PROJECT – Monique Wernhamn

(Svenska) THE SUSTAINABLE WOMAN 2014-2021

moniquewernhamn — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:52:01 +0000

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(Svenska) I PARADISET RINNER INGA TÅRAR

moniquewernhamn — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:19:30 +0000

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DARE TO FAIL

moniquewernhamn — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:42:55 +0000

| TILLKOMSTÅR: 2021 | TEKNIK: Interaktiv installation / performance| TID: 3 timmar |

Besökarna bjöds under eventet ”Skyltsöndag” på Källhult ett6* in till att våga misslyckas genom att stoppa ansiktet i en fotovägg och låta sig bli fotad. Fotoväggen bestod av en tavla med affischen från feedback-kliniken. Där mitt – The Sustainable Womans – ansikte syns i en badrumsspegel tillsammans med skylten ”våga misslyckas”. Istället för mitt ansikte var det ett hål för besökarna att stoppa in sitt eget ansikte i.

(Svenska) The Sustainable Womans feedback-klinik på turné

moniquewernhamn — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:09:24 +0000

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Dialogical project : Cultural center Backaplan

moniquewernhamn — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:33:59 +0000

-What is culture?
-What is a cultural center?
-What do children and young people want to use a culture house for?
-What makes you feel welcome to a place?
-What is a safe place?
-What is an unsafe place?

What is a work? Version 1

moniquewernhamn — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:06:48 +0000

“Today, you are identified by your work. If you don´t have a work, you are in an exclusion – in a society where more and more people work while more and more people hit the wall – its an existential moment 22”

Video diary with The Sustainable Woman and the assistents (85min)

The last supper

moniquewernhamn — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:23:39 +0000

THE LAST SUPPER

The last supper is a three-day dinner event that was conducted at Galler 54 in Gothenburg. The artwork is a dialogue and performance-based event, that is ongoing and developing during several days, both conceptually and formally. Together with invited guests we cook, eat, socialize and talk about what is sustainable, meaningful, meaningless, meaningless, joyful and fun in life. What does it mean to live and not only to survive. Each dinner had its specific questions, its own spatial form and how participants and audiences could interact.

For the process, I invited friends / colleagues to be co-workers of the work; Martin Ofersson, Mania Teimouri, Jennifer Caneva, Ann-Marie Martensson, Cha Blasco, Kristina Meiton, Astrid Askberger mfl.

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Dinner 1: THE LAST SUPPER
How would your heavenly kingdom be – if you didn´t have to think about the consequences of tomorrow?
Guests are invited to a decadent dinner and party, visiters in the gallery can attend the party, eavesdrop, interact in the conversation and look at the guests eating.

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Dinner 2: REBIRTH
Have you got any knowledes from your previous life that you want to bring in to your new life? How do you want to live this new life?
The guests were invited to reborn and to rebuild. We cooked together out from ingredients brought by the guests, we ate our first meal and started to shape the future through conversations. Visitors could take part in the event by a video projection outside of the gallery.

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Dinner 3: DESIGNING THE FUTURE
What do we bring, what do we leave behind us? How do we continue to shape life and future?
The visitors were invited to drink tea, eat leftovers, view the traces of the last supper and regeneration, and shape the future based on questions formulated by the guests at dinner 2 .
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The Sustainable Woman investigates sustainability, life and dreams at Solsidan, part 2

moniquewernhamn — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:36:51 +0000

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THE ANIMALS INTERVIEW MUNICIPAL POLITICIANS

What thoughts do you get when you hear the “psychiatric emergency department“?
What are your thought about persons hospitalized at psychiatric department?
Do you think menthally ill are the weakest in society?
What is required to improve psychiatry? What could you do?
What question would you like to ask a person with mental illness?

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The Sustainable Woman investigates sustainability, life and dreams at Solsidan, part 1

moniquewernhamn — Sun, 07 May 2017 18:11:00 +0000

THE SUSTAINANBLE WOMAN INVESTIGATES SUSTAINABLILITY, LIFE AND DREAMS AT SOLSIDAN (THE SUNNY SIDE), part 1

The project is carried out in cooperation with the social services in Skövde and Skövde Art Museum.
Participants in the project are the animals on solsidan (the sunny side) – young adults with mental illness.

The animals going for holiday and dreaming themselfes away…

We meet at a meeting point in Skövde to share experiences and raise thoughts about mental illness, work / capacity for work and human value – in an era where work and economic growth are prevailing. We discuss, investigate and perform artisticly; the own stories and societies (relatives, strangers, authorities and politicians) view and treatment of people with mental illness.

The first part of the project led to the shortfilm Animals are also people (slide show, to the left).

The Sustainable Woman do interviews with the animals: -How and when did you fall ill? -How did you experience it and what was the reaction from your surrounding? -What would you need to be more prosperous? -How do you experience contact with healthcare, social services and other authorities? -Have you encountered problems? -How do you consider yourself as sick / unemployed and not working?

What do you need help with, what can you contribute with?

moniquewernhamn — Fri, 05 May 2017 11:21:43 +0000

“If the insitutions can not afford to pay artists, artists can not afford to do art, what do we then need a concert hall for” -about. Malmö Live Arena

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THE SUSTAINABLE WOMAN TAKES ONE HOUR VACANTION FROM STRESS
|Performance | 60min |

Wednesdays between 16-17pm during the exhibition period, The Sustainable Woman invites visitors to take an hour’s vacation from stress with her. One hour of relaxation exercise, recorded with her own voice, is played out of the speakers while doing the exercise.
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WHAT DO YOU NEED? -GIFT CIRCLE WORKSHOP
| workshop | 120min |

Helena Johansson, activist, social/behavioral scientist, social worker and practical visionary, held the gift circle. A gift circle is a form where those who participate will have the space to ask for something they need and offer something they want to give. Gift circles can accommodate all kinds of wishes and offers, from the need for a new sweater or a haircut, to the need for love and meaningfulness. It’s a quick way to create ties to new people.
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WHY SHOULD WE BE SOM FUCKING HAPPY?
| Dialouge/performtive event | 90min |

The Sustainable Woman invites the philosopher and happiness researcher Bengt Brulde to consult her about happiness, meaningsfullness and how to become more sustainable as person. In exchange for a service-in-return from her (He wanted her to sketch on book covers for his next two books).

The conversation is the public, and the visitors are invited to ask their questions.
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FROM DYSTOPIA TO UTOPIA
| workshop | 2 days |

Workshop with The Sustainable Woman and Helena Johansson (activist and part of the transitionmovement)

Far too many dystopias have been addressed to us through media and film and there seems to be lack of visions for society. What would you do if you could wish freely without regard to anyone or anything? What are we as society heading for? It´s time to look at our utopias for a better society and see how we can be a part of making them happen!

The picture is a presentation of artist Frei Von Fräähsen, who runs the micronation Lorenzburg
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THE BORDER BETWEEN WORK AND LEISURE
| Conversation | 90min |

Conversation with Johan Alfonsson PhD student at the Department of Sociology and work science at the University of Gothenburg.
The conversation discusses the issue of work and leisure and the limitations for these. Where is the limit for leisure activities and work? Are artistic activities work? If you are creative in your spare time or are employed to do this; Is there a difference between these activities? How can we understand recent decandes labor market changes, their impact on the boundaries between work and leisure? What about leisure time when we have to be availabe to work?