On the Wall paper it says: What question would you ask someone who is more powerful than you?

Background:
In March 2004, Kulturförökarna, Rinkeby Folkets Hus, Swedish Travelling Exhibitions and their curator Frida Cornell commissioned the artist Cecilia Parsberg to start an art project in Rinkeby*, as a part of a group-exhibition 4 U !  They asked for a process that could continue to develop on it’s own after the exhibition. The Swedish travelling exhibition also engaged three other artists that held separate projects at three different sites: Jörgen Svensson who worked in Hammarkullen, Loulou Cherinet in Orminge and Jafer Taoun in Rosengård. Each one of these art projects were presented during October 2004. Each project will also be a part of the exhibition 4U that will be accessible in the Expomobile (a big trailer rebuilt as an exhibition space by Swedish Travelling Exhibitions). The Expomobile will tour to15 destinations in Sweden. The exhibition 4U has it’s starting point in Motala in November 2004, the Expomobiles final destination will be Stockholm-Rinkeby the following year in April.

Cecilia gathered some artists in Rinkeby and the group took the name 'projekt samarbete'  consisting of: Leo, Erna and Sanna from the artist group Cross art, Iris Berggren, Björn Gardarsson and Branco Hubert. Wall paper design: Martin Frostner, web design: Mats Renvall and Kjell Hedqvist.

Our idea was to activate the question: What question would you ask someone who is more powerful than you? Each of us is a part of a hierarchy and there are always power structures that need to be dealt with. We wanted to discuss this question with other people living in  Rinkeby, so we invited the public to different ’rooms’: 3 Forums, Drum-room, Film-room (cinema outside, nighttime) and Fairy tale- and Mask- room for children. During this period the question was translated to 71 languages.

We designed a wall paper of these 71 translations of the question, and it covers now the walls in the lobby, on all five floors, in Rinkeby Folkets Hus (Community center). One million people pass through the house every year. People can write down their own questions and we collect them.

The wall paper covers the walls in the Expomobile. During November 2004 - April 2005 when the Expomobile visits 15 cities, more questions will be collected. Finally, in May 2005: All the collected questions will be shown in Rinkeby Folkets Hus, we will also publish them.

The Wall paper in Folkets Hus-Rinkeby is a permanent installation. In Rinkeby 100-120 languages are spoken, the Wall paper consists 71, it is possible to add more languages!  Contact us if you speak a language that is not represented, check the language-guide. Contacts: Björn Gardarsson, Head of Folkets Hus, Iris Berggren Head of Culturedep at Stadsdelsförvaltningen,  Artist Cecilia Parsberg: ceciliaparsberg@this.is

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*Rinkeby is probably the most known suburb in Sweden, it is a vibrant place, the “first stop” for many immigrants. There is now a dialect called Rinkeby-Swedish. Many writers, artists, musicians and poets use this new lingo and these new words. 
Folkets Hus means "House of the People". In Sweden there are several hundreds of Folkets Hus. This movement started amongst workers in the early 1900 to enable them to meet and organize themselves politically, as well as enjoying and create, as a house for culture and entertainment. The Folkets Hus movement is an independent movement as well as each Folkets Hus. The main object is still to ensure democratic rights and cultural freedom and possibilities for all people. In Rinkeby this means to enable people from different cultures to enter into cultural and community activities. 

The project has been supported by: Rinkeby Folkets Hus www.irinkeby.nu Kulturförökarna www.fatta.nu Riksutställningarwww.riksutstallningar.se FramtidensKulturwww.framtidenskultur.se Folkets Hus och Parkerwww.fhp.nu Rinkeby Stadsdelsnämnd www.stockholm.se/Rinkeby Stockholms Kulturförvaltningwww.kultur.stockholm.se Statens Kulturrådwww.kulturradet.se/