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                        StillAlive - Man as the Place # 7, Lidköping - October 2011

 

                                              

                                             “ Man grasps a light in the night, dead for himself with extinguished eyes,

                                               grasps the dead in his sleep, with extinguished eyes,

                                               the awoken grasps the sleeping ".

                                                                           

                                                                                            Fragment 26, Heraclitus

 

               

                               INSTALLATION WITH OBJECTS AND PERFORMANCE

                                                                                                                                       

                                       

                                        The Installation continues  Oct 1st - Oct 9th at  Sockerbruket in Lidköping

                                        PERFORMANCE  Oct 9th at  5: 30  pm 

                                        More information at homepage  Konstens år Lidköping 2011

                                       

                                        Have you found a figure in town ? - follow the instructions here

 

 

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                       StillAlive - Man as the Place # 6 , Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, May 2011 

  

 

                             INSTALLATION WITH OBJECTS

                             Konstnärshuset, Smålandsgatan 7 www.konstnarshuset.com

                           

                             

                             PERFORMANCE  May 20th  - Have you found a figure ?

                                   

 

                            

 

                              On the anniversary of the great battle of the elms.

 

A figure at the elms in Kungsträdgården Garden in Stockholm. .

 

Here lies a figure - an old man. It looks as if he i sleeping. He is on the side almost in fetal position. Thus I sleep, I think, I and millions of others. We lies as in a memory of our fetal period. When we patiently waited to be born into the world.   On the day we see it, the world, at night we return to the big sleep that surround our lives.

 

The old man may be dead, dead in a frozen moment, the body does not decompose by flames or worms.  The old man lies there forever. But in the darkness shines the body, a slightly seasoned reflection of the sun´s rays - greenish. A beacon in universe

 

Anna writes that man is a place. It´s so beautiful to think that way. When we otherwise think of human life it is mainly time we think of, how slowly we are aging and how slow our body breaks down,the so-called entropy.

 

However, if we relate a human life´s timeframe to the timeframe of the universe, a human life will be as short as a point, a place where time and space become one and the same. Man is a place.

 

 

Tom Fjordefalk

 juni 2011

 

                          

                              Read about visitors´ experiences of SAMP # 6 at Konstnärshuset

                               

                   

                   

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                        StillAlive - Man as the Place # 5, Gothenburg,  March  2011     

 

 

                       

                               

 

       

                               GALLERY KC   ERIK DAHLBERGSGATAN 6  GÖTEBORG  www.kc-vast.se

 

                               Performance Saturday March 5  18 pm. The exhibition continued from the 19th of  February to the 6th of March 2011

 

                               With the support from the city of Gothenburg Cultural Board and Gallery KC

       

 

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                         StillAlive - Man as the Place # 4, Borås and Skövde, August 2010

    

                               URSÄKTA Art Manifestation - Borås Art Museum, Skövde Art Museum.www.konstfaste.se

 

 

                        

 

     

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                         StillAlive - Man as the Place # 3, Växjö Art Hall, 2009

 

  

     

                              

 

                                 Movie:  from the performance at Växjö Art Hall 2009 - 05 - 30

                           

                         StillAlive - Man as the Place # 3

                     

                                 Växjö Art Hall the 30th of May 2009 at 5 p.m - link to the Art Hall

                              

   Read the outplacers´ thoughts -  click here

 

   Read the godparents´ thoughts - click here

 

 

        

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                                 A choreography in a bird´s eye view 

                                 - self-glowing objects placed in the city
                     
                                StillAlive -Man as the Place  is a project where selfglowing objects are placed outside in different places

                                in the architecture of the city. The objects are placed both where they easily can be seen and in more hidden places.

                                In the night they glow.

 

                                The outplacement ritual and the objects journey in the city becomes a choreography in a bird's perspective.

                                The places where the objects will be left become coordinates for a time.

 

                                Will the objects dissolve, dematerialize or be taken care of by passers-by?

                              

                                The project meets its audience in the public space.

                                In the same time it differs from the idea of public art as it will only be present temporarily

                                and who ever finds them can pick them up and become owners of the object.
                                If you find one of the objects you can detect an ingraved link underneath and then go to the project website

                                for more information.

 

                              

 

 

 

  StillAlive - Man as the Place  # 2   installation with performance at Weld,

  in collaboration with Anna Koch / Weld

  Weld: En koreografi ur fågelperspektiv - installation den 12/10

  Stockholm, October 2008.

 

                                   

  StillAlive - Man as the Place # 1    presentation/ exhibition at the National Gallery

  Nationalgalleriet  

  Stockholm , August 2008

 

 

   

  StillAlive - Man as the Place  is a project in constant transformation without ending,

  a walk phenomenon from city to city, from place to place.