PROGRAM 2003 (JUNE 4–OCTOBER 29, 2003)
MEETING-PLACE: ART, GARDEN, CAFÉ

The first exhibition "In extremis" opened on June 4, 2002. Medical plants were exhibited in jars and given a historical background. In the First World War, soldiers used empty shell casings to create decorative objects, which where later named "trench art". On the casings, words of endearment were engraved. The casings were redesigned into vases, which were then brought home as souvenirs.

As a part of the second exhibition "Seeing Monsters", o-b-o-k focused on the use of sacred hallucinogens such as the plants Datura Innoxia, Belladonna and Bolm?rt. Ancient shamans and sorcerers used plants to provoke horrifying and monstrous hallucinations and certain indigenous cultures continue its use today. While the danger of these hallucinogens has never been challenged, neither has their potent ability to induce clairvoyant trances in magico-religious rites, or their medicinal effects. Datura blossoms in the evening, secreting an enchanting scent throughout the night - risk and pleasure, madness and vision, the entrée to occult powers are invited - before the flowers fade at morning.

The third exhibition "Inventories and The Unclassified" presented examples of the world's great encyclopedic inventories juxtaposed with objects that have escaped every attempt to classify them. The first known efforts to classify animals were by Aristotle in 4th century BC, by determining if the animal possessed or lacked red blood. Until the idea of Evolution developed during the scientific revolution of 17th and 18th centuries, there was little interest in classification systems, as each being was considered a unique creation of God. Suddenly, the desire to systematically name things was linked to the desire to have power over the universe. "God created - Linné classified."

Club Trollet organised six club nights during the autumn with invited secret guests: Gaffaman (9/8), Role Model (23/8), Sagor och Swing (6/9), Bengt Andersson "The angriest man in Sweden" (20/9), En halvkokt i folie (4/10), Christine Ödlund (18/10). Other program activities: a reading by Anna Hallberg and Jörgen Gassilewki, poets and critics ("Literature Outside the Text - Speed, Scale, Space"), a talk with Gunnar Björkman, park manager (Kungliga Djurgårdsförvaltningen).