ART PROJECT ALONG PILGRIM ROUTE

The class room

This years (2011) Landart project along a pilgrim route was a commissioned project for regional development by Västra Götaland in Falköpings municipality, Sweden. This artpiece is situated close to a small village, just beside the pilgrimtrack. Along all 7 pilgrim routs in this region, different mental concepts may be used as a mental focus along the walk. At this particular streach the concept ”slowness” is interduced as a leading word for the event of walking. So this work is a contemplation about time and the contemporary phenomena ”slowness”. Visualy the ojects beeing used in this piece, gives us a lead about time in comparancy between a human life (or activeties) and the growth of pine trees. This years project was also designed as a pedagogical program, where pupils from primary local school were involved in both design process and production of the artpiece. This titel is chosen in order to headlight this particular process, involving educational institutaions with artprojects. But also this title may give us a sence of curiosity for learning, along the path of life...

Size: 18x18x18 m (triangular shape).

Material:

Pinesite, 90 worn shooes, pine plants, plant soil, birchwood constructions.

Site: 2 km north of Gudhem, Sweden.

For more information; se text about project made 2010 ( tagg; landartprojects)

LANDARTPROJECT IN MONGOLIA 2010

White scripture on black vertical lines

This project is inspired by Mongolian calligraphy based on Mongolian language. Mongolian language has since thousand years back in time, been written on a vertical line. And by using this technique by writing, vertical Bruch strokes has become a major character in the esthetical expressions of contemporary Mongolian calligraphy.
Size: Length; 2 meter. With; 0-1 meter.
Material: Bones, Tree, cloth
Site: Mongolia, Zuumod Aimag

LANDARTPROJECT IN MONGOLIA 2010

Playground - largescaled "Shagai"

This artproject was inspired by a Mongolian game called Shagai.
The game items are made by bones from cheep skeleton(vertebra). The bones are being died in to different colors (purple, blue, yellow green). There are more than 300 different ways you can play with “Shagai” and the game is today manly used by nomad children.
This project deals with a large smilingly endless visual sight of a landscape. The outcome has a similarity in its visual language as looking back at the project in the Atacama Desert (2007).
The project also has a connection with thoughts about death. Playground might be a space where our lives and death are exposed.
Size: 30 meter
Material: Stone, bones, Mongolian landscape
Site: Mongolia, Zuunmod Aimag

Pilgrim and Land art

Spring 2010

This Landart project was made along a pilgrim route. It was a commissioned project for regional development by Västra Götaland in Skara municipality, Sweden. The aim of the project was to bring new cultural experiences into tourism for the region. And specifically for those who visit pilgrim sites or walk along pilgrim routes.

The project was also designed as a pedagogical program, where scholars were participating in the design process of an art work made along the pilgrim track. The pedagogical methods were based on previous experiences in teaching Land art, but also a development of new methods together with a pedagogue, specialized in tourism and a pilgrim museum in the local area. Together we worked out a scholar program mixed with pilgrim activities such as guided pilgrim walks, workshops in Land art and a design process for an art work. This project was also reaching out for a collaboration with local groups connected to pilgrim activities, such as consultants in starting a small similar cultural project involving other artists, actors etc.

In 2011 I will be engaged in a new, continuing project 20 km south of last years location, designing a new land art piece.