INDEX 03
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In the summer of 2003 we were invited to participate in Index 03, a large exhibition of contemporary art situated in a worn -out old slaughterhouse in the town of Lemvig. Originally, we were to occupy a space of 30 square meters, but upon arrival the curators thought it more viable to give us 180 square meters because of the nature of our expression, so we reworked all of it there. The new location had old grease running down the walls with a beast of a humidity controller trying to keep the damp at bay. We invaded the space with some site-specific slight of hand using elements of photomontages, posters (prepared as well as reusing public stuff like the Christiania-posters), stencils and sound-/video projection upon an old plastic curtain we found, which had been used to separate the slaughter halls.

This exhibition was in part an effort to break down the walls between public space and institutional space by taking the streets into the exhibition as background for creative collaboration and creation, making an outside to an inside. Besides breaking down the boundaries between institutional art and every day life, we also attacked the boundaries between the arts in an interdisciplinary effort, combining the fragmented elements into pieces of the same non-hierarchical narrative.

By making the creation of the room into a site-specific event with a work in progress character (an aesthetic that many of our projects have in common and most should share), we wished to point to the process and ad hoc character of artistic propositions, and thereby ultimately to the essence that everybody has a potential for artistic creation, since everybody has the power to form or reform their own lives.

If only they were all invited…