ARTLAND

Anything can happen, well, almost anyway. At least the feeling of it is enough. Steaming hot, boiling, chaotic, art in a human setting, close and upfront. Supermarket Art Fair at Kulturhuset made a great work, performances, art works, videos  and events in every corner, the atmosphere  seems to make everyone open for discussion.  

A cheering machine helps you with the pep-talk, Jan Cardell welcomes you feel in the spirit of art in Olympic times.  The gooey sculptures and pilgrims by Paul van der Hoet are out to take part in a demonstration. Where are we, where are we going? You want to embrace them and bring them home. One meet more fragile sculptures by Charlotta Östlund in the exhibition at Galleria Huuto, where she arranged and constructed new trees and another nature.  At the booth of Fylkingen you can sew your own synth in a workshop led by Ann Rosén. The group R.E.P. from Kyiv - revolutionary experimental space - has a good bargain for you to buy Ukraine in their Motherland Shop. The performance-duo WOL, Wenche Tankred and Lovisa Johansson, is confined in between the windows on floor five and  surprises with moments of nerve and humour.

You can be challenged in a meatball-eating-contest by Caravansarai, who hosts a diplomatic event or slap-up dinner.  The artists Arni Gudmundsson and Cristian Rieloff were team-members this time and at Galleri Konstepidemin in Gothenburg you can see their Still lifes, “A portrait of masculinity” starting up March 13^th. The Persian word caravansarai stands for a roadside inn, a place for travelers to recover in their routes between Asia, North Africa and South-Eastern Europe according to Wikipedia. Today Caravansarai  is an independent art production space for creators in Istanbul, Turkey. Eating can be done also on the large cake made by Kultivator, who is preparing for the wedding between art and agriculture.

Discuss art production in the digital realm, or even better, team up with v-art.se/varamp who are working online with collaborations and productions. Try out the project for public space made by Selena Savic from Belgrade: “It’s meant for the blind but you can also hear it”. Carry around her special machine for instance at Sergels Torg. It has a crackling sound that reminds you of radioactivity, although it is the same sound that you can hear as a pedestrian all over Rotterdam. And, and..there are lots and lots to see.  Even more at the art fair Market. Some site-specific works are made besides the gallery presentations, for instance the enormous fallic black plexi-obelisque “In memory of” by Åsa Jungnelius, another idea for public space.  As a speaking partner to the amount of obelisks and department-stores in the city it almost breaks the roof of Konstakademien.