The Family Dinner
The Family Dinner (2015 - 2017)
Dinner Performance, September 5th 2015, Rosengrenska paradvåningen.
Online Archive: www.thefamilydinner.se
Material Archive and Dinner Table, beech wood. Total format 300x120x75 cm, archival works various media, techniques and measurement.
Poster, can be purchased here
The Family Dinner is a performative work that reflects upon, explores and performs an archive. The archive asks you to take part in a dialogue programmed to constantly replay its own chronology. Depending on which directions you take the encounters deviate into straying retellings of a fall night in 2015, when eleven women gathered behind closed doors to articulate and document the stories of additional eleven women through the performative method of live action role play (LARP). The task was simple: When history has eradicated our story, we must write it ourselves.
An archive was generated; presented online as a reconstructed chat room in which the guests are having dinner and offline as a tactile installation placed on a dinner table made of beech wood. The women write, sound, draw, and send each other images and videos. Online, their dialogue is repeated over and over but slightly dislocated each time. Simultaneously, each post provides an entrance for you to trace deeper through the many layers that the archive provides. By each click, you will be able to trace through the works that were materialized when the characters encountered their performers.
The Family Dinner has been initiated and directed by Hanna Wildow, programmed by PWR, photographed by Carolina Johansson Oveido, styled by Moa Sjöstedt, and conducted in collaboration with Imri Sandström, Sara Teleman, Ellen Nyman, Moa Franzén, Anna-Karin Linder Krauklis, Katarina Bonnevier, Thérèse Kristiansson, Francine Agbodjalou, Karin Drake and Moa Sjöstedt. The Family Dinner was made possible with generous support from Kulturbryggan. The Family Dinner has been exhibited at hangmenProjects in Stockholm (2017) and at Something Else Off Biennal in Cairo (2018).
Dinner Performance, September 5th 2015, Rosengrenska paradvåningen.
Online Archive: www.thefamilydinner.se
Material Archive and Dinner Table, beech wood. Total format 300x120x75 cm, archival works various media, techniques and measurement.
Poster, can be purchased here
The Family Dinner is a performative work that reflects upon, explores and performs an archive. The archive asks you to take part in a dialogue programmed to constantly replay its own chronology. Depending on which directions you take the encounters deviate into straying retellings of a fall night in 2015, when eleven women gathered behind closed doors to articulate and document the stories of additional eleven women through the performative method of live action role play (LARP). The task was simple: When history has eradicated our story, we must write it ourselves.
An archive was generated; presented online as a reconstructed chat room in which the guests are having dinner and offline as a tactile installation placed on a dinner table made of beech wood. The women write, sound, draw, and send each other images and videos. Online, their dialogue is repeated over and over but slightly dislocated each time. Simultaneously, each post provides an entrance for you to trace deeper through the many layers that the archive provides. By each click, you will be able to trace through the works that were materialized when the characters encountered their performers.
The Family Dinner has been initiated and directed by Hanna Wildow, programmed by PWR, photographed by Carolina Johansson Oveido, styled by Moa Sjöstedt, and conducted in collaboration with Imri Sandström, Sara Teleman, Ellen Nyman, Moa Franzén, Anna-Karin Linder Krauklis, Katarina Bonnevier, Thérèse Kristiansson, Francine Agbodjalou, Karin Drake and Moa Sjöstedt. The Family Dinner was made possible with generous support from Kulturbryggan. The Family Dinner has been exhibited at hangmenProjects in Stockholm (2017) and at Something Else Off Biennal in Cairo (2018).