art stockholm

I think I’m becoming spam paranoid. I was certain that after someone else had taken over our main mail address that most of it would disappear. My peace and quiet lasted for about four hours but then I realised that I had become the target for a new wave of unwanted crud. But this time the content seems more perverse than ever almost metapornography.

Biennials appear to pop up like mushrooms. It feels like every small town and city has now added a biannual art event to its cultural calendar, from Luleå to Gothenburg and from Cuenca in Ecuador to Bamako in Mali. It’s a quick fix proposition and many of these events are most extraordinary for their similarity than anything else.

University bookstores can give a great idea of what is going on theoretically at an institution. This week I was at Stockholm University bookstore, which mostly sells the core curriculum books to students, paper, pens, scented candles and some paperback novels. Browsing the shelves was a little depressing.

On Friday 29th May we opened two exhibitions in the project room. One was a presentation of the ongoing TK production titled 16304/ a collaboration between students from the local Tensta High school and the architecture Department of the Royal Technical School who also showed their own project.