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Ideal Place final project
For me the ideal place takes certain elements of the known and the unknown to fulfil its title of the “ideal”; 1) one should be a foreigner, 2) but a foreigner who to some degree understands the spoken language, and 3) a foreigner who is physically neutral.
These elements form a situation where the surroundings can be experienced as through a filter. Being on foreign ground, ground that does not tie into one’s history and identity creates a condition that allows one to take on the role of the observer, of covert “other” rather than active participant. Within these parameters the feeling of the recognizable, the familiar is mixed and challenged with the unfamiliar and strange. The experience can manifest itself, given each individual, as a synchronicity of elements or as a complete disparity of elements.
In this spirit I asked the group to go for a walk in the forest listening to a soundtrack that I provided.
This work solicited a variety of reactions that passively or actively accepted or denied the juxapositon of site and sound - of union or elimination.
Monumet for Rejmyre shift project
A new, or another, monument for Rejmyre that catalyzes the invisible. The chimney of Rejmyre Glasbruk serves as an icon of what built the town. However this icon is fragile; when taken out of its context it loses its relationship to the town as it bares no obvious marks of Rejmyre. Through materializing the space between the negative contour of the chimney and a new positive contour another monument for Rejmyre is suggested by proposing the anonimity of this monumental identity.
Lit de parade nature and systems project
Humanizing the forest I thought its blatant flaunting of aging and death needed to be cleaned up. The decay was too present, everything which wasn’t “alive” needed to be removed. Historically an old “linbana” (hanging cable trolley) had been constructed to transport glass through the forest for the Rejmyre Glasbruk, so I came to think of this trolley as a “Lit de Parade” (open coffin) of dead nature. This removal and parade of death should serve as a reminder/encouragement to the living forest not to give in to Fall.