Pixelache Helsinki 08

You can be our window, a Burmese artist told us. You can tell the world about Burma and you can tell us about the world outside.?

Little information gets in and out of Burma. In our artistic practice we deal with communication, everyday action spaces, participation and storytelling. After the September 2007 demonstrations and loud calls for boycott, we opted for presence rather than isolation and went to Burma to learn more on location

This presentation offers glimpses of contemporary Burma reflected in the artworks we made there during a ten-week residency in 2007 and 2008.

A collaboration, fraught with joys and challenges caused by the rigorous constraints of the ruling military junta, leading up to a film and a show titled Time Is in the Air will serve as a starting point for a discussion: How to collaborate and create art under the radar in repressive countries? What are the possibilities and challenges?

www.unsworn.org/burma

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Erik Sandelin is an interaction designer based in Malmö at www.unsworn.org. He designs post-optimal, personal technologies and non-anxious, social action spaces.

Åsa Ståhl is an artist, with a special interest in words and sounds. She explores the possibility of sharing knowledge gained through artistic practice. Call it artistic research if you want.? Recurring themes are collaborative storytelling, processes and participation on several platforms. www.misplay.se/asa.htm