Client: Riksutställningar (Swedish Travelling exhibitions) & Historiska Museet (The National Historical Museum)

Mission: We are one of 4 participating artists, producing installations for the exhibition “A Journey Back Anf Forth”

About the Exhibition:

Physically the exhibition consists of four specially-produced spatial works of art and five stations for making discoveries and enjoying new experiences. The works of art and the stations are placed in a room-like environment in which the flooring elements, lighting, sound system and set designs work together to create their own “world” to investigate.

Through this world the visitor makes a journey across the landscape of Sweden from morning to night, from the core of the earth out into space, from pre-history to the future by way of the present day. The stations are timeless guides to the exhibition landscape whose figures are borrowed from various ancient geographical markers from the mountains of the north to the fertile soil of Österlen in the south.

The exhibition gives a picture of prehistoric times as a rich world of imagination and knowledge, a world with as many differences as similarities and a world that we know only from traces and fragments. But also a world that is all around us in the countryside as well as in the towns if we only know what to look for. The future is portrayed in the exhibition in an optimistic fashion, being shown as possible to influence.

Experts on prehistory and the future use signs and methods to arrive at conclusions and to draw lessons, firm convictions and confidence. They both move like travellers in a changing landscape. Can we dig up and create understanding for our prehistoric world in its entirety?

Is it possible to achieve a correct model in order to predict the future? Just as with the experts, the imagination and inventiveness of the visitors is central to understanding. Like large rooms, the artworks in the exhibition offer insights into different realities that are just as “true” as those in the curiosity stations.

Our Installations:

We used a Microsoft Surface and developed an “invention-game” as well as an hacked X-Boc Kinect to create a time-travel-window.

The Table

The Window

Foto:Riksutställningar

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Once again we held a workshop with the kids in Visby in our mission to create the best exhibition ever for Riksutställningar & Historiska Museét.

Many thanks to Denniz from Touchtech who brought along the best and most interesting table (Microsoft Surface)

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