This catalogue stems from an exhibition program which investigated the
heritage of the 1968 project
The Model, for which Stockholm's
Moderna Museet was transformed into an adventure
playground
for
children.
For three weeks in October 1968, Stockholm's Moderna Museet was
transformed into a sprawling adventure playground that was free to access
for children: Gunilla Lundahl and Palle Nielsen's
The Model: A Model
for a Qualitative Society concatenated art, research, and urban
activism into a visionary hybrid framework. Half a century later, through
a series of seminars, exhibitions, and new artworks,
The New Model
revisited this utopian intervention, reviving discussions of public
participation, children's agency, and shifting ideals of collective being.
Curated by Lars Bang Larsen and
Maria Lind,
this inquiry took place from 2011 to 2015 at and around Tensta konsthall
in one of Stockholm's late modernist suburbs. Through essays, exhibition
documentation, and dialogues with the participating artists—among them
Magnus Bärtås,
Hito Steyerl, Ane Hjort
Guttu, and
Dave Hullfish Bailey—this
volume charts the evolution of two artistic, curatorial, and institutional
experiments.
Published following the eponymous exhibition and seminar program at Tensta
konsthall, Stockholm, from 2011 to 2015.
