IV. COMMUNITY

To Create a Shared Unit Through Individual Acts

Community is the Door through which many individual actions enter one shared Unit.

The Unit is created collectively, but each participant acts independently. Every person chooses how to enter the shared field and leaves their own material trace within it.

One person may add one bead. Another may add several. Participants may choose different colours, positions and directions. These differences are not corrected or unified into a predetermined visual result.

The shared Unit is formed precisely because different people act within the same field.

Individual authorship is not dissolved into the group. Each action remains the trace of a particular person and a particular decision. At the same time, all of these actions become part of one common work.

A Community Unit may be created within an exhibition, museum, school, organisation, neighbourhood, event or another gathering of people. It may involve a small group or continue through hundreds or thousands of participants.

Its meaning does not depend on everyone acting in the same way.

The common ground is the Unit itself.

Different people enter it through different actions, and together those actions create a material record of collective presence.

One act confirms an individual presence.

Many individual acts create a community.

Example

Shared Unit — Konstrunda Kungsängen
5–6 September 2026

During Konstrunda in Kungsängen, visitors were invited to participate in the creation of one shared Unit.

Fifteen people entered the same carrier through their own actions.

Each participant decided which bead or beads to use, where to place them and how much to add. There was no predetermined composition that they were required to reproduce.

The participants acted independently, but their actions remained together within one material field.

The final Unit therefore does not represent a group from the outside.

It contains the actual actions of fifteen different people.

Each contribution remains individual, while all fifteen become part of one shared work.