Format: Lecture Performance
This ongoing research project aims to create and share new narratives of Gothenburg's colonial history, incorporating critical place inquiries, re-mappings and performative investigations. The project traces a number of sites in the city where colonial sugar was handled, and unfolds through a wandering, associative approach, old sites leading to new insights.
Cecilia Lagerström is a director, artistic researcher and professor in performance practices at University of Gothenburg. Her work includes physical performance, walking as a critical practice, performative writing and decolonial engagements with place and body.
Collaborators:
Nasim Aghili is a Swedish-Iranian artist, director and writer. Nasim works in the performing and visual arts through practices of participatory performance, theatre installation and art in public space, often dealing with the experience of exile as explored via various healing rituals.
Antonia Aitken lives in lutruwita/ Tasmania. Informed by critical place theory, walking practices, and a material knowledge of printmaking and drawing, her research considers the complexities of walking and making in unceded territories.
Sofia Mussolin is a visual artist working with video, photography and performance. She is currently a PhD candidate at Federal Fluminense University (Brazil). Her artistic practice considers beyond-human perspectives of inhabiting the world.
Michael Norlind is a performer, educator and director of physical theater. He is also the artistic director of Gerlesborg's theater laboratory and a senior lecturer at University of Gothenburg with focus on movement training and physical performance.
Ellen Nyman is an actress, stage director and creator of happenings and video works. She is undertaking her PhD at Stockholm University of the Arts, with a special interest in the link between acting techniques and social adaptation in relation to adoption and black studies.
Walmeri Ribeiro is an artist-researcher and associate professor at Federal Fluminense University (Brazil). Her work focuses on the relationships between body, performance, media art, and environmental issues. She runs the artistic research platform Territórios Sensíveis.
Ami Skånberg, PhD in Dance (Univ. of Roehampton), is a performer and artistic researcher. She is Head of Master Dance Education at the Stockholm Univ. of the Arts, and also works at University of Gothenburg. Her PhD research concerned slow walking in urban and other spaces.
How is friction and/or coexistence embodied, felt, sensed, performed, manifested, made knowable in your artistic practice and research?
Sensing how the city, its sites, people and histories are tightly interwoven, how frictions from an ignored colonial past, demand attention as we walk through the city. How can we make colonial structures visible but also create other, non-colonial narratives, in the encounter with local history and an archive still dominated by patrons' perspectives?