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Scene 2022-2023
(2023)

Images from the sketch exhibition related to the public commission for the project Överraska, variera och förändra by Jönköping municipality. The purpose of the project was to test the possibilities for public art in Jönköping municipality in relation to the Urban Environment Program ‘City Art’.

Documentation + invitation text from the opening on April 19th at 5:00 PM-7:00 PM At the art wall on the 2nd floor of the City Library:

Stage 3, minimum dimensions of truck parking area
(White vinyl tape 3.5m x 16m)

Scenes 2022-2023 takes place at Gyllene Uttern, Östgötaporten, Rasta Ödeshög, Circle K Hyltena and Circle K Bottnaryd Scenes 2022-2023. The video is mostly silent but between the scenes there are a few seconds of location-related sound. Lisa Torell uses her artistry to look in different ways at the possibilities of commercial traffic for recreation during breaks. This is the first public part where one part is this video, the vinyl tape and another part (Scene 2) was a performative activity that took place at LogPoints, Hyltena during the morning of 19/4. All parts are part of an investigation that is planned to continue until the end of 2024.

Artist talk and opening of the exhibition at 6:00 PM
Filip Zezovski-Lind, Acting Head of Department Culture, Tommy Jonsson, President of the Transport Workers' Union and the artists Lisa Torell and Jenny Nordmark

The art project Överraska, variera förändra that includes two art assignments, where the artists Lisa Torell and Jenny Nordmark have explored different aspects of the history, identity and future of Jönköping Municipality. The investigative art process takes place within the framework of two extended sketch assignments, where the possibilities for an open and a permanent artistic expression are explored. From the summer of 2023 to the summer of 2024, an implementation phase will follow containing dialogue-based, temporary and permanent actions and artworks. Both the extended sketch period and the implementation phase are documented by documentary filmmakers Mima Pastor and Palle Lindqvist and will be compiled in a film about the project.

The purpose of the art project Surprise, vary, change is to test the possibilities for public art in Jönköping Municipality, in relation to the Urban Environment Program “City Art” which was adopted by the Jönköping Municipal Board in 2016. In the two art assignments, artists Lisa Torell and Jenny Nordmark have had the urban environment program as a foundation to enter into dialogue with by exploring and problematizing what public art can and should be in Jönköping Municipality, and in general.

Artist Jenny Nordmark’s art explores topics that touch on current issues connected to the environment and climate, the local and the global, the meanings and consequences of human exploitation of natural resources. In the work Rädda konsten (2022-) presented in the exhibition, Nordmark has started from three different elements, the start-up of a new association, Rädda konsten, a boat campaign planned for the summer of 2024 that connects to the Boat Campaign that the Save Vättern association did in 1988. As well as a permanent design that will be placed somewhere on Lake Vättern. The boat itself that will run the campaign will have its sail woven by local weavers according to the Råbocks tradition. A boat that is specific to Lake Vättern. The boat hull itself is made of material that explores new types of material compositions with the local material limestone together with a materials scientist. After the campaign, the boat is anchored in Lake Vättern and over time, perhaps a year, perhaps longer, the limestone composition weathers and the boat sinks to the bottom. With Lake Vättern's long turnover time, about 70 years, the material then remains in dissolved form for a long time and becomes an active part in purifying the water. The material generated by the campaign and the association will be submitted to the Jönköping County People's Movement Archive as a final step.

Artist Lisa Torell comes from the performative place-based art field and works with issues related to public space and its regulations and rights that affect our way of being, acting, living and working. Society is the driving force, about being seen and seeing, in community and in solitude. In her art assignment for Jönköping Municipality, Torell has focused on rest areas intended for commercial traffic and professional drivers. Or a kind of giga-society infrastructure, logistics and human shortcomings. Good rest areas increase traffic safety, because their design encourages us to get out of our cars, move around and maybe even take a dip. A kind of entry to the municipality's opportunities and potential, to its attractions and tourism. But this only applies to the rest areas that are intended for us who are not professional drivers. For those who are, it looks different. In the exhibition, Torell gives the viewer a kind of insight into his investigation of the everyday lives of professional drivers and the places where they spend their breaks and breaks, through a video, Scenes 2022-23 which takes place at Gyllene Uttern, Östgötaporten, Rasta Ödeshög, Circle K Hyltena and Circle K Bottnaryd Scenes 2022-2023. A study that is planned to continue until the end of 2024.

Jenny Nordmark has studied art/architecture post-master “Of public interest” at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2019-2021), performing arts scenography at the Stockholm School of Drama (2010-2013), Design with a focus on spatial design at the School of Design and Crafts (2004-2006) and architecture at Chalmers University of Technology (1999-2003).

Lisa Torell is a professor and study program director for the art program, Konstkademiet in Tromso and holds a post doc from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University 2019-2021, and a PhD through the Norwegian Artistic Research Program (NARP) 2014-2018. Torell has also written for various publications such as Contemporary Urban Structures (DK) and Oslo Pilot (2015-17) and is editor of Place to Place, 9 artists reflecting on site-specific and site-related processes (2016/17).

Mima Pastor is a documentary filmmaker who is drawn to stories about people’s social engagement and creativity. Her previous films have included portraying the feminist artist collective ‘Misschiefs’ and stories about courage, vulnerability and art in ‘I’m an artist’. She is a political scientist by background with a B.A. in politics (Lund University 2009-2013) and has a great interest in international politics, which she holds a master’s degree in (Aberystwyth University 2013-2014), as well as a master’s degree in documentary film (Sussex University 2016-2018) where she has delved into visual storytelling.

Palle Lindqvist is an editor and photographer with a degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University in London. For the past 10 years he has been active in the TV & film industry in Sweden, where he has filmed and edited everything from feature films to documentary series. In addition to commissioned work, he works on his own fiction and documentary film projects -
He also runs the production company Redwood Film, which focuses on the production of films within the cultural and artistic sphere.

Mima Pastor and Palle Lindström are founders of the joint production company
BLICK.

Based on Jönköping municipality as a location also a hub for transportation and infrastructure, I chose to focus on the rest areas intended for commercial traffic and professional drivers. The starting point for me throughout the project has been an interest in aesthetics and care and equal opportunities in public space.The rest areas play a vital role within the gig economy and infrastructure, supporting the flow of goods and the safety of drivers. Rest areas intended for commercial traffic and professional drivers. The planning of these spaces balances accessibility, practical necessity, and the imperative to reduce fatal accidents.

Assistance:
Olle Helin >

Drone:
Palle Linqvist >

Project leader:
Åsa-Viktoria Wihlborg | ArtPlatform >

Jönköping municipality's description of project >

Over the years, my work has been expressed in various forms, including Scenes 2022-2023 a film and installation at Jönköping's City Library, the performance Redlisted Societal Function #1, performative actions such as Scene 2, 3 Litter-Picking activites, and a permanent installation Redlisted Societal Function #2 at the sites.

Överraska, variera och förändra >

Scenes 2022-2023 >

Scene 2, 3 Litter-Picking activites >

Redlisted Societal Function #2 >

Redlisted Societal Function #1 >