Britney Spears by Hannes Fossbo

While heading to Sneakersnstuff, run into Galleri Kocks - lucky me - where candles claimed öppet and invited you to the interior. 11 months of work gravitating around The Pop Princess aka Britney Spears.

Lucky me that, after being dazzled by how had the artist shadowed only by means of colorful crayon - I just LOVE that technique and I could kill someone to learn howto - I was asked:

- Which was your favourite?

What triggered some longer and more interesting conversation. Hannes Fossbo, smiling in suit with a Britney badge, explained why her and nobody else "Only a matter of boredome you know. I was just there, one year ago, cold evening at home, googling arbitrary names. Then, realized how famous was her from the incredibly high google-hits count"



A figure that turned out to be more interesting, when reflecting on how Britney personalizes the American Dream, the Capitalism and if you let me, the Global Economy itself. Exactly, the golden era that seemed so perfect just broke down.

Why? Because that way of living was just no longer sustainable. Same for our beloved Little Miss America. She, ended up as victim of the media that - funnily enough - had crowned her golden locks some time ago while us, well, we'll end up as victims of this capitalist crave for what wasn't truly required, all these externally-generated concerns and pressure to buy, have, eat and show that bring nothing but tremendous unhappiness.

Thanks Hannes, for a great chat and best of luck - I do believe YOU are a GREAT artist!

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Who am I?

Sunday morning, 8AM.

A great time for waking up, for taking a walk, for discovering something breathtakingly reflective and new in Magasin 3 because, what could be cooler than a modern art museum hidden on the old freeport district?

On the way there, aided by the map.

I guess... It's always nice to have a clear goal,

And maybe, the easiest way for getting to it seems to follow the marked path. Follow the line, don't think, just do what they want you to, what seems logical and correct because... If they say so, should be because they know better, right?


But sometimes, apparent logical and traditional reasoning brings us to crossroads that, unless counting on tones of criticism and initiative are more impossible to solve...


Which is what I love the feeling you get after two lessons in K'fack. Learning to make up your OWN mind is the most important kecture - and maybe the hardest to get taught, at least, in Technical Schools - you can hope to pass in your life.

But somehow I reached my goal, so here it's what expected me upstairs...




Some others, tried to focus on the meanwhile. Which is why BETWITXT made me think so much. If you are not happy in the meanwhile periods of life, you'll never be happy when - if being enough lucky - reach your goals.

Cosima Von Bonin - "Seasons in the abyss", 2006 Mixed media, 2 x 2 m (podium)

But le Grande Finale was yet to come from Christian Boltanski's mind.


Who are you?

Is the question asked to and hopefully to be reflected inside the viewer's mind.
From human evolution, to heartbeats, from stereotypes to self-perception of the own persona to the itching sensation that remains... Hours later, when trying to fall sleep.

The others.

Maybe trends are just the aggregation from the evolution of many people's perception of themselves, merging our illusions with others whom we share future personal goals with, just the behaviour that results from inner plans, beating inside our chest that, we might have not shared yet... But keep thinking of, anyway.

Having my ill heartbeat recorded was kinda cool...

I don't know, but I'm just happy of being able to question... Which is much more than what could I have said not so long ago.

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Shoot what you mean.

Moderna Museet might be having a Birthday all through this year but, its soul becomes everyday more forward-looking. A heart beating faster day after day whose blood's sped up with inner renovation, outrageous artists on display, disruptive voices and various events to spread the arty soul among the community - so official geeks, like the one on the QWERTY right now, are no longer extranous but keen on art.

That I wished for me too, while blowing those 24 candles yesterday night, to keep my soul open and never feel bored but amazed of what reality hides beyond the eyeshot.

But getting back to what I was about. When I have a B'Day, I bring my friends home for some strawberries & bubbles. When Moderna has a B'Day, brings a ballet:


Judge by yourself

No clue? Well... That's what was he trying to say:


"It’s quite a special task to exhibit Cullberg Ballet and dance students at Moderna Museet. The installations will among other things question our notion of time and look at art criticism as a phenomenon. The installations are created with the pressure of only one week’s rehearsal time which adds a special energy and shows Cullberg Ballet’s talent for improvisation."
Alexander Ekman

Frozen there, struggling to steer within that storm of thoughts - while hands-on camera, by the way - everything stopped with a dejà-vu in the back of my head - no, I don't have eyes there yet ;) And suddenly - as Jobs'd say - dots merged into a clear path.

From dancer to bailaor, from Cullberg to Amargo, from Stockholm to Madrid, from September 2008 back to 2005, to a teen broken heart healing in front of the show... DQ, Pasajero en Tránsito Unlike sets for a common glass cabin isolating the human.

DQ was - among other things - a reflection around Hikikomori as much as what I clearly perceived yesterday pictured canned emotions.

Stigmatize my simplicity, but maybe the inapprehensible answer for last wedneday's WHY? is more inferred from the overall circumstance rather than weird mental issues that happen to be ordinary in Finland. Maybe is just the lack of effort - which is actually quite common - that comes hand in hand with that everything ready-to-reach what bores this generation - Katharina referred them to - what eventually turns against themselves.

My concern has however more to do with the increase on the number of boredom-derived psychomaniacs who - funnily enough - use the net which could be the actual cause of their issues (i.e. not learning to love or relate in a corporal way) to distribute their user-generated bloodbath.

If they continue to grow so steeply, a downward spiral of fear and violence might boom in front of more faces too.

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