SonAxis
Exhibition consisting in opening performance and installation with photographic images, objects/props and video display showing documentation of ceremonial opening performance.
10 september 2022 – 29 januari 2023
The exhibition comes out of a project of artistic research on the collections, exhititions, and histories of the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm 2019-2021. The project was produced by The Museum of World culture as part of the program AFRICA PÅGÅR. See SonAxis - Ethnographic Museum of Stockholm for more info.
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Adapted version of the project SonAxis for the group exhibition BEHOLD, WE ARE HERE at Lunds Konsthall.
The adaption involved the original 45 minute live performance of procession, possession, listening, playing and other modalities of musicality making up a choreographic score centered around frictions and dissonances between science, arts and the religious “grand sacrifice” of the white north European missionaries doing field work in what they perceive as the “darkest”of Africa at the turn-, and beginning of the 19th century. The performance centers around a selection archive recordings made by missionay turning ethnographer Bertil Söderberg, found in the collections of the museum of Ethnography, and embodyments of music and lounds found witin those recordings.
The performance staged at the opening of the exhibition was filmed and later screened within the exhibition next to an arrangement of miniature houses (realistic missionary huts made by the late artist Anders Åberg) part a museum exhibition about Congo made by Bertil Söderberg in the late 70s at the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm. The houses are transformed in SonAxis into carnevalesque masks utilised within a procession sequence part of the sonAxis performance.
The exhibition also involved a photo series depicting hands clad in white gloves holding historical Congolese sculptures from the collections of the Museum of Ethnography, depicting white people. The photographic motif catches staged moments within the archives of the museum, where the current curator of Africa, Michael Law Barrett brings out the rarely seen sculptures. The same sculptures were juxtaposed with confiscated talismans and Nkisi exhibited within the now defunct semi permanent missionary exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum.,
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Exhibition consisting in opening performance and installation with photographic images, objects/props and video display showing documentation of ceremonial opening performance.
10 september 2022 – 29 januari 2023
The exhibition comes out of a project of artistic research on the collections, exhititions, and histories of the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm 2019-2021. The project was produced by The Museum of World culture as part of the program AFRICA PÅGÅR. See SonAxis - Ethnographic Museum of Stockholm for more info.
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Adapted version of the project SonAxis for the group exhibition BEHOLD, WE ARE HERE at Lunds Konsthall.
The adaption involved the original 45 minute live performance of procession, possession, listening, playing and other modalities of musicality making up a choreographic score centered around frictions and dissonances between science, arts and the religious “grand sacrifice” of the white north European missionaries doing field work in what they perceive as the “darkest”of Africa at the turn-, and beginning of the 19th century. The performance centers around a selection archive recordings made by missionay turning ethnographer Bertil Söderberg, found in the collections of the museum of Ethnography, and embodyments of music and lounds found witin those recordings.
The performance staged at the opening of the exhibition was filmed and later screened within the exhibition next to an arrangement of miniature houses (realistic missionary huts made by the late artist Anders Åberg) part a museum exhibition about Congo made by Bertil Söderberg in the late 70s at the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm. The houses are transformed in SonAxis into carnevalesque masks utilised within a procession sequence part of the sonAxis performance.
The exhibition also involved a photo series depicting hands clad in white gloves holding historical Congolese sculptures from the collections of the Museum of Ethnography, depicting white people. The photographic motif catches staged moments within the archives of the museum, where the current curator of Africa, Michael Law Barrett brings out the rarely seen sculptures. The same sculptures were juxtaposed with confiscated talismans and Nkisi exhibited within the now defunct semi permanent missionary exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum.,
Lunds Konsthall >>
Videopresentation >>
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