WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS :
unrealised ideas from Montreal

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Galleri Rotor 1 – Vasagatan 50, Göteborg, Sweden
opening hours – tuesday to sunday 12 to 17

Chantal Durand
Anna Jane McIntyre
Jon Knowles and Tamara Henderson
Fake it 'Til you Make it
Jacinthe Lessard-L.
Diane Morin
Taien Ng-Chan
Meghan Price
Jerry Ropson
Karen Elaine Spencer

images from exhibition
artists bios and websites
Curated by the Independant Study Group -
Emily Mennerdahl and Véronique Malo
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© Fake it till you Make it
"What Happens When Nothing Happens : unrealised ideas from Montreal" presents Montréal based artists, reflecting specifically on the unique processes at work in the preparation of an artwork. This collaborative curatorial project aims to explore what happens in between, before, and after projects: unedited ideas, sketches, drawings, thoughts, trials, and everything in the meanwhile.

The participating artists all vary in media, approaches and art practices, while their creative processes often interlace and dialogue in their shapes, mediums and forms. This project explores the realm of the artists' ideas, suspended in a time before their work is resolved and made subject to the structures of reading and power which exist outside the boundaries of the individual.

Having reunited in Göteborg whilst working at Valand School of Art , the idea to invite Montréal based artists came naturally to us as we had both previously worked in Montréal. Evolving from our collective artistic practices and thoughts, this curatorial project is enlightened primarily by our inquiry into the creative process through looking at what happens in between projects, when the notion of having a final result is especially ambiguous.

© Anna Jane McIntyre
Accompanying the June 2009 exhibition of "What Happens when Nothing Happens," held at Galleri Rotor 1 in Göteborg, Sweden, is a publication in an edition of 200 that takes on the random yet fluid structure of a sketchbook.


Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually
find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.
- Sol Lewitt

May 28th at 18:00 - Artist's talk by "Fake it till you Make it"
June 1st at 22:00 - Sound performance piece by Jon Knowles and Tamara Henderson, Health & Company; "Go Gonzo or Go Godard" broadcasted on Swedish radio, THS Radio 95.3 MHz; www.THSRadio.se. Join us at the gallery at 21:30 for the duration of the performance.

Press Release PDF , Poster PDF

Many Thanks to Valand School of Fine Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.