Why should I tell you everything I know?
Can an art biennale be a question?
Can a question be an original art work?
Can the biennale be a documentation?
How can someone experience a place/a biennale from distance?
Can a biennale bee an alternative geography?
If you think that you do a biennale as a magazine – will the magazine be a new place then?
If you believe that the documentation is a place – will it influence the original place?
How can I tell you so you will understand?
During the spring semester 2008 r a k e t a has together with pupils from Aust-Lofoten vidaregående school in Kabelvåg, Lofoten, Norway been working with a project where QUESTIONS have been in focus, and the importance of asking questions.
What is a question? - Exploring stories about artworks yet not existing, and yet not seen by the audience.
Through dialogues with the artists participating in Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), the pupils got insight into their creative processes, and how the making of a contemporary art project can look like. Theses meetings resulted in a series of interviews with the artists about their artworks made especially for the festival, and the location.
The pupils' interpretations of the artists' stories resulted in new stories about the artworks. These gathered stories will constitute an alternative catalogue that accompany the LIAF exhibition, but that also can be seen as an artwork of its own.
The project and the process are presented as a mobile editorial office at Kabelvåg city square on May 9, 2008 (12.30–20.00) – a place for meetings and conversations, a place for questions and maybe some answers.