Listening is not a reaction; it is a connection. Listening to a conversation or a story, we don’t so much respond as join in – become part of the action.
–Ursula K. Le Guin, “Telling is Listening”
Scores from Gröndal / Scores for Malmö presents a series of scores as an offering to people of the neighborhood around SPARK and its visitors. These gestures and guides take different starting points and lean on different senses, engaging multiple ways of seeing, listening, feeling and, in other forms, having an active dialogue with a place. In OPI Lab’s working methodology, this is a vital foundation for developing – and making public – propositions for our common spaces.
Last week, OPI Lab opened the exhibition Scores from Gröndal / Scores for Malmö at SPARK, with a special Open Door Session and a performative activation of several of the scores created by OPI Lab participants. The exhibition is on view until 19 November, and the scores can be activated by visitors during this time.
SPARK is open Saturday and Sunday 13-16, and by appointment.
Participants of OPI Lab 2022/23 contributing to Scores from Gröndal / Scores for Malmö: Nicole Bitsch Pedersen, Elisabeth Brun, Ase Brunborg Lie, Johanna Fager, Jenna Jauhiainen, Gülbeden Kulbay, Alessandro Marchi, Samuel Michaëlsson, Romea Muryń, Alexandra Papademetriou, Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse, Elin Stampe.
Scores from Gröndal / Scores for Malmö has been curated by the leaders of OPI Lab: Jasmine Hinks and Jonas Dahlberg.
Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab is founded by the artist Jonas Dahlberg and led together with curator Jasmine Hinks. The Lab operates as an advanced course held at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.