanks to: John Henriksson
Photo credit: Icy Sushi
Nybohovs Festlokal, Nybohovsbacken 50, Stockholm, Sweden
Cooking Catastrophes
- A performance where you can TASTE the end of the world
By Eva Meyer-Keller and Sybille Müller
World premiere on September 8 at 8 pm. Also showing September 9,11,12,16,18 & 19 at Nybohovs festlokal in Liljeholmen, Stockholm, Sweden. (http://www.nybohovsrestaurang.se/)
Cooking Catastrophes is a performance, a cooking show and a reflection on our future. Top chefs serves edible scenes which depict natural and environmental disasters, wars and serious accidents. Forest fires, over flooded rivers, avalanches, earthquakes, meteorite falls, exploding oil rigs and crashing jumbo jet -planes, all and more in front of an audience. It smells and stings, the pleasant yet uncomfortable catastrophes are often overwhelmingly incomprehensible and difficult to digest, but still the spectators are invited for a tasting. Cooking Catastrophes brings out and plays with the tension between pleasure and fear.
The performance features some of the country’s best chefs, who have devised the evening’s menu together with the artists. As the performance is being served, the camera work by Marika Heidebäck appeals to our well-trimmed media sensitivity. The recited texts are based on interviews with various experts on the science of climate and global change, cooking and food production.
Eva Meyer-Keller and Sybille Müller have previously created Building After Catastrophes, a workshop with children which culminated in illustrations of disasters through food. Cooking Catastrophes was produced by the artists and commissioned by Mossutställningar to create a new work for the series called “Konstrestauranger”. This is the second edition, preceded by The Dinner Club, by Poste Restante.
Eva Meyer-Keller works mainly with performance and has been showing her work world wide, in galleries and theatres. She graduated from the New School of Dance Developement in Amsterdam and has also studied photography and visual art in Berlin and London. She has also worked on projects with groups like Baktruppen, Jerome Bel, Le Ballet C de la B and others.
Sybille Müller studied dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and is currently finishing her degree in Strategic Comunication and Planning at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Her work interlaces different fields from dance, choreography, performance art and writing to psychological research. Besides working on her own independent projects, she also collaborates with others, e.g. Isabelle Schad, deufert&plischke.
Cooks: Jim Löfdahl, Kristoffer Nilsson, Andreas Lindberg, Mariana Silva Varela, Filip Zubaczek, Peter Whaley
Camera: Marika Heidebäck
Location: Nybohovs Festlokal, Nybohovsbacken 50, Stockholm
Directions: T-bana to Liljeholmen. Don't exit the station, follow signs to the lift that takes you up to Nybohovsbacken, at the top exit take a right 15 m
Produced by Mossutställningar
Co-produced by PACT Zollverein Essen and Goethe-Institut Schweden
With support from Fonden Innovativ Kultur, Kulturrådet, Stiftelsen framtidens kultur
Sponsors: Nybohovs festlokal, Werners Gourmet service, Garage Gourmet
Thanks to: Dansens Hus
TOUR
September 8 + 9, 2012
Kaaistudio's, Brussel, Belgium (http://www.kaaitheater.be/productie.jsp?productie=991)
July 13, 2012
Krakaudorf, Austria (http://www.regionale12.at)
February 17. + 18, 2012
Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany (www.pact-zollverein.de)
September 24. + 25, 2011
Indisciplinarte, Terni, Italy (www.indisciplinarte.it)
Mossutställningar has initiated this network of organisations from Europe that share an affinity for expanding the notion of public art. We have come together to learn from each other and improve our working methods. The six core partners will together make a comparative study and a symposium to be presented in Bilbao in March 2012.
ENPAP core partners:
Baltic Art Center/Visby www.balticartcenter.com
consonni/Bilbao www.consonni.org
Mossutställningar/Stockholm
Situations/Bristol www.situations.org.uk
SKOR - Art and Public Space/Amsterdam www.skor.nl
Vector/Iasi www.periferic.org
ENPAP associated partners:
Rakett/Oslo www.rakett.biz
Marabouparken/Sundbyberg www.marabouparken.se
Museum of Modern Art/Warsawa www.artmuseum.pl
ENPAP has been made possible with grants from the European Commissions Culture Programme, The Foundation for the Culture of the Future, Stockholm Art Council and The Swedish Arts Council
In the foyer of Dansens Hus sways Matti Kallioinen's sculpture "Phylogenes" which is made from hundreds of meters of cloth and a few square feet of air which is inhaled and exhaled through this symmetrical semi-abstract semi-figurative structure. The piece was made specifically for the space and consisits of a complex web
Matti Kallioinen creates dreamlike scapes that spring from his interest in cognitive perception and fiction that can be found in the grey zone between the natural and the artificial world.
This production was made by Mossutställningar for Dansens Hus
The first in a series of conversations exploring the possibilities inherent in radical acts performed and encountered in everyday life. The area of particular interest is the impact parents have on the formation of the political and cultural values of their children. The idea is to stage conversations in public spaces about radicality. The first conversation, held in Stockholm’s classic ‘Café Ritorno’ established in 1949, was between visual artist Love Enqvist and his father Björn Enqvist, the psychotherapist who introduced hypnosis to therapy in Sweden in the sixties.
Our Radical parents is a project by Londonbased artist Marysia Lewandowska in collaboration with Stefan Andersson, produced by Mossutställningar.
a month will pass till a boat will pick up gelatin again
during the mont from june to july 2009 they will be discarded on a tiny bare rock island hidden beneath the many of Stockholms Skärgård islands
the island sticks out of the water like a butt,
showing no trees, little hair and bears nothing but its bare back and crack boldly
it is an island small enough to be inhaled in one breathe
but to far out to swimm in the cold waters to greet the neighbour
bare of mobilphones, internets, electricity, fotomachines and ice creams
toilets and brandy, boats, rescue plans and eye-candy
gelatin will be a figurine of boredom on this plinth
nothing will remain, nothing will happen
all will happen, and that will be all.
Gelatin is now off the island in safety, and Boring Island will remain in the memory of those who passed by boat, visited the island or read about the project.
Press: (in swedish): http://www.nvp.se/Kultur--Noje/O-blev-konstverk-i-en-manad/
Gelatin on boredom island is supported by Stiftelsen framtidens kultur, Stockholms läns landsting and Värmdö kommun.
The ‘society club of elegance’ The Dinner Club led courses teaching proper manners, including how men can be men, and women can be women, in the exquisite villa that houses the Polish Institute. The Dinner Club is a play by swedish performancegroup Poste Restante, and uses the format of a full-scale course in which the guests take active part. The total capacity for the performances was for 400 visitors and we reached a 92% take-up: a huge success for this relatively unexplored format.
Actors: Trifa Abdulla, Frida Beckman, Erik Berg, Malin Buska, Carl d'Ailly and Songbird, Stella d'Ailly, Emanuelle Davin, Kristian Hallberg, Karin Hauptman, Sophie Hellsing, Sofia Johansson, Andreas Jönsson, Lena Kimming, Linn Hilda Lamberg, Alvaro Ovalle, Niklas Ren, Nina Sigurd, Andreas Sjöberg, Hedda Sondén, Stefan Åkesson, Eleonora Ånhammar
Music by Songbird
Produced in collaboration with The Polish Institute
With support from Stockholm stads kulturförvaltning and Stiftelsen framtidens kultur
In 2006 we brokered a deal with Jones Lang Lasalle to rent a disused office complex in the commercial centre of Stockholm. Nya kontoret (‘The New Office’) was established in 2006 and today comprises 1800 square meters of space,
which houses over 70 artists, producers, actors, writers, designers, photographers and film makers.
Some of Nya kontoret’s residents:
bipic.se / stocktown.com / geist.se / oivviosarkiv.polite.se / danb.se /
wisp.se / dianaorving.com / ensrettet.se / eskils.com / maggiefilmen.se
From Mossutställningars reading circle about culture politics, lead by Helena Salomonson during fall 2007, a text about the recent inquiry has been produced.
The text derives from a quote that was to be read at the governments webpage: ” The directives takes their starting point in that the freedom of culture is best nursed when it is supported by many forces. Culture politics should be about the citizens needs and engagement, culture producers should be able to work under decent circumstances and the culture heritage should be a concern and a civil right for all. The value of culture itself is a cornerstone form the culture politics”
In an attempt the clarify the conceptions, and how they can be applied to the actual climate for non-institutional producers of art and culture, we fragmentize the quote and work our way thru it.
It is Mossutställningars ambition to trigger the debate about the climate for non-institutional producers of art and use the knowledge and experience acquired from the reading circle.
The text has been sent to the Swedish Culture Politics Inquiry and published on their website. Only in Swedish.
Sprong communication commissioned Mossutställningar to present Kultivator’s practice to Stockholm. “När Stureplan blev bonnigt” translates as: “When Sture square became pastoral” and was about the concept of creating ‘ecological growth and economic sustainability’ in the city.
For the occasion Kultivator held a public panel discussion in their especially designed ‘Ranchito’, a seed archive, kitchen and data base all in one. On the panel were ecological farmers and ecological entrepreneurs. Over 80 audience participants took part with their own suggestions on how to make the inner city more ecologically sound. Re-introducing public water fountains and producing artificial biogenetic meat were just two of the proposals put forward.
Mossutställningar is working on implementing some of these proposals and more into the city centre over the next few years.
Mossutställningar is in the making of becoming an organisation and was founded to practice new methods of working, which often is easier said than done. Meetings about practicalities often consume all the time needed to think freely and create visions. The committee decided to make a programme for itself including reading circles in various fields of interest. The reading circles become focused meetings where we look at theory and exercise our brains. The idea is to allow theory and practice to meet and reflect on Mossutställningar’s work. The reading circle as a form is excellent for further education, as well as for creating space where we can fantasise, be creative and reach wuthering heights.
A programme for the reading circle has taken form under a self-reflective flag and competent leadership:
I. Culture politics from the 1960s to present day, run by Helena Salomonsson, August 2007
II. Organisational theory, run by Simon Goldin, December 2007
III. Public art organisations, their effect on art, art history and working conditions for artists. Run by Claire Doherty, January 2008
When Mossutställningar was founded a number of thoughts circled in the discussions. We wanted to make Stockholm a more open city, a city that today is characterized by premises left empty and locked awaiting price inflation. Mossutställningar also found a lack of art in public spaces, art that not necessarily is categorized as street art or public decoration. Inspired by art producers such as Creative Time, SKOR and Art Angel, we wanted to work with artist to produce unexpected meetings and situations, for us and the cities citizens.
Collaboration with designers Christian Halleröd and Johannes Svartholm was initiated early on to find a flexible form, within which we could exist and to be used in any given context: in the middle of a square, in a lake, on TV or at a dump. The comission was to find a form that symbolized and our mobility and at the same time admitted our need of a working space. We also wanted their help to mirror this phase of our trials both structurally, conceptually and financially.
The concept that Christan Halleröd and Johannes Svartholm presented consisted of four unique, sculptural modules. Each module represents archetypes from the classic office space, and are shaped with a playful idea of being scattered within the frame of the module. The four pieces are used separate or in formations so as to create variations such as a room, function as room dividers, a stage, complex sculptural structures or labyrinths. The furniture has a strong graphic aesthetics which gives it a solid identity in any context it might be exposed to. The form is made flexible to best suite Mossutställningar’s goal to develop within three years.
In the site-specific work of the counterfeit monarch Leif Erich Christensen, he takes ironic pleasure in the absurdities of magical power and exotic desires. The adoption of the eclectic quality of a secret society, with make-believe realms of magical ritual, alchemical actions and symbolic absurdities, where form and idea become easily detached and reassembled according to the artist’s own logic, never quite fitting into the context, whatever the context is.
Leif Erich Christensen arrived to Stockholm by boat accompanied by his companions. Before disembarking L E C saluted at Nybroviken to declare his return to the people, and at Skeppsholmen in front of the canons to state his return to military forces of this country that once forced him to exile. The delivery of the cabinet and its installation in the distinguished Building Birger Jarl 18 was carried on shortly after, accompanied by massive security. After the exhibition of the secret cabinet, L E C and his companions was once again forced into exile. Yet another return of the counterfeit monarch can not be excluded.
THE SECRET CABINET (a private room of display and influence) was a colonial product of two unfulfilled intentions. The first, to present the DOUBLE HEADED ALLIES magical politics, the second to coalesce the fetish BLACK DAISY and PHANTOM DADDY SPICE who, when identified with the Counterfeit MONARCH, leads to the magical applications of transformation.
The whole secret cabinet was intended as an influencing machine.
The construction of the cabinet inverts the architectural proportions of the chosen room, showcasing fictional sequels to real historical contexts in which cannons will function as fetish cupboards and symbolic accelerators next to numerous images and objects representing magical trophies, texts and traces of post-alchemical actions.
Leif Erich Christensens work has over the last years centred on historical, sexual, social psychological and military subjects and questions. They have been presented in complex and detailed installations that often mislead interpreters into evasive tales who’s narratives often derives from reality. Leif Erich Christen lives and works in Berlin.
Touring exhibition starting from Vädurens service flats
In response to an invitation to exhibit in sheltered housing in Stockholm, Sophie Calle chose to show an early work entitled Los Angeles. It is a portrait of sorts of a city and its citizens’ individual belief systems.
Four residents at the sheltered housing apartment complex ‘Väduren’ volunteered and themselves curated how this rather large work should be displayed in their rather small flats, and presented their thoughts around it to guests at a public talk in their private homes.
In addition the residents each took on an agent to execute an investigation of their choice. The agents were students at a nearby art school. Ulla’s agent’s mission was to spy on one of the nurses for a day and a night, both at work at ‘Väduren’ and outside of work. Knut sent his agent to ask passers-by about a monument to Raul Wallenberg, which he himself detested. Bill had a particular loathing for a modernist square and wanted his agent to document the behavioural patterns of its users. Lars-Åke sent his agent to investigate a day-care centre for dogs, with a focus on the dogs’ behaviour upon being left and later picked up by their owners.
All of this material was presented using images and text, and then toured to three sheltered housing projects in Stockholm.
Mossutställningar’s first exhibition included over 100 artists (including designers, writers, performers etc) who each made a new work to pay tribute to the artist Yayoi Kusama.
The only prerequisite was that the works incorporated Kusama’s hallmark dot patterns. The tribute lasted for one day only, and included a dot parade by teenagers through the streets of Stockholm’s inner city. In the street where the exhibition was held – Birger Jarlsgatan – all the shop owners, from Gucci to Sandy’s, participated by covering their windows in dots. There were 1500 visitors during the exhibition which lasted for no more than a day.
Artists:
Mårten Bäckman, Allen Grubesic, Maja Gunn, Jonas Hassen-Khemiri, Ronnit Hasson, Johan Hjerpe, Karl Holmquist, The Energy Group, Marie Fahlin, Satoshi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Lava workshop och prickparad, Sara Lunden, Katarina Löfström, Johanna Löwenhamn, Michele Masucci, Diana Orving, Research and development, Bella Rune, Emmanuel Schütt, Astrid Stenberg, Fanny Stenberg, Natalie Sutinen, The Sweaptaways, Patrik Söderstam, Rebecka Thor, Ellen Utterström, Olle Wickman, Anna Ådahl, Marika Åkerblom
Curators: Stella d'Ailly and Ronnit Hasson
With kind support by Stockholm City Council
Sponsors: Alcro, Fyrverkerikonst, För skola och lek, Galatea spirits, Kodak, Lagerhaus, Profilfixarna, The Spislight AB, Trikåbyrå, Stockholms stadsmission
Mossutställningar is a non-profit organisation founded to widen the possibilities for artistic productions outside the traditional institutional framework. We facilitate conditions for art production and are not tied to a specific space. Often in dialogue with other operators within the public sphere, we create art projects in Stockholm.
Each art project is made for a site- or contextual framework or else directly from an artist’s vision. We provide room for new meetings between artist, audience, works and sites.
Mossutställningar recieves its core funding from The Foundation for the Culture of the Future. Each art project is supported by various funds and collaborations.
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Mossutställningar is made possible through support from The Foundation for the Culture of the Future
Mossutställningars comittee consists of:
Mohamed El Abed, Joa Ljungberg, Gunilla Muhr, Karolin Pahlén, Tova Rudin Lundell, Helena Salomonson, Anna Tomaszewska, Malin Zimm.
Mossutställningar's council consists of:
Annica Adsenius, Art educationalist,S:t Eriksgymnasiet
Miriam Bäckström, Artist
Christian Halleröd, Designer CHd
Thomas Rudin, Architect, White Arkitekter
Helena Scragg, Curator Norrköpings Konsthall
Emma Shanley, PR and event
The council continously supports the committees work. The council and committee meet annualy.
To recieve a annual membership in Mossutställningar you pay 50 SEK on a yearly basis. It grants you entrance to our annual meeting. Please attach your name and contact details upon payment to PG 38 22 95-4
