Industrial Cool in Stockholm – ”A Room With a View”

During the evening September 27 an event focusing on postindustrial rejuvenation processes will take place in an industrial area in southern Stockholm. Below is a presentation, from the invitation letter, of the event (in Swedish). Kapitel 2. Den (o)synliga handen Tisdag 27 september kl. 18-21 Vi sägs idag leva i det postindustriella samhället, ett samhälle [...]

Folkliv at The Museum

Next Saturday, September 24th, the open air Museum Kulturen in Lund will arrange a day with a number of events on the theme of folklore and superstition. They will screen the series Folkliv (Folklife, link to the series on iTunes U) in the auditorium during the day. Here’s a link to a previous post on [...]

Culture Night and The Overlooked

September 17 The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences will arrange a number of events and attractions as part of the annual Culture Night in Lund. As part of the arrangement a selection of photos from our Overlooked-project (Förbisett) will be exhibited. After this exhibition we will start searching for new contexts and spaces where [...]

What do you see?

Together with Jan Rollof I made a ”free form public experiment” as part of Qday 2010 in Lund. We projected unedited quite abstract video pieces on the wall of Lund University’s main building. Participants and people passing by could text or tweet interpretations and comments that were projected over the video.

Interview about Elsewhereness:Utrecht

By Sabine Niederer & Koen Poelhekke Impakt Festival 2010. As part of Impakt Online – ”The City as Interface.” http://www.impakt.nl/index.php/artworks/interview_Anders_Weberg_Robert_Will Koen Poelhekke (KP): What are your (creative) backgrounds? Robert Willim (RW): I have been working quite a while with ethnographic research and cultural analysis, currently I’m associate professor at Lund University. In this work I’ve [...]

PROVISIONAL METHODOLOGIES, PART 1: The Imaginary Scream

I have a dream about making a certain performance. It wouldn’t be very hard to realize. But I’m holding myself back. I will never perform it. Yet, it’s uncontroversial, it wouldn’t leave any marks, it would most probably go unnoticed. In the dream I walk through the woods surrounding Taivalkoski in Finland. I walk for [...]

Ethnographic Terminalia

In november a new piece of the Elsewhereness series will be exhibited in New Orleans, as part of the show Ethnographic Terminalia 2010. Other artists include Susan Hiller and Fiamma Montezemolo. From the prospectus on the website: ”No longer content to theorize the ends of the discipline and possibilities of new media, new locations, or [...]

Blood online

The first episode of the TV-series Folklife (Folkliv) is now online (link below). The theme of this first episode is ”blood”. http://www.ur.se/play/157470

Folkliv – New TV-series

May 7th a new TV-series by me and Anders Weberg together with ethnologist Mia-Marie Hammarlin and The Folklife Archive in Lund will premiere. Here’s more info in Swedish: Vad vet vi egentligen om livet i Sverige under bondesamhället? Följ med till gränslandet mellan fantasi och verklighet, när nu bild, ljud och berättelser ur Folklivsarkivet i [...]

In the art and science loop

Today I was part of a panel in a seminar at The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences here at Lund University. The seminar was organized to discuss the relations between art and science. The other two in the panel were musicologist Frans Mossberg and Per Zetterfalk, director holding a phD from The University College [...]