Ministry Blog

The HopArt jump in Ladonia last weekend. A special jump for the 30 years anniversary of Nimis!

The latest video “SILOSILO” is now showing on “Konstrundan“.

A short note from the desk of the Minister. Official Exhibition Video is now up and running at YouTube. We are building and preparing every day now for the opening at Sunday kl 13 (1 p.m.) local time Eslöv Town Museum (Eslövs Stadsmuseum).

Officiell teaser för femte delen av Konstforskningsprojektet ARKIV - Eslöv By The Sea. Del 5 har nått fram till Eslöv, Filosofin och Religionen. Utställningen visas på Eslövs Stadsmuseum från 29 november till 28 februari. Underrubriken för del 5 är “Spinoza kom aldrig till Eslöv”.

Svensk videoversion.

The official teaser for the upcoming ARCHIVE-exhibition. Part 5 in the project is coming up. It will be shown at the Eslöv Town Museum starting November 29. The Art research project has now arrived at the subject of religion and philosophy with the subtitle “Spinoza Never Made it to Eslöv”.

English version video.

A short teaser for the upcoming ARCHIVE-exhibition. Part 5 in the project is coming up. It will be shown at the Eslöv Town Museum starting November 28. The Art research project has now reached the subject of religion and philosophy. The subtitle this time is “Spinoza Never Made it to Eslöv”.

Todays documentation flashback is a new video from an exhibition in may this year (2009). The exhibition was made in cooperation with the Eslöv Culture School and was a theme exhibition named “Heaven & Hell”. The video takes us on a quick trip through the exhibition entering into and moving through Hell before we reach Heaven…

The project Bottle Mail is nearing it’s end. Since January this year we’ve had four (4) confirmed landings and one fatal accident (January 29). The bottles that now has confirmed landings are at S:t Helena, Greenland - Daneborg, Victoria on Vancouver Island (Canada). The bottle in Victoria ended up in the Inner Harbor of Victoria. The last confirmed landing so far is at Midway Island (which means we only have 1 bottle left afloat).

We are looking for bottles everywhere as this little illustration shows:

Tomorrow it’s premier performance for the musical DOGS, finally, after censoring and defections. It’s all about a little round-about dog… The round-about dog became globally famous last year when artist Lars Vilks received a death-threat for drawing a round-about dog with a turban on it’s head and naming it “The Prophet M as a round-about dog”. Not many people knows this perhaps, but in fact there’s a saying that “The dog is mans best friend”.

It seems Al Qaida didn’t know this. I wonder if they know what a round-about dog is, or even a round-about. So while driving to Eslöv (where the above mentioned drawing was censored in Nov 07) this video was shot. In fact, if you listen carefully you can hear the dog sniffing for his round-about…

The musical are being set up in Stockholm tomorrow (November 22) in cooperation with the Ex-Muslims and the Humanists. The musical consist mostly of video and tells/ recreates the story about the round-about dog and the happenings around it’s creation and the following débâcle.

Two videos from the Saturday ceremony (November 15), for technical reasons in two parts. (All speach in Swedish only) .

Som vi berättade i lördags (15 november) så höll Konstministeriet (Ministry of Art) en officiell ackrediterings- och invigningsceremoni på Gymnasieskolan i Eslöv. Vi har redan tidigare lagt upp bilder att se från ceremonin.

Här kommer det så filmer från tillfället. Av tekniska skäl i två delar. En lite längre:

och så en lite kortare (avslutning):

A long long time ago, in a galaxy not far from you…

…at the opening night at the Eslöv Biennale 2007 the makeshift Eslöv Complaints Choir (mECC) was formed. The improvised Complaints Choir did it’s first (and most likely it’s last) performance. The singers for the choir was volunteering and/or picked out at random from the visitors at the Biennale at the opening night.

A text (in Swedish) was presented to the singers. The text was written by the Ministry of Art. The singers had no chance for test singing, rehearsal or reading of the text ahead of singing. It was totally a fly-by-faith operation. A few of the participating artists also took part in the complains choir. Some of them are seen to the far right in the video. The Complaints Choir was a project very suitable for the Ministry of Art & Jump which also is involved in protests in the HopArt project.

By a fluke of luck the video of the choir was dug up and rescued out of the extensive archive material at the Ministry of Art & Jump. We had given up all hopes, we really thought the video was lost and considered it missing in action, presumed dead But here it is! Short, simple and shooting from the hip. (Take it away…)