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11/3/2005

The Lack Project 2005

Tensta Konsthall, Spanga

Opening March 12, 4 pm - 8 pm

Gruppo A12 have a house-warming party in their apartment that has been built out of 1000 pink-rose Ikea Lack-tables.

Inside the art-gallery Jakob Senneby will record sounds from the apartment through microphones attached to it

DJ Rozzetta plays records

There's free pizza, beer and soft drinks

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Gruppo A12: Exhibition project February 19 - April 17
The Lack Project 2005

Jakob Senneby: Production-site from February 18

Front: Interior deign
Karl Holmqvist + Reala: Graphic design

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Preface

By inviting Gruppo A12, an Italian architect-collective based in Milan, to work in Tensta Konsthall, we continue a series of exhibition projects that raise critical questions about contemporary aesthetic production processes and the presentation of aesthetic work. Gruppo A12 have since they got together in 1993 worked in both the architecture and art scenes, they have for instance participated in both the architecture and art biennials in Venice. Their work is often characterized by investigations on the contemporary city and its conditions; structural, social, political, aesthetic, economic, and cultural. In The Lack Project 2005 (fig.0) they use 1000 Ikea Lack tables as construction modules to build an apartment inside Tensta Konsthall. The apartment is intended to operate as an open space (also for the visitor) free to be used and at once as a laboratory in which Gruppo A12 during the duration of the exhibition-project will collect and display images of the Lack table from all over the world. Gruppo A12 got the idea to build an apartment partly after having made observations of homes in Sweden. They noticed a relation, on a symbolic level, between these homes and Ikea. This relation can maybe be deduced to the construction of the Swedish Welfare State and its ambition of creating a better society. The vision of a society in where everyone was able to be better off demanded not only new processes of production that could enable to satisfy the needs of a whole nation but also this to be done in a cost-efficient way. With these new systems of production that combined production and distribution to low prices new ways of looking upon and understanding utility goods followed. In this context the Lack table occupy a place apart, as one of Ikea’s largest sales ever this table is more than just a table it is also a symbol for the spinal column of a production system. Gruppo A12’s choice of the Lack table to build an apartment with is therefore not so strange as it first may seem. This table is for them already in many senses, material, visual, and symbolical, a construction element. The Lack table occupy among tables a place apart, in the relative order of tables, and is perhaps even a symbol for the order of things — perhaps The Lack Project 2005 can help us to understand what this order means.

Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Ylva Ogland, Jelena Rundqvist
Directors and curators, Tensta konsthall

Gruppo A12 are Nicoletta Artuso, Andrea Balestrero, Gianandrea Barreca, Antonella Bruzzese, Maddalena De Ferrari, Fabrizio Gallanti and Massimiliano Marchica

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Around the end of 1970 one of the Ikea product managers discovered a solid wooden table from 1910 with a very thick top and legs. One of Ikea’s best sellers, the LACK table, came out from that model. Today Gruppo A12 has transformed the LACK into a basic modular element to build a brand new domestic environment! The LACK apartment built with more than 1000 LACK tables will stay open from 12th march until 10th april at Tensta Konsthall as a free space and a laboratory on contemporary habitat. Gruppo A12 needs your help to track the history of this very icon of our time!

If you own one or more LACK in your house or in your office, please send a digital picture of the LACK in its room and specify your location to Gruppo A12.

Or mail a photo to:
LACKPROJECT
Tensta Konsthall
Taxingegränd 10, Box 4001
163 04 Spånga
Sweden

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Tensta konsthall
Opening hours: Tue - Sun 12 pm - 5 pm
Taxingegränd 10, Box 4001, 163 04 Spånga/Sweden
T-bana Blå linjen Tensta

Supported by Stockholms kulturnämnd, Stadsdelsnämnden
Spånga - Tensta, Statens kulturråd, Stockholms läns landsting

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