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Tate Liverpool opens Palle Nielsen: The Model

Tate Liverpool presents Palle Nielsen: The Model on view 8 November 2013–2 February 2014.

Palle Nielsen, The Model: A Model for a Qualitative Society, 1968. Photograph. © Palle Nielsen, VEGAP, Barcelona / DACS 2013.
Palle Nielsen, The Model: A Model for a Qualitative Society, 1968. Photograph. © Palle Nielsen, VEGAP, Barcelona / DACS 2013.
Palle Nielsen: The Model is the most comprehensive display of archival material from Danish artist Palle Nielsen’s groundbreaking social experiment The Model – A Model for a Qualitative Society 1968. This was a utopian project that attempted to create a new form of social interaction by transforming the large exhibition space in Stockholm’s Moderna Museet into a free adventure playground for children. Nielsen’s project allowed children to take over a museum space in its entirety. It remains one of the most ambitious and experimental institutional interventions to date.

Tate Liverpool’s Palle Nielsen: The Model will include documentation of The Model 1968 that encompasses slide projections, architectural plans, photographs, TV recordings and LPs that were made available to the children, as well as paper ephemera and press coverage of the event. To produce The Model 1968 Nielsen worked with Aktion Samtal (Action Dialogue), a conglomerate of various left-wing groups who were building illegal playgrounds across Stockholm as an alternative form of protest aimed at offering a constructive critique of city planning. Tate Liverpool’s archival reconstruction of the project aims to capture its original political agency and its roots in the activist networks of Sweden and Denmark.

Palle Nielsen: The Model is curated by Stephanie Straine

Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock
Liverpool
L3 4BB