VARAiVÄRLDEN – BEinTHEWORLD – in DERWELTsein
MOVING the definition about value.
MOVING the decision about when an object or a situation or a site is art
to the person participating in the work of art.
The value of that decision. MOVING the value of art from the object to the person participating and back again.
From April to August 2006 the summer tour VARAiVÄRLDEN – BEinTHEWORLD – in DERWELTsein takes place,
where 36 inhabitants from Vara participate in an ongoing swap of objects, memories and histories.
Starting date is 27 April 2006 at Vara Main Square.
Places to visit decided up to now are: Nordstan Mall in Gothenburg Sweden 4 May,
Meinblau Gallery Berlin Germany 24 June-9 July.
Reappearing in Vara Sweden 15 Sept at Vara Concert Hall.
Movement is needed, and unavoidable. Motion is one of our first artistic expressions.
The social context and the social space in which this movement appears, becomes part of the image the movement creates.
How do we experience motion in our everyday lives? How can we, by noticing the movement at hand,
understand ourselves a little bit clearer? To see ones neighbour in a new light? To find satisfaction and curiosity in the known,
the unknown and even the well-known? To see the parallel time, and different space, shown to us by art in our daily routines. Emanating from these thoughts and others concerning the role of art in society came:
Kia Nordqvist
April - Sept 2006