Roundabout dog
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A roundabout dog (Swedish: rondellhund, originally Östgötsk rondellhund) is a form of street installation, which began occurring during the autumn of 2006 in cities and towns all over Sweden. Anonymous people put out homemade dogs, typically made of wood (or sometimes plastic, metal and textile) in roundabouts. The phenomenon has been reported from all over Sweden and has also started occurring in other countries, such as Spain after it was being mentioned on Spanish television (PuntoDos)[1]. Swedish tabloid paper Expressen even placed one[2] at Piccadilly Circus.
[edit] History
The roundabout dogs started appearing in Linköping, Östergötland (and were therefore originally called de östgötska rondellhundarna), after the official roundabout installation Cirkulation II (English: Circulation II) by sculptor Stina Opitz had been vandalised and later removed. The original installation was a dog made of concrete[3], and Stina Opitz was to make a new version of it after the vandalisation[4], when suddenly someone had placed a homemade wooden dog [5] in the same roundabout. Soon the dog was given a concrete bone[6] by another anonymous artist. After media had reported about the homemade sculpture, the roundabout dogs started appearing in more places around the country.
[edit] References
- Origin of the roundabout dog (Swedish)
- Official name: Östgotisk rondellhund (Swedish)
- 27 October 2006, Expressen (Swedish)
- Roundabout dog in Örebro, 14 April 2006 (Swedish)
- Roundabout dog at Susning.nu (Swedish)
- www.rondellhund.se (Swedish)
- www.rondellkonst.se (Swedish)
- "Dog fever in Uppland", 11 November 2006, Upsala Nya Tidning (Swedish)
- Roundabout dog in Visby (Swedish)
- Roundabout dog in Kappelshamn (Swedish)
- Roundabout dogs in Spanish media (Swedish)
[edit] External links
- News article from The Local (English)
- Roundabout dog website (English)
- Roundabout art website (English)
