Interdisciplinary group VAVD Editions` `The Aerial Kit` opens at Moderna Museet
(Artdaily.org)

The Aerial Kit is an art project about humanity’s urge to exceed physical and social limitations by using the air space. Based on some 15 more or less remarkable life stories, events and phenomena between 1809 and 1989, the project explores how air space has been used for existential, visionary or subversive purposes in the Nordic region. The stories are all locally rooted but their content is universal. The interdisciplinary group VAVD Editions worked on The Aerial Kit from 1984 to 1989, in the shadow of the 1980s art boom. This group consisted of the artists Peter Andersson (project manager) and Måns Wrange, the designer and literary historian Lars Svensson, the international law researcher Pål Wrange, and the aviation expert Roland Zinders. Assisting them was a loose network of experts and specialists. The project resulted in a multiple,