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HopArt
Protest list
In the Swedish language, the word Jump has a double meaning. The word is "hopp", and this word can either mean "to hope" or "to jump". (IN fact one can also see relationship between “hop” and “hope” in the English language). You can jump for joy or make a jump (into the water - to drown yourself) in despair. There is even people who participates in jumping competitions. Then you can jump high because you get startled and scared. In this case the Minister jumps into the water in order to protest.
The minister of Art & Jump is acting forcefully when protesting on the grand scheme of things through his HopArt. The Minister is in a way conveying The Peoples voice. Like a savior, a Messiah, he carries the problem of The People on his shoulders and by hopping he is hoping that a bettering of things will follow. For sure the world is a bit different after the jump, a change has occured.
The protests list was started by the Ministry but have then underway been added to by the audience(s). The order of the protests does not indicate any ranking among themselves. During a performance lasting less than a second, the Minister protest against the order of things, not least against the boredom of everyday life:
Bureaucracy
Jantelaw (See author Axel Sandemose for reference).
Idiotic behavior
Bad weather
Interrupting TV-commercials
Colds
Lack of self-knowledge
The de-sexualisation of society and the public room in particular
Violence
Incomprehensible contemporary art
Stupidity
Rust
Terrorism
The Company of Wrong – those who always tell us what we do wrong - and that we should not do this or that.
Racism
Expensive insurances
The consuming society
Telia (swedish Telecom company)
Insensitivity and lack of empathy
Monogamy
Stupid politics
Cold climate
The perverse money hunger
Time optimism
Prejudice
Road salt
Over ardent officials
Sad adolescence
Conspiracies
World economy
Early autumn
Negligent use of language
Bad self confidence
Bullshit
The constant growth
Meanness
Tax systems with ”tax on everything” and ”tax on tax”.
Strong current
Bad quality
Indifferent people
Slushy winters
Religious fanatics
Pollution
Inconsequence
Old cranky cars
Lost time
Cranky neighbors
Career
History forgery
Waste
Attitude problems
Loneliness (that people don’t choose by them selves).
Bad infrastructure
Clubs for mutual admiration
Unpleasant people
Bad wine
Pessimism
Self-righteousness
Tobacco smoke
Abuse (of power, substances and so on)
Cold bath water
Too high bridges
Exaggerated self-criticism - due to bad self-confidence
Flat beer
Bad bosses
Time bandits
Sweden
Bad shoes
V.A.T.
The fact that the word ”why” is not always accompanied by ”not?”.
Bullies
”Moral” and ”ethic”
Protests
Melted ice-cream
Sour milk
Closing mental institution
Terra-ism
Bad Science-Fiction
Olympics (except ski-jumps)
Rotten Bananas
The rule of capital
Ugly monsters
Poetry
Bad Memory
Bad drivers
Chewing-gum under the shoes
Queues at drive-thrus
Gas prices
Everything
Bad grades
Mean people
Traffic Lights
Hitting my thumb with my hammer
Negative attitudes
New cars
Grammar
American Lumber
American apples
American Cheries
Bad spelling
Mosquito bites
Hair on carpet
My complacency
Real estates
Pro-Life
Dirty water
Harbour planes
Authoritarianism
Incessant chatting
Extreme mints lack of extreme
Pens
Mediocrity
Bad philosophy
Cold pacific water
Nuclear subs in the strait
Rejections
Dysfunction
Cruelty in general
Editioned artwork
WWF to WWE (World Wrestling Federation >> World Wrestling Entertainment)
America
No hockey in summer
Staph infection
Ferry line ups
Medium-hot
Clumsy
People that won’t dance
Lack of jumping towers
Jaywalking red lights
Kisses
Unsafe driving (in particular when bus-driver reads novels while driving)
My sore throat
That I can think
Comprehendible conceptual art
Reluctance to read Thomas Hardy
Brooks bike saddles falling and getting gonged
Sore bum
Disturbing elements
Puddles (pools) of water
Sullen people
Lost wallets
Surveillance
Beer running out (or the suspicion thereof)
Weird signs
Too many different speed limits
Bad rubber bands
Malfunctional pens
Lack of brotherliness
Round-about driving according to EU
VAT on dill
(all too) short vacations
Difficult choices, especially too many (max 3 is desirable)
The insignificant thickness of the earth crust (the eerie thinness)
Interrupters (people that interrupt conversations)
Cowardice (especially the lack of courage to stand up for one’s beliefs)
Too much anxiety
Uncomfortable asses
Food not being unending
Money being an object
Pesticides
Bad handwriting
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