KONSTAKUTEN Stockholm
22-23 MARCH
Urban Legend was a two day event at Konstakuten, Stockholm. gutengut invited artists from Sweden, Denmark and Austria to deal with a given historical event, the story about the attemt to kidnap Anna Greta Leijon. It is described under the exhibition "Urban Legend Naked Women" (go to text)
The 1st of April it was 25 years since the event was revieled by the Swedish police. Urban legend was an opportunity to discuss certain questions reflected upon the story from 1977.
F.I.T. - Jesper Olofsson (S)
Mattias Lindholm (S)
F.I.T. (For Institutional Trauma)- Jesper Olofsson (S), Mattias Lindholm (S) invited people "outside the usual context" and offered food, liqours, warmth and cultural experience.
Christian Hillesř (DK)
wr (A)
Johan Tirén (S)
Kristina Ask (DK),Christian Hillesø (DK),wr (A) and Johan Tirén (S) reflected the situation during the 70´s upon today´s situation by collect information from the web, interview people involved in politics and - as a visual presentation- blow up two "icons" (one from Genua and one from an action against Lufthansa earning money on deportations) as mosaic copyprinted wallpapers.
Material of the project can be found here: http://www.t0.or.at/~wr/cph02
Lars Vilks made a suggestion for a performance wich was supposed to take place in the Swedish parliament. It would involve the partyleaders as well as gutengut´s replica of the box made for Mrs Leijon in 1977. The suggestion was sent to the participants, only two answered.
Lars Vilks text and drawings were presented together with the box replica in a scenography made by gutengut.
Read Mr Vilks´ text here (only in Swedish).
Credits:
Konstakuten crew: Camilla, Elin, Henrik, Malin, Ottilia, Patrik, Sofia