art 2007

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Project nr 2. Proposal sketch to intelectually reclaim what should be mine. Suggestion for a working title: MS Fatima von Blindleia

Photo: Blindleia and two sketches.

"Per Kristian Nygård´s designs (...) are political statements against the privatization of nature and for the freedom of the individual. The draughtsman-like and model-like project sketches are utopian constucts that playfully offers courses of action for the social space"   

                                                                                               Ute Stuffer. Kunstverein Hannover.

CROSSKICK / PLATFORM #4 -Kunstverein Hannover - 2007.

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Sketches for project nr 2: a photo collage and sketch describing the project.

The sketches are for building a boat. A kind of palace at sea created from the leftovers from the relentless building of luxury summer houses by wealthy families from the major cities of Norway. The idea with the boat is to reclaim the accessibility of the coastline through using the boat for transporting people there and give guided tours of the area. The tours will be for free, so as to again make the area available for the public.

Suggestion for a sketch of the boat.

Suggestion for a model of the boat.

The owners of these luxury summer houses put a lot of effort into preventing the public form accessing their properties. According to the Norwegian law everyone is allowed to use the coastline for leisure activities. (The so-called “allemannsretten” and “friluftsloven”). The owners sometimes erect symbolic and physical obstacles, like fences, bridges, piers, etc . In extreme cases they attach welded furnitures to the rocks, or physically attach shoes or a towels so that it appears like people is there already using the beach.

 

Sketch. detail. Boat.

The idea with the boat is to reclaim the accessibility of the coastline through using the boat for transporting people there and give guided tours of the area. (The tours will be for free, so as to again make the area available for the public