Participants
Robin Tidblom, Ruben Wätte & Sofia Priftis are participating in the Småland Biennial with the project Kojan, where artists and designers have been invited by Österängens Kunsthall to explore the theme of “spontaneous play” together with various children's groups.
Birkabyn is a type of public pleasure house, open to everyone but designed and built in collaboration with a group of middle school children from Birkagården in Österängen. Kojan is situated on a hill overlooking a popular walking path between housing, school, and the center of Österängen. There, children, youth, and adults will be able to gather on their own terms, enjoy the view, dangle their legs, and swing out over the edge for that thrilling sensation in the stomach and rush in their chests.
Robin Tidblom, Ruben Wätte, and Sofia Priftis work artistically in their own practices that in various ways revolve around creating new free spaces in people’s subjective inner landscapes as well as in our shared physical space. Each of their practices is based on intuitive processes and tactile working methods. Educational, poetic, and aesthetic qualities are interwoven with existential questions and political conflicts. All three are driven by a fundamental conviction that another world is both possible and necessary.
