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Bunny Project at Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden 2008

Performance commissioned by Kalmar Museum of Art, Sweden. During the inauguration of the new art museum in Kalmar a suspicious individual sneaked around the premises mounting sculptures made of carrots, alarm clocks, red and blue cables, metal wire and tape. On direct orders from the Swedish secret police the performance was stopped since the Culture Minister refused to give her inaugural speech if it were to continue. The speech , as it later turned out, was about how art must be allowed to be free and provocative.

Comments

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

That's like screaming, "Fire!!!" in a crowded theatre and calling it art.

[najalaise.livejournal.com]

Really? I parse it as more like a play in which an actor screams, "Fire!" The audience may not know that it is part of the play, but the ushers (museum staff, etc) know. It is not typically a problem for an actor- even if they come in a side entrance and are not on the stage- to do such things, because the audience has cues available. I suspect that the Culture Minister and her audience also had cues available to them.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but some things have the potential to trigger too much panic, and pseudo-bombs are in that category.

[najalaise.livejournal.com]

I disagree, but I do know that many, many people would agree with you.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Either way, and I side with you, it's certainly stirring up conversations about art, so in that, too, it succeeds.

[eosandman.livejournal.com]

They both seem like bad ideas. The use of carrots is cute though.

[meoka2368.livejournal.com]

I would love to see this done in more places.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Could always start with the countdown clock at the art gallery.