En annan stad är möjlig (Another City is Possible) in collaboration with Helena Wikström was an installation with flowers made especially for the 2008 MADE festival outside Norrlandsoperan in Umeå. The piece was inspired by another city: Istanbul. Istanbul’s famous Hagia Sofia, was in our version just emerging out of the pavement of Operaplan in Umeå. We organized utopian discussions in the installation, focusing on what to change and add to our own city. We met and talked to groups of students, teenagers and elderly women. Many good ideas were presented through these discussions: more meeting places in public spaces, no traffic in the city centre and walkways along both sides of the river. The work was a comment on the many construction projects going on in Umeå and on the democratic process preceding them.
Installation by Gerd Aurell and Helena Wikström
En annan stad är möjlig (Another City is Possible), 2008
Installation with flowers, wooden pallets and cable-drums
In collaboration with Helena Wikström
MADE-festivalen with NorrlandsOperan and Umeå kommun
PlaceMADE-festivalen, NorrlandsoperanYear2008CategoryInstallation Art
