ufolab ARTIST STATEMENT
ARTIST STATEMENT
Sharing the codes.
Raising the questions.
Another day and another place our thoughts and questions would be raised differently, to whom it may concern. But we are here now and at this place sharing this place thoughts and social codes. The history and the future could be our companions.
Imaginary conversation?
I’m asking you a question, a simple one: what’s your name? and if you have a name that I cannot relate to my following question would be : where are you from? And if you say: here and there, I would ask you a more specific question: where exactly are you from? And you with your laconic sense of humour would say: I’m from the same place as you are from, it’s both strange and well known at the same time. My frustration at this point, not being able to place your name in a specific origin and place, the frustration does that I have to grasp for the final blow. It’s actually two questions but my curios nature must have a satisfied answer: So were your parents from and were did you grow up? You surrender and answer my questions satisfactionally for me. I now have you here in my palm, I know where you come from and I feel safe and liberated that I can clear you from any suspicion of being foreign.
UFOlab
We could wait for the day when its not so important where we are from, if our gender are placed inside or outside, where our parents were born or worked with etc, things that are important but also things that we cant choose or mostly cannot do anything about.
As long as these questions are raised to put people in categories of hierarchy, we will be there, raising our own questions. Through art practise UFOlab attempts to renegotiate current codes of intercultural and socio-political issues both locally and globally.
A summary: UFOlab works with an “intercultural” thematic, for example: what is hybrid identity and how does that manifest itself? See UFOlab work “Banana power”.
We also ask ourselves: if “intercultural” artists have a certain position towards the art world and if they have, what kind of position? We try to figure that out by working and cooperate interdisciplinary with writers, researchers and other artists.
UFOlab: Unidentified Foreign Object Laboratory.
Five members, four active based in Denmark and Sweden.
Sharing the codes.
Raising the questions.
Another day and another place our thoughts and questions would be raised differently, to whom it may concern. But we are here now and at this place sharing this place thoughts and social codes. The history and the future could be our companions.
Imaginary conversation?
I’m asking you a question, a simple one: what’s your name? and if you have a name that I cannot relate to my following question would be : where are you from? And if you say: here and there, I would ask you a more specific question: where exactly are you from? And you with your laconic sense of humour would say: I’m from the same place as you are from, it’s both strange and well known at the same time. My frustration at this point, not being able to place your name in a specific origin and place, the frustration does that I have to grasp for the final blow. It’s actually two questions but my curios nature must have a satisfied answer: So were your parents from and were did you grow up? You surrender and answer my questions satisfactionally for me. I now have you here in my palm, I know where you come from and I feel safe and liberated that I can clear you from any suspicion of being foreign.
UFOlab
We could wait for the day when its not so important where we are from, if our gender are placed inside or outside, where our parents were born or worked with etc, things that are important but also things that we cant choose or mostly cannot do anything about.
As long as these questions are raised to put people in categories of hierarchy, we will be there, raising our own questions. Through art practise UFOlab attempts to renegotiate current codes of intercultural and socio-political issues both locally and globally.
A summary: UFOlab works with an “intercultural” thematic, for example: what is hybrid identity and how does that manifest itself? See UFOlab work “Banana power”.
We also ask ourselves: if “intercultural” artists have a certain position towards the art world and if they have, what kind of position? We try to figure that out by working and cooperate interdisciplinary with writers, researchers and other artists.
UFOlab: Unidentified Foreign Object Laboratory.
Five members, four active based in Denmark and Sweden.
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