MYCKET: Live the Legend

Experience the installation *Live the Legend*, the result of an artistic site analysis of Kungsparken by the art, design and architecture group MYCKET. The former restaurant pavilion, which has also been a casino, is a place brimming with stories that haunt our time: an entertainment venue, monastery, burial ground, Arctic Ocean, sediment of snails and mussels, visited by those who crawl, swim, climb, fly and dance.

The MYCKET collective was founded in 2012 by designers, architects and artists Mariana Alves Silva, Dr. Katarina Bonnevier and Thérèse Kristiansson. They have approached the site as an ecotone (a botanical term describing the species-rich transitional space where two plant communities meet), studied in particular for its response to climate change. As part of this exploration, a monumental artistic installation is being created inside Kungsparken, comprising materials with a past and a future, painting and animations.

MYCKET works from different perspectives, such as queer, feminist, class-based, anti-racist and more-than-human perspectives. Their work has generated a wide range of outcomes: large-scale theatre productions, permanent public spaces, costumes, artworks, exhibitions, animations, performances, writing and theory, education and lectures.

*Live the Legend* is the third chapter of *The Spell of New*, in which the layered history of the site and the art museum of the future are at the centre of newly commissioned artworks by local and international artists.