OPI Lab’s Tiny Park Festival: experiments through art and architecture in Gröndal
When?
Thursday 30 May, 17:00-20:30
Friday 31 May, 12:00-20:30
Saturday 1 June, 12:00-20:30
Where?
In and around Gröndal! The Tiny Park Festival site is the green communal area beside OPI Lab storefront, Gröndalsvägen 1.
What?
Tiny Park Festival presents sketches, prototypes and alternative imaginaries developed by participants of OPI Lab, a multidisciplinary laboratory for art, architecture and public making situated in Gröndal. OPI Lab is a year-long course held at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Research in Art and Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
Thursday 30 May – Saturday 1 June, residents and visitors in Gröndal encounter a program of performative activations, installations and experimentation with and in the public.
The “Tiny Park” refers to the communal green area adjacent to OPI Lab’s storefront space. This area will be activated around a series of 10 wooden-framed structures, conceived of as enabling structures. Together, the support structures form a festival site, a platform for gathering, for activations, for sharing food and communing in and with public(s) of Gröndal, Lövholmen and Liljeholmen.
Playing with the format of a festival, TPF interweaves the potentialities of art and architecture to produce a temporary manifestation of performance, sculptural works, sound and spatial interventions. During a year based in Gröndal, the OPI Lab 2023/2024 cohort have developed works that propose and reflect on the past, present and future of the neighborhood.
The eclectic program for 30 May – Saturday 1 June is a public offering of sketches and prototypes developed by OPI Lab participants during 2023/2024, and encompasses participatory sound and listening workshops, guided walks, performances, activations of sculptural installations, and more. Artistic and architectural works will be installed, activated and performed at the Tiny Park site and throughout the neighborhood.
The public program begins on Thursday 30 May, 17:00-20:00 with an Open Door Session. More info coming soon! Welcome!