When being in nature, as I have been much more through this past year, you feel impossibly small and at the mercy of nature for your survival. A city, like Göteborg, feels at most, a few centuries old; in nature, you’re on geological time and your own life is just a speck. I have used […]
I feel connected with nature and the forests, it gives me peace. It is “forest healing”, or what you wanna call it, to be with nature. I’ve been with this forest since I was five years old and now I’m sixty-eight so of course I feel a connection to this forest. I can see where […]
Sparkplug is going to kickstart a new era of LGBTQ+ culture in Gothenburg. This week-long festival is made by LGBTQ+ people for LGBTQ+ people. The festival is all about coming together, making together and claiming space together. LGBTQ+ life in Gothenburg is fractured. We are splintered across lines of class, racialisation, ability, age, sexuality and […]
” At night I would see a crocodile wandering on the wall of our house. Whenever I wanted to get out of the door, leave, the crocodile rushed over the wall to the door and I was too afraid to go out.” Defragmentation is a series of pieces working with the idea of inherited trauma, […]
De välbemedlade åker på skidsemester och de fattiga dör av Covid-19. Klyftorna i samhället gapar vidare och vidare. Med utställningen Kill the Poor – Plan B på Galleri Box undersöker Conny Blom olika aspekter av neoliberalismens effekter på världen i stort men också det svenska välfärdsamhället. Finns det en dold agenda bakom segregering och nedrustning av skyddsnät […]
Over the course of four and a half billion years, Earth has evolved into the planet we know today. If one had been able to map the changing surface of the planet and seen these gradual geological changes—the incremental shift of continents, protrusion of mountain ranges, and the changing level of the ocean, for instance—one […]
Open Call 2022 opened for applications 17th of March and is open until 15th of April. Applications are made through our online form on our website.