Where is Kista Art City located? I would like to visit you and see what you are doing.
Answer: KAC has no permanent location / address, but rather it annexes different spaces depending on the activity. The website is a good source of information about what is presently going on and what events, presentations and workshops are planned to take place and where. The best way to take part in Kista Art City is to participate in the workshops and events that the project arranges.

Why Kista?
Answer: Here is a global business sector and interesting urban development – at the same time the site reflects all the complex and contradictory relationships of the glocal society. The district Kista-Husby in Stockholm is a suitable location for a contemporary art institution that has the ambition to interact with and reflect society.

Why are you called Kista Art City?
We have used the name Kista Science City as a ready-made – but have exchanged art for science. KAC is art’s answer to Kista Science City. The comparison reflects an ambition – but also a fundamental deficiency that KAC wants to answer to.

In what way does KAC answer to Kista Science City?
Answer: By formulating the idea of an Art City that is as innovative and advanced as the idea of a Science City.

What is the objective of KAC, what do you want to achieve?
Answer: Our objective is to establish a permanent art institution without walls in Kista, which runs cooperative projects with companies, businesses, associations, inhabitants, higher education and organizations together with guest artists and scientists.

Why without walls?
Answer: Without walls we can emphasize collaboration and participation as being most essential. We can also be mobile and annex various spaces and rooms. KAC can exist in an apartment, on a square, inside a company, on the web, in a galleria or inside the walls of another institution. This creates completely new opportunities to reflect sites and to establish collaborations. But being without walls is also about influencing deeper structural conditions that constitute the relationships between artists, artwork and the public.

Is KAC really the world’s first art institution without walls?
Answer: Yes. Literally, since no other institutions that have tried to function without walls have pulled down the wall between producer and consumer. We are without walls both in practice and in theory. KAC is an invitation (and a challenge) to everyone everywhere to participate in realizing the world’s first art institution without walls. Participation and involvement are the walls, floor and ceiling in the structure KAC.

What kind of art can one see at KAC?
Answer: People come to KAC above all to participate, rather than passively “to look” at art. Thus the important thing is not to focus primarily on WHAT is done – but HOW it is done. KAC is not about making great Art for people – KAC is about making art with people, while at the same time asking ourselves how, why and for whom. A major part of the institution’s role is to reflect, develop and communicate this HOW and WHY. And also to create opportunities for artists to develop practices where people really can participate. KAC sees open artistic practice as a possibility and a model to recreate and discuss society and a collective sense of community. Here there is enormous, untapped value, artistic and societal. Artistic process and art also provide an opportunity to reflect over the concept of “site” and our experience of individuality in terms of historical, political and economic circumstances. Cooperation gives rise to two- three-dimensional visual art, sound, texts, relational and pedagogical works. These do not necessarily differ from what we are used to seeing as “art” – the difference lies however in HOW the works came about.

Who is the art in KAC done for?
Answer: For everyone who wants to participate. And everyone is invited.

Why an art institution?
Answer: Because we need new institutions that answer to societal needs and can accommodate artistic practices built on cooperation. Such institutions we believe can play a completely new and active role in society and for its development; for democracy, urban development and for our understanding of what a “site” is.

Who do you cooperate with?
Answer: Right now we are cooperating with the foundation Innovativ kultur, which supports KAC financially, as do Kista Science City, local real estate owners in Kista, Thorildsplan Gymnasium, Interactive Institute, Kista folkhögskola and Kista Galleria.

Who started this project?
Answer: The initiators of the project are the artists Thomas Liljenberg and Bo Samuelsson. The working group connected with the project includes artists, authors, composers, development managers and architects.