"What is this thing called an archive, really?"
Textile installation with text montage, 2 x 282 x 105 cm. Digital print on habotai silk, white metal curtain rail. Edition of 1.
To-go text, 29,7 x 42 cm. Edition unlimited.
Performance in collaboration with Moa Franzén, 20 minutes.
"What is this thing called an archive, really?" is a textile and paper installation; a silk curtain in two equal sizes and a printed A3 to-go paper, with a script for a fictive dialogue between the writers Virginia Woolf and Sara Lidman. The women converse about the need to and desire for rewriting historical archives and throughout the dialogue they keep shifting with whose voice they speak. The script is a montage of fragments by the 11 women that participated in Wildow's work The Family Dinner, a digital archive documenting a collective and performative attempt to re-write history from a feminist perspective. In "What is this thing called an archive, really?", quotes have been taken out of their context and are sampled together with words from additionally six women who have been fictively invited to the dialogue.
"What is this thing called an archive, really?" is also an actual script, for Wildow's performance work in collaboration with artist Moa Franzén with the same title. In this, the dialogue is read aloud by Virginia Woolf (performed by Wildow) and Sara Lidman (performed by Moa Franzén). The audience is able to follow the dialogue and the shifting voices on printed scripts that has been passed out before the dialogue begins. The women are having dinner, drinking wine and smoking while conversing, seated facing each other across a dinner table.
The various format of the work can be seen an attempt to blur the borders of what a document is, where it begins and where it ends, being a document that documents a document of a performance, which is then re-performed in another form.
"What is this thing called an archive, really?" is a quote by Sara Edenheim, historian and one of the fictively invited women. The work has been exhibited at hangmenProjects in Stockholm (2017) and at Something Else Off Biennal in Cairo (2018). It has been performed at the 13th international AHRA Architecture and Feminism Conference at KTH, Stockholm (2016), at hangmenProjects (2017) and at Something Else Off Biennal in Cairo (2018). Since 2018, the textile installation is part of DARB permanent collection in Cairo, Egypt.
Textile installation with text montage, 2 x 282 x 105 cm. Digital print on habotai silk, white metal curtain rail. Edition of 1.
To-go text, 29,7 x 42 cm. Edition unlimited.
Performance in collaboration with Moa Franzén, 20 minutes.
"What is this thing called an archive, really?" is a textile and paper installation; a silk curtain in two equal sizes and a printed A3 to-go paper, with a script for a fictive dialogue between the writers Virginia Woolf and Sara Lidman. The women converse about the need to and desire for rewriting historical archives and throughout the dialogue they keep shifting with whose voice they speak. The script is a montage of fragments by the 11 women that participated in Wildow's work The Family Dinner, a digital archive documenting a collective and performative attempt to re-write history from a feminist perspective. In "What is this thing called an archive, really?", quotes have been taken out of their context and are sampled together with words from additionally six women who have been fictively invited to the dialogue.
"What is this thing called an archive, really?" is also an actual script, for Wildow's performance work in collaboration with artist Moa Franzén with the same title. In this, the dialogue is read aloud by Virginia Woolf (performed by Wildow) and Sara Lidman (performed by Moa Franzén). The audience is able to follow the dialogue and the shifting voices on printed scripts that has been passed out before the dialogue begins. The women are having dinner, drinking wine and smoking while conversing, seated facing each other across a dinner table.
The various format of the work can be seen an attempt to blur the borders of what a document is, where it begins and where it ends, being a document that documents a document of a performance, which is then re-performed in another form.
"What is this thing called an archive, really?" is a quote by Sara Edenheim, historian and one of the fictively invited women. The work has been exhibited at hangmenProjects in Stockholm (2017) and at Something Else Off Biennal in Cairo (2018). It has been performed at the 13th international AHRA Architecture and Feminism Conference at KTH, Stockholm (2016), at hangmenProjects (2017) and at Something Else Off Biennal in Cairo (2018). Since 2018, the textile installation is part of DARB permanent collection in Cairo, Egypt.
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