"My critical analysis is aimed at the lack of common infrastructure and points at a classical dichotomy of identity in the art scene, that is unfortunately also a specific characteristic of the one in Stockholm, where the commercial parties strive at and feed from the exclusiveness, VIP-lists, VIP-this, VIP-that, enclosed structures with few public concerns, and where the non-commercial parties strive at and feed from structural, critical investigations, formalized activism and archive building while trying to neglect the need of a broad public to realize the social ends of their artistic strategies. This dichotomy is of course a caricature, but with a certain truth to it. It is exclusive either way, and by not recognizing the common goods of a common ground, Stockholm ended up lacking an actual identity. And for what purpose? None, I would argue."
- Matthias Hvass Borello in Metropolis
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