The project NIGHT SHIFT is a cooperation between raketa and the Danish
artist Frank Franzen. Night shift – a new platform in the public space, in
the shape of a temporary alternative newspaper with thirteen editions at
Nytorget in Stockholm during the period 31 May – 13 June 2008.

Every night a new work will be produced that comments the daily news – the
work will be put up the following morning at 10.00 o´clock and will then
bee shown for 24 hours.

With Night Shift we want to involve art in the social debate, and make
this visible and available for everyone moving in the city. Art works
fastly produced and instantly exposed, and follows the constant and ongoing
flow of news. At the same time as new art works is put on display on the
billboard at Nytorget, there will be a digital material distributed daily –
as a proposal starting-point for debate. It will also be possible to make
comments at a blog put up especially for the project.

Frank Franzen introduced Emergency Room together with Thierry Geoffroy
/Colonel in April 2006 in Nikolaj Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen Denmark.
Emergency Art ever since been shown in Emergency Room Berlin/Olaf Stüber
Gallery, Emergency Room New York/PS1 MoMA, and Emergency Room Athens/Ileana
Tounta Contemporary Art Center.

Emergency Art consists of three elements: daily episodes, critcal
situations and reflections and opinions from the artists. The artists from
Night Shifts will practice Emergency Art in the public space.
Night Shift team should consequently be very fast - in Stockholm,
Amsterdam, London, Beijing, New York, Islamabad,…