REPORT FROM AN UNUSUAL STUDIO VISIT

"Psychologists viewing art" is a project created by the psychologist Jonas Mosskin that deals with creative processes and art from a psychological perspective. He arranges public studio visits and guided tours in art exhibitions - sometimes together with his colleague Malin Emdin - where he discusses art and creativity with artists, curators and the general public. On September the 26 he and a small crowd of people visited my studio in Liljeholmen/Gröndal for a discussion that focused (as far as I recall) on artistic methodology, ways to deal with research in art and the phenomenon of process-based art. He has written a short report (in Swedish) from the visit that can be read at psykkonst.se/?p=193.

Photos by Jonas Mosskin

19 YEARS MENTIONED ON THE BLOG THE NATURE OF CITIES

Dr. Keith Tidball, who is a Senior Extension Associate in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, mentions 19 Years in an article for the blog "the Nature of Cities" titled "Greening in the Red Zone: Thoughts on disaster, resilience and community greening in the peopled landscape". Dr. Tidball, who experienced the animation when it was first shown at the Changing Matters exhibit at the international conference Resilience2008 at the University of Stockholm, focus in this article on another form of response to calamity than the protest:

"Another form of response is somewhat more muted, but in the end, perhaps equally, or even more profound. I am referring to the response by both individual and groups of humans to return to 'nature' when calamity strikes, to actively seek intimacy with other living things, to retreat (or advance!) to life-affirming interactions in verdant, alive contexts."