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In the video we hear young adults describing exhibitions and artworks. The descriptions are complemented with critique of the institutions, personal reflections and thoughts on society. All denominators of place, type of institution, names and descriptions of sexual or ethnic minorities are cut out of the interviews. The only time the speakers are visible in the work is when they are turning the camera around. It is a symbolic revolution that a new generation is inheriting history and institutions. They are affected by art, seeing historic atrocities with new eyes, and demanding institutions, which are up to the task of discussing the concerns addressed. Erasing proper names could be viewed as a sort of revisionism, but in this case it blurs hierarchies and makes the questions universal: put any name or nationality at its place.
The visual stream of the work shows a film team of children preparing for and performing the same scene with different actors: Each actor shows a small, colourful sculpture to the camera and slowly walks to place it on the ground.

The art island is the world of exhibitions where all of this is discussed.
The children are inseminating the earth with sculptures, sowing a future for creativity as positive force.

The video is part of a larger project with two temporary public artworks in central and rural Norrköping produced by Local A. (Felice Hapetzeder and Jenny Berntsson) in collaboration with a group of young adults and two classes of twelve-year-olds. The interviews with the young adults were performed on a cold day at the Salaspils Holocaust memorial in the outskirts of Riga. The children were filmed in a workshop in Skärblacka close to Norrköping, including individual and collaborative sculpture consignments as parts of the public art works. The video will also be a part of these installations.

Konstön (Art island) is produced by Local A. for Norrköping art Museum.