ACTIONS: MONTH #073
"living the very nice pangkor island to end up in the most boring and plain cameron highlands in the middle of malysia and trying there to revive somewhat of a mountain experience but only walking in much mud never really reaching any mountain top with august and his mother at last wanting to keep in south east asia to enjoy a more natural life there but in the end returning to shanghai and find there a huge bill to be paid to the swedish tax authorities spending quite some time to figure ouf if the calculation was correct and in the meantime also beginning to work more for my chinese boss making with him demonstrations of a helmet he bought which i hacked to control utilities using the brain"
ACTIONS: MONTH #074
"still cold in shangahi spending this month in our apartment trying to heat the various rooms individually and taking care of my son bringing him to school and spending weekends doing small excursions also with my wife despite her hater for my project also keeping up going to the gym to do boxing and doing some electronics for my chinese boss but not so much with him making it back to sweden and at last putting his daughter in a psychiatric hospital after he tried to have her going to school in shanghai thus keeping me without a job and still a big bill to pay to the swedish tax authorities"
ACTIONS: MONTH #075
"starting to work a bit more at a studio my boss got in the near of tongji university on the other side of the city but then with him returning to sweden and with some nice weather at last setting in trying to escape the gloomy routine taking my son out to enjoy the performative nature of chinese parks with all its magical musics and people training their talents and expressing it so fluidly in the public keeping up the routing of doing grocery at the small chinese shops in our neighborhood and keeping up with training and taking some private chinese lessons in the evening meeting wonderful people"
ACTIONS: MONTH #076
"in shanghai to begin with experimenting more and more with my project now also painting people after photographing them and soon making it to hong kong with the family to renew our chinese visa but nonetheless committing myself to help my girlfriend conducting ethnographic research in asian parks and taking many photos and interviews for the purpose in the hong kong parks also conducting on top of it my own project still very much hiding it from her and also taking august around even to nearby islands were we almost swam in a bay with sharks and back in shanghai keeping up my acquaintance with the parks there and its wonderful people especially a group doing yoyo and another performing karaoke getting invited by them to lunches and even to church"
ACTIONS: MONTH #077
"still spending some time with my chinese old friends especially in fuxin park and then leaving shanghai for good spending a wonderful time with august in tokyo being very playful and checking out the very different and less rigorous but also more wasted japanese city culture going to a lot of shops just to play with things and making it to parks soon however returning to sweden and there keeping in the countryside deciding this time to finish liselott's postdoc in boston and just spending our time in sweden preparing eventually to move there still not really doing any of the countryside work i was so committed to in the past"
ACTIONS: MONTH #078
"spending this time in the swedish countryside only growing some salad and mostly helping my father-in-law painting his big mansion at first washing the old yellow color and then slowly getting ready to paint over it also painting a small table of liselott and getting my old bike ready to sell it to an american beside that working very much on my project despite still my wife being most furious about it"
ACTIONS: MONTH #079
"living the life i so much loved in sweden sleeping in the old barn i renovated without an actual toilette and baking my own bread yet still keeping up with the painting of my father-in-law's mansion also taking small excursions with august and towards the end going to israel to volunteer with my polish friend jacek in the old city of jerusalem and there teaching young palestinian how to use cameras and video equipment using myself quite a lot especially on the road even making it in the west bank going in front of a protest there against the jewish police"
ACTIONS: MONTH #080
"back from israel resuming the colorful life in our swedish countryside house still having to attend to our hygiene in a traditional manner and still trying to live off my own food in the end also getting much ready to depart once more with the whole family this time for a new life in the united states and using very few objects traveling there also considering the jet lag to begin with being host by an old indian friend chandana and then getting our own apartment for a month in brookline really enjoying our life there especially with august walking very extensively around the city and even catching the commuter across it to go to the beach to the north of boston generally cooking our own meals and certainly not going out to est as in our previous year in cheap china"
ACTIONS: MONTH #081
"beside a first week spent at my old friend's brian place in brooklyn exploring new york city quite thoroughly with a most indefatigable little august even making it on foot all the way to central park and back keeping very much outdoor and using not so many object than the camera and some cooking utensils in brian's and his girlfriend's house with the filtered water carafe we also got in boston and a blue water bottle found in front of the brooklyn public library later however returning to boston and moving in the trashy neighborhood of east cambridge renting there the attic of a portorican family and getting in quite a routine with august also starting in the nearby public school and myself at home reading a lot and updating and expanding my project especially while liselott sat off to work and i could update in peace without all her anger and jealousy towards my project hiding the backup in a little square piece of wood hanging over the desk i carried in from the street along with other furniture meant to be thrown and toys for little big august"
ACTIONS: MONTH #082
"training daily running around the baseball field in front of august's school after bringing him there and also being very disciplined with my own project drawing and painting and writing beside all the cooking and household keeping with some minor maintenance work in our rented flat and also quite some interactions with august playing a lot with him and exploring a lot the surroundings some time also with his mother along at some point also renting a car with the whole family over the canadian boarder to montreal to meet first my old friend davide and then for the first time in twenty five years my father and trying not to be too obstrusive while with him taking not so many pictures nor videos while walking the neighborhood where we used to live together when i was little at last returning to boston and resuming life there in the end preparing for halloween and having a good time with august often exploring the city and crossing the charles river to the richer and more european like parts of town"
ACTIONS: MONTH #083
"a month fully integrated in our american life in the poor but happy east part of cambridge still taking care of both august and the house hold and all the grocery and cooking with liselott fully absorbed in her slow scientific paper writing but soon also getting approached by her mit university boss to collaborate with him after i already started a small collaboration with a polish artist professor at harvard and spending mostly my evenings to work on their projects while mostly focusing much on my own artistic practice during the day beside also from keeping august home form school to explore new natural parks especially in the north of the city going also there with my greek old friend panagiotis and my american friend brian with his rich girlfriend having a family mansion"
ACTIONS: MONTH #084
"working more for mit university now and also enjoying an unusually sunny and quite warm winter in boston making it even to the beach with my family keeping up my project quite well and approaching the chirstmas holiday now with also my wife at home from work unwilling to go visit once more my father in montreal anyway distancing myself from him after he manifested his racial hatred in the end also getting some snow and spending several days outside with the whole family and later with august alone to enjoy it and play with it"
ACTIONS: MONTH #085
"surrounded by the snow spending much time in our boston flat also very much enjoying keeping with august taking him to the arnold arboretum for some memorable rides down the hills with the sled and feeling very much at home with really only my family and my project to take care of"
ACTIONS: MONTH #086
"still some nice winter days spent in boston with the family taking care of them as well as my project in the end leaving for a small holiday to puerto rico staying in old havana like neighborhood and very much exploring the surrounding taking far less objects also especially when makig it to the beach and meeting several of an old student's artist friends being also invited to dine at their place in the old town"
ACTIONS: MONTH #087
"making it back from our puerto rico holiday and resuming pretty much our life back in boston this time with no more snow getting back to train in the morning in the baseball field and taking quite some walks with august after school and despite that keeping pretty much at home updating my project and taking care of the house also thinking where to spend our coming years considering to move to japan just as a nuclear disaster happened there"
ACTIONS: MONTH #088
"still a month dedicated to the family and my project in our east cambridge apartment beginning however to get more work to do for the mit university doing small workshops and examining some television series for a study but nonetheless managing a few walks with august and some nice time outdoor also interacting quite much with toys especially those found regularly on the streets waiting for the truck to dispose of them"
ACTIONS: MONTH #089
"more and more getting sucked in the mit university work yet also with the coming of the spring trying to spend as much time with my son and playing together both at home and outdoor also keeping very much up with my project as well as preparing for an exhibition at some spanish italian friends place and having almost no money trying to print stuff at work and build a sample for each part of my project like a panel containing braille i made using nails"
ACTIONS: MONTH #090
"a month being quite much more on the move than before mostly working with other colleagues at mit university designing mobile phone applications and this time finding a bike to move faster from the university to home and then to pick august up working slightly less on my project but on the other moving much more around especially after being commisioned a documentary about american italians and filming much more"
ACTIONS: MONTH #091
"camping in maine with the family but also with jacek at the beginning of the month to later return to our life in east cambridge with also an italian girl now helping us out with august thus making our home quite crowded for a month still also being quite engaged in the making of the documentary about rather famous american italians in the boston area starting to lead more and more the project in the end also getting the chance to work at harvard again this time printing my trash collages onto ceramic tiles and following the entire project with the help of a very good ceramic artist"
ACTIONS: MONTH #092
"with my family now leaving for sweden being left alone in cambridge with my old friend alessandro and quitting my job to go with him first up north to visit my father for the last time in montreal and then going around the beautiful ontario lake stopping in toronto and the across the very decadent upper state new york lastly returning to cambridge and soon flying also back to sweden and there directing myself immediately to the countryside to reunite with my son and revive a bit of the swedish life like pruning the old apple trees"
ACTIONS: MONTH #093
"still in the swedish countryside reviving what i so much longed for after the years spent oversea and with my kid picking lingon berries and even preparing the land for the following summer later settling in our stockholm apartment and there getting to explore much of the southern part with august especially after getting him to school also getting quite well into updating my project and generally also training after bringing august to school"
ACTIONS: MONTH #094
"fitting in quite well in our aspudden apartment in stockholm enjoying very much our new life depite my wife hectic job at the television and taking many excursions with august to explore a lovely fjord just north of our place as well as being very productive at home with my project later also going to the countryside and really resuming there my vegetable land taking advantage of some sunny autumn days"
ACTIONS: MONTH #095
"keeping at the beginning of the month in the countryside to plow the land despite the freezing winter approaching and later making it back to our nice life in aspudden with only one week spent in italy to reunite with my mother and her family meeting for the first time my sister's kid anna and taking many walks with her before returning to sweden and getting back to the countryside this time to prune apple trees despite the snow already coming"
ACTIONS: MONTH #096
"keeping in stockholm at the beginning of this gray winter month writing applications to find a more permanent position and also hanging out with jacek supporting him with his idea of making a design studio together but not really believing in it and generally facing the daily routing of bringing and picking up my son from school still keeping quite disciplined with updating my project and also training in the end going with the whole family to the apartment of my mother's husband in venice spending the days with liselott and august roaming around the old city mostly using my video-camera to film public places and my phone to annotate ideas and so on"
ACTIONS: MONTH #097
"a month started at my parents' place in my native highland going around with my son and his mother but also having to follow my stepfather cross-country skiing in the higher parts of the highland later returning in a most depressive stockholm still with quite a cold weather and much gloominess nonetheless making the most out of it training in the snow and writing many applications keeping my hopes up for norway and either way taking care of our apartment doing most of the cooking and taking care of little big august also now having our own car liselott bought used"
ACTIONS: MONTH #098
"spending most of this month in our aspudden apartment now beginning to use more and more a smartphone i got from liselott and only using that to check the internet given that we have no internet in our apartment and i began to need it more and more for my applications often also going to the local library to work and either way keeping up my good habits running almost everyday and also hanging out at times with jacek and his friends even doing some grilling out in the snow and with jacek and my colombian student ivan also organizing a toy hacking workshop for august kindergarten later driving our car to the countryside to enjoy more snow there going ice skating on the frozen lake and otherwise just styaing in the big mansion always looking very much after my project"
ACTIONS: MONTH #099
"beginning to prune the many old apple trees in the swedish countryside and then back in stockholm finding on the ground a metro card celebrating the wedding of the princess now being able to travel for free and reach my friend jacek in the middle of town later also going with august to berlin following his mother for a conference there exploring the city alone after they both got food poisoned in an indian restaurant and back in stockholm beginning to use more and more the smartphone i got from liselott also to annotate the various instances of my project in the end returning to the countryside and dedicating myself there to prune more apple trees"
ACTIONS: MONTH #100
"with the slow coming of the spring spending this month awaiting to know if i get any position as a doctorate either in norway or sweden or finland and meantime doing some teaching in the stokholm art academy and making it off and on to the countryside to keep up with the pruning of the apple trees there also beginning to wonder with liselott where to buy our new apartment in the city roaming around different neighborhoods mostlly in the deep south"
ACTIONS: MONTH #101
"spending a week with my parents in their vicenza house hanging out with the new born anna and following up to my mother's rigid house rules before returning briefly to sweden and then travling with the boat across the baltic to get interviewed for a doctorate position at the helsinki art academy and back in sweden making it to the countryside again keeping up some work there but also enjoying the spring with my son"
ACTIONS: MONTH #102
"leaving our aspudden apartment for good and just moving to the countryside getting at last notified of my acceptance to a doctorate in stockholm now not really feeling anymore like engaging in my old farmer tasks and going for a small holiday to at first madrid to attend to my stepsister's graduation show and later making it with the family to malaga and then further to a village on the coast enjoying our time there and taking a fair amount of photos of objects despite not really cooking or doing the things i used only in fact once making it to a restaurant with liselott as usual not willing to spend any money in the end back in sweden starting to feel rather depressed of the situation being back to my slave-like giving a hand of paint to our old red house"
ACTIONS: MONTH #103
"now living in the old swedish house i renovated with such passion for years and only going for some days to uppsala to clean up our apartment there before selling it and in the countryside continuing pretty much to paint and fix the outer walls of our red house in the hope that my wife would let me use the attic to build a small museum with my project but not really getting any help from her in cleaning up all her stuff following a bit in despair and feeling an increase urge of wanting to present my life work some how and commit to building something for it"
ACTIONS: MONTH #104
"a last summer month traveling to begin with to kaliningrad in russia to conduct a workshop with jacek there hanging out with a lot of very nice teenagers and together roaming around the city at first and later spending time in the much more prettier and less war destroyed coast to later making it to italy spending some time in my native highland at my parents under the strict house rules of my mother and also making it to the garda lake with both august and his mom starting to feel extremelly nostalgic of the life down south and finding it wuit hard in the end to move to an aprtment chosen by my wife in a rich neighborhhod north of stockholm enjoying the nature there but not so much the rich people living in their villas and either way loosing no time to renovate august's room painting it green the joker evil character of batman also putting a new oak floor upsetting his mother really much for a minor mistake"
ACTIONS: MONTH #105
"officially starting my new office life in the sodertorn university south of the city really hating all the time spent seated there attending seminars and also commuting quite a bit to the other side of the city doing some minor work in our new apartment and also trying to cultivate a nearby land but then getting a really bad back from it only goign very seldom to the countryside feeling overall very depressed and in need to turn my project physical"
ACTIONS: MONTH #106
"working hard at the university having to read a lot of texts and attend a lot of lectures in the meantime also maintaining the only hope to be able to use a small part of our apartment to build a tiny showroom of my project even demolishing a wall to make our bedroom bigger for the purpose but in the end having my wife deciding to buy me out to find my own place getting a miserable amount of money to do so and searching what i could actually get to start building the showroom at last also trying to go on a cruise together with the whole family but in the end getting to walk all alone in the main cities around the baltic sea including saint petersburg"
ACTIONS: MONTH #107
"the last period spent united with my family although silence has fallen between me and my now ex wife thus a paralysis of activities in the apartment despite I have still kept up with my digital archiving and much walking outside but also the building of a bed out of a door frame and on one occasion an excursion out with my kid with lighting of fire and barbecuing, aside from that back and forth to the university with the many transportation but also a few days in another university the inland"
ACTIONS: MONTH #108
"in my newly bought apartment now shared with lamin setting up first a room for him with a double bed then improving a bit my own but mostly fixing up things without really spending much money and already paint up the room with the stuff i wish to produce otherwise being at the university despite not having any money to afford the metro ticket and having to walk long distances also to stay with my kid and do a little bit of renovation in her mother's apartment till i left for a small conference in copenhagen and explored a lot the city doing my archival projects to then seat for hours on at the boring conference feeling rather depressed but then going to italy driving quite much around the alps with jacek and then staying with my parents in my native mountains doing quite some cross-country ski with my stepfather and finally joining jacek in poland where is tarted editing a lot of the accumulated video material but also explored and ending up at the border with check republic with his friends playing games,drawing and cooking with them"