Attending was Michael I, Ambassador for Caen Thierry Weyd, Consul Helena Schmidt-Bourges and artists from École Suédoise du Mont Cotton. A version of the NationalHymn was performed by the above mentioned artists at a temporary annexed territory at Delirium Village in Avignon, France.
KREV concert with Klara Lewis, Leif Elggren, Marja-Leena Sillanpää, Graham Lewis and CM von Hausswolff (photo by Moju Vids)
KREV Official Pop-Up Passort Office in Bern (photo by Marja-Leena Sillanpää)
KREV cake event by citizen Manja Bernoth:
Two imaginary Kings are in Chiasso to think about all kinds of frontiers of mankind.
Title Clip 1 : Elgaland-Vargaland : Two kings for an artistic utopia
Some years ago, two Swedish dreamers and sound artists became the kings of two imaginary kingdoms : Elgaland-Vargaland. In their kingdoms, death doesn’t exist, everyone is free to do everything, everyone may become a king or change the royal constitution. The territories of these Kingdoms are composed by the physical borders between what is called nations, territories which belong to nobody, boundaries between dream and reality, between animals and human mankind. In two words, an artistic performance about all kinds of frontiers which divide or oppose.
The Spazio Lamp has become a Consulate of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland. These kingdoms have been created in 1992 by the Swedish artists duo Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren, who took part to the Venice Biennale. A new chapter of this story takes place in Chiasso, during the Biennale of Imaginary.
Title Clip 2 : Elgaland-Vargaland : we want to be free and immortal!!!!
During the Biennale of Imaginary 2017, lo Spazio Lampo has become one of the Consulate of the KREV. This surrealistic event was very successful, as were many people were waiting there to get their citizenship. We followed the bureaucrat-parodic process to get this citizenship.
Title Clip 3 : here is a non-human citizen!
The photographer Robin Bervini was the official photographer at Spazio Lampo for applying citzens of the KREV. These new citizen are not all humans.
Title Clip 4 : And now, let’s take the frontiers : King’s speech after this pacifist conquest of these new territories.
Title Clip 5 : Micronations : dream, game, and art or creating a State.
It is easy to create a micronation : just imagination, maybe a little madness are needed. Behind this, politics, activism, opposition, and art.
the pavilion was an older site for a canoe club by the railway station : some of the boat people came and asked what was going on and then ok:d it : then an armed guard came and asked what was going on and ok:d it after telling us that filming is not possible : then four armed police officers came and told us to leave the area since it belongs to the railway : we re-located to the small park just outside the pavilion where we laid out the All Gates Are Open sheet : then the armed police officers came again and said that we could not have our flag on the gate to the pavilion and then the police confiscated the red and black Elgaland-Vargaland banner : the second day we re-located to the former house where wine barrels were made in the past (Corte Botera) and proceeded to taste the Elgaland-Vargaland wine (a wonderful Nebbiolo) brought by the KREV Minister for Wine an Pleasure Mr Allessandro Avataneo : then we had the National Dish in the area.
credit goes to:
Yelena Mitrjushkina, Maria von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Adrian Notz, Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten, Dorit Chrysler, Alessandro Avataneo and Mats Bigert.
