Live Show at Moderna Museet was an exhibition in the former gymnasium in Moderna Museet's main building during the period May 4 to June 3, 1974. The exhibition was created by three artists in addition to Sivert: Björn Lövin and Ulrik Samuelson. Live Show was a conceptual exhibition where three temperaments shared a common and integrated experiential landscape – a scenographically designed state of spatialities with objects and installations that alluded to the collapse or standardization of the surrounding world. Museum Director Philip von Schantz: 'For the artists behind the Live Show exhibition, art is not an unambiguous concept. Their approach is intellectual and literary, if you will.' Live Show II was later restaged at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, October 9 – November 13, 1977.
Live Show at Moderna Museet was an exhibition in the former gymnasium in Moderna Museet's main building during the period May 4 to June 3.
The exhibition was created by three artists, in addition to Sivert: Björn Lövin and Ulrik Samuelson.
Live Show was a conceptual exhibition where three temperaments gathered around a common and integrated experiential landscape. A scenographically designed state of spatialities with objects and installations that alluded to the collapse or standardization of the surrounding world.
Or perhaps a darkroom for the rebellion against indifference? In the foreword to the large-format catalog – A3 format (Moderna Museet's exhibition catalog no. 117) – Museum Director Philip von Schantz writes: "For the artists behind the Live Show exhibition, art is not an unambiguous concept. Their approach is intellectual and literary, if you will. But this does not mean that words and images are interchangeable. The artistic image registers feelings and experiences alongside words.
The exhibitors (creators) have previously, individually, created notable exhibitions that were related in their form. This time, we have the opportunity to meet them in a joint exhibition that is both a confrontation and an interplay. We become participants in their conversation about the possibilities of making the world clearer."
In the exhibition's catalog-epitaph, there is a quote by the German philosopher and art historian Dieter Jähnig:
"If one frees oneself from the prevailing European art concepts of the modern era, one notices that ancient cultures understood what we call 'art' as world tattoos, that is, as the human endeavor upon which the world's existence and its periodically necessary renewal depended.
The ancient concepts that we translate as 'world' and 'world order', for example the ancient Greek 'kosmos' or the ancient Egyptian 'maat', denote the totality of the relationship in which people stand to each other and to what they depend on, i.e., nature."