MAGASIN 3 STOCKHOLM KONSTHALL: PROJECTS

The product designer Jurgen Bey presented 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. He describes it as follows: "Slowly everything we no longer need disappears. Or will rubbish suddenly become valuable? India the richest country and ours the poorest? Eventually having nothing will become the greatest wealth one can have." In this way, Jurgen Bey 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.

Jurgen Bey received his training as a product designer at The Design Academy in Eindhoven. He was one of the first to be brought to the attention of the Dutch design organisation Droog Design in the beginning of the 1990s.

The Spanish designer Marti Guixé 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. 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 created "Museum Guixé". As an illegal street market, his Catalan design museum presented a retrospective of Marti Guixé's own works. It is a concept characteristic of Guixé, multilayered and raising many issues about culture, economy, politics and globalism

During the summer Anna Koch explored performativity in relation to Magasin 3 Projekt as a meeting place. The point of departure for her exploration was three different layers: the social accord, the geographical site, and the building. Anna Koch wanted to challenge the contract between visitors and the specific place by letting visitors and invited dancers participate in her choreography. During the opening hours of Magasin 3 Projekt at times dancers were present. Their movements were extended and developed the choreography. On site, there were directions that in different ways guided the visitors through simple movements and reflections on the place, the body and the conventions of the meeting.

Another part of the project was "Sweetheart", a flyer with an invitation to Magasin 3 Projekt that was distributed in Stockholm. Those who accepted the invitation was given further instructions on location

OCH DÄR STÅR DU (AND THERE YOU STAND) - a night of dance, film and music. September 17, 6 pm - 1 am at Magasin 3 Projekt and The Jewish Theatre. Bar and DJ Paola.

Program: Anna Koch, LUDD (Ida Lundén & Lise-Lotte Norelius).
Film program: Len Lye, Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson, Oskar Fischinger, Gary Beydler, Maya Deren, Marcel Duchamp.

The choreographer Anna Koch and 14 dancers will take over the garden at Magasin 3 Project and the stage at The Jewish Theater across the street. In the course of one evening, Anna Koch will summarize the choreography Projekt Djurgårdsbrunn, a work that has progressed and developed throughout the season at Magasin 3 Projekt. As an independent parallel to Anna Koch's choreography, Ludd (Lise-Lotte Norelius and Ida Lunden) creates improvised electro-acoustic music using synthesizers, percussion instruments, computers and objects. On the same night, there will be a presentation of a film program with an historical perspective relating to performance and choreography. The films will be screened indoors, and outdoors, after dark.

The event was organized by Magasin 3 Projekt in collaboration with The Jewish Theatre. The program was compiled by Magnus Ericson and Richard Julin, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. The film program has been put together by Richard Julin in collaboration with Filmform. Read more about the program >

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.

In the Magasin 3 Projekt gazebo, Stina Nordenstam presented the new sound installation "Tänk dig en människa" (Imagine a person), which deals with catastrophes, traumas, UFOs, love and life in general. Documentary narration blends with fiction and newly composed music. The work centres round the unique human ability of recovering from traumatic experiences. 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."