Title: Technic

Year: 2011

Media: Cotton fabric, Acrylic paint, aluminum tube

Size: 200 x 210 cm

About the work: Palestinian Eurovision is a collaboration between the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), the Sabreen Association for Artistic Development, and SUPERFLEX. In 2007, the PBC applied to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for active membership and thereby sought participation in the 2008 Eurovision song contest. The motivation behind the application was a wish to further build a media infrastructure in Palestine, as well as to contribute to Eurovision’s tradition of creating positive cultural experiences. The EBU area is not restricted to Europe, and already includes 56 nations, among them the western part of the USSR, the northern part of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel. 

SUPERFLEX has worked as consultant to Palestinian Eurovision since 2008 and has created a series of painted banners featuring logos developed to advertise the campaign. After intensive legal work, as well as numerous meetings and high-level negotiations, the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation has still not achieved active membership of the European Broadcasting Union.

Graphic design by Rasmus Koch Studio.

Bio: SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen. Conceived as an expanded collective, SUPERFLEX has consistently worked with a wide variety of collaborators, from gardeners to engineers to audience members. Engaging with alternative models for the creation of social and economic organisation, works have taken the form of energy systems, beverages, sculptures, copies, hypnosis sessions, infrastructure, paintings, plant nurseries, contracts, and public spaces.

Working in and outside the physical location of the exhibition space, SUPERFLEX has been engaged in major public space projects since their award-winning Superkilen opened in 2011. These projects often involve participation, involving the input of local communities, specialists, and children. Taking the idea of collaboration even further, recent works have involved soliciting the participation of other species. SUPERFLEX has been developing a new kind of urbanism that includes the perspectives of plants and animals, aiming to move society towards interspecies living. For SUPERFLEX, the best idea might come from a fish.