| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-21T11:45:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-12-21T11:45:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06-09 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/54769 | |
| dc.language.iso | swe | sv |
| dc.subject | Health and idealogy | sv |
| dc.subject | work | sv |
| dc.subject | institution | sv |
| dc.subject | performative | sv |
| dc.subject | history writing | sv |
| dc.subject | public art | sv |
| dc.subject | participatory | sv |
| dc.title | Botandets iver | sv |
| dc.type.svep | artistic work | |
| dc.contributor.creator | Hammarén, Maja | |
| art.typeOfWork | (Bus-tour based) performative public arts project | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Public, or rather semi-public sphere Göteborg: | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Site 1) Skönhetsfabriken (The Beauty Factory) Spa/Gym/Beauty & Health Centre | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | 2) Chalmers School of Entrepeneurship area and locals, | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | 3) Lillhagen former Mental Hospital in Backa | sv |
| art.description.project | Botandets iver/Frenzie to cure is acted out in dialogue with research areas of public art, artist-lead
culture, participatory arts and performative forms of research and research presentation. It builds on the
doctoral thesis of researcher in Social Work, at Göteborg University, Tobias Davidsson, Understödets
rationalitet – En genealogisk studie av arbetslinjen under kapitalismen/The rationality of public poor
relief. A genealogy of the work strategy under capitalism, https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/38579)
The tour also tries to set genealogical readings in motion in it’s guided walks by activating two layers of
temporalities simultaneously. The audience walks through now-and-then-time in the same present.
Botandets iver/Frenzie to cure has self-proclaimed connections or attaches itself onto contemporary
etnographical techniques – for organizational studies of moving objects – of shadowing. It moves close
enough along activities and organizations to be able to act from within these organizations. Is the
lecture given at Skönhetsfabriken (The Beauty Factory) spa and gym a sales pitch or an event for
potential future customers? An ironical lecture on wage labor for a critical art audience, or for
experienced labour working with related areas of health, social care, social work etcetera? The
preceeding research was carried out with historical resources such as Folkminnesarkivet (Archive of
People’s memories), Stadsarkivet (City Archive), in dialogue with the Göteborg Museum of Medical
History, and through a method of walks and shadowing by artist/curator Maja Hammarén and artists
Johanna Willenfelt (phd student in art at University of Cumbria, UK), Cecilia Germain and Ioana
Cojocariu. In its’ subjects the projects also relates to studies of the history of institutions, power and
doubleness of care (Focault et al).
In the project’s production – the participatory form of a bus-tour through Göteborg with guided tours with
performative elements, on three places for historical institutions for public poor relief and mental care –
this research project plays with notions of public and semi-public space and participation, setting-up
mixed-up, ambivalent, impure as well as more classic forms of participation.
Botandets iver/Frenzie to cure was financed by Kulturrådet/Swedish Arts Council and Göteborg
Arts Funding. It was first planned as a part of ICIA Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Arts’ curatorial
programme Aestetics of Law, before Hammarén left ICIA and formed KONSTARBETE KAS (Art Labour
KAS) which Botandets iver/Frenzie to cure was then produced under. The organization is a new selforganized
arts platform with the ambition to construct a usable platform for artists’ initiatives and
collective work without the reproduction of hierarchical forms of production. | sv |
| art.description.summary | Public day-long bus-tour with three walking lecture performances/city tours by artists Cecilia Germain, Ioana Cojocariu and Johanna Willenfelt on sites in Göteborg where historical poverty and psychiatric institutions where situated, through the present activities there – gym, spa, entrepeneurial university education and development of a new more attractive neighbourhood. | sv |
| art.description.supportedBy | Konstnärsnämnden/Swedish Arts Counsil.
Kulturrådet | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://botandetsiver.blogspot.se/ | sv |
