My late arrival to an opening of a group -exhibition organized by the students from the curatorial program at Konstfack turn into a dramatic pedagogical intervention. After analyzing the exhibition I (miss) understood that it was about exclusion and control. The curators had build walls between the artworks and the audience. In some area only female-visitors were allowed.
Since I wasn't there from the very beginning I will try to relate the event using some video-stills from Erik Aalto's performance, mixed with the cartoon by Bodil Blue, published in Organ No 4, 2001

Dorinel Marc 2004

The text of the cartoon above, in brief (my translation)

The professional Art-gangster Bodil Blue makes a report from the exhibition "People do what they want"
The exhibition space is designed as a swimming pool, which according to the curators focuses on the protective and restrictive role of the school. For that reason, The professional Art-gangsters decided to have their work outside the pool.

The text of the cartoon above (my translation)

The magazine Organ is released at the opening of the exhibition. The professional Art-gangster Bodil Blue had drawn a very fuzzy cartoon in it. The art-students are looking at the cartoon trying to figure out where to start, but they can't find neither the begging the end or the point. Later that evening Kristoffer comes and asks a relevant question "Aren't people getting angry when you include them in your cartoons?"... "I don't know actually" The Art-gangster suffers suddenly by melancholy. Shit!
Something lights up reality. Erik Aalto will make a performance against the shiny objects.

The text of the cartoon above (my translation)

Erik has his heart in the right place. This is no irony but the truth. (Erik starts playing music and singing "Art is destruction, Art is creation") People in the audience are giving a helping hand to cut everything into pieces. At the end there is only a little dust on the ground.

Erik is playing and singing "Art is destruction, Art is creation ... Art is destruction, Art is creation"
Some volunteers from the audience are cutting, chopping, hitting, knocking, smashing...

Erik keeps on playing and singing "Art is destruction, Art is creation ... Art is destruction, Art is creation"
More volunteers from the audience are cutting, chopping, hitting, knock, smashing...

Erik keeps on playing and singing "Art is destruction, Art is creation ... Art is destruction, Art is creation"
The volunteers are cutting, chopping, hitting, knocking, smashing, until all the objects are destroyed.

The text of the cartoon above (my translation)

In that moment, The flying knight Orinel Dark shows up, entering through a small valve in the ceiling.
-Hmm. There is an axe, in the wall.

Erik's performance was over, when I arrived to the opening. The floor was covered with trash from the destroyed objects. The only intact thing in that room was the music-equipment. In the opposite wall there was an axe.

Later that evening, some people in the audience were having a dialogue about Erik's performance. "I'm wondering why they didn't destroy even the device," says one of them. "The axe is still there so somebody should take it and smash the music-equipment" says an other. "I think they did only what the Artist told them to do, and he didn't tell them to destroy the equipment", says another one. "I'm wondering why people only do things they are told to do." I said. "Why did they destroy objects? And why do they have to destroy the equipment? They could do something useful instead. They could make a door in that wall build by curators and let everybody get in, closer to the art works... I can do it the axe is still there..." I added and I just grabbed the axe and started working. In less than one minute, the door was finished. I find myself surprised that I made it such quick and with such good result.

The text of the cartoon above (my translation)

And the art is hidden behind a wall, build by the curators... The Flying Knight did it again.
Three different views: 1) Snort, typically Orinel. 2) Everything unexpected is good. 3 Snort. Typically Orinel, he wants some attention, but on the other hand everything unexpected is good and reactions are evidence of something Big.