Public Folklore | 44% art
28% everyday culture
28% politics
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Despite the EU, despite globalisation: in many countries there are movements that argue with a concept of the nation that goes back to the nineteenth century.
Nationalist politics makes deliberate use of the folkloristic theory that every people has a soul. Its goal is enacted, artificially created, equalising reality. “Public Folklore” examines phenomena of folklorisation in media, tourism, popular culture and politics and presents artistic strategies at the interface to ethnology, visual anthropology and sociological practice. What are the effects of folklorism on the mental societal climate?
With Eva Arnqvist (S), Annika Eriksson (S), Roza El-Hassan (H), Andreas Fogarasi (A), Folk Archive / Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane (GB), Jens Haaning (DK), Martin Krenn (A), Eva Linder (S), Mari Laanemets & Killu Sukmit (EST), Eva Labotkin (EST), Christian Philipp Müller (CH), Ilona Németh (SK), Audrius Novickas (LT), Joanna Rajkowska (PL), R.E.P. / Kseniya Gnylytska, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Lada Nakonechna, Olesia Khomenko (UA), Erzen Shkololli (KOS), Sean Snyder (USA), Helene Sommer (N) & Jaro Varga (SK)
Curated by Søren Grammel (A)
