Two Europeans on a Platform is a performative installation, responding to the work of Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The project is part of Nobel Week Lights 2023, presented by the Nobel Prize Museum.
The artwork was created by students at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, under the supervision of Ming Wong, Silvia Thomackenstein and Robert Brečević, in dialogue with Helena Hansson, the Swedish translator of Gurnah's works.
Participating artists:
Roda Abdalle, Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, Isolde Bergqvist, Neil Bhat and Aron Fogelström
Thanks to Hans Davis, Anette Felleson, Andreas Hammar, Lars Hammarström, Vladyslav Kamensky, Daniel Norrman, Göran Svenborn & Signify Sverige AB
The project is part of Nobel Week Lights 2023, presented by the Nobel Prize Museum.
The artwork was created by students at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, under the supervision of Ming Wong, Silvia Thomackenstein and Robert Brečević, in dialogue with Helena Hansson, the Swedish translator of Gurnah's works.
Participating artists:
Roda Abdalle, Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, Isolde Bergqvist, Neil Bhat and Aron Fogelström
Thanks to Hans Davis, Anette Felleson, Andreas Hammar, Lars Hammarström, Vladyslav Kamensky, Daniel Norrman, Göran Svenborn & Signify Sverige AB
Opening hours with various performances throughout the week:
Tue 5 dec, 16.00 - 18.00
Wed 6 dec,16:00 - 19:00
Thurs 7 dec, 16:00 - 18:00
Fri 8 dec, 16:00 - 18:00
Sat 9 dec, 16:00 - 19:00
Sun 10 dec, 16:00 - 19:00
Hemsökande - Home-Seeker - A Haunting
Aron Fogelström
To leave home is to lose the shape of home.
Shapeless, amorphous.
A split, a departure, a doppelganger.
A shed skin feeling its way around the edges of this lost shape.
Breathing in all directions.
A ghost reflecting lights from Christmas decorations.
Truth
Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski
With blurry edges and painfully sharp contours, the sound and light sculpture Truth reflects on widely accepted lies, or the texture of the undetectable.
jaanakristiina.se
@jaanakristiina
dear you
Roda Abdalle
This performance is both a letter and a conversation about living in a new country, continent, stuck in between two worlds, homesickness as well as belonging. In a time where you find yourself strange enough to feel belonging, and gradually call it home. Is it strange?
Landline
Neil Bhat
Landline is an interactive conversational performance piece, bridging the distance between audience and artist. Inspired by tin-can phones in tree houses: leaking sound and turning private conversations public. The audience itself is transformed into voyeurs, spies listening in on unscripted interactions between the artist and themselves: friends, family members, coworkers, and total strangers.
Landline is intended to reflect upon Gurnah's clever use of dialogue, strategic silences, and pregnant pauses; Gurnah's characters let the depth of their shared histories and differences in perspective charge the dynamics of their dialogues- even when little is said, the near musical tonality of his words give meaning to the meaningless, and weight to the weightless.
www.neilbhat.com
@Neilbhat
Five Gates of Paradise
Isolde Berkqvist
Before the map the world was limitless. Maps gave us form and shape in creating territory and borders which disenchanted the world, in creating us and them.
“Life’s like that, clinging futilely to the very objects that imprison us.”
-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence
