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Periphery is the centre started in May 2019 and is ongoing. It is a community art project to create participation monuments in Gothenburg, Sweden. The project is supported by Hyregastforeningen (tenant union). There are presently two connected projects running, one in Angered and other in Rannbergen, and maybe others in the future. Over 600 people … Continue reading Periphery is the Centre project takes off!

Solidarity Park  started in May 2016 and is ongoing. This project is building a memorial monument to the International Brigadistas of the ship Ciudad de Barcelona that was sunk in the Spanish civil war. The project method is to have mass participation in the process of creating a memorial. over 1,000 local and international people have … Continue reading Solidarity Park enters next phase

Monuments are political  Whether they are memorials to people or events at the core monuments, public art has a political message. Who has the power to erect these works controls that message and public spaces in general? It’s almost exclusively the rich, powerful and establishment that decide. In this political context the idea of community … Continue reading Why I want you to donate to community participation monuments. 

Hey, I am getting involved in a new project. The idea is a similar format to http://www.Solidaritypark.com project. That project was five years in the making and is now hopefully about to enter a critical and intense phase. I am going to be insanely busy. A great time maybe I think to build the bridge to … Continue reading f**k have I got to learn Viking

Hockney sells his art for £70m at Christie's in New York and a Banksy stunt to expose the art world at Southeby’s only increases the value of his work. We can see that the “official” or “radical” art world is just a playground for the system's rich elites. Apart from the occasional interest as a … Continue reading Trying to be a working artist is a stupid idea – I recommend it to everyone.

Outa-space is a platform for the artistic work and opinions of me, Rob MacDonald. My hope is it will have a wider view than just my own. The platform will grow in time so I will keep my old website operating for info for the next year. I chose the name outa-space because: I love … Continue reading About Outa-space