Saturday, August 25, 2012.Today we are presenting the 8th episode of Husby Channel – tv in an expanded field. The model of the car will guide the audience through Husby neighbourhood in Stockholm. The procession will leave from Husby Gard at 4:15 pm and will continue for one hour via Trondheimsgatan up to the subway station and market places with several stops on the way. After the tour the car will be burned and will become a barbeque for the audience next to the Husby Konsthall.
Friday August 24, 2012. The team gets ready for Saturday car tour through the city of Husby and the barbecue at Husby Gard after the tour.
Wednesday August 22, 2012. Giacomo is designing the first car in his life. It’s going to be an eco-hybrid, between Volvo classic, VW Jetta and Trabant.
Wednesday, Augut 22, 2012. We rent a truck at Statoil and collect the material for a car barbeque. The grill is getting done at Husby metal workshop.
Tuesday August 21, 2012. Meeting Sven and local welders to discuss how to build the grill.
Giacomo measures Siri’s car as a prototype.
Inspecting the site for the barbeque with Karin.
Poster for the workshop on Saturday, August 25 2012
Tuesday August 21, 2012. Poster for the upcoming car workshop.
The Conducted Tour as Grand Narrative
by Daniela Lazoroska and Mirko Lempert
We work with a variety of art formats using the dramatic structure of the medium television to problematize a notorious media image of an urban area. Hereby the art formats or so called episodes work as chronological course of actions, take on the shape of a conducted tour and through that construct a new reality, an immersive universe. The story goes as follows:
A journalist from a big news publisher is sent to Husby to write a column about a place with a predetermined media image. The journalist is on a mission. After his/her arrival he/she will follow the chronological course of actions to investigate the area of Husby and do some research. The audience will follow the journalist, thus simultaneously observing the episodes, as well as the journalists work of research. To increase the level of participation for the audience, the audience itself operates as the journalists “Alter Ego”. Aim of the tour should be as Judith Barry (Media and Me in Are You Ready for TV?, 2010) says constructing subject positions which allows the audience to get a more complex image of the problématique, the distorted media image of that area.
Stockholm, August 2012