Pärlplatteklubben
Social network, 2000-2006
Social network, 2000-2006
In January 2000 I started Pärlplatteklubben, a club/network for people making pärlplattor, pixle pictures made of plastic beads melted together by ironing. When I ended the club in 2006 it had over 500 member.
The running activity in Pärlplatteklubben was that I every month decided a theme for the members to make pärlplattor/bead pictures about. The bead pictures were sent physically to me by regular mail, I scanned them and put the pictures on the Pärlplatteklubben website. I drew lots among the people who had entered the theme. Each bead picture was then wrapped and sent by mail to its new owner. Every month you entered with a bead picture you got someone else’s sent to you.
I also arranged pärlplatteworkshops at art galleries and music festivals. During the workshops the visitors made enormous collective bead mats. The bead mats were then left for the hosting place as a gift. The collevtive pärlplattemaking was a social event where strangers linked by the easy practice of picturebead-making sat around a table for a long or short period. These sittings always started off conversations that went in all directions from what they were doing.
The every-month-activities rendered contacts between the members and me and between the members through the website’s guest book. Some of the members met in real life.
The running activity in Pärlplatteklubben was that I every month decided a theme for the members to make pärlplattor/bead pictures about. The bead pictures were sent physically to me by regular mail, I scanned them and put the pictures on the Pärlplatteklubben website. I drew lots among the people who had entered the theme. Each bead picture was then wrapped and sent by mail to its new owner. Every month you entered with a bead picture you got someone else’s sent to you.
I also arranged pärlplatteworkshops at art galleries and music festivals. During the workshops the visitors made enormous collective bead mats. The bead mats were then left for the hosting place as a gift. The collevtive pärlplattemaking was a social event where strangers linked by the easy practice of picturebead-making sat around a table for a long or short period. These sittings always started off conversations that went in all directions from what they were doing.
The every-month-activities rendered contacts between the members and me and between the members through the website’s guest book. Some of the members met in real life.
