The Smallest Cinema in the World – For the Wealthy and the Good was designed in a collaboration between Annika Eriksson, Hopkins Architects and Expedition Engineers. On wheels, the six seat cinema was towed around the Royal Parks during the summer of 2008.
Annika Eriksson is one of Sweden's most widely exhibited artists internationally. She is interested in social structures and human behaviour and often realises her work through various kinds of collaboration. Her work manifests a variety of forms from films and performance to sculptures and installations, but a frequent starting point is the ever varying functions of the city, its public spaces and inhabitants. Eriksson's focus on everyday settings and situations often reveal the extraordinary and an almost absurd sense of comedy.
Inspired by the contradiction between the Royal Parks original concept, of a private estate for the wealthy, and their current status as open space which allows the public to escape the pressures of consumerism, Eriksson explores the notion of ‘free zones’ producing and screening a range of short films that she made specially for the project, which portray the lesser known activities and reveal its hidden secrets.
