DEVAINT PRESS RELEASE: send out to everyone!

PRESS RELEASE
(DEVIANT)ART FESTIVAL
14th - 28th July 2007
Private View: Friday 13th July 6 - late pm

We are pleased to announce the arrival of (DEVIANT)ART FESTIVAL 2007, a two-week festival of cutting-edge art from the emerging British art scene, in Trollhättan, Sweden, curated by Fredrik Lindberg and Joanna Ageborn.

This year the Festival has almost quadrupled in size, with more than 50 exciting, young international artists travelling to Sweden and descending on Trollhättan, an hour from Gothenburg, during the two-week art event.

Last years festival was a spectacular success, and was repeatedly covered in Swedish print and broadcast media. This was what was said about it:

“you are currently the saviours of the contemporary art scene in this half of Sweden”- Goran Vogel-Rodin, former head of Konsthallen, and current head of the Art in Public Spaces project.

“A diverse and talented group of artists and filmmakers like this can create the art, make the television, entertain and shock the locals all in one seamless process.”- Alison Carter, journalist.

Bringing a uniquely deviant brand of art to the town and delivering a rich programme of events, workshops, film screenings and music and poetry nights, the festival is held in association with Konsthallen, Trollhättan’s major visual arts organisation, who are providing 3 major venues: the Museum of Contemporary Art, M.O.C.A.P. and the Pumphuset Gallery. However, with its strong emphasis on installation, performance, and site-specific works, the Festival’s main venue is Trollhättan itself.

The curators, building on the themes and atmosphere of last year’s pioneering show have decided to give this festival a distinct character by peppering the two weeks with competitions and happenings in the style of an Art Game-Show. So far plans include a time-limited painting competition where all artists present (whether painters by trade or not) will battle it out to become Trollhättan’s favourite painter, vying with each other for the public vote. There is also planned a repeat of last year’s mutinous artists’ boat race, where artists will be designing and building their own seafaring vessels to set sail across the great Göta Älv; one of the largest rivers in the whole of Sweden. More events are soon to be announced!

In the second week expect an interesting collision between the (DEVIANT)ART FESTIVAL and the famous Fallens Dagar where, over the long weekend of the 20th, 21st and 22nd of July many thousands of people come to Trollhättan for music, beer and the release of the famous waterfalls. Expect a faux-traditional barrel-rolling ‘happening’ from Glaswegian artist David Stamp, and a general crescendo of site-specific performance art, with artists and unsuspecting tourists coming face to face. Think of it as a deviant fringe.

We do hope you will join us for one or more of the Festival events. Please check our website for updates, and do not fail to get in touch for more information…

Let the games commence!

KONSTHALLEN TROLLHÄTTAN
Open: Sun-Mon 12-16, Tues-Wed 12-19, Thurs 12-18, Sat 11-14
Kungsgatan 25 (i Folkets Hus/Kulturhuset)
Tel. +46 (0)520 - 49 64 53/49 64 54
Email: info@deviantartfestival.com
Web: www.deviantartfestival.com
www.deviantartfestival.blogspot.com