(watch the clips in the player above or use this link http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DDC1DE528A95C14E)
The Malmö Festival is held in the centre of Malmö one week in August every year. It started in 1985 and is the biggest urban festival in Scandinavia, with more than one million visitors each year. The festival focuses on live, music (for free) at a number of outdoor venues and on a large number of food stands, serving food from all parts of the world. The city of Malmö is totally dominated by the festival during the week.
This year, in collaboration with the cultural organization Inkonst and the design company TAT (The Astonishing Tribe), researchers from K3 arranged an experiment, where six locally well known culture personalities during the whole week with mobile phones filmed things taking place at the festival. The bloggers, as they were called, were free to shoot whatever they wanted. It was possible to follow their reports live, either over the Net or in a tent located in one of the festival areas. Their clips were also put on YouTube. It was furthermore possible for viewers to communicate with the bloggers by sending text messages.
The bloggers were:
- Anders Carlsson, artistic director of the theatre group Institutet
- Rakel Chukri, journalist
- Saga Gärde, actor and film maker
- Gudrun Hauksdottir, club arranger
- Behrang Miri, hip hop artist and leader of the culture organization The Voices and Faces of the Street
- Johanna Ritscher, one half of the artist and design duo Collabo Queens
- Erica Sandström, the second half of the artist and design duo Collabo Queens
The objective of the experiment was to investigate what could happen when a contested event – which the Malmö festival for different reasons is – is represented in a novel way. The bloggers had no experience of working with video and only one of them works as a journalist. What would they focus on, and how? And what would that say about the possibilites and problems with working with new media? What would it say about new media politics?
All in all, the bloggers produced almost 200 clips, each clip normally lasting a couple of minutes. We have here attached five of these clips as well as a short film introducing the festival and the bloggers. We do not want to close down the discussions beforehand by identifying important themes in these clips. Suffice to say that we have chosen these clips because we believe they can lead to important discussions. So, just a short introduction:
Clip 1. Short movie introducing the Bloggers and the festival
Clip 2. Anders Carlsson in Front of VIP Tent and then Fine Arts Showcase. Anders realizes there is a VIP tent at the festival. He then proceeds towards a concert with the band Fine Arts Showcase, where he interviews the leader of the band.
Clip 3. Rakel Chukri and the Man in the Leather Mask. Rakel interviews a man who has just performed.
Clip 4. Behrang Miri at a Reading of Poems. Behrang films a poetry reading organized by the local newspaper. The poems are written by young people who have sent them to the newspaper. The local newspaper is also there filming the event.
Clip 5. Saga Gärde with a Tree. Saga films a tree that makes interactive music.
Clip 6. Gudrun Hauksdottir Gives Her Views About the Festival. Gudrun shares her opinions about the festival.
If any of the video clips in the above player does not work, use this link
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DDC1DE528A95C14E
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