Vuxit ur alla skor

In connection with a longer exploratory project in Jönköping in collaboration with Österängens Konsthall, Josefin Jussi Andersson will work on site-specific performance in the urban space during the triennial. Time and place will be announced here on the website.

Perceived changes in the cityscape have made me focus on value in relation to place, earth, cycles, and time. In repeated attempts to link processes of change in the city with a more existential dimension of the people or the places affected by this. When land, often of an industrial character in the centrally located periphery, is transformed into high-end exclusive buildings of concrete and glass, I want to understand, through my practice, the function of identity and the mechanisms of identity formation. How is value affected—economically, socially, philosophically, physically.

Places that have been seen as a kind of fringe are transforming to the point of unrecognizability and being reintroduced to the city's inhabitants as living and working spaces. But can this architectural and social development be viewed in any other way than just development? My practice is based in text but often takes the form of performance; I also make books, publications, film, and music. I collaborate with other artists, performing artists, dancers, composers, musicians, and graphic designers.