Dan Karlholm on Re-sourcing the LTH Fountain

Listen to Dan Karlholm speak at Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art – a symposium in Lund, 28-30 September 2023. Dan is a writer, art historian & Professor at Södertörn University, Stockholm. He researches the historiography of art, temporality, and effects of the Anthropocene.…

Jes Fernie on 'Cracks and how to deal with them'

Listen to Jes Fernie speak at Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art – a public symposium in Lund, 28-30 September 2023. In 2021 Jes launched the Archive of Destruction, exploring narratives around public sculpture that have been destroyed by rage, boredom, fear, greed, and love.…

Att hämta vatten / to fetch water

A paper presented at the public session 'Engaging with Place: Ruin, Memory, Regeneration' for The Curatorial Thing: Audacious Landscapes, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 October 2022. Organised by the SixtyEight Art Institute. The focus of my contribution to Audacious Landscapes[1] is a research project named The fountain: An art-technological-social…

Life-affirming strangeness

Curator Jes Fernie describes her Archive of Destruction as "a story-telling platform that brings together narratives around destruction and public art...made up of suspect categories, barely believable tales, and life-affirming strangeness. Spanning a hundred years and many continents, it tells cumulative stories of vulnerability, interference, rage, fear, boredom…