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It’s
the Result that Counts (TUMULT)
Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Sweden
10.10.2009
The large room at the gallery
contains a site-specific work entitled It’s the Result that Counts
produced by the group WeWorkInAFragileMaterial. The work is constructed
as a three-dimensional game board within which the group has acted. The
group has used paintball to decorate the work in a violent process that
challenges contemporary aestheticization’s understanding of both
violence and surface. As with earlier works, the group has developed the
installation during a joint working process though within a given structure.
In this instance the structure take the form of the gallery itself as
rules for a game in which it is the result that counts. This represents
process-based crafts taken to their absolute limit.
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Gubbpåsen
Cabelfactory,
Helsinki, Finnland
September
8th–9th, 2009
Hot Potatoes workshop event
takes reality TV back to reality and deals with topics too hot to handle.
Designer groups will be given a new brief every day and six hours to respond
to it.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the stage is taken by Anteeksi (Helsinki), WWIAFM
(Stockholm) and Iced Architects (Moscow) who will face a challenge set
by the curators Vladimir Frolov, Katarina Siltavuori and Tomas Ivan Träskman. |
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We
Built This City
Sixpm
project space, London, UK
April 23rd –27th, 2009
"In the middle
of the nineteenth century, Gottfried Semper postulated that all architecture
is descended from a "primitive hut," a simple framework of sticks
hung with textiles. The memory of patterned hangings, he thought, lingered
in every decorated brick or stone wall, while the basic joint of a hut
- the meeting between upright post and horizontal beam - was still the
core of architectural technique. Every idea about making a building, he
argued, was necessarily a variation on this essential theme."
- Glenn Adamson
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Månsamåla_201
Crystal
Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
January 10th, 2008
"The painting
is a collaborative piece that unites the contemporary trend of interior
design with historical ways of decorating spaces, as well as artistic
expression in a large format.
Now the wall painting has been moved away from its original and intended
space to be showed inside the white cube. The joyfilled work that only
intended to decorate a specific room has started a discussion about the
purpose and function of decor in relation to fine art. Maybe all painting
is purely decoration and no decoration is purely surface." |
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KobraFestival
Järva fältet, Sweden
September 13th, 2006 |
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Happy
Campers
New York, USA
May 20nd – 23rd, 2006
The realisation of
a gigantic “troll” took place during the exhibition and the
work was structured at quick meetings three times a day at the conference
table. Drawing folded trolls was a standing task at these meetings. The
power of 10 pairs of hands made it happen! |
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The
State of Things
Oslo, Norway
April 6th – September 9th, 2006
The objects
that were created in “the Eagles Nest” were later brought
to Norway and fired in an anagama kiln located on a high mountain top.
On a pentagram painted directly on the exhibition floor of the Norwegian
National Museum, we built a suggestive installation of ceramics and photos
from “the Eagles Nest” sessions.
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In
the Eagles Nest
Nacka
March 10th – 12th, 2006
On a freezing
winters day we brought 400 kilos of clay and food for three days to a
cabin in the woods. It proved to be a very intensive stay. In the light
of the fire we worked the clay inspired from the subconscious pictures
that we created by exposing ourselves to a variety of drum journeys, rites,
prophecies and conversations with demons and a general mysticism. The
sensation of being a group was greatly strengthened but suddenly it was
time to go home.
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WeWorkInAFragileMaterial
at Röda Sten
Gothenburg
September 3rd – October 9th, 2005
“The present
exhibition at Röda Sten extends wwiafm´s popular-education
project through a video about the members of the group and their everyday
lives. The music and choreography are lifted from Kylie Minouge´s
music video, Slow, but show not her and thousand sexy dancers on a beach
but the ten craft workers and their varying work and dancing: alone in
our studios or together in a large locale. It would be easy to see the
video ”We Work In A Fragile Material at Röda Sten” as
treating ironically the myth of the art-craft worker as the sensual kneader
of clay but WWIAFM dance only perhaps because it is beautiful.”
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PaperCraft
Stockholm
May 12th, 2005
In the Art bookstore
Konst-ig in Stockholm, We Work In A Fragile Material was invited to
create the framework of the “Craft in Dialogue: Six Views on a Practice
in Change” anthology book release. WWIAFM chose to create objects
in paper together with invited guests; Per B Sundberg, Pelle Strengbohm,
Alexandra Falagara, Therese Björkqvist and Johanna Lewengard. During
one day funny, remarkable, ugly, big, sloppy and fiddled things were made
that later came to inhabit the whole book store.
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Stockholm
Art Fair – 05
Älvsjö
April 9th – 13th, 2005
At the Stockholm Art
Fair 2005, We Work In A Fragile Material (WWIAFM) invited a number of
guests for a discussion on the subject Excuse me, how much is the vase?
– a dialogue about the prize of things. There were questions raised
like: What makes the “value”? Is it the sentimental value
of an object, its actual sales cost, the sensation of belonging to a group,
the aesthetical quality of an object or something else? The same subject
was shaped and shown at the same time in the WWIAFM exhibition case (made
by Åsa Cederqvist), where the group members´ private work
was shown with its respective price tags in giant shape. Many of the exhibition
visitors asked if the price tags were the actual ones, and that’s
how the dialogue could keep evolving. What is the reasonable price for
design and craft? And who is prepared to pay?
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WWIAFM
at Skoklosters slott
Skokloster
June 5th – November 7th, 2004
The castle of Skokloster
(Skokloster slott) is one of the most intact european XVII-century castles
that exist. Here we placed our modern crafts right in the middle of their
unique baroque interiors and crafts collection. From this meeting between
the two epochs rouse questions about ”status objects”; questions
about the demands on effectiveness of today and the scarce resources that
are designated for craft; questions about the status object´s shifting
of focus from craft to electronics, for example.
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WeWorkInAFragileMaterial
at ak28
Stockholm
October 7th – November 6th, 2004
At the ak28 gallery,
WWIAFM had a parallel exhibition to the “You can do it!” at
blås&knåda. The idea with the exhibition (curated by the
ak28 staff) was to show each and every artist´s distinctive features.
Lined up on a shelf along the four walls everyone placed their different
objects and put their signature on the wall behind, as well as a plastic
box placed below each object, filled with things that had served as inspiration
for each artist respectively.
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ABC
–You can do it! – blås&knåda
Stockholm
October 2nd – 20th, 2004
After the workshop
in Tensta, We Work In A Fragile Material (WWIAFM) moved the You can do
it! to the crafts cooperative and gallery blås&knåda.
Here the question was raised; what happens when the contemporary art workshop
moves to the crafts gallery? And is it possible to exhibit a workshop
or is it in the end just a mess of clay?
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You
can do it!
Tensta
14 – 19 September 2004
The art center of
Tensta (Tensta konsthall) and the artists group Oda projesi invited We
Work In A Fragile Material to participate in their exhibition. During
the 10-day workshop “You can do it!” WWIAFM mixed tons of
play doo-clay and let the exhibition visitors create their own objects
freely and then name them. From that came an enormous amount of objects
with names like festival junk, pop art dude, camel milk and handicapped
snail.
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Stockholm
Art Fair – 04
Älvsjö
February 12th – 15th, 2004
At the Stockholm Art
Fair 2004 exhibition we had not yet formulated what was going to be
significant for WWIAFM; that is to say a working method based on a common
project where the group as a whole is the artist. Instead there was a
very classy but roughly designed exhibition case that contained the members´
personal works.
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Home
2003
Älvsjö
November 7th – 9th, 2003
This was the first
time WWIAFM made an exhibition as a group. We felt it was important to
show our name at that early stage, so we painted it in huge letters all
over the wall.
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