Conveyors in Cyclic~Tone
Cyclic~Tone is a collaborative online magazine based on the idea to juxtapose writers with visual artists. The latest issue has the theme Space and include the work Conveyors by me and Anders Weberg. Conveyors is combined with an ethnographic text on the traffic hub Knutpunkten in Helsingborg, southern Sweden written by Leila Kaas. Leila is a [...]
Sewing Circuits
Today the composers in the Swedish constellation Syntjuntan visited The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences in Lund. They held one of their workshops where the participants could sew small electronic instruments, using some basic components and inductive thread. It was a nice experience to leave the screen based electronics that otherwise dominate everyday life. [...]
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
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