{"id":33,"date":"2015-02-13T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se\/movingmass\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2016-08-10T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T08:48:00","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se\/moving-mass\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"About the project Moving Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Glass is never still – it is mass in movement.<\/p>\n

Moving Mass<\/em> explores glass as a concept, commodity and as part of history and the process of production: an interplay of industry and humans as the basis for the\u00a0construction of a society and sense of community.\u00a0In Moving Mass<\/em> six Swedish artists have explored the \u201cKingdom of Crystal\u201d. They take as their cue the local and global transformations of society. What has been the role of glass in the Kingdom of Crystal? And how is it to live there after most of the production has been moved abroad? Has the contribution to the glass industry\u2019s success by immigrant labourers been overlooked? How are the losses and changes in terms of work, identity and community dealt with and portrayed?<\/p>\n

The artist Ingela Johansson, born and raised in Boda by a\u00a0family consisting of three generations of glass workers, initiated the project and invited in turn the artists Eva Arnqvist, Johanna Gustafsson Fu\u0308rst, A\u030asa Jungnelius, Caroline Ma\u030artensson and Malin Pettersson O\u0308berg. In dialogue with the place and the people who were there, and still remain, the artists analyse and portray the changes in Swedish glass production as an example of a wider transformation in society.<\/p>\n

Moving Mass<\/em>\u00a0is a three year project running\u00a0from 2014 to 2016, enabling site-specific residencies and workshops at various locations in the region, an exhibition at Kalmar konstmuseum 05.12.15 – 28.02.16\u00a0and one at The Glass Factory in Boda 03.09.16 – 16.10.16, an adjoining conference organised by Lisa Rosendahl and a book to be\u00a0published by the end of 2016. The project is carried out in dialogue with Kalmar konstmuseum, The Glass Factory and The Design Archive Pukeberg and is a.o. supported by the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Regionf\u00f6rbundet Kalmar L\u00e4n and Nybro Municipality.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0leaflet for\u00a0the conference Art and the Manifestation of Social Change<\/em>, organised by Lisa Rosendahl in collaboration with Kalmar konstmuseum and Moving Mass<\/em>\u00a018.02-19.02.16, the project is described as follows: \u201dMoving Mass<\/em> deals with the history, present and future of glass production in Sm\u00e5land \u2013 a region popularly referred to as ’The Kingdom of Crystal’ \u2013 from six different artists\u2019 perspective. The emphasis of the project is on questions about the glass industry in relation to changes in local and global society. The conference\u00a0Art and the Manifestation of Social Change\u00a0<\/em>takes Moving Mass<\/em> as the starting point to create a cross-disciplinary conversation about different methods to visualise our contemporary time and its underlying history.\u00a0The conference also addresses the question of what it means for artists, curators and art institutions to work site-specifically. What are the methods to engage in dialogue with a specific context and take that as a starting point for your work?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Glass is never still – it is mass in movement. Moving Mass explores glass as a concept, commodity and as part of history and the process of production: an interplay of industry and humans as the basis for the\u00a0construction of a society and sense of community.\u00a0In Moving Mass six Swedish artists have explored the \u201cKingdom … Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa About the project Moving Mass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se\/moving-mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se\/moving-mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se\/moving-mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se\/moving-mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se\/moving-mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se\/moving-mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se\/moving-mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}