This is the poster
19.7.11
July 15 & 16
JULY, 16
All students (along with Mason Nye and Stewart Wilson) were developing their projects during the day until the beginning of Perspektiv at 18:00. That evening we had presentations of 7 students: Magda, Meghan, Erik, Elizabeth, Helene, Irina and Ben.
Magda showed her painting works with the focus on her self portraits. Meghan showed the pictures of her craft projects together with pictures from Swedish craft centers around Mariestad. Erik showed his video art project from Jonkopping and his social art projects in Goteborg. Elizabeth and Helene showed their collaborative works together with their own projects. Irina told us about her practice and inspiration in butoh dance. And the lucky last – Ben – gave us a quick look at his background as photographer's assistant.
Katya
July 15
Everyone worked hard on their project during the day then….
NICE 2 C U AGAIN POTTER
Almost everyone in the course stood in the line, almost everyone in this town stood in the line, waiting to enter Saga movie theater to watch HP 2.0, to see Voldemort triumph over Harry Potter once and for all(?). But guess what, even if Potter has 99 problems - the bitch ain't one. Love will conquer evil. There is so much love, tell it to the heart.
Kajsa
July 14
On Thursday we had a meeting regarding the opening of the exhibition on the 21st. We looked at the poster ideas and the name for the exhibition. In the afternoon people who are working with floating sculptures had a meeting with Stewart Wilson discussing ideas for their works. At 6pm we had a perspektiv lecture with Johanna McTaggart. She spoke about her work on the regional biosphere reserve and what it really means for the municipality in the long-run. It was a compelling perspective.
Many of the students continued their work with Mason Nye on mural.
July 11 & 12
July 11 & 12
Project Development & Individual Meeting Days. Students worked independently on their projects and met with Amanda to discuss their project concepts and plan.July 10
10 July 2011
I had a nice rest and picked up some items that I needed for my project from Gothenburg. Anders, Johan and I, took a ride from Amanda. We picked up Mason Nye who had just arrived from NewYork.
We had a pleasant journey with a good chat in the rented car.
Back in Mariestad, Irina was making her performance in front of City Art Lab, a few of the fellow students were there to help guard. She was powdered in white, laying on the ground under the hot sun. Her face was covered with black fabric with a big black rose. She looked beautiful yet fragile and vulnerable to me. I was was worried by seeing such an image, a body on the ground, non protected.
At 18:00, Mason Nye started his perspective lecture and shared with us his commercial mural projects, from thematic to decorative, from public space to private property that he had done in the States. Mason's work was very impressive. Following Mason's talk, we had five student presentations. We started with Vita, Stephanie, Anders, Simone and Alex.
It was very nice and interesting to see the different types of presentations and the different focus of everyone's work.
We had a pleasant journey with a good chat in the rented car.
Back in Mariestad, Irina was making her performance in front of City Art Lab, a few of the fellow students were there to help guard. She was powdered in white, laying on the ground under the hot sun. Her face was covered with black fabric with a big black rose. She looked beautiful yet fragile and vulnerable to me. I was was worried by seeing such an image, a body on the ground, non protected.
At 18:00, Mason Nye started his perspective lecture and shared with us his commercial mural projects, from thematic to decorative, from public space to private property that he had done in the States. Mason's work was very impressive. Following Mason's talk, we had five student presentations. We started with Vita, Stephanie, Anders, Simone and Alex.
It was very nice and interesting to see the different types of presentations and the different focus of everyone's work.
July 8
Today we heard a lecture from Nils Jornling, a PHD student in architecture who is working part time for the city on the “City Lake Project”. He spoke to us about how it has become common for residents to build fences separating different neighborhoods and public spaces and how this affects the character of the city. In the evening Carolina Falkholt spoke to us about the graffiti project she spearheaded last year and the silo. She also showed us some of her other work, including pieces from her show in that is currently up in Gothenburg.
For my project I am working on the mural. Despite the rain, it is coming along well!
Magda Mortner
For my project I am working on the mural. Despite the rain, it is coming along well!
Magda Mortner
July 7
7 July 2011
After several days of long hours spent sitting in conference rooms and the dim light necessary for projected presentations, it was a welcome break to see some blue sky for a few hours. The day was spent piling on and off a gigantic tour bus, which the driver expertly maneuvered down one-lane forest roads. Here are a few historical tidbits from our visits in the area south of Mariestad:
We were given a tour around the still active Forshem church by one of its caretakers, a woman proud to announce that it was one of the only churches in Northern Europe that was dedicated to the Holy Sepulchre of Christ in Jerusalem. Four twelfth-century stone carvings adorn each outer wall of the church, and wooden beams with eleventh-century Nordic carvings can be found on the inside.
Kinnekulle is a UNESCO biosphere area on Lake Vanern, one of approximately 500 biospheres worldwide. The geological landscape is composed of layers of limestone, sandstone, shale, clay and a hard volcanic top. Limestone was mined in a nearby quarry and carved in a stone masonry that was active from the 1880s to the mid 1900s. The masonry has been left largely untouched since it was in active operation, and handmade iron tools still hang next to the forge. A small railway was built to dump stone scraps into the lake, and at lunch we clambered about on the stone pilings and found a patch of wild strawberries on the path to the bus.
Our guide pointed out shoots of wild garlic and the site of an old hotel, the deck of which is still visible, in the Meadow of the Monks, which has been a nature reserve since 1923.
The day ended with two presentations detailing the local perspective on living in Mariestad.
Meghan Urback
July 6
JULY 6, 2011
The day began with a reading discussion of Part One of our reader. We divided into groups and prepared presentations for three main readings by Doreen Massey, Trevor Paglen and Miwon Kwon. I had eagerly awaited the visit from the Mariestad skateboarding club, who were to hold a presentation at the City Art Lab this evening. It turned out, though – to my mild disappointment – that the lecture was to be given not by the young skaters themselves, but by Gunnar (an ex-skater) from the Mariestad branch of Gothenburg University. The thing is, since I came to Mariestad I've been almost obsessed by skate culture. All of a sudden I feel like a twelve-year-old, watching the older kids practice ollies and boardslides at the local skate hangout. "They're so cool!"
Is this only due to my general obsession with teenage culture? I absolutely loved the whole emo wave (and not just because of its androgynous ideals of beauty), and the more the distance grows between myself and my teen years, the more I seem to admire those young people, their extroverted behavior and style of dress, their pure emotions, their energy. Anyway, I was glad to see Jimi, 18, and his skater friends in the audience at the Art Lab, and the little Q&A with them at the end was pure gold: this is a type of voice that is rarely heard in the context of publicly sponsored art projects.
Johan Landgren
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