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Don’t waste your time, go ahead: Use some of the items listed on the opposite page or something else at hand to apply acute force to the newsprint. Negate unity; turn it into parts. Basically, this will work fine as long as the total force applied by the item exceeds the strength of the newsprint, not that ‘working fine’ is neccessarily what must happen — it is, in the end, the potential experience gained from the tests that we are after, and this is in fact the ‘work’. If there is feel insecure about, please do get in touch. I’m available per phone, email and post, or in person by appointment. Let this experience help you broaden and deepen your personal understanding about separation. So, here’s a short line to get you started -----
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pavement walking back and forth nervous doors stairs walls pavement walking back and forth nervous nervous doors stairs walls nervous doors stairs walls staring at me staring at me silence, presentation you are here now you are here A PART
Fredrika Anderson....................................... 20-21 Mina Snövit Hedstierna.................................. 4-5 Kim Johansson............................................22-23 Jan Marius Kiøsterud....................................16-17 Gustav Lejelind.............................................12-13 Tomas Lundgren.......................................... 10-11 Niklas Persson................................................ 6-7 Nils Elvebakk Skalegård................................. 8-9 Miriam Thorpe.............................................18-19 Mikael Vesavuori.........................................24-25 Fredrik Åkum............................................... 3, 26
Image credits: Fredrik Åkum 10-11; Hendrik Zeitler 12-13 (includes textiles by Ida Andersson for the opera ‘A Part’).
An introduction The term, ‘tabloid’ derives from medicines
This publication is an example of such
that were sold in compressed form by the
continuance. Its format — the tabloid newspaper
pharmaceutical industry in the late 19th century
— Suggests the beginning of a sequence by which
and in many ways contemporary newsmedia has
a subsequent issue would position this one as
become the dispenser of bitter pills via the tabloid.
outmoded. Aesthetically, it doesn’t follow the
The advent of the printing press also authored the
standard iconographical balance of word and
possibility of the newspaper and thus the elitism
image, it has no headlines and no illustrations.
of the scribed, Latin manuscript was superseded.
Despite this, and it being reproduced as an edition
With the possibility of mass reproducibility,
of 2000, this newspaper may actually prove to be
information could be circulated broadly. The
unique, as we don’t know if another issue ensues,
possibility to stimulate, and expand critique was
or if this chronicle marks its own demise. Either
opened up to the masses as the printing press
way, perhaps the sequence can be seen to have
brought value to and provided a platform for the
begun almost two years before it was printed.
representation and development of vernacular
The art represented here emanates from the
language.
MFA: Fine Art at Valand Academy and is by the
In the 60s, as alternatives to institutions, artists’
eleven artists who joined the creative community
books, magazines and printed multiples provided
there in 2011. Therefore, this publication is an
platforms for representation and debate. Despite
element of the final edition of their education
the physical materiality of these publications - and
for now. It has been a pleasure to correspond, co-
their succession in the proliferation of artists’
critique, debate and dialogue with them.
zines — they were often perceived as transitory,
On behalf of the Academy and the Fine Art
temporality seen to be correspondent with DIY
Unit, I gratefully acknowledge the continued
and lo-fi. Web 2.0 poses an interesting challenge
support of Stiftelsen Fru Mary von Sydows, född
to the notion of print, including the newspaper,
Wijk, donationsfond. This support provides the
as being time-limited. Its capacity to emphasise
MFA: Fine Art programme with the means to
transience is potentially greater including how it
allow artists to go to press by annually printing
generates forms of co-production that decentralises
a publication that chronicles the history of the
authenticity of authorship. Knowledge flows and
programme, its students and alumni.
rumours circulate with rapidity, at Supposedly negligible cost. Yet, something remains within the
Jason E. Bowman, 2013
characteristics of physical print that artists persist
MFA: Fine Art Programme Leader
to claim as an arena for their work.
Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg
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STATUE INDIRECTLY PLEADS GUILTY TO STATUTORY RAPE CHARGE STONE COLD CRIMINAL. It is with great sadness that the villagers of Hamptonshire saw their oft-visited fountain statue sentenced to jail earlier today. 7 year old Hannah Lawrence had immediately recognized the culprit during the investigation and the Statue did not particularly object to the allegations. Because of this relative helpfulness, it can now expect a more lenient sentence than would have been the case had it not cooperated. While justice may be served, a young girl remains traumatized and a village shocked. ”I just can’t believe it. I would never have thought this could happen in a place like this”, says Margret, 62, primary school teacher. Others seem to share the sentiment. The atmosphere in the small town is decidedly dampened by the chain of events, with many children told to steer clear of statues. Now, on the once joyous village square, only silence looms.
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MORATORIUM ON "NEW" POLITICAL IMAGINATION IN FINAL STAGES EXCLUSIVE EXCERPTS. After an intensive night of writing and rewriting, ministers are soon putting pen to paper on the matter of the Moratorium on Political Ideo-Genesis. We provide an exclusive sneak peek into what may very well be the final, legislation-ready declaration paragraph. ”We are hereby proposing a moratorium that aims to cease production of all new philosophical and political material. Every thought should be taken to its conclusion, every door which has been opened must be rediscovered, investigated and closed before we embark on yet another erratic journey to find some elusive truth or hidden meaning behind it all. In our most pressing current circumstances logical deduction has brought this [legislative] group to believe that production of new ideas may no longer be beneficial for all parties concerned. How can we know for sure that what has been said before is either correct or erroneous? How can we ascertain that everyone has the same capacity for this enquiry, or that as many as possible will be able to partake and respond to what is there already? We find there is no need for new philosophy. Henceforth we shall put our energies into deducing centuries of ideas, making final conclusions on these discoveries before we are ready for something altogheter new.”
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