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Historically, Avesta has been, and remains, an important site for iron and steel production. Today, we live in an economy where data and information are the new raw materials. The exhibition uses this very location to show how these two systems interconnect—and how both affect living organisms, the climate, and consequently, our culture and societies. Through installations, sculpture, video, sound, and video games, the artists demonstrate how technology, labor, and human choices shape the world around us, creating an experience where Avesta's industrial past meets contemporary art. Artists from the USA, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, and Sweden gather in Avesta for a group exhibition exploring bodies, labor, technology, and the future.

Programmet rymmer flera sverigepremiärer och internationellt uppmärksammade works—ranging from Alice Bucknell's video games and Selma Selman's video works, to site-specific and interactive performances by Lundahl & Seitl, and large-scale installations by Diana Orving and Tuomas A. Laitinen—as well as an opening reception with a live concert.

About Avesta Art

Founded in 1995, Avesta Art has since become an important summer exhibition for the city. Each year, Verket—the old 19th-century ironworks—is transformed into a venue forcontemporary art exhibitions.