Kristianstad Center for Contemporary Art who is the mayor art venue in the region of kristianstad worked with us through the whole project period, supporting and promoting most of our activities in Kristianstad. We made three exhibitions there and held a series of workshops and they also was one of the main venues during our wanderlost workshop and exhibition in April 2017.

We worked with them in the a Virtual Reality experience “Genius Loci” of the unknown non-places of the city and hosting the workshop “Fictioning”. The Danish group CoreAct invited audience into their performance installation at the Kristianstad Center for Contemporary Art  “My Table, is your Table“ a coffee feast playing with the idea of the private vs. the public space, inviting people to participate but instead of traditional topic, the conversation is based around identity and nationalism. The also lended us their local network of artist and companies that we later invited and brought into the project on different levels.

Together with the Gauss institute we partnered with The Swedish institute in the project “Fostering Urban Democracy through Participatory Urban Art. The project objective was to contribute to deepening the democracy process in Republic of Macedonia through fostering innovative approaches that can empower participatory democracy with special focus on the urban art and urban planning. Through the support by The Swedish institute we brought our ideas and practice  of participation in the area of both art and design, we managed through our presentation raise awareness about other forms of urban and public methods and expressions for both conducting art projects with a focus on involvement and participation, were the processes itself is as important as the actual artwork, that also can be understood as a artwork in itself without leaving any effects in the urban area itself except the people involved conducting and participating in it.

This working group works with  the idea of gestalt through artefact creation (including virtual objects and 3D-worlds) as one surface to explore, exploit, test and communicate our ideas and concepts, that are generative rather that produced, where we try  to grasp systematic insights through complex generated realities, in which an audience later is invited to interact.  In the Ideal spaces exhibition for the 2016 biennale in Venice we tried to explore this via a combination of presenting ideal city spaces, active participation of the visitors molding their own spaces, and symbolic representation. In the project the Ideal spaces group made important contributions regarding ideal spaces through history but also as an idea.