Fear and Adornment in Public Space

Colombia – South Africa – USA – Sweden – India

Fear & Adornment in Public Space – is the title of a larger contemporary art and craft project including workshops, site specific productions and community development conducted by the LAND Contemporary Art Practices (Sissi Westerberg and Veronica Wiman). By talking about Fear and Adornment we want to widen the perspectives of what adornment is and create awareness of the connection between fear and public space. Fear, or ways of conquering fear are put in relation to adornment– art for the body, decoration and ornamentation as well as architecture and art in the public space. What reasons are there for adornment, how are we affected by it and how can we use it? The project is an offspring of Veronica Wiman´s curatorial research and practice - Fear and Gender in Public Space www.genderandpublicspace.org

Other Venues

Nov 2007 Lugar a Dudas - contemporary art center in Cali, Colombia
http://www.lugaradudas.org/

Jan 2008 Witswatersrand School of Arts in Johannesburg, South Africa
http://web.wits.ac.za/

April 2008 University of San Francisco, USA
http://www.usfca.edu/

Jan 2009 Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India
http://srishti.ac.in/

The Assignment

Make a piece of jewellery for a specific site.

Choose a public place in the city where you, or someone else, experience fear or feel unsafe.

Make a proposal for a jewellery piece for the site. The adornment could be for wearing at the site or for adorning the site itself. It could be for a particular situation, person, time of day etc... The piece can be a tool, a solution, a protection or a means to conquer fear, but it could also be something that represents the fear or is a reaction to it.

Kronobergsparken


One of my favourite sites in Stockholm. But at night it makes med insecure.
Afraid of every move, every sound.

Is somebody following me? Do I look vunerable? Could I be a victim?
I put my keyring on my finger. The keys are in my hand. Could be a weapon.

I have to call somebody everytime I walk through the park when its dark. Even if I see my kitchen window as soon as I walk into the park.

So close to home.

The first years when I lived in my apartment there was a homeless man sleeping at a bench. He made me feel safe. I left food there a several times to show my appreciation for his excistence.

But I havent seen him for a long time and suddenly the park feel so empty.




By Michaela

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1 comment:

Sissi said...

Får mig att tänka på: http://blog.blanknoise.org
http://blog.blanknoise.org/2008/03/blank-noise-this-place.html

May 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM

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