On World Peace Day, 8 May, 70 years after the end of the Second World War, ”FOLDOUT” will open at Moderna Museet Malmö. The project is divided into several parts and connects strongly to the alarming diaspora of our time, while also exploring how individual stories are part of the collective memory. The exhibition is presented in two parts at the museum’s Loading Dock, one of which is ongoing and will take form during the exhibition period. In addition to the exhibition, a series of workshops with students and teachers at Malmö latinskola upper secondary school will be organized.
”FOLDOUT” is an a boundary-crossing ongoing project since 2008, which has evolved through several collaborations between choreographer Anna Källblad, performance artist Maja Hirvanen, cellist Chrichan Larson, mezzosoprano Annette Tarranto and journalist Merete Monberg, who explored what it entails to inherit memories of war, to grow up in the shadow of previous events such as flight and exile and the possibility of processing these memories from the vantage point of a different time and place. At Moderna Museet Malmö two parts of the project will be presented, one of which will be a work in progress during the exhibition period through the many stories and memories of war that exist in Malmö today.
”Part 1 Remembering a Flight to Exile” is a complex installation based on the stories about Katarina Eismann’s father’s dramatic escape on a fishing boat from Copenhagen to Malmö during the Second World War. Though the starting point are stories about the family’s escape through Europe, the story is told from different perspectives and takes place and materializes in the present. Who is remembering? And whose memories do we recall?
”Part 2 In Via” looks at what it entails to inherit memories of war. As an aftermath to peace, the memories of the war were passed down for generations. Stories are inherited, and new constellations of experiences arise, in perpetual change. Which stories are carried into the future?
In association with Moderna Museet Malmö, an addition to the ”FOLDOUT” project is created with help from students and teachers at Malmö latinskola upper secondary school. They are participating in a series of workshops on the theme “the legacy and transformation of memory”, with Katarina Eismann, the museum’s art educator Anna Rowland, and the journalist Merete Monberg. A new part of ”FOLDOUT” will evolve during the summer. This autumn, Moderna Museet Malmö will pursue its ”FOLDOUT” project with new groups of participants.
Curator: John Peter Nilsson
FOLDOUT / Remembering a flight to exile (Part 1). A project by Katarina Eismann (2009) in association with:
Performance: Maija Hirvanen. Choreography: Anna Källblad. Cellist: Chrichan Larson. Journalist: Merete Monberg. Mezzo soprano: Annette Tarranto. Producer: Eva-Lotta Holm. Camera: Carl Dieker. Sound: Jamie Fawcus. Lighting: Per Byrén. Stage construction/gaffer: Joakim Samson. Translation: Jonny Mair. Students from Balettakademien.
Photographer: Dan Coleman. Web: Katarina Cavallin & cecilia Wolfenstein. Proof-reading: Katarina Norling.
Music:“Sonata for Cello solo”, 1960, by Bernd Alois Zimmermann; “Rosettas visa”, 1943, by Ingvar Lidholm; “Some en våg”, 1942 by Gunnar de Frumerie; ”Mad Bess”, 1683, by Henry Purcell.
Acknowledgements: Julia Gero, Claus Bryld, Ruth Malinowski, Herbert Pundik, Boris Rabinowitsch, Dorthe Røssel, Freidrich Somogyi, Anders Blomqvist, Christina Olsson, National Archives in Stockholm, Jakob Parby, Københavns Bymuseum, Inge Kjær Jansen, Lokalarkivet, Tårnby, Bent Vraae Jørgensen, DMI, Sjællands Lokalarkiv, Rigsarkivet i København, Östre Borgerdyd Gymnasium.
”FOLDOUT” is made possible with dedicated funding from the Fredrik Roos Foundation and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Sveriges Bildkonstnärsfond, Kulturkontakt Nord and Stockholm County Council.
