Suggestion for the Day
Exhibition: What if: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design
Location: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Year: 2000
Curator: Maria Lind
Courtesy: Moderna Museet
Photo: Åsa Lundén, Maria Lind, Camilla Carlberg
Borrow a bike service: title-logo, map of the city with marked locations and stories on the backside of the map, location marks on sites, bikes, contract of use, postcard set.
Suggestion for the Day examines the city of Stockholm, the perception and experience of the urban space, and the perception and experience of reality. Suggestion for the Day aimed to open up a discussion about the city in the art context by establishing a direct confrontation and physical involvement of the viewer/perceiver, who became part of the work itself.The “suggestion(s)” of where to go and what to see were given by architects working in Stockholm who knew the city well and who were closely concerned with its development in the future. Each of them pointed out and described one or more sites, which were of specific interest to her/him and might also be of interest to the visitor of the Moderna Museet. The Suggestion for the Day proposed to the visitor to rent a bike at the museum’s ticket counter, take a map of the city, and ride to the suggested sites, which were marked and described on the map. The visitor could make her/his own choices —as to which site(s) to visit and the route to get there.
As an art institution, the role of the Moderna Museet was becoming a very active part of the city: a platform for creating critical discourse, a structure for cultural activism… The project’s aim was to directly activate the public by opening up the enclosures of the Moderna Museet to the city and bringing the city into the museum.
Participants in the round table The Future of the City Between the Global Market and Social Democracy: Stella Fare, Mikael Söderlund (politicians); Leif Blomquist (city planner); Ulrika Karlsson, Peter Hallén, IGLOO, N.O.D.-nature oriented design, Bo Stockman, Per Glembrandt, Sven Svensson, Leif Brodersen (architects); Jakob Lind (moderator); Maria Lind (curator)