Place as Matter
Rejmyre, Sweden Aug 8th-16th 2009
an interdisciplinary workshop exploring place as material

Elisabeth Billander
ceramics
Sweden

Place as Matter - Rejmyre, Sweden 2009

I´ve been creating a place for my self
a workingplace
both in the meaning of sight
and mind at the same time.
I´ve given my self time to investigate
a new material,
a new form of working and
also time to find my own relationship
to the work and to Rejmyre as place.

thoughts making communication
time process expectations

When I first arrived to Rejmyre I was overwhealmed of those many odd and old items that seemed to be everywhere I looked. My first projekt became a translation of those impressions into a monument. My final piece "I´m working" incluedes traces from that in a visual way - the desk and the chair.
I wanted to investigate or to comment how we may or not may look upon work and labour, specially how I dealing with it my self and my artisyic work. To sit down and really be working but without any actually outcome except the restover product of my action. I realized that the action of doing is important to me even though it seems to be a really unimportant matter to someone looking at it from a outside perspective. One questian was also where the viewer fit in in this dialog.
II will defenetly bring this matter, this questian into my continuing work. and it makes me wonder what that will be in terms of material, of living, of working?