Ministry Blog

Perhaps you’ve noticed the HopArt Tour to Norrbotten this summer! If not here’s a little flashback from one of the more northern jumps. This was in Råne Älv (Råne River). If you like to follow the jumps in the five biggest rivers in Norrbotten you can check out the “HopArt Galleries“.

PRESS RELEASE HopArt in LONDON - PoliNation: 2nd International Conference on Micronations

This weekend the Ministry of Art will attend the 2nd International Micro nation Conference at Chelsea Old Town Hall in London, July 14-15. The Minister of Art & Jump Fredrik Axwik will represent Ladonia (www.ladonia.com) as a delegate together with the Queen, Carolyn I. The Minister will, amongst others, perform the Ladonia National Anthem since he will perform a HopArt Jump in London. As this is written the place is not set yet. Perhaps in the neighborhood of Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Parks Serpentine Lake or such, since everybody that I’ve consulted has strongly recommended against jumping into The Thames…

Read more at:
www.ministryofart.se/hopart.html
www.micronationconference.com

I helgen kommer Konstministeriet att delta i den andra internationella mikronation konferensen i Chelsea Old Town Hall i London, 14-15 juli. Konst- och Hoppministern Fredrik Axwik kommer att representera Ladonien (www.ladonia.com) tillsammans med landets Drottning och kommer bland annat att framföra Ladoniens nationalsång i och med att ett Hoppkonst hopp kommer att utföras i London. I skrivande stund är platsen ännu inte spikad. Ev. i närheten av Serpentine Gallery i Hyde Parks Serpentine Lake eller nåt liknande, eftersom alla har avrått mig å det livligaste angående att hoppa i Themsen…

Läs mer:
www.ministryofart.se/hopart.html
www.micronationconference.com

Flashback Friction - another angle of the jump in Uppsala, June 2010.

Flashback Friction - The jump in Uppsala, June 2010.

Foto: Skånska Dagbladet.
Gårdagens invigningshopp på Hållbarhetsveckan i Eslöv fanns med i Skånskan. Man kan läsa den lilla artikeln här.

Men oj, bara 20 i publiken? Det var nog lite snålt räknat av tidningen (eller så har dom skrivit fel - som vanligt). Fullt var det ju visserligen inte i A-hallen den kvällen, men jag skulle tippa på uppåt 60-70 i publiken. Hade en rätt bra utsikt över publiken från talar-stolen. Och när sedan vindkraftsdebatten satte igång lite senare på aftonen var det nog över 100 som samlats… (Bara för att sätta saker o ting i perspektiv).

Om man undrar över pappret som mannen i bakgrunden håller upp så var det en lista med grundläggande problem för ett Hållbart samhälle som Ministern listade på ett blädderblock under invigningstalet:
- Pencillinet
- Industrialismen
- Elström
- Sekulariseringen
- Vår stora hjärna
- Förstånd/ insikt (Vi är sluga, men inte lika smarta)
- Vår bekvämlighet
- Kvartalsrapporter

Återstår bara att lösa dom problemen, men utan att hamna på Medeltids-nivå igen helst kanske…

For over a year, a vital document at the Ministry has been missing, presumed lost. But today it was found by chance! It is the list over the protests collected in Uppsala at the jump in Fyrisån. The list from Uppsala contains some very interesting attitudes, very specific protests, both from a local and global point of view.

THE UPPSALA PROTESTS

The long uphill stretch to the Castle in Uppsala
Expensive parkings
No parkings for people living in the city
People who doesn’t like Art
The new motorway (E4) is too close
Bad language handling
The bad summer weather
That the socialdemocratic politicians say they won’t build a new skate-rink
Bad environmental judgement (for ex. flying to vacation)
People who walk slowly in narrow passages
Topless (Roof-less) Bus-stops
Kids that are in the way in shops
Population
Royal Weddings
The aversion against Public Art
Reduction of SU for students
Cold toes
Parents deaths
Cold rain
Fizzy water
Trash in the river
Shaved armpits
Michael Bolton

The Uppsala HopArt Jump

At the HopArt-jump the HopArt Protest-list had a few additions at the Saturday Jump in Eslövs Trollsjön (=Gremlin Lake, or Lake Troll… go figure…).

Cowardliness
Fear (before others)
Cold weather
School
Green apples
Too loud music
When others get more
Blood in your eye
Saturdays (as workdays, otherwise it’s a fine day)
Sunday anxiety
Bad planning
Bird shit (and all other pollutions too)
Greenhouse effect (on global scale, global warming - it’s OK in greenhouses)
Paprika
Red wine (white is OK)
Spiders
Football (soccer)
Idiots
Bad reeds (for saxophones in particular)
Ping-pong
Bikes that fall over (when you ride it)
Liquor
Cigarettes (and all other tobacco)
Sorrow
Money
Problems
Darkness
Siblings (the testing type)
Porridge
Mondays
Cotton Candy in your hair
The dirt that sits in toilets
Life
Death
Time
Bad songs
Irritable parents
Delays
Loss of toilets (when you need one)
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