Via Dolorosa – Bidrag till Sveriges Konstkanon

This work emerges as a dramatization, in which the artist walks the Way of Suffering. She drags an iron maiden with her, a horrific device of torture and execution in which the victim is enclosed in a body-shaped coffin full of iron spikes. Iron maidens have existed since the 18th century but were never actually used.

The martyrs here are culture and artists. Freed happened upon criticism on social media that OpenArt steals resources from other things. Culture is made into a scapegoat when welfare is dismantled. Freed has set the comments to music with choral arrangements. In a suit by Dean Karl Wellings, she walks from an industrial area, where OpenArt has offices, to the municipal service centre in the middle of the city.

Date, time & place:

Saturday 7 September. The performance starts at OpenArt's office premises at Stångjärnsgatan 6, 13.00. Approximate finish at Olof Palme square, 14.00-14.30.