ACTIONS: MONTH #037
"spending quite some time in the countryside to begin with connecting back to the nature there cutting wood and renovating our old cottage but also very much connecting to my son feeding him and playing together also when back to our one room apartment in stockholm resuming our normal life there making just in the weekends back to our dacha and enjoying some winter snow eventually later resuming to commute across the swedish peninsula to teach in gothenburg"
ACTIONS: MONTH #038
"a month of february mostly spent in stockholm taking great care of my son august being quite sick to begin with and playing with him in our one room apartment but also going out in the snow at times and spending a bit of time in the countryside too with a few days making wood in the forest"
ACTIONS: MONTH #039
"a moth still with snow spending a lot of time with my kids playing but also undertaking a project trying to build a keyboard to retrieve my photos of the right hand according to the various object types and beside that also managing to be at the countryside pruning apple trees with the snow now melting managing to also take my kids more often outdoor and even to the swimming pool where i kept on going very regularly trying not to angry people when taking photos of shampoos and deodorants in the changing room mostly keeping in the bathroom to do so and at last traveling with a beautiful weather by boat to finland to receive an award and there spending some beautiful days with my russian friend pyotr at first staying in a hotel and then at his place eating together and taking many outdoor trips"
ACTIONS: MONTH #040
"a very sunny month spent in sweden being quite regular to begin with swimming but also taking many walks in stockholm with also my russian friend pyotr and a lot with my small son august also biking with him but generally playing quite much together with all his toys and spending some time in the countryside at first pruning the apple trees and later even beginning to cultivate my vegetable garden and in between making it to the other side of sweden in gothenburg to teach not really taking many pictures then"
ACTIONS: MONTH #041
"quite a month spent at first quietly in stockholm but also later in the uppsala countryside preparing the vegetable garden there for a new summer crop and making also to gothenburg for teaching but also managing to spend quite some time with my son going for bike rides and spending time outside even in his perhaps country house still cultivating my garden there but also in the evening being quite playful with the kids at last traveling with my family to my mother's apartment in the friulian seaside"
ACTIONS: MONTH #042
"spending quite some time in italy at my mother's seaside despite her reluctance to land us her apartment there and taking not so many photos but still cooking and cleaning the apartment before going back to vicenza and from there also visiting the art biennial in venice and then making it back to our life in the swedish countryside resuming my vegetable garden work but also doing some painting in the traditional way but also being quite playful with my son and her cousins using many toys like balls and fake guns and masks to interact with them"
ACTIONS: MONTH #043
"quite a tough month living fully my transcendentalist life in our swedish cottage with quite an ugly summer outside forcing me to turn on the stove with the wood in the cow field and cultivating the land and living off the vegetables there but also doing some renovation work in the house"
ACTIONS: MONTH #044
"a month harvesting more from my vegetable garden in sweden and keeping in the countryside there with the usual tasks before going back to stockholm spending time with my son there but also going to swim regularly and train before taking a short journey to italy meeting my friend jason there renting a car to reach at the pistoletto foundation where he had a residency and where we talked about possibly collaborating together and then back in sweden going fully into my work with also some welding and in general also quite some recording of public places made with my new video camera appearing quite often among other objects and making the daily sequences longer especially when traveling"
ACTIONS: MONTH #045
"another month still taking more photos now using a video-camera to record public places and generally having a lot to do both in stocholm working with my japanese friend yoshi at novel ways to retrieve my archive like spreading a floor with rfid tags and getting a remote control car with a rfid reader on to explore my dreams associated to each tag but also in the countryside doing quite some harvesting and going often in the forest to pick lingon either way training a lot still while in the city swimming as well as going to the gym and daily writing my dreams first in notebooks and then having to transcribe them almost as the first thing done every day"
ACTIONS: MONTH #046
"with the autumn beginning resorting mostly of my stockholm life being quite disciplined with eating porridge every morning mixing it with my countryside jams and train aside for only a few days following my girlfriend ant a conference in gothernburg with our kid and also keeping up with my prototypes at my office in the college of art and design in the city beginning to teach some nice experience design students only seldom going to the countryside mostly to pick mushrooms and preparing my vegetable land for next year"
ACTIONS: MONTH #047
"a month with the winter approaching still spending quite some time in the countryside beginning very early to prune the many big apple trees there and being delighted by some early snow also spending much time in stockholm teaching electronics to my design and art students there also presenting in the end their work at the interactive institute for which i present various electronic artists every month and beside this work engagements spending quite some time training both in the olympic swimming pool and in the gym above it"
ACTIONS: MONTH #048
"a december dark month spent in sweden with quite a drastic decrease in the amount of objects used spending quite some time at home in our stockholm apartment beside doing the usual swimming and training while spending quite some time playing with my new harmonica recomposing my whole heritage of songs as well as getting quite much into drawing only spending little time in the countryside during christmas going out with my son to cut wood just with an ax and an old saw before making it to my native land in italy spending some sunny days there with also quite some ice and snow"
ACTIONS: MONTH #049
"a month spent in my native highland to begin with with my mother being completely happy about me giving her my part of the family company without getting paid and just letting us lodge for a few days in a residence enjoying the sun and the snow there before visiting first my granmother from my father side and then my grandfather from my mother side and then returning to sweden recovering my usual stockholm life training regularly at the swimming pool and just seldmo going to the countryside feeling quite hyped up about the idea to lead a whole new master program in digital media at the konstfack college of art and design only resulting into a bluff and just leading individual courses there teaching much electronics to the students prior making it to the countryside finding the days a bit longer and sunnier lighting fires with my kid and roasting sausages in the open"
ACTIONS: MONTH #050
"almost getting out of the dark scandinavian winter keeping up with our rather happy life in stockholm doing quite a few home improvements at home like with the loft bed i built and keeping with training regularly but also teaching at the college of art and design in town doing much electronics and only towards the end making it more out to nature with some sunny days resuming the small traditions i had with my son to light a fire in the forest in the lidingo island and roast some meat together"
ACTIONS: MONTH #051
"a month spent a little bit more outdoor making small excursions to nature with my son and spending wuite some time in the countryside still doing all the apple trees pruning alone but also following my girlfriend to a conference for a few days enjoying the free hotel buffets there and other than that helping my art and design students to build quite some prototypes mostly with electronics"
ACTIONS: MONTH #052
"a month with the coming of the spring really approaching spending the beginning quite caved up in stockholm training quite much as usual and teaching electronics at the konstfack college of art and design but then slowly getting out of it being more in the countryside preparing the land there to cultivate my veggies and back in stockholm playing much with my kid bringing him often out in the nature"
ACTIONS: MONTH #053
"quite a sunny month dedicating myself to planting potatoes and seeds on my vegetable garden but also getting a new video-camera and filming with it quite much as well as recording my thoughts quite extensively spending also much time in stockholm going at times to swim and generally keeping up my work both at the college of art and design as well as for the interactive institute beofore preparing to move out of the city following my girlfriend will to get a bigger apartment in uppsala"
ACTIONS: MONTH #054
"a month spent almost fully in the swedish countryside this time quite much combining my work in the nature there with the screen of my video-camera documenting the places i visit becoming more present and even towards the end after a brief trip to my mother in italy traveling with an old volvo we bought to the island of aland in the baltic sea to take a bike tour with my russian friend pyotr and with a most shitty summer weather also keeping track with a clumsy gps device the places where i filmed and other than that off and on being quite interactive and playful with my son often appearing in the pictures while playing with him"
ACTIONS: MONTH #055
"a month started still camping out with my russian friend pyotr and my family in the rainy island of aland but then returning this time to our new apartment in the city of uppsala and there doing some small improvements but also keeping up my domestic life only towards the end making it to the countryside despite some back pain and feeling quite bumped and depressed about the weather doing not so much gardening as i used to"
ACTIONS: MONTH #056
"a month of quite some bad weather spent now fully living between our uppsala apartment and the countryside there doing small tasks such as fixing the rust around our car and being quite consistent in hand cutting wood from my father-in-law's forest also later spending quite some time preparing for an exhibition in stockholm facilitated by my swedish polish friend mikael goralski"
ACTIONS: MONTH #057
"a month spent most entirely in uppsala with quite some depressing weather there and still some back issues now almost no longer going to swim and train and as i used to in stockholm but in the countryside doing quite some wood cutting with my bow saw and some cultivating and going quite much in the forest to pick lingon berries and mushrooms and roast wursts with little august despite the rain also keeping up to work on the various works for my exhibition in stockholm such as a traditional swedish wooden horse with electronics inside to play the songs i daily record and managing some home improvements also in the apartment especially where we are storing wood"
ACTIONS: MONTH #058
"getting quite in a routine with our new uppsala life me having to commute hours to reach the art and design academy in the south of stockholm where i held a course and august going to his not so nice kindergarten trying to spend time with him after picking him up from school mostly moving by bike and playing much robots with him now that for the first time he has his own room and only occasionally going to the countryside to harvest my veggies after fighting with my girlfriend's father as he did not agree of me building a wall with my photos on the hill in the middle of his giant forest he later cut to the ground"
ACTIONS: MONTH #059
"a period pretty much caving in my uppsala life despite having an exhibition in stockholm and spending some days mounting it but also building a prototype of an inflatable chair reacting to energy consumption for an american designer who really believed in me but still getting more and more caved in our new life disconnected from the capitol with the snow making it even harder to commute to my life there still finding some poetry taking my son in the woods just behind his kindergarten to grill our wursts and enjoy some nature not really connecting any more to his grandfather's countryside place after our fight"
ACTIONS: MONTH #060
"quite a hard and dark month in uppsala with very little going to the countryside still suffering some back pain and nonetheless trying to resume training in the gym as well as in the swimming pool keeping mostly in the city only occasionally commuting to stockholm to teach and other than that in the end traveling with the family to the sunny south staying first in rome and then in the beautiful perugia keeping in a rented apartment and thus being quite able to use tools there to for example cook our meals and beside that using quite much my video camera to film the ancient public places there"
ACTIONS: MONTH #061
"a month started in the umbrian sun exploring the many medieval villages there and feeling deeply in love with the mountains and most sad of having to return to sweden nonetheless also managing to do some cooking in our perugia apartment and keep up with the use of objects fully resuming our daily life in our uppsala apartment but getting there much affected from the lack of sleep with all the noise from the above neighbours getting quite depressed yet trying to keep outdoor with my son lighting fire behind his shitty primary school and also at home lighting fire in the old ceramic stove only seldom going to my parents-in-law having still not healed from the fight with my father-in-law and otherwise commuting a lot with the bike despite the snow and going often in the end to stockholm to teach at the design academy using some of the tools to demonstrate some electronics and in general going seldom to swim once again feeling also quite bad with my back also due to the very cold temperature"
ACTIONS: MONTH #062
"a very cold month with much commuting to do from uppsala to stockholm teaching electronics at the art academy there and feel most depressed due to the lack of sleep yet using quite some objects also at home doing a lot of cooking and baking bread also with august after school lighting fire in the snow and grilling our usual sausages while at work mostly getting food from the academy buffet always however having to deal with snow but either way always using the bike to go to the station and never now making to the countryside feeling most against my father-in-law there so much a subordinate of the swedish lame society"
ACTIONS: MONTH #063
"another tough month with a lot of snow doing much cooking and small tasks in our old and noisy uppsala apartment in sweden making it still around by bike particularly to reach the train station and commute to the capital to teach mostly electronics to my art and design students but also in the middle of the month making it to the countryside to start pruning the apple trees despite the cold temperature and beside that going a bit to swim despite my back and my sleepless nights made worst by the frequent commuting and the winter not willing to let go but feeling a bit better getting visited by my russian friend pyotr and his austrian buddy and with them spending a few days hiking in the city natural reserve still with quite some snow and objects related to forest survival as i always liked such as knives and matches to get the fire going"
ACTIONS: MONTH #064
"finally feeling better with the arrival of the spring still working very intensively facilitating my students with their crazy interactive installations doing a lot of micro-processing and welding of small electronic components but also toy hacking and then also spending some days in the countryside pruning more trees this time with a much nicer and solar weather culminating at last with a family trip to florida following liselott even on a disney cruise where her gaming related conference took place and here getting quite into training but then almost immediatelly injuring my back once again getting quite stuck in our cabin"
ACTIONS: MONTH #065
"a month started in florida upon returning from the trip with the cruise in the caribbeans staying some extra days in orlando florinda lodging in a cheap motel and just enjoying our time there with little august upon returning to sweden and finding a much more decent weather in our uppsala apartment this time even spending the evenings in the courtyard and grilling there but also resuming my farmer work in the countryside yet suddenly getting the news about liselott being accepted to undertake her postdoc in china and sort of changing our mindset now in relation to having to live abroad investing less in the coutry especially with the fight between me and my father-in-law still very much vivid"
ACTIONS: MONTH #066
"still not really committing anymore to my life in sweden despite the coming of the summer with all our expectations now sat now in view of our new life in china and even spending quite some days in italy going with my old friends davide and jason to the venice biennial and later also spending some time in the bourgeois fortress of my mother before spending some more time in milan with davide and then returning to uppsala there only keeping in the countryside for the midsummer celebrations and other than that staying in our uppsala apartment cooking and living a normal life yet still in preparation of our departure"
ACTIONS: MONTH #067
"spending for the first time very little days in the countryside dropping all together my projects and ambitions there only wanting to escape from the ungrateful swedish society and mostly staying in our old swedish apartment doing rather domestic works and when possible making it to the forest at last getting on a train to go for a more serious hike at the boarder with norway constantly hiking there despite the bad weather but getting to see quite some untouched landscapes later also spending some time in italy with my chinese boss and his family showing them around both in vicenza but also up to my native highaland and back in sweden going often to stockholm to prepare for our time in shanghai listening to all the proposal made by our chinese boss to set up a company there but feeling most cautious about it"
ACTIONS: MONTH #068
"spending a last period in sweden getting ready to my wedding there and hosting both my twin sister and half sister touring with them a bit around before also celebrating the same wedding in my native highland and after doing a short holiday there getting back to sweden and preparing to live for china reviving however some of our odl traditions such as picking mushrooms and generally staying outdoor with my son giving him quite some sushi so as to teach himhow to use chopsticks"
ACTIONS: MONTH #069
"after a last week in uppsala moving for good to shanghai keeping with the family in the very south of the city in a hotel searching very much around for an apartment there and walking a lot in the nice and crowded french concession with my son along or on my shoulders at last also finding an international school for him and generally using not too many objects and more my video-camera to record public spaces there and not so much anymore tools i used in sweden such as those in the countryside but also my dictaphone unable to record my thoughts in the crowd"
ACTIONS: MONTH #070
"slowly getting started with our new life in shanghai making use of our apartment in the middle of the french connection just among chinese students and no expats only for some time having to make it back to sweden to install my show at the uppsala art museum helping in the construction especially of my right hand photos project with as much as some staircases leading to it in the end returning to shanghai and there also beginning to do some sport at an hotel near the american embassy but disliking the swimming pool water there opting to do more tai-chi and boxing using some related tools and awaiting for my chinese boss kept in sweden by his burned out daughter beginning to conceive the idea of a whole cathedral-like building spending my days designing it after many years i kept it in my head and then in the afternoons mostly keeping with august and trying to reach the park avoiding the awful traffic"
ACTIONS: MONTH #071
"still in shanghai beginning to work on some electronics for a swedish ceramist and other than that spending my life mostly taking care of my son and of my project soon having to travel back to sweden to attend the opening of my show in uppsala with the presentation of the catalogue at the italian institute of culture spending some time with my american curator friend jason there and even renting a car to take me to the show but in the end on my way back to china getting stuck in helsinki due to a big pilot strike and spending my time in island there with other swedish based artists who had a small conference there finally returning to shanghai and there finding my swedish wife most upset because of an article a journalist worte about my too sexual dreams and having now to hide when updating my project and even use a special phone to type my dreams while in the bathroom or in the metro anyway hiding from my wife"
ACTIONS: MONTH #072
"with my wife still furious at me wanting for my life project to stop and possibly being very much in a cultural shock feeling rather alienated by chinese society still keeping up with my project actually feeling rather in harmony with china despite really hating the pollution and the lack of green spaces around our neighborhood nonetheless trying to spend time with my son bringing him around the metropolis especially after school and discovering new places like the urumqi neighborhood getting some arab decorated bread there and bubble tea trying out many things for the first time also at the cheap restaurants there but nonetheless also cooking myself and in the end beginning to teach a nice class of very talented chinese design students building interactive works with them but later going for a holiday with the family to malaysia and soon leaving the quite ugly city of kuala lumpur finding an idyllic spot in the small island of pangkor spending some nice days with the family there and even trying to explore alone the island but chased by wild dogs ending up on a damp surrounded by aggressive monkeys and also getting into quite some fights with the local youth driving their motorcycles way too close to my son"