At present the group is carrying out a project together with two art-teachers from the School of Arts of the university of Montevideo, Uruguay. This school has, through its pedagogical ideas inspired the group from the very beginning. The project could be called an experiment in sensibilisation or an attempt to embellish the city with the aid of children's and youngsters' artistical expression. It is a creative project as well as experimental. Some members of the group have studied themselves at the School of Arts in Montevideo where sensibilisation experiments are in the city currently used in education. Some of these members have after 20 years of exile in Sweden developed an art-education approach appliable to children in children-care centres context. Inviting these two art-teachers is an attempt to broaden and deepen the ways of understanding the act of creating following the motto: an artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist. The project The project that the Cultural Association Circusvagnen is currently carrying out is an attempt to change during a short time the used-to view of the city; a way of embellishing the town through the works of youngsters and children. It starts with small-scale creation in our public workshops as well as in schools and children-care centres. The participants are introduced to different materials and different possible ways of expression: sketching, collage, painting, sculpture, pottery, mobiles, different printing techniques, etc. (See even Activities 1998.)The works are exhibited during the workshops and then collected for different exhibitions during August and September. The original idea was to decorate walls and other naked surfaces in the city, but being the group wanted to avoid processes to obtain permits and so decided to carry out ambulant exhibitions instead. The group will construct carriages which will work as movable facades and towers. For the exhibition of glass-paintings carriages with intern illumination will be constructed. The project as a whole was prepared during the fall of 1997 when the two art-teachers from Uruguay on their first visit conducted several workshops for child-care staff, high-school and art-students. When our project was chosen for financial support for being part of the Project for Culture All Over the Country of the Ministry of Education, these two artists were invited by the group of the Circus Wagon to a second two-week visit in March-April for the planning in detail. The project is partly financed by the Department of Culture and is part of the activities during the Cultural Year 1998, within the framework of Culture in the Whole Country. |