PRESS RELEASE

SEMINAR:
’NEW SOCIETIES AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS’ 
May 19, 2001 at 10.00 – 17.00

As part of the new activities at Rooseum we will in the future arrange talks and seminars parallel to the exhibitions. With these events we would like to create a forum for dialogue within the institution, where the participation of invited guests and other interested people will help to put our projects into a broader cultural and political perspective.

’New Societies and other experiments’ is the headline of the first seminar which will take place Saturday May 19 at 10 – 17 in Rooseum. The title is referring to the models and visions of an alternative, collective society particular of the 1970s, which still seems to inspire many people, although they take other forms than earlier. At the seminar we will put some of the communities of the 1970s in focus, and draw a line till today, where one of the tendencies is to gather in socio-political organisations or activitst groups rather than in collective ways of living. We have invited people to present the ideas they have strived to realize both as an individual and group, in some cases with radical methods in opposition to the rest of the society.

The seminar can be seen in continuation of ”Vi – Intentional Communities”, and several of the invited participants have a direct relation to the historical section of the exhibition. The intention is to put the exhibition in general into a context. At the same time we would like to open Rooseum as a place for debates about topic subjects, primarily with a point of departure in the Oresound region.

The programme of talks continues in the beginning of June, when the international, cultural network, Protoacademy, will arrange a seminar in connection with their project in Malmö about cities and cultural identity. Later this year the Oresound region itself will be the focus of discussions with a cultural as well as an economical perspective.

Participants in the seminar, May 19:
Christiania, København v. Ole Lykke; Moder Jord och Söner AB, Tollarp v. Percy Andersson; Friedrichshof, Østrig v. Theo Altenberg; de autonome, København; kvinnor jour, Malmö

Information and registration:
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art
Box 4097, Gasverksgatan 22, 203 12 Malmö
Tel. +46 40 12 17 16 / e-mail: office@rooseum.se