AWESOME ARARAT June 2023
(2023)
author(s): Katarina Eismann, Tinna Joné, Nils Claesson
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
“We need to distinguish between the logical future, which is the development of the present – and the desired future, which is the world we want to create.”
This statement represents the guiding vision for the exhibition ARARAT, shown at Moderna Museet in Stockholm April – July 1976. The exhibition was the product of a large group of people such as artists, architects, researchers, and engineers brought together in a project called Alternative Research in Architecture, Resources, Art and Technology – ARARAT!
Students from SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts have been working, thinking, and sitting with this together. Creating, provoking, and forgiving. Lumbung, Collective wisdom and future making. MA program The Art of Impact is after one year in the middle of their education and present work from this spring in this exposition. The one-year freestanding course The Impact of Research presents their exam projects.
ARARAT has been revisited before in education, a research project in the course Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Learning from the City and Beyond, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 2014/2015
The Leaky Bodies Archives - articulating bodily interventions
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): BLOB
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The Leaky Bodies Archives is an artistic research project that creates and documents bodily experiences of leakiness and porosity. During Dutch Design Week 2025, we facilitate a workshop for students and other visitors, in which we share our politics and ethics and how these brought this particular project into being. Working with students of iArts Maastricht, we invite them to do something similar in situ by guiding them through the following steps:
1. What change would you like to see in the world? What are your politics / ethics?
2. What kind of bodies does this planet need in order to achieve this?
3. Create an in situ intervention that allows you to foster, observe and document such bodies.
4. Create an archive in which you can articulate, organise, and share your documentations.
5. Reflect on what you have learned through making this archive of bodily experiences.
This exposition presents the work of iArts students (bachelor year 2).
The Leaky Bodies Archives is a collaboration between research centre What Art Knows (Academy of Arts Maastricht, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences the Netherlands) and BLOB collective Amsterdam.