March 8, 2026:
The exhibition "Coded Threads" by
Filipa César (PT), Metahaven (NL), Amalie Smith (DK).
December 4, 2025–May 3, 2026

Starting with lunch at Kulturen. As a university employee, I get free admission to Skissernas, so I’m treating my companion, who made the trip here. The loom was the first computer; 0 and 1 represent the thread passing over and under the warp. Digitally dreamed images. The slave trade and the roots of the textile industry. Textile artworks created using modern computerized looms. Not what I expected, but interesting nonetheless. I had imagined actual woven fabrics, but they are mostly images made up of small lights.

13 October 2009: now I have the chance to visit the museum and the exhibition "Everything trembles" - Jane Philbrickk.

It is a guided tour for the university staff. We are about 20 persons. A colleague has provided technology to a rotary speaker. The sound reflects a sculpture, a mathematician has described the topology of the sculpture, which was reworked to sound. The sound is focused and swept through the room by the rotary speaker, reflected, you do not know where it comes from. Gives a strange feeling. On a wall balls are floating freely, much can be done with magnetism. Photography is prohibited inside. In the sculpture park outside the entrance is the work 'rammed earth', walls of stamped earth. A rusty roof is part of the work. Here I can take a few pictures.

The sculpture park features models of other artists, in the water is an Orpheus model, and original works, e.g. Reuterswärd peaceful gun, and these are permanent. On the lawn are granite blocks. With the university library as background blows a girl something from her palm, against a hare looking at her.

The floating balls can be seen in through a window. One dark autumn evening, I sneak outside the museum and take a blurry paparazzi picture of the work.

Link: The Museum of Sketches, archives of public art

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