Panel discussion during the  Supermarket Art Fair, Friday 2/15 at. 17-18.30, Studio 3 Stage 3, The Culture House, Stockholm

Why do some works of art create scandals? Does the scandal influence the content and message of the art or is it that the scandal is art? Can the artist control this and what is the responsibility of the media for the creation of the scandal?
Last fall the copywriter Karl Fredrik Mattsson emerged as the man behind the much-touted “The whoremonger coin”.
A month earlier Carina Reich and Bogdan Szyber conducted the art project “Beggars Saturday” on Queen Street in downtown Stockholm. The whoremonger coin and Beggars Saturday got media to rage and brought many angry voices – they were mass-media art scandals.
In conjunction with the discussion, we’ll watch the movie “The King experiment” which tells how Mattsson proceeded to create the coins. The film has never been shown to the public.
Panelists: Karl Fredrik Mattsson (“hobby artist” / Copywriter), Carina Reich and Bogdan Szyber (artists), Martin Wicklin (journalist). Moderator: Mia Laurén (writer).
Time: 90 min