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Art workshop at Botulfsplatsen: Said and done with Barbro Westling

Barbro Westling will show and teach part of his artistic process.

The art workshop series Human World Training Center arranged by Gallery Extra in association with Krognoshuset with project support from Lunds kommun. For more information about Krognoshuset's operations see: www.krognoshuset.se

What will we do?
In 1855, a carpenter stood on a soap box in the corner of Hyde Park in London and gave a speech to those present where he protested against the high prices of food. Making one's voice heard in public is a democratic right. That so few take advantage of it is another story.

With the workshop Said and done together we transform Botulfsplatsen into a workshop where everyone's voice can be heard. We file and produce messages so that they become art and meaning at the same time.

Words can be like a slide. It's quick and easy, we understand each other and talk.

Some words and phrases stick. We linger on them, return, twist and turn. They open up, become valuable.

The form is important for what the words say. The form makes the message.

At Botulfsplatsen we will work with words and text as artists and we will do it in three stages.

Stage 1. Each person or several together thinks about what he/she wants to say to those who are at Botulfsplatsen.

Stage 2. We file on the precise form, the right words, the exact wording.

Stage 3. We produce the text in physical form and in any material of your choice.

- All is well?

- What do you really want to have said?

Votes in Lund 25 May 2024

About Barbro Westling

Barbro Westling has collaborated with Peter Johansson as an artistic duo since 2004. Over the years, the collaboration has been diverse and in their works the duo hopes to engage and challenge the viewer to come into close contact with art.
The collaboration began with a video installation for the exhibition Scanian Nazism at Malmö museums, after that stingy Smålanders have been scourged and rewarded, live hens in artificial chicken coops have stared back at Krognoshuset, Turning Torso has been annexed from the ground and garden ornaments borrowed at night have been exhibited at art galleries in The Nordic countries.
Barbro Westling is interested in stagings, and the exhibition "Smörlyckan" at Jönköping County Museum was a sculptural redesign of the museum's halls to accommodate the duo's selection from the museum's collections, including folk art. Early on, the duo worked with drama, as in Bergman's film world, but in their own somewhat tenderly fumbling way.
Since 2015, Peter Johansson/Barbro Westling have been working on the artistic design of Sofia, one of Stockholm's new subway stations in the south.

Barbro Westling also works as an employee at Aftonbladet's cultural editorial department, where she continuously writes performing arts and literary criticism, and she is a tutor at the Writers' School in Lund and in drama writing at Linnaeus University.

https://peterjohanssonbarbrowestling.com/

Art workshops at Botulfsplatsen with Human World Training Center
The events are suitable for both adults and children, people with great or little experience in creative processes.

The performance project Human World is an inverted zoo, that means it is a place where fictional animals are watched and fascinated by humans. The project has emerged from a need to be able to work with and present art and performance in environments and situations that are not constructed based on a gallery format. The project is based on showing the social and ongoing process of art. We want to create a playful, theatrical or festive atmosphere. The aim is to create a dynamic that opens up for the participants to feel creative, think and do things in new ways and together with people they have not met before.

Gallery Extra and Krognoshuset organize outdoor art workshops for all ages. By meeting in creative processes, we can be inspired by each other. The goal is for people who are new to each other to meet. The event is open to all, and we specifically invite interest groups looking for social activities. We envision it to be, for example, a long table with people who participate and create in clay together under the guidance of artists and hosts from Gallery Extra. We invite artists who will show or teach part of their process. The artists choose what and how they will arrange to activate the participants in some form of creation. The workshop is performed and presented in a theatrical travel agency-and-zoo format. The performance project Human World is an inverted zoo, that means it is a place where fictional animals are watched and fascinated by humans. The project has emerged from a need to be able to work with and present performance projects in environments and situations that are not constructed based on a gallery format. The project is based on showing the social and ongoing process of art. We want to create a playful, theatrical or festive atmosphere. The aim is to create a dynamic that opens up for the participants to feel creative, think and do things in new ways and together with people they have not met before. Human World becomes a kind of role-playing game that the audience participates in, where everyone pretends that we are attractions for the fictional animals in an inverted zoo. In order to increase the opportunities to develop, we try to make the arrangements inviting for both adults and children, people with great or little experience in creative processes.

Human World Training Center is arranged by Gallery Extra in collaboration with Krognoshuset with project support from Lund Municipality.

Dates, Times, Location

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  • Botulfsplatsen
  • Krognoshuset and Galleryextra

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