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
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.
Mellan Rålis och Konradsberg
The path between the safe and the unsafe environment.
When I move from east to west towards my home I pass this tunnel. Before comes Rålambhovsparken, which I don’t like any time of the day, and after come Konradsbergsparken, where I feel safe and at home even though it is dark.
This is the zone between fear and safety.
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