Performance Demonstration with Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren

Join Jacob Dahlgren as he leads a performance demonstration through downtown Bellingham beginning and ending outside the Whatcom Museum Lightcatcher building. Participants will walk together along the route carrying hand-painted placards with abstract motifs based on the work of Swedish painter Olle Baertling (1911-1981). Dahlgren has engaged communities in similar demonstrations in several places since 2009, including Mexico City, Stockholm, Frankfurt, and San Francisco. Drawing both from abstraction and from a form of protest, the artwork represents the art medium of social practice, which invites collaboration with individuals, communities and institutions. The social interaction completes the work, which afterwards resides in the participants’ and passersby memories, as well as in documentation. Participants will gather outside the Whatcom Museum Lightcatcher building between 10:30 and 11am.

To learn more about Jacob Dahlgren visit his website at www.jacobdahlgren.com.