Cycle to school
Cycle to school
Sykkelen å Skolen - Cycle to school
On the 1st of September 2007 l cycled from Sheffield through Belgium, France, Germany Denmark and arrived in Fykse in Norway on the 3rd of October.
It wasn't the most sensible time of year to travel, I'd not had much time to plan my journey, had little training and my wallet was light, But it felt like the best way to get to my destination.
In Fykse is Barselgrad artists residency program that takes place in a former school.
'Barselgrad takes place at a former school in rural Hardanger, on the Norwegian west coast from September 2007 until August 2008.
The final and closing part of the project is the making and touring of an Art Caravan. The caravan will take the artistic works and ideas produced in this project on a tour in Scandinavia in May, June and July 2008.
The aim of the project is to create an alternative context outside an institutional urban art world. It creates a space for meetings, in-depth exploration and exchanges for the visiting artists. At the same time the project and art practices will be in dialogue with the local community. The project is situated in the small village Fykse, which has just experienced the closing down of the local school. Barselgrad wants to contribute to the local community by being a meeting place for engagement and will. Whereas Barselgrad will function as a base in which people can travel to and work at, the Art Caravan makes the project portable and temporarily. The caravan will with its stops create a new and different space in ever place. Our aim is to create a vital interaction in the places where people are, not in the galleries.'
Tormod Carlsen and Sille Storihle
www.barselgrad.net
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