D.A.F.T. Related events & participants: THE (deviant) ART FESTIVAL in Trollhättan

Fred Lindberg started THE (deviant) ART FESTIVAL as a society and network of contemporary artists in London 2005. The thought behind these art events was to put people and ideas together rather than single pieces of art. To create a foundation for collaborations. In 1937 Hitler exhibited “Entartete Kunst”, 1962 came Fluxus events like “The Festival of Misfits” and today our Art is striving to exist in-between being singled out as a degenerate, or choosing to be a misfit.

My Photo
Name:
Location: London, Hackney

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

(deviant) participant: Joanna Ageborn

As one of Joanna`s pieces for (deviant)ART she has created a “last aid kit”, a simulacrum of the first aid kit, a box where there before where bandages but now instead contain drugs, razorblades and a firearm. With irony the meaning of the source subverts, when knife and firearm have replaced bandages. She refers to the loss of individuality and agency by using universal language. She has changed the suicide guide into airplane instructions and a farewell letter into a questioner. The viewers might ask themselfes: Helping someone with the last suicide preparations… Is that deviant or considerative?