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Blodet gränserna arkivet (2023)

Alexander Mood
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In ”Blodet gränserna arkivet” I have continued the exploration of what obligations I have towards the extensive collections of artefacts connected with my family history that my father left me after my his death, and, even more important, the imaginary kingdom that he had been working on since the age of ten and all the way through his life. He abandoned me, partly to instead engage in made up power struggles in a nation that does not exist. Since I inherited his kingdom and his collection I’ve tried different methods to process this heritage in my art, and in this final part of this process I’ve tried fulfil my role as the heir and take the next step, to abdicate. To do so I’ve built a throne, inspired by the throne of Queen Kristina of Sweden. I’ve also dealt with the collection in several video works and photography, and written texts dealing with the deeply personal aspects of growing up with a father king in his own realm. To summon the process I’ve written an essay in which I connect my personal experiences and thoughts and memories with theories of what a nation consists of, using the method of loci both to reconstruct the apartment of my father, stuffed with objects loaded with meaning, and finding the links back in the history of art and poetry.
typeresearch exposition
date22/05/2023
published07/06/2023
last modified07/06/2023
statuspublished
share statuspublic
copyrightAlexander Mood
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2155133/2177489
published inStockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
portal issue0. Published expositions


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