LOCIS: Dominic Stevens, Jorun Kugelberg, Ewa Axelrad, Mattias Åkeson, Elaine Reynolds

project

year

2013

about the project

participants

We are five artists who had the opportunity, under the Locis programme, to meet together and explore the relationships and potential synergies between our practices. We have each worked with themes concerning the relationships between people and the places they inhabit. More specifically, the relationship between body and space, ideas around architecture as a social product, the ways in which architectural space exerts control and the relationship between formally and informally created space.

about the residency

Through periods of immersion and distancing, zooming in and out, we have come to try and understand Fittja. We had two visits and in between we continued our conversations online. During our time apart, Fittja stayed for each of us as an important point of reference for our individual research.

We met with citizens, planners, researchers, people from both within the structures of power and people upon whom that power is visited. Through experiencing streets, shops, fields, people and conversations that were new to us, we have expanded our mental maps of the world and reconfigured our perceptions of the places from which we came.

We see ourselves as outsiders or guests in this place, and our research as being wholly subjective.

documentation

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Jorun Kugelberg, Trespassing in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

Mattias Åkeson, What can be described can also take place 1973 – 2013 in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

Elaine Reynolds, Promisings in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

Dominic Stevens, How Fittja changed the world in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

Ewa Axelrad & Steve Press, Coda # 4 and Coda # 7 in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

Logo. What can be described, can also take place. Locis 2013

Jorun Kugelberg, Trespassing in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

Mattias Åkeson, What can be described can also take place 1973 – 2013 in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

Elaine Reynolds, Promisings in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

Dominic Stevens, How Fittja changed the world in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

Ewa Axelrad & Steve Press, Coda # 4 and Coda # 7 in What can be described, can also take place, Locis, Botkyrka konsthall, 2014. Photo: Simon Berg

exhibition in botkyrka konsthall

Dominic Stevens, Jorun Kugelberg, Elaine Reynolds, Mattias Åkeson och Ewa Axelrad in collaboration with Steve Press
What can be described can also take place
14 December 2013 – 26 January 2014
Botkyrka konsthall

Fittja was born of a vision, a dream for a bright new future and its existence is littered with new visions, plans for ‘development’, ‘liftings’ and ‘peoples palaces’. In keeping with this, we will use the form of the proposal to construct an exhibition that communicates visions of work that we want to realise. Proposals that speak from Fittja but look at a whole spectrum of wider concerns.

“What can be described can also take place”
Wittgenstein: Tractus Logico Philisophicus

labyrint archive

LOCIS
Editor: Anneli Bäckman. Graphic design: Padraig Cunningham.
Labyrint Press, 2014

As well as documenting the six residencies which made up the programme, this publication also contains essays by three writers who were asked to reflect on the programme in their country and to consider how residencies relate to their contexts and/or provide developmental opportunities for artists in a particular location. In addition, three other writers Doreen Massey, Anik See and Saša Nabergoj were invited by the three curators to write essays on broader topics of specific interest to the three partners.

The book can be read and downloaded online and is available in Labyrint Archive in Botkyrka konsthall.

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