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From underground to institution (and back)

mattiasgunnarsson

During the Gothenburg Design Festival 2019 I set up a small zine exhibition at Röhsska Design Museum in Gothenburg as a part of the WeavingLab symposium and its documentation. It contained a stack of mini-zines from my own collection (from trading zines for several years) and the latest donations to HDK Zine Archive. On Friday that week we had a lecture / talk / conversation about the Zine as a format and the possibilities of self-publishing in the context of research, institutional- and artistic practice in the Studio at Röhsska. An informal setting in couches with participants Martin Born @helsinkidesignlibrary and symposium organisers Rosa Tolnov Clausen and Emelie Rönndahl

Donations (Instagram) by:

@fmkdvrs

@ns_julia

@axismundi__

@charlesdegollado

@fragmentscenario

@llamalloyd

@danielbristowbailey

@indeliblecrash

@babibrasiliero

@meb_

@nervesbadmag

@htmlflowers

@prof_james

@laurentsanti

@onefamoushole

MASU

David Eng

Klara Ström

@miss_lager

@johanandren

+ others

…and mini-zines (Instagram) from:

@beaststudio

@cadjoo

@_vanessahartmann

@pluszerospace

@aleditions

@pearcephoto

@andres.gatti001

@iesorno

@faaaaaaaaaaaith

@ateliermcclane

@gsvillarta

@marginalmanworks

@cccccurtis

@craiganthonyatkinson

@badweatherpress

@8bitpixeldomina

@vol3311

@roofpuke

@jeffdietz_photo

@z.i.n.e.z.i.n.e

@daniellejoygraves

@ashleyronning

@fuzzy_poet

@sheinicorn

@bex_purple

@dounumber

@artistpublisher

@meganestellearts

@staceyleebru

@katherine.montalto

@sabrina.sparkesss

@theweeklyzine

@16pages

Mycelium - Paying attention to thought (November 2018 + November 2019)

A one-day workshop with students in Design MA 1 at Academy of Design and Crafts, as part of their course Visualizing Complexity.

The students bring glue-guns and we (MASU) provide thin wooden sticks of various sizes. The students are asked to work in silence, materialising their individual thought process. They all work in the same space for a full day considering both the process of thought, but also its negotiations to the surrounding space and its participants. We start at 09:00 in the morning and work until 16:00 finishing with adding lighting to the space and at 16:30 when it is dark outside) we have photo session and discussion about the day.

The workshop is part of a course that Mattias is teaching, and it draws it material content from our exhibition at Halmstad Konsthall 2018 where we worked in the space with thin sticks and glue.

Mushroom hunting is in our blood Text and images: Viktorija Bernataviciute

I think only a few Lithuanians from my generation could say that they have never been mushroom picking - it is a big part of our culture and traditions. There is even a poem for kids written by a famous Lithuanian poet, which tells a story about mushrooms, who spurred by the wife of their king ( a cep, of course), are preparing to go to war against other woodland creatures, only at the end to be plucked by eager mushroom pickers. Most of us could recite parts of this poem by heart! 

A lot of Lithuanians have very fond memories of spending sunny autumn days in the forests, hunting for mushrooms with their parents or grandparents. And I wanted to share some of those memories.

I always used to go mushroom picking with my grandparents. The day would start very early, I would need to be up at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning - you need to get there early, before all the other mushroom hunters! Those mornings in the woods were very magical -  quiet and still, dew drops still covering everything around you. And the woodland smells around you were just dizzying! 

We would walk around the woods, never straying too far from each other, occasionally giving a loud shout of ‘AAUUUUU’ if someone was out of sight. We would all carry wicker baskets, hand made by my grandad, to put our mushrooms in. Later on in the morning my grandmother would unpack a picnic and we would all sit on a blanket on the soft mossy woodland floor, eating sandwiches and drinking tea.  

By the late afternoon the car would be full of baskets of mushrooms and we would go back to my grandparents’ summer house. And then the hard work would start! We would clean all the mushrooms, then cook, dry, freeze and pickle them, working outside in the garden until late evening. Oh, and the success of your mushroom hunt would be measured by how many cep mushrooms you found that day!

The One-day Cookbook.  As a part of the course, we make a Cookbook. This one is from Fall 2018. The concept is that the students have a film-assignment (that relates to their individual Design projects) due the day before, and from this they extract to stills. The stills (or screenshots) are combined with a Recipe that they know by heart, that thing that can be done without thinking. The two are combined on one spread per person, set in InDesign on site by graphic designer Magnus Andersson and then printed, bound (or in this case: stapled) and trimmed.  At the end of the day we have a book launch and reading.

EAT - Food Culture, Materiality and Design 15hec

EAT is a freestanding course that runs during Fall 2019 at the Academy of Design and Crafts (HDK). EAT is open for anyone with an interest in the relation between Design and Food Culture. The course contains both individual studies and 5 campus sessions at HDK during the semester. The students will work with an individual Design project with a focus on Food Culture and during our meetings at HDK there will be lectures, workshops and tutoring that relate to both Design, Food Culture and their various connections.

Here you find more information about course content, schedule and how to apply  —->

Digesting Knowledge

The Curves and Edges of Indulgence

Kiki and Boba