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1/6/2005

Magasin 3 Projekt

Magasin 3 Projekt, Stockholm

Magasin 3 Projekt presents:

Jurgen Bey
Marti Guixé
Anna Koch
Stina Nordenstam

On June 2, 2005, Magasin 3 Projekt [Djurgårdsbrunn] opens for the season.

This year's participants create furniture out of dust, choreography out of the visitors' movements, a portable museum and a fictitious documentary. These are projects on ideas and explorations rather than products and works. The temporary dominates; nothing is static.

"This year we are working with people from completely different disciplines. They work in ways that take their respective fields a step further and expand them beyond definitions," says Director David Neuman.

Jurgen Bey (Rotterdam) and Marti Guixé (Barcelona) advance and enhance previous years' presentations of contemporary innovative design with works in the building and in the garden. As front figures of Droog Design, they represent a radical design movement that has inspired young Swedish designers. They challenge our views on the purpose of design and give rise to a multifaceted and comprehensive discussion on design - a discussion that goes beyond the rather superficial and style-focused Swedish equivalent. At Djurgårdsbrunn, Jurgen Bey's starting point is the signification of dust, and he designs new objects out of materials associated with degradation processes. Marti Guixé creates a Catalan design museum with his own works, which resembles an illegal street market. Anna Koch (Stockholm) and Stina Nordenstam (Stockholm) will produce new works. Anna Koch is a choreographer and a dancer. She is interested in the manifestation of thought in movement. On site, there are instructions for simple movements that lead to reflections on the space, the body and the conventions of the encounter. During opening hours, dancers will be present. With the visitors, they will extend and develop the choreography during the summer. Stina Nordenstam is well known for her music. Since 1991 she has released six full-length albums. Without any apparent friction she blends the brittle with the coarse; vulnerability and violence with the heartfelt. In the Magasin 3 Projekt gazebo, Stina Nordenstam presents a new sound installation that is shown once an hour. The work deals with catastrophes, traumas, UFOs and love. It is a mixture of documentary narrative and fiction, combined with newly composed music.

Magnus Ericsson, curator and coordinator for Magasin 3 Projekt and Richard Julin, curator at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, have selected the program for 2005. Magnus Ericsson describes the participants: "The common denominator for all four is the fact that they begin by observing everyday life. Central to their working method are observations of the quotidian in order to understand the larger picture. This year at Magasin 3 Projekt, we will show how apparently insignificant phenomena gain the utmost importance."

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Jurgen Bey
Product designer, born 1965, lives and works in Rotterdam

Jurgen Bey is a collector. He collects things that do not seem to belong anywhere or have a value, everyday objects that one hardly notices or things that have become superfluous. He also collects perspectives, old and new, true and fictitious, fantastic fairytales and banalities. That which have been forgotten or material for what have yet not been told.

He then puts the objects and stories together, often layer upon layer, creating something that carries new meaning or new functions. They turn into ideas or products, which then tell another story. For Jurgen Bey, the most important thing is the ability to see, discover, ask the questions, listen and transform that which he absorbs into something useful in a new context.

Jurgen Bey is constantly searching and reflecting. One can compare his process to that of a scientist, with one important difference: it is expressly intuitive. He is not looking for a definitive answer or a final solution. Rather, he seeks surprises and un-expected experiences. He is convinced that everything has a value and is of importance. Nothing exists without meaning.

At Magasin 3 projekt, Jurgen Bey presents installations entitled Dust. It is an ongoing, investigative project starting from the signification of dust and other materials considered as refuse or rubbish. Here, he creates new objects out of materials that are a result of a degradation process and in doing so, he turns the production process and our ingrained opinions on their heads.

In this way, he challenges a rational or even utopian field of tradition within design. He wants to go beyond this tradition and other, often technologically and economically conditioned solutions. He suggests a method grounded in a deep interest for our culture in which the human being is always at the centre.

Marti Guixé
Product designer, born 1964, lives and works in Barcelona and Berlin

Marti Guixé is a designer who says that he hates things. Constantly on the lookout for a meaningful approach to design, he challenges our accepted views on objects, function and form in a subtle and often provocative way.

He questions the necessity of yet another product with a new design and points to the importance of trying to understand people and how they live in a rapidly changing society. Marti Guixé is critical of the fact that many of today's ideas are based on outdated and thus irrelevant concepts. He suggests that our preoccupation with consumption and possession obscures far more important issues.

Grappling with everyday problems as well as with complex subjects, he explores and analyses situations, conditions and contexts. The result is radical propositions for concepts and systems with a minimal focus on form. Marti Guixé is mainly interested in people and their needs rather than in actual objects.For Magasin 3 projekt, he has created Museum Guixé. As an illegal street market, his Catalan design museum presents a retro-spective of Marti Guixé's own works. It is a concept characteristic of Guixé, multilayered and raising many issues about culture, economy, politics and globalism.

Marti Guixé's seemingly simple and humoristic propositions often defy interpretation. He has updated the Spanish tapas culture, proposed interior fittings for aquarium fish, and exhibited a pool of gin and tonic. His relationship to his profession is based on a paradox and his concepts always tend to raise questions. His works are interweaved into a world that is attractive, vital and funny, and also serious, partly alien and sometimes most annoying.

Anna Koch
Dancer and choreographer, born 1969, lives and works in Stockholm.

In her choreography, Anna Koch explores the manifestation of thought in movement, and the immediate kinetic power of trans-fer of movement. She is interested in the presence of action, perception and representation, and the body as a coordinator of memories and social records. Anna Koch describes her thoughts on today's body: ¶]... the body of schizophrenic diversity that possesses great potentialities but conform to the norm of a ©£reliable®¢ member of society that nevertheless becomes a prey for political and commercial powers. I find the dancing body to be a resistance to these thoughts and I research expressions in which dance becomes a leakage out of this normative order.

For Magasin 3 projekt, Anna Koch has developed a site-specific concept. She explores performativity in relation to Magasin 3 projekt as a meeting place. The point of departure for her ex--plor-ation is three different layers: the social accord, the geographical site, and the building. Anna Koch wants to challenge the contract between visitors and the specific place by letting visitors and invited dancers participate in her choreography projekt djurgårdsbrunn. On site, there are directions that in different ways guide the visitors through simple movements and reflections on the place, the body and the conventions of the meeting.

During the opening hours of Magasin 3 projekt, dancers will be present. Their movements will extend and develop the choreography. Another part of the project is Sweetheart, a flyer with an invitation to Magasin 3 projekt that will be distributed in Stockholm and other places. Those who accept the invitation will be given further instructions.

Stina Nordenstam
Artist, born 1969, lives and works in Stockholm

Stina Nordenstam is best known for her music. Since 1991 she has released six full-length albums. She has also worked with photography, film and radio. Stina Nordenstam's world is characterised by conflicts and challenges. In a clear and fragile voice, she sings about the darkest of subjects. The beautiful and the brittle is intermingled with the coarse and the awkward; vulnerability and violence with the heartfelt.

In the Magasin 3 projekt gazebo, Stina Nordenstam presents a new sound installation, which deals with catastrophes, traumas, UFOs, love and life in general. We hear the voices of people relating their stories. How much of what they say is actually true? Documentary narration blends with fiction and newly composed music. The work centres round the unique human ability of recovering from traumatic experiences. Forgetting and fantasizing, fiction and lies play a vital role. Stina Nordenstam explores human conditions and has chosen to use some fiction in her representation, congenial with the human condition. Our minds and memories are creative; they do not simply record.

She created the music for the piece at the same time as she was working on the texts. There is a common touch that, in Stina Nordenstam's words, reflects »the somewhat black-edged joy of being alive, and the acceptance of the fact that it will not last. It's like nature at the time before the school summer holidays: overpoweringly beautiful but it fades and ends almost before one has time to bat an eyelid.« Stina Nordenstam has a reputation for being media shy. She seems to be uncompromisingly rejecting of, or perhaps completely uninterested in, media exposure. For more than a decade she has declined to give interviews, appear on television or be photographed. Instead, she circulates her own images in which she wears wigs and looks different each time.

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Magasin 3 Projekt is run by Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, which was founded in 1987 and is one of Sweden's leading institutions for contemporary art.

Magasin 3 projekt is an experimental space that presents events relating to art and contemporary culture in Djurgården park, Stockholm. It has been open to the public since June 2002. Over four seasons, the program has developed in collaboration with invited artists, architects and designers, and has included exhibitions, film screenings, lectures and parties. Connected to the specific profile of each year, Magasin 3 projekt has also run a café, a restaurant and a music club.

Magasin 3 projekt is organized by Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, one of Sweden’s leading institutions of contemporary art, founded in 1987.

The program 2005 has been curated by Magnus Ericson and Richard Julin, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall

Magasin 3 Projekt
Thursdays 12 - 7pm, Fridays-Sundays 12 - 6pm
Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 68, Stockholm

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