tsnoK är en publikation som "är ett försök att skriva om konst och bedriva kritik på ett annat sätt", enligt dess redaktion som består av Lars-Erik Hjertström-Lappalainen, Annika von Hausswolff, Jonatan Habib Engqvist. Jag har skrivit en text för tsnoK som handlar om mitt andra liv som anonym "hobbypolitico" under åren 2005-2008 och hur den hobbyn påverkat mitt konstnärskap.
Välkommen till öppningen av P.K. - en utställning om intolerans på Forum för Levande Historia den 15 september kl 16-19.
Adress: Stora Nygatan 10-12 (Gamla Stan), Stockholm.
O.S.A senast den 9 september till info@levandehistoria.se
Jag deltar i utställningen med en grupp nya verk som har titeln Tolerera. I utställningen visas en video och ett webbverk. En antologi, som utkommer i februari 2012, kommer också att ingå i utställningen. I två av verken (videoverket och antologin) medverkar psykoanalytikern Tomas Böhm och psykologerna Liria Ortiz och Fred Saboonchi.
'19 years' was produced for the exhibition 'Changing Matters', which was arranged by Stockholm Resilience Centre at the Museum of Nature History in Stockholm in 2008. It displays over 1800 events in more than 500 places, in chronological order, from 1989 to 2007, on a black and white political map. These events were popular mass-protests, such as demonstrations or rallies, where several thousands of people took to the streets in protest.
A cropped, low resolution video preview of the work has now been released on Vimeo. The original work consists of a Flash application, in which the animation is created programmatically on-the-fly with actionscript and xml, which means that it can easily be updated with new events. The Flash application is also used when the work is exhibited.
In 2010 I was invited to participate in a couple of seminars, talks and meetings, which examined the role of the artist in a political context. Reports from two of these were recently published and are available online.
We are proud to present a new, revised, and re-designed, edition of the two winning essays in the Utopian World Championship at Göteborg Book Fair 2010. The books are published by Raketa Press with support from The Foundation for the Culture of the Future. The first volume includes the essay 'The New Word Disorder', by the pseudonym T.R.O.Y., and the second volume has the title 'From Youth Maturity to Global Government - The Utopian Tapestry' - and was written by the Professor Emeritus in anthropology, Mr Cyril Belshaw. You'll find Raketa Press in monter B07:27. Read more at http://utopianwc.com and http://raketapress.nu. Welcome!
Saturday, September 25 at 4-5pm
Göteborg Book Fair 2010, booth B07:27
Jon Brunberg, one of the initiators of the Utopian World Championship, talks to the winner of the first U.W.C. in 2001, Anthony T. Fiscella, about his essay "The New World Disorder," and his view on utopianism and politics and the role of Utopias in contemporary society. Anthony T. Fiscella is a researcher in the field of history of religion at the University of Lund and has recently written a book on anarchy and Islam.
Join the quest for Utopia by participating in the Utopian World Championship, which is a global, open contest in utopian thinking and writing. You participate with an essay, or short story, in which you describe your utopian vision. The first prize is 1000 Euro and the winning entry will be printed and distributed by the UWC group. The competition is planned to finish in 2011 to mark the ten-year anniversary of its start in 2001.
The third Utopian W.C. was launched in an opening ceremony at the Knot, on Kopa Cwila in Ursynów, Warsaw, Poland, on July 3 at 7pm.
You can sign up for participation at the web site utopianwc.com, where you can also read the rules for the previous championships, and all about the previous participants and their essays. For visitors to Kopa Cwila hill there will also be an information desk for the Utopian W.C. where you can sign up and get more information.
Photos from the opening ceremony (Facebook album)
The Utopian World Championship will participate in the Knot when it stops in Ursynów, Warsaw, June 22-July 4, where Jon Brunberg will present the project in several ways. There will be daily, public, readings from the participating essays and seminars with the Knot's inhabitants.
Documentalities is the name of the 2009-2010 version of the thematic seminar course Art and Architecture at the Royal College for Fine Arts in Stockholm, in which I've been participating. The course has focused on various aspects of the document in forms of borders, passports, photography and archives and included a round trip in the middle east in October 2009. This year has been focused on artistic projects on the theme that are now shown at the spring exhibition of the Royal Academy in Stockholm, opening at June 26 and closing at July 6.
I've created a study for a larger work for this exhbition, titled 124 years, that can be seen as a continuation of the works 101 years and 19 years. You can view the work as an animation at the website documentalities.org from May 26.
New, revised, and re-designed, edition of the two winning essays in the Utopian World Championship
My article for the program OBS and their series 'Konsten och Kapitalet' - 'The Art and the Capital' - that was broadcasted March 23 is now available online. Visit the online archive or open the program directly in the browser. The program is in Swedish.
Min artikel för Sveriges Radio P1:s serie 'Konsten och Kapitalet' kan nu höras online.