Just back from Sweden, and the inauguration of FF Norr, in Ostersund. Teleport Fargfabriken, the first show is a massive 80-artist exhibition cataloguing the past and perhaps future of Fargfabriken, curated by Jan Aman and CM von Hauswolf. Instead of choosing the best of, Jan poured everything in the mix, weird project next to weirder project, a random history that suddenly becomes crystal clear. Back in January when he asked me to design the show, I proposed a system for Fargfabriken instead: A set of identical, universal exhibition wall modules, cast randomly about the space as a curators toy; making a labyrinth that is also minimal and a ruin or maybe austere and always whatever. Daniel Daboczy, Fia Palmgren, Matti Molin and Karin Englund spent weeks carefully putting everything together. The opening was a blast, and by the end of the weekend I saw a thick pile of that weeks' newspaper clippings, which is quite a bit for a small town up in the frozen north. Here's my highlightsthe legendary "dog" performance by Oleg Kulig (Interpol, Fargfabriken 1996), during which he attacked members of the audience, sending some of them to the hospital with real bites.
And they thought it was just art.
This piece generated one of the first mass email protests... everybody was against it, though it looks just amazing today.Annika Larsson POLIISI great wall drawing by Jesper Waldersten Francois Roche R&Sie ArchitectsTobias Bernstrup and Mai Ueda performed view of the space explosive tube fire by Carsten Nicolai
parallel to the exhibition, the was the New World Bank conference, which brought to Ostersund Malcolm MacLaren, Noreena Hertz, Daniel Birnbaum, Bill Liao, Veronica Valk, yours truly, and many more opening crowds great Natalie Djurberg Angelo Plessas
great sketch furniture by FRONT I wanted the the place to be like a bombed out ruin, but thats not so possible when you have to inlcude more than a 100 works.. we included a model of the design in the show, and I'm hoping for future ruinations and the super cool catalogue
by the super-nice people at DAMDI Architectural publishing, Korea.Featuring an original essay by Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, and additional texts by Maurizio Vogliazzo and Memos Filippidis.
240 pages, hardcover, 46 projects, color, part of the Design Documents series.
some projects that are published for the first time, like Angelo house
Here's another weird shopping mall the sky was too blue so I had to delete it from the photos, that day it had snowed, and after the mall we went walking by the beach the pigeons were freezing by the water, some miserable cats walked around everything was quiet
I'd been researching Yayoi Kusama's accumulations but I mostly found some pics of her looking fabulous as alwaysthen some tulips
an accumulation couch
and some more accumulations
and a Soul under the Moon
, and they've been lying around forever in the blog folder and I was thinking how to make this make sense, but then why would a Kusama post have to make sense anyway?
I had long heard that there was an unrealised Kenzo Tange proposal for the Skopje downtown, but I hadnt thought that Tange would have a website where every project is listed, under "Masterpieces" no less... Having mixed feeling though I always love a crazy Metabolist hyberbuilding
Redevelopment Plan of Tsukiji District Proposal 1964
and some of the later stuff is even scarierNapoli Administration Centre 1995
Politics of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Spoke at EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Thursday April 7th 2011, as part of the series "Artist meets the audience" for the exhibition "Politics of Art"
Concrete Islands, curated by Elias Redstone and featuring works by Andreas Angelidakis, Iwan Baan, Frederic Chaubin, mounir fatmi and Niklas Goldbach at Analix-Forever Paris.
I spoke at PROqm bookstore as part of the book launching of
Cognitive Architecture from Biopolitics to Noo politics, edited by Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich, 010 Publishers.
The book includes contributions from Andreas Angelidakis, Lisa Blackman, Ina Blom, Felicity Callard, Suparna Choudry, Jordan Crandall, Elie During, Keller Easterling, Lukas Ebensperger, Boris Groys, Janet Harbord, Deborah Hauptmann, Patrik Healy, Maurizio Lazzarato, Daniel Marguilles, Markus Miessen, Yann Moulier Boutang, Warren Neidich, John Protevi, Steven Quartz, Andreij Radman, Philippe Rahm, John Rajchman, Patricia Reed, Gabriel Rockhill, J.A. Scott Kelso, Terrence Sejnowski, Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Jan Slaby, Paolo Virno, Frans Vogellar, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Bruce Wexler, Charles T. Wolfe.
the Short Ideas workshop, organized by La Ville Rayee at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in paris
at the Architecture Emotionnelle Conference, organized by Barbara Polla, Paul Ardenne and the University of Geneva
the legendary "dog" performance by Oleg Kulig (Interpol, Fargfabriken 1996), during which he attacked members of the audience, sending some of them to the hospital with real bites.
Annika Larsson POLIISI
great wall drawing by Jesper Waldersten
Francois Roche R&Sie Architects
Tobias Bernstrup and Mai Ueda performed
view of the space
explosive tube fire by Carsten Nicolai
parallel to the exhibition, the was the New World Bank conference, 
which brought to Ostersund Malcolm MacLaren, Noreena Hertz, Daniel Birnbaum, Bill Liao, Veronica Valk, yours truly, and many more
opening crowds
great Natalie Djurberg
Angelo Plessas
I wanted the the place to be like a bombed out ruin, but thats not so possible when you have to inlcude more than a 100 works..
we included a model of the design in the show, and I'm hoping for future ruinations
and the super cool catalogue
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