Proposal for a performance work at Sergels Torg, Stockholm

This project was proposed by Annika Ström in 2016 as a public art commission, and was supposed to take place at night in Sergels Torg Square in Stockholm. It consisted of a night concert lasting approximately 15 minutes, during which the Jönköping Chamber Choir would have sung the lyrics and music by Annika Ström. In particular, as the artist reports in the file donated to MoRE Museum, it can be considered a larger-scale version of a performance the artist the artist did in 2015 at the Jönköping city café, with the Jönköping Chamber Choir and conductor Ove Gotting, where they sang the “phrases that appeared on billboards around Jönköping and on digital road signs on highway E4 nearby.”

In Stockholm, the choir would have been introduced by “fifty loud skateboards with lanterns on their wheels and hoods.” The same conductor would have parachuted down, and when the skateboarders had moved a short distance away and fallen silent, the choir would have sung the phrases projected onto nearby building façades. The performance would have been closed by the skateboarders, who would turn their lights on once more.

A sound recording and a vinyl record were to be produced after the show.

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