WE KINDLY (FACILITY MAINTENANCE)

repetitive performance, sound, cleaning trolley, chlorine, hawaiian tropic tanning oil, flowers, frame, facility maintenance log, pen, digital clock. 2017.

Once every hour during our collaborative show a looped jingle started and a voice said "For your well-being, we kindly ask you to leave the premises for a little while" in several different languages. When the visitors were outside they could watch the performance in the gallery through the windows. We, by using the cleaning trolley, swiped all the floors, changed the flowers in the vases, cleaned the space from trash, folded the blankets on the sofa, fixed the bar and finished by signing the facility maintenance log declaring who did what and the time we were finished. Every hour we opened up the gallery to the visitors and the space was as neutral as when we opened it for the first time. In this way, we treated the exhibition in the same way as hotels are used and cleaned after each visitor.

In collaboration with Johan Ahlkvist.