Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden At Tensta konsthall and other venues Spring Department 18.01–18.05 2014

translate 1 Tensta Museum: Reports from New participants will also be looking forward Sweden and proposing future scenarios. At Tensta konsthall and other venues Tensta is an unusually multi-faceted Spring Department 18.01–18.05 2014 and complex place. Its most tangible feature is a large, late modernist housing Tensta Museum: Reports from New area built in 1967–72 as part of the Sweden is about history and memory in Million Programme. Nearly six thousand Tensta, both in relation to the place and to dwellings share space with iron-age graves, the people who live and work there. Some rune stones, one of the Stockholm region’s forty artists, architects, local associations, oldest churches from the 12th century, performers, sociologists, cultural a famous baroque chapel, and a former geographers, philosophers, and other military training area from the early practitioners address the past in artworks, 20th century which is now a protected research projects, seminars, and guided nature reserve. Around 19,000 people walks. And it is through this that they live in Tensta today, and roughly 90% simultaneously report on the condition have a trans- local background, many of Tensta today as a concrete image of from the Middle East and North Africa. what can be described as the New Sweden This means that the collective memory of — a Sweden that must be understood Tensta splits at numerous angles; it also very differently from how it was several means that tensions and conflicts erupt decades ago. This is a Sweden containing around questions of “whose history?” people of vastly different backgrounds, and “whose heritage?” Tensta Museum: where economic and social divides are Reports from New Sweden also touches intensifying. According to a new report upon the concept of cultural heritage and by the Organisation for Economic the complicated matter of how it is used in Cooperation and Development, of all Sweden and elsewhere in Europe today. of the 34 member states of the OECD, Just as the struggle for collective income gaps in Sweden are increasing memory can be liberating, it can also the most rapidly. In their contributions exclude certain people and even lead to Tensta Museum, some of the invited to war. A preoccupation with the past is fundamentally ambivalent. And yet about the purpose of cultural heritage it is impossible to deny the close bonds from a post-colonial perspective; Owe between a new “respect” for history – Ronström, professor of ethnology at both real and imaginary – and the sense the University College of Gotland, who of belonging, collective consciousness, discussed the cultural heritage situation in memory, and identity promised by Sweden; and Eszter Babarczy, associate shared memory. With the concept of professor at Moholy-Nagy University of “cultural heritage” as a thematic point of Art, Budapest, who discussed the cultural departure, Tensta Museum: Reports from strategies of the right wing in Hungary. New Sweden examines what it actually Tensta Museum: Reports from New means when the public debate concerning Sweden offers a richly contrasting memory and history is replaced by patchwork stretching across seven a preoccupation with memory and months in which manifold interests and “heritage.” expressions together form a narrative of This is also a question of what a new Sweden – its past, present and a happens when parties in general – and possible future. For this reason, Tensta the extreme right-wing in particular – konsthall is “playing museum” in order to claim rights of interpretation over the lend authority to a discussion of history, idea of national heritage. The symposium, and also to underline the need for stability Cultural Heritage: a treasure in search and continuity in the Tensta Konsthall of a value, addressed this question and Foundation. Since the gallery was founded took place at Tensta konsthall March in 1998 it has been run more as a project the 7th, 2013, in cooperation with than as an institution. Tensta Museum: Stockholm City Museum, as a part of Reports from New Sweden contains a Tensta Museum: Reports from New model of a 1969 brutalist pavilion in Sweden. The symposium was curated Newcastle which has been remixed by by the philosopher, Boris Buden from Thomas Elovsson and Peter Geschwind Zagreb and included Francoise Vergès, into something between a spacecraft and professor at the Center for Cultural a ruin, and moved to Tensta. A long- Studies, Goldsmiths College, who talked term collaboration on the politics of

2 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden listening between the artist Petra Bauer nature reserve Järvafältet on the edge and the political scientist, Sofia Wiberg, of Tensta. Researchers at the Swedish in collaboration with, among others, Museum of Natural History have given the Tensta-Hjulsta Women’s Centre, is the Stone Loach a decisive role in city presented in the form of a room and a planning, and even inputting a stop to the series of acts. Here questions concerning exploitation of the Järva fields during the housing and housing conditions are 1990’s building boom. central; they comprise a red thread In cooperation with the Spånga Local running through several of the exhibition’s Heritage Society and the Local History projects. Society, a selection of photographs of During the autumn 2013, The Silent Tensta from their collection will be University, initiated by artist Ahmet presented. The photos were taken prior to Ögüt, was established in Stockholm. It the start of the so-called Million Dwelling is an alternative knowledge platform run Programme. by and for asylum-seekers, refugees and A mini-exhibition with art that reflects migrants without documents who have late modern housing areas confirms the degrees from their home countries but no great interest artists have shown in the opportunity to apply their knowledge in subject since the 1990s. On Wednesdays, Sweden. The project aims at reactivating open tours will be given of the “model this silenced knowledge, thereby exposing apartment” in Tensta, a museum situated a systematic failure to take advantage of in the middle of an ordinary block of flats. valuable knowledge and experience. A visit there entails time-travelling back The art collective Järva Project will to late 1960’s Tensta: the apartment is a present an aquarium and a video using reconstruction of the Artursson family’s documentary film methods to investigate dwelling as it was when they moved there the relationship between fauna and sub- in 1969 as one of the first families to live in urbs, nature and the built environment. the newly-built district. The work concerns a rare and protected Meron Mangasha and Senhay Berhe’s fish, the Stone Loach, which lives in the Blue Blood, a tribute to an underground overgrown stream running through the train in words and moving images, will be shown at www.tenstakonsthall.se/ Museum, where the artist Katarina space. Other projects will take place Lundgren presents a new work based on at, for example, the library in Tensta, Granholmstoppen on the Järva Field, and where during the spring it will be at the Museum of Medieval Stockholm possible for library card holders to where the artists Bernd Krauss and Nine borrow art. In conjunction with Ross Svensson show Tensta Horse Racing Tensta Gymnasium’s 30th anniversary Society. During the period 16.12. 2013 in 2014, four works from their historical – 6.2. 2014 Tensta Museum: Reports art collection will be shown as part of from New Sweden will take parts of the Tensta Museum: Reports from New exhibition to Galerija Nova in Zagreb, Sweden. Among the works is a sketch where they will be included in Beginning by Carl Larsson for a wall painting in as Well as We Can: How Much Fascism Norra Latin, one of Tensta gymnasium’s Can We Take, a collaboration between predecessors in Stockholm. During the Tensta konsthall, WHW Zagreb, and exhibition period, Tensta Library will Grazer Kustverein, Graz. Participants have a branch with children’s literature in Tensta Museum on the Move include and books on local history in the gallery. Petra Bauer, Thomas Elovsson & Peter Tensta Museum hosts a full programme Geschwind, Järva Project, Livstycket, that includes historical walks, seminars Meron Mangash & Senay Berhe and with people who experienced early Tensta Adam Taal. and on the large international – but now Four texts specially written for Tensta forgotten – housing conference that book Museum, which may be found at www. place in Tensta in 1989. There will also tenstakonsthall.se/bag, Historien om be a lecture by the cultural geographer Tensta konsthall (The Story of Tensta Irene Molina on the increasing ethnic konsthall) by Jan Ekman; Tensta – en plats and socioeconomic segregation visible in som ständigt ska bli batter (Tensta – A Tensta and in other Million Programme place that is constantly going to be better) areas. by Emma Holmqvist; Mamsell Josabeth Branches of Tensta Museum Sjöberg by Lawen Mohtadi and Kulturarv can be found at the Stockholm City (Cultural Heritage) by Boris Buden. translate 3 Tours of Stockholm City Museum’s seekers had all been denied asylum by the model apartment at Kämpingebacken, Dutch migration authorities on the basis on Wednesdays at 14.00 (meet at Tensta of analyses of their pronunciation. The konsthall). Introduction to Tensta controversial use of language analysis to Museum, Reports from New Sweden, on determine asylum-seekers’ background Thursdays and Saturdays, 14.00. has become more and more common in In cooperation with: ABF (Workers’ rejecting legitimate demands for asylum. Educational Association), Tensta These tests are relatively unknown outside Library, Ross Tensta Gymnasium of specialists inside the field and creating (upper secondary school), Stockholm a series of images and diagrams is a way City Museum, the Museum of Medieval of making them more publicly known. Stockholm, Eggeby Farm, Friends of The language tests have been developed in Helga Henschen, The Royal Institute of Sweden through both public and private Technology, Architecture in Tensta, The research and it is here that the companies Institution of Contemporary History, selling their services to, for example, Södertorn University and the Stockholm authorities in The Netherlands, Great Association of Architects. Britain and Australia are found. Since the results of the tests often depend on 1. Lawrence Abu Hamdan how single words are pronounced and Contradictory Phonemes, brochure with the results are difficult to dispute, the diagram, 2013–14 images and diagrams in the brochure are Contradictory Phonemes is a result of meant to give the denied asylum-seeker an a meeting which took place in Utrecht alternative and non-verbal way to question in the Netherlands, in September 2012 their situation. The group in Utrecht when the artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan thought it was important to show how gathered together a group consisting of complex the situation in Somalia actually linguists, researchers, activists, refugee is and how difficult it is to simplify and art organizations, the graphic the voices and life histories of people designer, Janna Ullrich and a core group fleeing from conflicts and starvation. of Somali asylum-seekers. The asylum- Contradictory Phonemes has been shown in different forms in Casco in Utrecht and Lebanese government, to work on a the Tate Modern in London. Lawrence national social housing project in different Abu Hamdan, based in London and cities in Lebanon. One of these cities particularly interested in the relationship was the industrial suburb of Beirut, between the voice and the law, presents Mkalles, where Doxiadis proposed Contradictory Phonemes on Sunday, 19.1 eighteen different types of residential at 14:00. housing – adapted to the Mediterranean climate, varying terrain, and built with 2. Marwa Arsanios different kinds of building materials After Doxiadis Social Housing Project, – and a social and a town centre. All 2013 ongoing of this was designed for working-class Have you ever killed a bear? Or becoming families and other low wage-earners. The Jamila, performance, Wednesday 16.4, project was stopped in 1958 and since 18.30 in cooperation with the Royal then there has been no national plan for University College of Fine Arts social housing in Lebanon. Doxiadis This project is based in the architect is most known as the architect behind Constantinos Doxiadis’ (1914–75) plan Islamabad. He developed theories around from 1958 for social housing in Lebanon. “ekistics” – where and how people settle Because of the change of government, the – and he was especially interested in how plan was never executed but it still exists large-scale and complex areas come into in Doxiadis’ archives in Athens. The artist being. In the end, according to Doxiadis, Marwa Arsanios (Beirut) has recreated in they could encompass a global city, the models two of the many types of buildings “ecumenopolis”. that Doxiadis developed. She questions Have you ever killed a bear? Or how a corresponding project, based on becoming Jamila, is a lecture-performance ideas of social justice and housing for all, that uses the Cairo-based magazine, could look today. How does contemporary Al-Hilal´s issues from the 1950s and architecture relate to these ideas? 1960s as the starting point for a portrait Doxiadis began as an architect in of the Algerian freedom fighter, Beirut in 1955 on the invitation of the Jamila Bouhired. From the different

4 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden representations of Jamila in the cinema years. In Tensta he will create over a and in the magazine, Arsanios discovers period of six months a kind of living the history of socialist projects (Egypt), archive together with local musicians anti-colonial wars (Algeria) and how and people interested in music. It will feminist projects were portrayed and become a bank of experience, whose marginalized. To consolidate gender constant changes and elaborations take division has long been used to marginalize place through encounters, listening women from the public sphere, but during together, improvisational concerts and the Algerian war of independence this conversations about music. All this situation changed: Jamila became its icon. will end up in various pieces of music Different voices and materials are used to that can be heard in the gallery café. explore this history. What does it mean to A performance of new music, which play the role of the freedom fighter? What includes contributions from the public and does it mean to become an icon? How can feedback in a collective creative process, is the combination of role-play and political planned in May 2014 at Taxingeplan. projects serve certain political purposes? 4. Petra Bauer & Sofia Wiberg in 3. Tarek Atoui collaboration with the Women’s Centre Visiting Tarab, music list in Tensta in Tensta-Hjulsta (KITH) & Filippa Konsthall’s café, meetings, shared Ståhlhane. listening, improvisation concerts and Rehearsals – eight acts on the politics of conversations about music, 2013-2014 listening The artist and musician, Tarek Atoui’s Room with furnishings, which will be (Lebanon/Paris) contribution to Tensta taken over by KITH after the exhibition at Museum comes from his ongoing work Tensta Museum, 2013. with the music genre, Tarab, and other Rehearsals is about learning to listen and classical Arabian music. It has a very not understand, as a political act. In the sparsely documented history which Atoui, West, the voice is often emphasized – that trained in electro-acoustic music and is, the importance of having a voice and sound art, has delved into over several the importance of being heard. It is often said that a voice can create a political collective, Ultra Red. Carina Listerborn, subject. Rehearsals aims to change that: professor of Urban Design at Malmö the radical act is more about listening University, participated in the second act, and less about being heard. Is it possible, Power, body and space. It reflected her through listening, to create a new form of most recent research focusing on housing sharing? Listening as a political method and residential planning, which considered is investigated in eight acts. The general how gender consciousness can create a theme for the acts is the dwelling, a subject more attentive and self-aware planning that affects many people, if in different practice. To participate in the acts, mail: ways. Through listening, experiences are [email protected]. Limited shared with others regarding housing, number of places. the home and living conditions. Together Act 3 30.1 The language of movement, with KITH, a multi-ethnic association, Stina Nyberg with about 250 members and premises Act 4 18.2 The politics of feeling, Petra on Glömmingegränd, and the architect Bauer and sofia Wiberg Filippa Stålhane (Stockholm), the artist Act 5 18.3 Everyday get-togethers, KITH and film-maker, Petra Bauer (Stockholm) Act 6 29.4 Earthly investigations, Hong- and political scientist and researcher, Kai Wang Sofia Wiberg (Stockholm) have created Act 7 .5 The politics of feelings. a corridor for listening in the gallery. It will function as a stage for the eight acts. 5. Sisters! How this space is formed is based on the Film 72 min, 2011 women’s needs for a flexible space which Petra Bauer’s film Sisters! is part can be used for the various activities of the artist’s ongoing investigation of they carry out – for instance, language film as a political act. It was produced teaching, sewing courses and various in collaboration with the feminist kinds of everyday get-togethers. organization, Southall Black Sisters in Rehearsals started with a dance party London, and concerns their work against and the first act, What do we hear? took the oppression of black women. The place in cooperation with the sound film shows us political resistance in its translate 5 most everyday form, where daily work visually focus on modernity’s forgotten and political perseverance is central. or abandoned possibilities to improve The film is part of a larger project which people’s everyday lives. This can be seen includes research on British feminist film as a counter to the book’s clichéd view of production and theory formation from the scaled-down forms of architectural the 1970s. Sisters! reflects the possibilities functionalism and its simple materials as provided by the moving image for social ugly and monotonous. and political negotiations. Petra Bauer Wolfe’s book, in many ways a simplistic is an artist and filmmaker, based in critique of modernism, had a great Stockholm. She is interested in film as effect on the general understanding a political and collective practice and in of modernist architecture. In Bitter & how stories are created, presented and Weber’s Wallpaper, however it is not the represented through the moving image. content of Wolfe’s book that is significant but the pictures of buildings, namely, the 6. Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber late modernist New York University Silver From Our House to Bauhaus – Occupy Towers Housing Complex. Bitter & Weber, Modernity artists based in Vancouver and Vienna, Wallpaper, 2012 have been working since 1993 with projects Living Megastructures, video, 25 min. that deal with specific moments and logic, Spanish/English, 2003-2004 where global urban changes have occurred in different architectural areas and The wallpaper, From Our House to situations. They mainly use photography Bauhaus – Occupy Modernity is a series and video. Together with Jeff Derksen, of images using the layout and title of Tom they have been members of the research Wolfe’s controversial book, From Our group, Urban Subjects, since 2004. House to Bauhaus (1981). The wallpaper In Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, there is organizes the page numbers of the book “23 de Enero”, an enormous modernistic into a grid and presents the original building complex consisting of eighty images as white surfaces. Then the text buildings. 23 de Enero was designed is transformed into image in order to by Carlos Raul Villaneueva during the rule of the dictator, Perez Jimenez. In Konstfrämjandet (the Promotion of Art) conjunction with a revolt against the took the first step towards spreading out dictator in 1958, four thousand of the nine via libraries and gradually the Artotek 73 thousand unfinished flats were occupied model was developed. Forty graphics were by the poor and farmers. In their film, the made available for borrowing at some Bitter & Weber interview the residents fifty libraries in Sweden, amongst others, about their opinions of the housing the library in Tensta. Tensta Museum complex. Architects, activists, government presents Artotek, a contemporary platform experts and artists discuss the relationship for borrowing art and public meetings. between the forces that formed Caracas. During February-May 2014 it is possible to One of them is the new constitution, borrow art at Tensta Library for everyone undertaken by the now deceased with a library card from Stockholm president, Hugo Chavez. The constitution Municipal Library. Ten artists (Sarah has had a significant impact on the lives of Degerhammar, Ingrid Furre, Torsten Venezuelans as it has put great stress on Jurell, Lise Haurum, Malin Holmberg, democratic participation. It is no longer Anna-Lena Jaktlund, Sofia Kråka, Sanna androcentric and is written in an easily Marander, Carl-Johan Rosén and Claes comprehensible language. In retrospect, Tellvid) have contributed work that in the mass occupation of 23 Enero can be diverse ways relates to the concept of the seen as a type of social practice which library. There is even an opportunity for resembles what in Europe is called, those interested to join a study circle, “Art “participatory architecture”, a method and the People’s Home”, which will meet allowing and even encouraging citizens’ at Tensta Library during the Artotek engagement in architectural projects. period. Artotek will follow up the concept of outreach art and problematise the bio- 7. Hans Carlsson polical ambitions of the library and the Artotek, loaning out newly created art at people’s home. The project will also look Tensta Library, opening 27.2, 16.30 at what conversations and encounters Study circle can arise in the borderland between In 1970, the organization different cultural spheres and in the

6 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden intersection between art and mediation. In and Geschwind’s version, the pavilion has collaboration with Konstfrämjandet. been moved, redone and placed in another context. It contains its history but it has 8. Thomas Elovsson & also acquired a new, more speculative Peter Geschwind form that reveals what the pavilion could Time – Space Shuttle (Apollo Pavillion), have been in another time and at another model in cellophane plastic and video place. The whole project reflects Elovsson’s projection, 2013 interest in recent art history. As so often The science fiction-inspired model, is the case with Geschwind, science fiction Time-Space Shuttle (Apollo Pavilion) is films and computer games are recalled in a reworked version of Victor Pasmore’s how the pavilion is presented with video abstract sculpture, Apollo Pavilion, from projections on its outside. Is the pavilion a 1969, which is placed in the middle of UFO,a space rocket or perhaps a ruin from a housing area in Peterlee. Peterlee is a the future? It attests to parallel stories and small community, south of Newcastle un- discovered possibilities for a building in England, and was part of the British that was considered hopeless. Geschwind investment in housing, the New Town will present their project on Saturday 1.2, project, which was started in the 1950s. 15:00. The New Town project was similar in many ways to the Swedish Million- Dwelling Håkan Forsell Programme (1965–74) and entailed a huge From city life to lifestyle – housing and commitment to residential building. The urbanity over a century original pavilion was a mix of pavilion, Lecture, Wednesday 5.2, 18.30 bridge and sculpture, which has been That the choice of housing policy vandalized and despised; but a few years changes life in cities is no startling ago was nevertheless saved by a hair’s statement. Nevertheless, questions breadth from being razed through a grass- concerning the effects of forms of roots campaign. It has been restored and is tenure, cost, and design on the economy, now enjoyed by many people in Peterlee. culture, and social conditions of In the Stockholm-based artists, Elovsson urban environments are rarely asked.

During the 20th century, Swedish cities aims to find a space for encounters and were marked by a variety of strong dialogue between different actors and developmental blocks that have centered the public about social economic uses of on the housing sector, with concomitant the land at Hästa Gård on Järvafältet, social and political reforms. How has the which is developed in a pilot activation home, after having changed from being programme for the cultivating season necessary via being ”the good” to being through 2014. The publication collects an attractive dwelling, shaped the city the views and experiences of going to the environment and its working life, street land, and the map is intended as a tool life, mobility, demography and values? for projection, planning and modeling Forsell is an historian of urban life, the situation and possibly the evolution of research fellow in history at Stockholm the site. The short film is part of a series University and researcher at the IRS/ of works that engages with the Swedish Center for Metropolitan Studies at the countryside and the particular social and Technical University in Berlin. He has environmental context of Hästa Gård at recently published the collection of essays, Järvafältet outside of Stockholm. The Bebodda platser. Studier av vår urbana film was screened during “Visions for the samtidshistory (Inhabited Places: Studies Countryside”, a roundtable discussion at of our contemporary urban history), Tensta konsthall, on the 8th of December, (Arkitektur Publishers, 2013). 2013. This is a video portrait of Rafael Altez Calderon, who is autonomously 9. Fernando Garcia Dory & Erik Sjödin cultivating two hectares of land at Hästa Part 2 of A Model Farm Project: Shifting Gård and who introduces his work by Land establishing an ecological cultivation in Publication sample, drawing, collage map, order to support a transition to a social- video portrait, 2013–2014 ecological society and a re-activation of The artists present a work space and the countryside, based on perma-culture installation at the gallery space that will principles. change in light of the materials produced What is our present and future for the in a social sculpture. The project that countryside and for farming? How can translate 7 art be presented in new ways through European cultural strategy that tests and the condition of the earth and the earth innovates around contemporary culture, through art? On the Järvafältet, which agriculture and the rural situation – their has belonged to the military, but which systems, economies, colonial histories is now a natural conservation area, and transformations. The artist, Erik surrounded by the results of Stockholm’s Sjödin, has demonstrated an interest in urban expansion during the 1960s and the political history of the bee and in 1970s, lies several old farms. One of them cultivation and the under-water plant, still functions, Hästa Gård, which with azolla. In collaboration with Stockholm its 185 hectares continues to have a mix of Konst. cultivation – pastures, cattle, sheep and vegetables. Both the farm’s existence and Barakat Ghebrehawariat with its activities have remained invisible for Revolution Poetry: Nachla Libre, Yodit most people. A cultural strategy which Girmay-Abraha and Mustafa Kibar involves local actors, farmers, national Welcome to Scam Society – three organizations like Konstfrämjandet, interpretations the National Association of Farmers, Three talks interpreted by three poets and cultural institutions such as Tensta at Tensta Museum openings, 26.10 and konsthall, was developed to highlight 18.1, and at the closing, 18.5. important contemporary questions As he himself describes it, democracy that affect the role and function of art, agent Ghebrehawariat’s (Stockholm) series territorial changes, bio-political tensions, of talks is “A dystopy written in dyslexia – necessary transitions to sustainable that happens when letters change hands, in models, problematic identities and an upside down world, where ‘m’ becomes potential futures. Ever since 2009, the ‘s’ and ‘sd’ is spelled ‘svt’.” Together with artist Fernando Garcia-Dory, based in poetry slam network, Revolution Poetry, Madrid, in Mallorca and in the mountains initiated by Nachla Libre (Stockholm), he in northern Spain, worked as a para- links together politics, pathos and poetry. institution, “Inland”, in various countries, He writes: “21st century Sweden is in a with an idea of building a common crisis. Racism is having a renaissance and segregation has surfaced as one of environments gathered in sequences of our most urgent issues. Today our living film, each of which follows its own logic. conditions are strongly bound up with Accompanied by music as well as street the three Ps: Pigment – purse – penis sounds, each segment proposes a different privileges. The only thing that denotes “P” small drama – from paper flying in the for ruin is another Big “P”: Politics. But air in Buenos Aires to a dog caught in a post-political culture and nomenclature downpour in Taipei. Gonzalez-Foerster’s lack the levels of imagination, energy and (Paris) environments invite an abstraction daring that are demanded to speak outside or mystery, the sense of place derived the same frames that they have instituted is as much one to be completed by the and uphold. Sickness cannot be expelled viewer’s own projected understanding and by sickness. Homeopathy, it’s been shown, interpretation as it is an inherent feature is a dead-end.” of the site. Her work is characterized by a quiet, intimate interrogation of 10. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster contemporary urban life, including late Parc Central modern architecture. Her films explore 11 short films, 50 min, 1998-2003 cinematic conventions, temporality and Kyoto bathes in blue light as the subjective experience. tracking shot makes its way down the river. The slow, soft guitar music brings 11. Grand Domestic Revolution, a certain cinematic sense combined with exhibition design, The Usual Things, by one’s uncertainty of the time of day. Parc Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén Central (2006) is a compilation of eleven The Grand Domestic Revolution short films that were filmed between participates in Tensta Museum: Reports 1998 and 2003. Parc Central takes the from New Sweden with its library. The viewer to parks, beaches, deserts and library is a growing collection of over two urban landscapes – from Kyoto to Rio, hundred books, documents, and films as through Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, “revolutionary” tools. The books deal Brazil and Paris. This work captures with domestic labour, organising methods, various urban, suburban and non-urban artistic and architectural methods of

8 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden participation and cooperation, feminism, architects, gardeners, activists and others alternative economies, philosophical to investigate and expand the status of the inquiry of idea of community and feminist home outside the narrow lens of private utopian sci-fi novels. The selection from concerns to accommodate interest in new the Library is shown in an installation designs, different ways of living and the created by the Gothenburg-based artist formation of collective identities through duo Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén, who and in the domestic sphere. associate to the idea of the “total work Casco – Office for Art, Design of art”. They have been interested in the and Theory is an Utrecht-based Bloomsbury group and their alternative public institution for art and design lifestyles in early 20th century London. research, focusing on cross-disciplinary, The Grand Domestic Revolution collaborative and process-driven (GDR) is an ongoing ‘living research’ approaches. Casco’s activities include project initiated by Casco – Office for exhibitions, workshops, fora, publishing, Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht. screenings, performances and education. The project focuses on the sphere of the The Grand Domestic Revolution has been home and household questions and aims curated by Binna Choi and Maiko Tanaka at stimulated other ways of living and with support of Yolande van der Heide. working than those we are used to. GDR Binna Choi presents GDR on Sunday, has previously been shown in a flat in 19.1, 14.00. Utrecht, from 2009-2011, as a residency, in larger exhibition at Casco in 2011-2012, 20. Heidrun Holzfeind and continues to be exhibited through the Corviale, il serpentone (The Snake) Video, international tour, GDR Goes On. GDR dvd, 34 min. stereo, 2001 is inspired byt the materialistic feminist Za Zelazna Brama (Behind the Iron movement in the US, which during the late Gates), video, hdv, 55 min. 2009 19th century, experimented with collective Colonnade Park, video, hdv, 54 min, 2001 solutions for an isolated domestic life Corviale is a kilometer-long housing and household work. GDR involved complex on the edge of Rome. The artists, designers, domestic workers, complex was commissioned in 1972 by

IACP (The Social Housing Institute) and Gates) depicts everyday life in a housing a group of architects, headed by Mario area in central Warsaw that was built Fiorentino, was given the task of solving during the communist era, in 1965–1972, the acute housing shortage for working on the ruins of the so-called “little Jewish class families who were there then. ghetto”. The area consists of nineteen However, the housing complex was built buildings, all 16 storeys high, and built like a wall which would prevent the town according to rational modern principles. from spreading out into the landscape. In the 1970s, the area was a symbol of When Corviale was finished in 1983 it technical progress and Polish socialist became the home for 9,500 people. The prosperity. Today many see the housing complex was designed according to Le district as inferior with its small flats, an Corbusier’s ideas about social housing unwelcome reminder of the communist – for instance that all the necessary era. Most of the 25,000 inhabitants are infrastructure in a city should be within students, pensioners or childless couples, the housing complex to encourage social but there is also a growing number of contacts among the residents. For political Vietnamese and Jewish people who reasons, many of the original structures have moved there recently. Many post- were never realized, or, almost twenty modern blocks of flats, office buildings years after the first tenants moved in, not and hotels have been built between the completed. In Holzfeind’s film, the tenants original buildings since 1989. This has discuss the lack of infrastructure and how meant that not only have green areas Corviale is often castigated as a ghetto, disappeared, but also the original idea with high unemployment, crime and drug behind the district has been lost. The film abuse. The film concerns this example of contains conversations with inhabitants failed modernist utopian architecture that and pictures of corridors, flats, entry ways, has been a mishap socially. Interviews shops, playgrounds and schools in the with residents are mixed with music videos district. of Romani hip hop that brings up social Colonnade Park. Between 1954 and 1960, questions. the residential buildings, Colonnade Za Zelazna Brama (Behind the Iron and Pavilions, designed by Mies van der translate 9 Rohe, were built in Newark, New Jersey. 13–15. The Järva Project Together they form three large complexes The Local Heritage Aquarium in glass and steel, and in the middle of Aquarium with Stone Loach, 2013 them, Christopher Columbus Homes, Stone Loach (Barbatula Baratula) in a social housing project, was erected. Igelbäcken, video, 15 min, 2013 These buildings initiated the beginning Video portrait of Mila Ivanow, video, 25 of urban renewal in Newark. In the film, min, 2013-10-21 life in the district is depicted through The Järva Project, an artistic collective conversations with tenants, who tell initiative, based in Stockholm, consisting of their experiences of living in these of the artists, Fredrik Ehlin, Patrick classic modernist buildings, at the same Kretschek and Erik Rosshagen, show time as we see photos of the flats and an aquarium and a video which, using fantastic views from the windows. www. documentary film methods, investigates heidrunholzfeind.com the relationship between fauna and the suburbs, nature and the surrounding 27. Mila Ivanow built environment. The work centres on Since the 1940s painting has been the rare and protected fish, the Stone an important part of Ivanow’s life. As a Loach, who lives an anonymous life in young woman she took private lessons an overgrown stream that flows through with the Finish painter Birger Carlstedt. the nature reserve, Järva Field. Järva After retirement she could spend more time Field is a former military training ground painting. To cover the costs she was working which is now a recreation area for the as a therapist at night. The days were spent surrounding suburbs of Rinkeby,Tensta, in her studio on Södermalm. Ivanow is Hjulsta, Kista, Huby and Akalla. The Stone depticting the world around her with color. Loach, which lies buried in sandy creek She was born in Vasa in 1914 and she moved bottoms most of the year, was, via researchers to Stockholm after WWII. In 1969 she moved at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, to Rinkeby and since one year she lives in given a decisive role in city planning and Kista. A video portrait of Mila Ivanow by unexpectedly halted the exploitation of Järva The Järva Project is shown (see no. 15). Field during the 1990’s building boom.

The Local Heritage Aquarium is an tongue than Swedish would be able to attempt at documenting contemporary keep their first language. In the film she history, using in a Gogol-like way both also talks about her painting. Five of her the field and the unique fish, the Stone paintings were included in Salon Tensta, Loach, to relate how our cities grow out which was part of Tensta Museum´s of the patchwork of political visions. Fall Department. The Järva Project The artists are not only interested in will present its work and lead a walk to a narrative that relates critically and Eggeby Farm and Järva Field on Friday analytically to the image of the place 25.4, 15:00. that is reproduced in various media, but also to different forms of narrative. The 16. Behzad Khosravi Noori and René project began as a site-specific production León Rosales space at Tensta Konsthall, and since 2009 Incandescence (Glöd), video, 51 min, 2014 has resulted in a solo exhibition at Tensta The film Incandescence (Glöd) is a Konsthall in 2010 and a publication. The reflection on the experiences that young research material generated is collected people from Husby have of the mass media at www.jarvaprojektet.se. The Järva coverage of their area, of discriminatory Project has been funded by the Swedish situations in school and everyday life. Arts Grants Committee, the Längmanska The film is based on an interview that the Cultural Fund and the Helge Ax:son artist Behzad Khosravi Noori (Teheran / Johnsson Foundation. Stockholm) and the ethnologist René León The second film is a portrait of 99 year- Rosales conducted during the summer old Mila Ivanow, who moved to Rinkeby of 2012 with young people engaged in in 1969, but has lived in Kista for a year. Megafonen, an organization that works She was born in 1914 in Vasa, now Finland for social justice in stigmatized and but then Russia, and came to Sweden after economically deprived neighbourhoods . the Second World War. As Stockholm’s Megafonen has for years worked to first immigrant consultant she worked help and organize young people from such in Tensta during the 1970s, trying to areas, through homework, youth camps, ensure that children with another mother seminars, demonstrations, etc. During

10 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden the riots that followed the shooting to and Tensta residents, Anisa Omar and death of a 68 year-old man in a police Bilan Rage, together with Tensta konsthall intervention in the summer of 2013, mediator, Safiya Guleed and the artist Megafonen was one of the voices in the Nina Svensson. During 2013 they have debate that put the riots in the context of met with various Tensta residents to the area’s socio-economic vulnerability, interview them about their Tensta. They and also highlighted inaccuracies in the have received questions such as: Could first information that the police gave about you imagine moving from Tensta? If you the man’s death . In connection with the were mayor of Tensta for a day what riots many cars were burnt, and images of would you change? And what do you burning cars came to be what many people think of Tensta? Some of the interviewees outside Husby came to associate with the were visited in their homes. They talked area. about personal memories and places in In this film, artist Behzad Khosravi Tensta and what Tensta is for them and Noori uses the testimonies of experiences how they think the district will be in the of discrimination in everyday life that future. The interviews have proceeded members from Megafonen gave during from meetings where the participants the interview to create a piece about the themselves have chosen the place– at their experiences of exclusion which must be home, at a relatives’ or a more neutral seen as a background to both the youth place out of doors. Questions and answers engagement and the riots in Husby during have been direct where Anisa Omar the summer of 2013. Behzad Khosravi and Bilan Rage both films and did the Noori will talk about their work Sunday interviews themselves. They have had free 2.3, 14:00. hands regarding how they film and what questions they ask. Their working method 17. Konsthallsklubben (the Gallery became a kind of role-play – reporter and Club) camera person. Our Tensta, video 40 min, 2013 Anisa Omar and Bilan Rage were This video collage with interviews has involved in creating Konsthallsklubben been made by lower secondary students at Tensta konsthall. The club was started in 2011, on the initiative of a group of 11 in the fields of Tensta farms prior to the year-old girls from a nearby school. The start of the Million Dwelling Programme), club’s members were 10–13 years old and courses about horses, a racing day at they met every Wednesday afternoon Taxingeplan in front of Tensta konsthall, and together invited artists and gallery outings to Bergsåker with students from staff for discussions and working with Sundsvall and Skvadern Upper Secondary art. Their work was based in the gallery School, a trip to Jakobstad in Finland but also took place in other places in and local race courses and a visit to the Tensta. Through outings to other parts stalls of Kjell Scarvar. The Society is of Stockholm, the gallery club moved in open to all and welcomes various kinds of the city for other activities and projects, cooperation that supports Tensta Horse whose content was determined in dialogue Racing Society’s interests and goals. with the participants and could be visits The installation consists of betting shop to exhibitions, film projects, volcano- receipts, forged in aluminium, rolls of building, dance and karaoke. Today, since foam rubber from the art camp at Tensta its members are spread out in different konsthall in the summer of 2013, which upper secondary schools, the club is were used when things were moved, dust dormant. from the Solvalla track in Stockholm, and portraits (member posters) of children Bernd Krauss & Nina Svensson with the large sunglasses typical of racing Tensta Museum’s branch at the Museum jockeys. The artists have been working of Medieval Stockholm: Tensta Horse with an intermediate level class from Racing Society Askebyskolan, Rinkeby. In cooperation Tensta Horse Racing Society is with the Museum of Medieval Stockholm. presented at the Museum of Medieval On Saturday, 12.4, 14.00 the artists Bernd Stockholm by laying racing tracks in Krauss & Nina Svensson will present Tensta, the rest of Sweden and the world. Tensta Horse Racing Society at the So far, Tensta Horse Racing Society has Museum of Medieval Stockholm. hosted walks and visits at the race course in Solvalla (whose horses could be found translate 11 18. The Royal Institute of Technology history and photos from the archives of in Tensta the Traffic Department. Students’ work Photographs from the Traffic Department will be presented at Tensta konsthall on archives and student presentations, two occasions. Wednesday 22.1, 18.30 and Sunday 26.1, 14.00. 19. The Kurdish Association Spånga The Royal Institute of Technology Archive material from the Kurdish in Tensta is a preparatory school of Association Spånga, the Kurdish National architecture and housing for people who association and Rohat Alakom, from 1970 are curious about these subjects. The until today school, which has existed since 2008 and Lecture Sunday, 23.2, 14.00. Rohat located in Ross Tensta Upper Secondary Alakom: When Sweden became the land School, is conceived as a natural link to of the Kurds. advanced studies through its presence One of Tensta’s most active associations and activities in Tensta. During the is the Kurdish Association. About two autumn The Royal Institute of Technology thousand Kurds live in Tensta and the in Tensta, under the leadership of the association has provided a meeting place architects Stefan Peterson and Per Elde, for many of them, as well as for others. has worked with a series of investigations The association, which was founded in around memory and notions of public 1986, is a non-political and non-religious space. The work has concerned individual organization and every year arranges and subjective interpretations of a large Newroz bonfire at Eggeby farm these spaces. It has been about spaces at Järva Field, with up to ten tousand undergoing constant change, areas which participants. The history of the Kurdish are basically everyday physical meeting Association Spånga is not only about places with historical connections but the association’s own activities but also today also become clearly mediated about the migration history of Kurds in political arenas. The students discuss Sweden. That history, in turn, reflects both these issues, making a series of individual Sweden’s post-war migration policies and proposals that are based on Tensta’s political events around the world.

Kurds live in an area as large as France, Kurds have been moving to Sweden for which borders on Turkey, Iran, Irak and about 50 years but their common history Syria. Despite having a population of over is much longer. The writer Rohat Alakom forty million, the Kurds are a stateless has described in a number of books and people, with limited citizens’ rights - a texts the history of the Kurds in Sweden situation which has caused discord and – a varied, suprising and up to now, decenniums of uprisings, often with not very well-known story. Swedes’ and disastrous consequences. For these Kurds’ paths crossed already during the reasons, many Kurds find themselves in Viking era; they probably met in 943 in transit. Kurds’ claims to have a country conjunction with the conquering of the city of their own have provoked occupation of Berda’a in present-day Azerbadzjan. powers into introducing strict cultural Alakom came to Sweden in the beginning limitations. That it is forbidden in Turkey of the 1980s and combined working as a to speak or teach the Kurdish language is home-language teacher with writing books one of many examples of these restrictions. such as Kurder i den moderna turkiska Kurdish culture is rich and varied and litteraturen (Kurds in Modern Turkish it places great weight on oral traditions, Literature) (1989); En kvinnomakt i den with music and poetry. One logical kurdiska folklore (Women’s Power in consequence after many years of cultural Kurdish Folklore) (1994); Svensk-kurdiska oppression in their homelands is an active kontakter under tusen år (Swedish- group and cultural life in Sweden. Kurdish Contacts over One Thousand On Sunday 23.2 there will be a lecture by Years) (2000); Kurder – 40 år i Sverige Rohat Alakom: When Sweden became the (Kurds – 40 Years in Sweden) (2007). The land of the Kurds. On Sunday 23.3, 14.00 history of the Kurds includes a throng Newroz (New Year) will be celebrated at of individuals, encounters, coincidences Tensta konsthall. On Sunday 27.4 there and twists and turns. Kurds, who in their will be a Kurdish culture day, with the homelands often have been deprived of National Kurdish Association and the the possibility to preserve and express Kurdish Association Spånga. In cooperation their cultural heritage, have over centuries with the Kurdish Association Spånga developed a culture often influenced by

12 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden this oppression and the Kurds’ longing for from Tigrinja, who would later become their own nation. In his lecture Alakom Sweden’s first female imam. will talk about some of the key events from It was another time, before the 1990’s this fascinating history. crisis, although no idyllic place. The Swedish title “BSB” stood for ”Bevara 21. Brita Landoff Sverige Blandat” which translates “Keep BRB – Bland svarskallar och blekfisar Sweden Mixed” in reaction to the racist (Pride of race and Pride of place) “BSS” - “Keep Sweden Swedish”. It was A documentary film, produced and also a time characterized by a certain directed by Brita Landoff, photo, Erik optimism – the end of the Cold War Strömdahl. A co-production with Swedish – a short period before new conflicts Television, 58 min, 1988 prompted new waves of refugees. The film 16mm, format 16:9, length 58 min. tried to capture the energy of that time. It’s Tensta gymnasium in the spring of a rhapsodic narrative, an attempt to catch 1988. Half of the students have their family individual stories and perspectives in the background in Sweden and the other turmoil, in the scheduled chaos, that is half in around thirty other countries. school. Today it is a piece of history. The film shows the living organism that Brita Landoff has long experience a school can be, a constant movement of working as an independent film-maker. people and ideas. Here, individuals with She has also had a number of commissions different references and experiences are and positions within film production. placed together What connects them is Since spring 2013 she has been preparing their youth and their ambition to acquire a new film at Ross Tensta Gymnasium. a Swedish education, but the exchanges On Wednesday 19.2, 18:30 Brita Landoff between them are enlarged when different and Headmistress, Sofie Abrahamsson perspectives are confronted. In this will discuss Ross Tensta Upper Secondary teeming film, we hear some of the student School’s last thirty years. In cooperation voices, like Therese from Borlänge, with Ross Tensta Upper Secondary Alejandro from Montevideo, Aycan from School. Homs, Esperanza from Beirut and Suad

20. Minouk Lim changing, being transformed into a ‘new New Town Ghost town’: a symbol of a new area not only Video, 11 min, 2005 for Lim but also for other Koreans of the “I have nowhere to go, I am a New same generation. Town Ghost”, screams a young woman into the microphone of a portable 22. Katarina Lundgren loudspeaker in the opening sequence of Artificial Heights, video 15 min, 2014 the video, New Town Ghost (2005). Lim Stockholm’s Tips and Tops, poster, 50 x 70 (Seoul) wrote a text which she asked a cm, 2013 young Korean slam poet to perform, Tensta Museum branch, Stockholm’s backed up by a drummer and the Tips and Tops at Stockholm City Museum perplexed looks of pedestrians in Seoul. In the Stockholm area there are a number The poet performs to the drumbeat as they of artificial heights, mounds which were are driven around on top of a truck in the the results of modern city planning in neighbourhood of Yeongdeungpo. In 2005 the city centre and suburbs in 1950–1980. this area was in the midst of a planned Högdals mounds, south of the city, consist redevelopment, a continuous threat from of the remains of demolition in the central reckless privatisation and real estate city and the Klara quarter. Granholms development that constantly changed mound, in Järva Field, was formed from the outline of the neighbourhood. It is material left over from the building of an example of recent large scale housing Tensta and Rinkeby. At Ullnasjön in schemes, fraught with other problems Arnige is the city’s largest active tip area, than those of Sweden’s Million Dwelling previously a ski slope, on its way to be Programme. Lim’s work often takes on a the county’s highest point. Together these poetic vocabulary and political criticism, tips and tops comprise an alternative and principally of Korean society, and the parallel narrative on the city’s growth stark leap Korea has taken to modernise and what has become of what there was itself. For more than a century this part before. Discarded, thrown-away material of Seoul, Yeongdeungpo, had been an is reused, given a new form and function important industrial area. It is now rapidly as large-scale park landscapes. Today translate 13 these compose a borderland between 23. Meron Mangasha & Senay Berhe nature and culture, overgrown parks, neat Blue Blood www.tenstakonsthall.se/space, frisbee golf courses and potential skiing 6 min, 2013 facilities. Neglected surfaces which have Blue Blood portrays the Blue Line in realized a potential to be transformed by Stockholm’s underground, narrated new projects. visually, powered by words. It is an The artist, Katarina Lundgren’s film attempt to reflect and immortalize the shows the Högdal, Granholm mounds time and environment we are living in and the Ullna tip and includes interviews now. Blue Blood was recorded along the with people who in various ways relate to route of the Blue Line on two occasions, these sites. Karin Melinder, PhD in Social and it shows places and environments that Medicine describes the Högdal mounds belong to all. In order to avoid connecting as forgotten landscape sculptures and a a face or a particular group of people to silent cultural heritage. Anders Sandberg, the place, the film has been made at night, retired municipal gardner gives a picture in empty places. During the day these of the work and the ideology behind the places are full of people with different construction of the mounds. Roland backgrounds and cultures, but in the film Kahlson, development manager for Ullna they are now pared down and anonymous. tip, talks about how one works with such Inspired by a quote from the poet Arthur tips today and they can be developed in Lundqvist at the Näckrosen underground the future. station, Mangasha, who works with poetry The exhibition also includes a poster, a and the spoken word, wrote a poem which collection of ten tips and mounds categorized was then interpreted visually by Berhay, according to height. The work makes who works with film, both as an artist and references to another poster which was in commercially. Blue Blood is a celebration the artist’s childhood home, which depicted of the Blue Line but also conveys mixed Stockholm’s towers and pinnacles. On feelings about the places along its tracks. Thursday, 20.2, 18.00 Katarina Lundgren will talk about her work with Stockholm’s tips and tops. At Stockholm City Museum.

24. Helena Mattson, Meike Schalk and archive will change during the exhibition Sara Brolund de Carvalho period, partly through changes in the Aktion Arkiv in Tensta collected material and partly through Archive material, mobile presentation and focusing on three different themes. First events, 2014 the housing renewal conference in 1989 In 1989, Stockholms fastighetsnämnd will be the centre of attention, followed organized a large international housing by Cooperative Project Tensta, 1989–1995 conference in Tensta, which gathered at Glömmingegränd by Loggia architects together experts from important renewal AB and the architect, Ylva Larsson, projects in, eg France, Turkey, England and finally, citizens’ initiative from the and the US. The conference became the 1960s and 70s up to the present. These starting point for a new era of citizen three themes will be intensified through participation and several housing renewal three actions: a witness seminar on the projects, carried out together with the housing renewal conference in 1989, with residents, were initiated in Tensta. Most of participants in the conference such as the material from the conference has been architect Rod Hackney and planner, Erol lost, possibly because of reorganization Sayin; a seminar at Glömmingegränd within the local authority, possibly with, amongst others, the architect Ylva because of lack of interest. However, Larsson, and a debate, “The Battle for Mattsson, Schalk and Brolund de Space”, with invited activists from the Carvalho contend that both the conference 1960s until today. and the subsequent renewal projects are Aktion Arkiv is an association led central to Swedish history and important by Helena Mattsson, Meike Schalk and bits of the picture in order to understand Sara Brolund de Carvalho. Aktion Arkiv both the development of architecture and develops a participatory historical record the urban history of Tensta. through actions that bring together During the spring, Aktion Arkiv various actors and the public around in Tensta will build up an interactive urban cultural, historical and political archive to collect disappeared material issues. The archive collects material and and undocumented knowledge. The functions as a generator for discussion,

14 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden like a round table, which contributes the most segregated today according to the collection and documentation of to international comparisons. There narratives and material. are a number of factors explaining why On Saturday 22.2, 15:00 Helena Mattsson, segregation arises and is reinforced. Meike Schalk and Sara Brolund de In stigmatized housing areas, job Carvalho will present Aktion Arkiv in opportunities, social services and Tensta. On Wednesday 5.3, 18:30 a witness gathering places have disappeared, being seminar will take place in cooperation replaced by the increasingly heavy-handed with the Institute of Contemporary presence of police and guards. Molina History, Södertorn University. On will discuss the actors and mechanisms Sunday 13.4 a seminar will be held at that have created segregation in Sweden, Glömmingegränd with Ylva Larsson. On consider urban violence and what Thursday 8.5 Aktion Arkiv will host a segregation has to do with recent riots. debate, “The Battle for Space” at ABF. Irene Molina is professor of Cultural Geography at IBF (Institute for Housing Irene Molina Research) at Uppsala University. Her How will it be when welfare is exchanged research has involved various aspects of for oppression? The role of politics in segregation in Swedish cities and in other segregation processes in Sweden countries. Central to her research is the Lecture, Wednesday 9.4, 18:30 question of power over space. How are For more than twenty years, housing different spatial hierarchies created in areas from the Million Dwelling better, respectively worse, areas? How do Programme (1965–74) in Sweden have racism, sexism and class correlate in the been stigmatized and discriminated planning and design of cities? What roles against politically. Despite all the official do politics and the market play in creating rhetoric about investing national and segregation? To describe the current municipal means to counter segregation, processes involved in urban segregation ethnic and socio-economic segregation in Sweden, Molina uses the concepts has been constantly increasing in Sweden. “raceification”, “militarization” and Swedish cities are reckoned amongst “spatial stigmatization.”

York, USA Display Panel 1: Double 25. Marion von Osten channel slide projection of photos and In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial documents from the Avery Library/ Planning and After Department of Drawings and Archives/ Installation 2010 Columbia University; Centre d’Archives Double channel slide projection, various Diplomatiques de Nantes; Cité de reproductions of photographs and l’Architecture et du Patrimoine/Centre des drawings, D 2009 Archives d’Architecture du XXème siècle Courtesy: Avery Library/ Department Paris; École Nationale d’Architecture of Drawings and Archives/Columbia de Rabat; ETH Zürich/GTA Institut für University; Centre d’Archives Diploma- Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur; tiques de Nantes; Cite de l’Architecture Farbman Archives; Hervo Archives; et du Patrimoine/Centre des Archives Kessel Archives; Mcavoy Archives; d’Architecture du )0(enne siècle Paris; Nederlands Architectuurinstituut; Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Rabat; Ministère de l’Écologie du Développement ETH Zurich/GTA Institut fiir Geschichte et de l’Aménagement durable France and undTheoriederArchitektur; Farbman Ar- private collections. chives; Hervo Archives; Kessel Archives; Mcavoy Archives; Nederlands Architec- Display Panel 2: Reproductions of tuurinstituut; Ministere de l’Ecologie du a photograph of the Cité Verticale, Developpement et de l’Amenagement Casablanca, 1952” by the architects durable France and private collections. Vladimir Bodiansky, Georges Candilis, Production: Marion von Osten Henri Piot and Shadrach Woods. “Cite Verticale, Casablanca, 1952” Courtesy: Avery Architectural Library, Architects: Vladimir Bodiansky / Georges Department of Drawings and Archives, Candilis /Henri Piot / Shad rach Woods Columbia University, New York, USA. Reproductions of a photograph, 1953 Display Panel 3: Reproduction of Courtesy: Avery Architectural “Marrakech in Pictures 1953. In the Library, Department of Drawings and interests of full independence: struggle, Archives, Columbia University, New perseverance and sacrifice.” Published translate 15 by the Delegation of the Independence urban projects, it reveals how post-war and Consultation Party in the East: modernism was put into practice under Committee for the Independence of colonial rule. The large urban planning Morocco. Courtesy: Protectorat Maroc, schemes developed for North Africa by Direction de l’Intérieur. Centre des architects working for offices like ATBAT Archives diplomatiques de Nantes Afrique played a key role in colonial (CADN), Nantes, France. In the Desert modernization. of Modernity – Colonial Planning and Indeed, mass housing projects After is an exhibition and research project designed for North African cities soon on architectural and urban projects migrated to the outskirts of European developed in North Africa and Western capitals, resulting in suburbs that became Europe during the 1950s and 1960s in home to hundreds of thousands of the context of colonial governance, anti- immigrants from the colonies. Colonial colonial struggles, and transnational housing and settlement policies radically migration. The installation in Tensta changed cities, modes of living, and Museum is a condensed version of the architectural discourse in North Africa exhibition which originally took place and Europe alike. At the same time, in 2010 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt the projects in North Africa led to a in Berlin. It tells the story of residents postmodern critique of architecture of a large-scale, late-modern housing in Western Europe and the United area in the French colonies, architects, States, where the argument prevailed colonial administrators, and scholars that technocratic planning, pursued by involved in the debates on modernity and modernist European architects was only modernization at that time. The project negative. In The Desert of Modernity examines the contradictions of colonial – Colonial Planning and After is one modernity and the forms of resistance that of many examples of artist and curator developed against it—all within a process Marion von Osten’s “project exhibitions”, of negotiation and appropriation that research-based and cross-disciplinary continues to this very day. Scrutinizing exhibitions based on various forms of a range of exemplary architectural and collaboration. On Saturday 29.3, 15:00

Marion von Osten will present In the various images come together in Rosdahl’s Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning paintings, which are often done on found and After. objects. The painting, “Song to the coming storm” is done in oil on a spilt bit of 26–28. Viktor Rosdahl glue, where the bottle has dried together Elineberg 2020, oil on plaster, 2009 with its contents. It represents a design Song to the coming storm, 2012, oil on hotel in Germany that is on fire, and spilt glue references both a book by Peter Fröberg A deeper kind of slumber, oil on plastic, Idling and music by Refused. Elineberg 2013 2020 is painted on a bit of cast putty and Many of Rosdahl’s (Malmö) richly shows the area where Rosdahl grew up, detailed paintings are anchored in his which was designed by the architect, Jörn experiences of growing up in a violent Utzon. The buildings have been added quarter of a Million Dwelling housing onto, which could be done if one saw the project in a small town in Sweden. Million Dwelling Programme as a sketch Urban planning, the Million Dwelling and a foundation to develop, physically Programme and “the place” have long and socially. Elineberg 2020 also looks been a theme in Rosdahl’s art. His new as if a catastrophe had happened and work continues this theme, not as the nature is beginning to take over. The title physical expression of a vanquished of the third painting, “A deeper kind of dream, but as a place where things slumber” is borrowed from the group, happen. Other references are music and Tiamat. It shows a tower block on a field. The Coming Insurrection, by The Invisible In the grass in front of the building lie Committee, which talks about a new two sleeping “wild ones”, from Maurice feeling of community. The book comes Sendak’s children’s book, Where the out of the same kind of housing area that Wild Things Are. They are strange and Rosdahl depicts, after and in conjunction wild, like vulgar images of the tenants of with recurring social uprisings that only a Million Dwelling area. The work plays occasionally reach the news. Different with the notion of how the working classes stylistic approaches and fragments from in imperialistic western countries are

16 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden bribed by overabundance and therefore made Sweden into a Protestant country. cannot fulfill their potential role as wild In conjunction with the Reformation, revolutionaries. the monastery was closed, including the Franciscan monastery on Riddarholmen Ross Tensta Upper Secondary where the school had moved. Byskolan, School which changed its name to Stockholms Ross Tensta Upper Secondary School, trivialskola, remained at that address until which was started in 1984, celebrates its 1666, when it moved back into the centre 30th anniversity this year, but via the of the Old Town. In 1814 the school moved school Norra Latin, its origins go back to once again to Riddarholmen, to Birger medieval Stockholm. In fact Ross Tensta Jarls torg 7 and in 1890 it moved into a could celebrate 699 years since the story new grand building at Norra Bantorget. of the village school in Stockholm’s Old This was the start of a brilliant period Town, can be documented from the year in the school’s history. Norra Latin was 1315. The village school is said to have considered the best and most prestigious been located just north of Storkyrkan, school in the whole country, but it was the cathedral, where the Royal Palace only for boys – girls were admitted first at now stands. Teaching in the village the end of the 1950s. school (Byskolan) was done by the church In 1983/84, classes at Norra Latin priests. The first known headmaster, or were closed down and moved to Tensta. “scolemaster” was Arvidius, in the 1310´s. The Tensta upper secondary was meant, In principle, as of the 16th century it is following its predecessor, to excel and known who all the headmasters were be a model for future upper secondary in an unbroken line. To be appointed education. The Tensta school was designed headmaster of this school meant a certain by the architect Gösta Uddén and it career: many of them later became is modern and light, with a façade in bishops, archbishops, professors or oiled wooden panels. The winter garden elected to the Swedish Academy. The attracted special attention when the school most famous of these is Olaus Petri, who, was opened. Today, more than sixty under the aegis of King Gustav Vasa, different languages are spoken at Tensta

Upper Secondary and the students attend 29–32. Art borrowed from Ross Tensta a number of programmes, but emphasis Gymnasium lies on an integrated knowledge that is connected to the subject of history. What 29. Torsten Renqvist also makes the Ross Tensta school special The dog, the bird, the boat. Etching, 1954 and unique in Sweden is that of about 740 This graphic encompasses the artist’s students, 120 are newly arrived and attend entire spiritual and aesthetic theme: all a programme specializing in language living beings’ vulnerability, imperfection as introduction. So far the staff has been very a counter to the authoritarian, expressed stable, but now many of the teachers that with a tender sense of humour. With a came from Norra Latin are retiring and a seemingly simple, almost awkward, line, new generation of teachers will take over. the artist has sketched a scene with four One of the things that literally materializes elements: a dog, a bird and a sail boat and a the school’s history is its art collection horizon. The dog has the strongest human which has survived all reorganizations features, the bird is more abstract and the and moves from previous locations. Four rest remain suggestive and fragmentary. It is works from this collection are included in a concentrated moment in an indeterminate Tensta Museum’s spring exhibition. On time. Torsten Renqvist (1924-2007) is one Wednesday 19.2, 18.30, documentary film- of the most widely-distributed, appreciated maker Brita Landoff and headmistress and well-known artists in post-war Sweden. Sofie Abrahamsson will discuss Ross Tensta His sculptures, often in wood or metal, may Gymnasium´s thirty years. On Tuesday 29.4, be seen in many public places, not least 10:00–20:00 there will be an open house at in schools, and they almost always depict Ross Tensta Upper Secondary School. Brita animals. This etching was done in 1954, Landoff’s film, Pride of race – Pride of place that is four years after he graduated from (1988) will be shown in the auditorium. In the Royal University College of Fine Art in cooperation with Ross Tensta Gymnasium. Stockholm. In 1964 Torsten Renqvist was awarded the Venice Bienalle’s grand prize for the graphic he exhibited there. In 2003 he published a book together with Asta translate 17 Bolin entitled Djur kan inte ljuga (Animals basic garments made in Sweden. They Cannot Lie). clothed a left-wing, politically conscious generation and the expanding women’s 30. Veronica Nygren movement. The hare in autumn, woven, 1984 The hare in autumn is a wall hanging 31. Carl Larsson in rya technique in its wildest sense. It is Headmaster Lundberg and two teachers, anything but evenly clipped and the ends sketch for a wall painting in Norra Latin, of yarn instead form a vertically rolling water colour, 1890 autumnal landscape, where the wool looks At the time that Norra Latin was as if it has grown at its own discretion. opened in 1890 a school was considered But where is the hare? The ground one of the most important buildings in the smacks of damp and vegetation. Vernoica local society. The king himself, then Oscar Nygren (1940–2006) was a textile artist, II, and his son, Prince Eugen, inaugurated specializing in weaving. In 1989–1994 the building. Carl Larsson (1853-1919) she was professor of Textile Art at the had at this time not achieved his great University College of Arts, Crafts and breakthrough, which came in 1896, with Design. It was especially during the late the commission for the magnificent 1960s, during the first feminist wave fresco paintings in the National Museum in art, that weaving rose as an artistic – Midvinterblot. But he was on his way technique, on equal terms with painting to being a monumental painter and just or sculpture. At the same time, things before the commission for Norra Latin started happening in fashion. In 1967 he had done a wall painting for a girls’ Veronica Nygren became one of the school in Gothenburg. In this painting founders of the clothing company, Mah- he had, in his characteristic romantic jong, after encountering Kristina Torsson manner, depicted historically important and Helena Henschen, all participants in women: “The Viking woman”, Saint a fashion happening at Moderna Museet Birgitta, Fredrika Bremer and finally a in 1965. Their common goal was to design few botanizing school girls. The Norra beautiful, colourful and easily cared-for Latin water colour is a sketch for a larger wall painting, whose composition was 32. Axel Fahlcrantz used again at the National Museum. Riddarhomen and Söder in a moonlit People are together for a formal gathering atmosphere, oil on canvas, c 1900 out of doors, to witness school boys’ Axel Fahlcrantz (1851-1925) studied service (the finished painting’s title), at the Academy of Art and liked to which refers to a church service that examine the tones and nuances of colours the military carried out in the field and in night light conditions, especially which the school boys should practice. landscapes with water. Night is a theme The sketch shows the highly respected through his painting and exemplifies the headmaster Lundberg, surrounded special melancholy that stamped culture by several teachers. In an issue of the internationally at this time. In a dramatic magazine, Idun (“Illustrated magazine and romantic way Fahlcrantz depicts in for women and the home”), from 1903, this painting Stockholm when the moon there is an article celebrating headmaster is about to glide behind the silhouette Lundberg on his 60th birthday: “The of Södermalm on the right and the last image of his person is impressive due to his bit of daylight gives interesting shifts of forcefulness and one soon notices that the colour in the sky and on Mälaren. To physical strength is matched by a spiritual. the right in the painting, street lanterns Therefore it has never been doubted that shine on Riddarholm, the site of Tensta headmaster Lundberg, as the head of the Gymnasium predecessor, Stockholms school, should have any difficulties either trivialskola. When the painting was done, winning respect from his teachers or 300,000 people lived in Stockholm. The maintaining discipline and order amongst population was growing fast and the the students.” Included in the finished housing need was acute. Class differences painting are other dignitaries and Carl were flagrant and ill health rife. Much Larsson himself, with a daughter on his was to happen during the next decade arm. The painting, which had no religious and many would be engaged in trying to references, was considered very modern achieve a healthier and more just world for for its time. the city’s inhabitants.

18 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden 33. Spånga Local Heritage Society shoemaker dwelling, one of the few Poster stand with photographs and maps remaining older buildings. from Tensta prior to the Million Dwelling The heritage society have had premises Programme since 1986 in Nälsta Farm, which was The Spånga Local Heritage Society built in the beginning of the 19th century. documents the history of Spånga parish. The society regularly organizes an open Tensta is also part of the parish and was house at Nälsta Farm and the municipal first mentioned in 1292. The area has a Culture School uses it for piano lessons. wealth of Iron Age and Viking settlements Spånga Local Heritage Society, which was and graves, but has most likely been founded in 1932, also publishes books: in occupied since the end of the ice age. 1972, Spånga före Tensta (Spånga before The name “Tensta” comes from the word Tensta) was published and more recently “tena”, a sort of fishing implement, and the minutes of parish meetings between “sta”, a sort of enclosure. “Spånga” has to 1600 and 1862 were published. Life in do with water and a passage over water. Spånga during the first half of the 20th Spånga church, which is located in the century has been documented and copies middle of Tensta, is one of the oldest stone of old maps of Spånga have been made. buildings in the Stockholm area, parts of On Wednesday, 26.3, 18:30, “Tensta before which date back to the 12th century. Two the Million Dwelling Programme”, based rune stones in the church yard attest to the on the society’s photo archives, will be fact that long before E 18 and the ring road presented and discussed. around Stockholm, people went through Tensta – rune stones were primarily raised 34. STEALTH.unlimited & Peter Lang at crossroads and on bridges. Where the Haunted by the Shadows of the Future: residential area is situated today there ARTEFACTS were three farms: Hjulsta, Lilla Tensta Objects placed in the City Museum’s and Stora Tensta, which were torn down apartment at Kämpingebacken in Tensta. to make room for the new blocks of flats. Public tours Wednesday, 14:00, gathering Erikslund, where the Kurdish Association at Tensta konsthall Spånga have their premises, is an old Haunted by the Shadows of the Future:

HORIZONS the context of Tensta Museum: Reports Vision seminar, Sunday 30.3, 13:00 from New Sweden at Tensta konsthall Haunted by the Shadows of the and the Urban Re-Mix course at Royal Future: ARTEFACTS identifies objects University College of Fine Art (KKH) from the late 1960s to late 1970s that have in Stockholm. The course deals with personal or familial connections with the mass production of residential housing, people and the communities who lived new towns and other modernist utopian during this period. The objects embody projects planned in post-war Sweden. a specific sense of belonging, a desire The course has been conceived by to be part of the modern Swedish society STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Dzokic and taking shape at that time. Examples of Marc Neelen) and Peter Lang (Professor the objects included in the project are the in Architecture Theory and History, briefcase of an insurance salesman, the Mejan Arc KKH). The participants in reel-to-reel tape that recorded Hyland’s the Urban Re-Mix course are James hörna, an audio of an exiled Somali writer, Barrett, Ing-Gerd Robertson, Barbro the early launch of the first plastic toys, Gunmar, Antonie Maria vacation slide shows, postcard collections Grahamsdaughter, Martin Hedenstrom and super 8 films, pop textile prints and Ljung, Margarita Henriksson, Heather clothing patterns, local garden plants, Jones, Adam Lundberg, Emelie the cooperative supermarket’s investment Saltas, Helene Schmitz, Adela Zyto, Gary in cheap “blue-white” commodities, Zhang, Mohammad Hossein Abbasi. and the revolutionary “du” reform. The Haunted by the Shadows of the Future: objects are displayed in the City Museum’s HORIZONS is an attempt to model apartment in Tensta, located think freely about Tensta’s future. Four at Kämpingebacken 13. The apartment people in different phases in their lives and serves here as a time capsule that opens up who have different relationships with the an entire universe behind these otherwise area are invited to contribute with four extremely everyday objects. different possible futures for Tensta in Haunted by the Shadows of the Future: 2030 – a milepost according to authorities ARTEFACTS is a collaboration made in in Stockholm’s “Vision 2030 – a world translate 19 class Stockholm”. About fifty years ago, Elin Strand Ruin a very ambitious Swedish social housing The Kitchen, a functioning kitchen scheme was underway in Tensta. Today made out of doors in Tensta, 3–18.5 and many of its goals remain unfulfilled and seminars Tensta is in an uncertain, incomplete The art and architecture project The condition. While some have written off Kitchen is a “pro-active city planning any possibilities for the area to represent experiment.” It attempts to explore the modern Sweden, it is high time to re-write kitchen as a public space. In collaboration its future, possibly towards an horizon that with a group of women from the Tensta radically departs from present-day ideas and Järva area, a fully functional outdoor about Tensta and the reality prevailing kitchen will be set up as an addition there today. to public space in a late modernistic Will Tensta in 2030 be an autonomous housing area. The ambition is to graft on zone, where the residents in this forgotten this preexisting space a private “kitchen part of the city have taken over? Or culture” that stretches the boundaries will a many-facetted Tensta-like society around established notions about intimacy become so dominant that this “new and social interactions in the public Sweden” vitality has taken over the whole domain. The public and the private will country by 2030? Is it perhaps time to be turned inside out; the familiar interiors re-create Tensta’s original but unfulfilled and atmosphere of the kitchen will be goal – of creating an environment that moved out into the street. The project acknowledges and gives space to a examines the potentials of the Million liberated and democratic ideal citizen? Dwelling Programme’s generous, car-free And what would citizens’ liberation and public areas. The project is divided into equality mean today? On Sunday 30.3, two phases. In the first phase, we will 13:00 ideas about this “other” futures investigate Tensta’s public environment will be considered during an afternoon of with outdoor mini-kitchen seminars as an presentations and discussions. instrument—in the underpasses, on the bridge, at the stairs, under the balcony. Soup will be made and Aristophanes’s play The Power of Women, on how the Taal’s music interests was Vår teater’s Greek female general Praxagora questions break dance at Blå huset (the Blue House), spatial power structures by moving the when he was growing up in Tensta. He has kitchen out to the city square, will be read lived in and discussed. The seminars will help the same flat at Tensta allé since he was to establish the group that will run the a child. Today he has new interests and kitchen during phase 2. During the second challenges – for instance, challenging phase, 3–18.5, a fully functioning kitchen prevailing norms and creating one’s own will be set up centrally, in Tensta Square. reality. In cooperation with the architecture firm, Spridd, the recycling company 4CYCLE, Tensta konsthall’s text prize and Fereshte Ghorayshi and Shiva This year, 2014, Tensta konsthall will Anoushirvani. On Saturday 3.5, 15:00 a establish a text prize for young people seminar on the kitchen as a public place in Tensta. The prize aims to encourage will be held. On Saturday 17.5, 15:00 the creative writing and to contribute new artist and architect, Elin Strand Ruin narratives from the district. The prize will present her project. The project is will be awarded once a year and will supported by Innovativ Kultur through entail a First (3000 kr), Second (2000 Vivaldi. kr) and Third (1000 kr) prize. A jury consisting of August Prize winner, Lena 35. Adam Taal Andersson, the poet Meron Mangasha, Soundtrack to Tensta Museum: Reports the publisher Björn Linnell, the journalist, from New Sweden, 2013 Rouzbeh Djalaie, Tal Lewinksy from A driving, drum-based rhythm goes on Tensta Library, and Emily Fahlén from for thirty minutes in the gallery’s large Tensta konsthall, will choose the winning room, then dies away and starts up again submissions. The text can be a piece of after thirty minutes. This is a soundtrack, fiction, an essay, a poem, a rap, reportage, written for Tensta Museum, by Adam or an interview. The submissions to Tensta Taal, better known as Adam Tensta. One konsthall’s text prize should be sent via email of the things that stimulated hip hop artist by Monday 3.2 to [email protected].

20 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden 20. Florian Zeyfang & Lisa Schmidt- 35. Ahmet Ögüt Colinet & Alexander Schmoeger The Silent University, library, homepage, Microbrigades – Variations of a Story publication, lectures, and workshops, 2012 Video, hd, 30 min, 2013 ongoing Microbrigades portrays the two largest The Silent University (TSU) is an housing areas in Havanna – San Agustin alternative knowledge platform, initiated and Alamar. In addition to health care by the artist Ahmet Ögut (Istanbul/ and education, residential housing was Berlin). TSU is aimed at asylum-seekers, one of the most important foundations refugees, and migrants who, despite of the Cuban revolution in the 1950s. On having professional backgrounds, cannot account of the great housing shortage practice their professional skills in their in 1971, so-called “microbrigades” were present situation. TSU adopts the form established – voluntary labour, building of an academic program by arranging large blocks of flats. This has continued courses, lectures, and seminars for and up to the present day. In their film essay, by its members and for the general public. artist Florian Zeyfang (Berlin) and archi- At the moment, a group of five lecturers tects Lisa Schmidt-Colinet and Alexander are connected to the university; their Schmoger (Vienna) present this architec- talks connect to their specific educational ture, and through selections from archives backgrounds. The lectures will take and Cuban films, they illustrate the place at ABF (Workers’ Educational conditions for modernity in revolution- Association) in Stockholm and will ary Cuba. One of Cuba’s most important be given in Arabic, Kurdish (Sorani), architecture historians, Mario Coyula, and Uigurish. Listeners who do not also talks about the post-revolutionary speak these languages will be invited to building, Havana del Este. The film gives participate – in other words, knowledge a subjective view into the creation and will not be made accessible to all. This development of the buildings. At the same approach aims at illuminating the time, the film shows the unpredictable and loss of knowledge caused by the social contradictory effects the micro-brigades structures that silence it. Six mentors are have had over the last decade. part of the network that TSU has built up in Stockholm. These mentors work idea of combining learning Swedish with in various ways within core areas of the creativity, focusing on sewing, embroidery Silent University: asylum activism, local and textile printing. Their premises are organizing, migration, and antiracism. across from Tenta Centre’s underground The TSU library will be housed in entry, behind the fruit market. Their shop Tensta konsthall and the accumulated is open 9:00–16:30, Monday–Thursday knowledge bank is also available on the and 11:00–14:00 on Fridays. university’s website. To be a member it is required that you donate time and Spånga Church knowledge; contact the gallery’s guides Guided tours, Thursday 23.1, 15:00 and for more information. By inventing Thursday 10.4, 15:00, meet at Tensta an alternative currency—exchanging konsthall knowledge instead of money or unpaid Spånga church is one of the oldest voluntary work—TSU wants to create churches in the Stockholm area, an alternative form of exchange. The containing original parts from the 12th TSU lectures will take place at ABF on century and colorful medieval limestone Sveavägen, on the following Tuesdays: paintings. The church has been rebuilt and 18.2, 11.3, 8.4, 29.4, and 18.5. At present enlarged over the centuries; for example, TSU exists in Berlin, Paris, and London. a burial chapel was added during the www.thesilentuniversity.org late 1600s by the powerful Bonde family. During the same period, the reputable Tensta Museum at other places sculptor Burchard Precht finished the famous altar consisting of a crucifix and Livstycket two figures representing the Virgin Mary The “Livstycket” Association is an and the Apostle John. The church also education and design centre, whose contains a large collection of escutcheons. aim is to strengthen women’s position A visit to the steeple, which presumably in society and to break isolation. also once functioned for defensive Livstycket’s pedagogical method, applied purposes, gives a fine overview of the for twenty years, has been based on the landscape. translate 21 Stockholm City Museum’s Model to modern ways of living. The apartment Apartment functions as both a museum and a meeting Kämpingebacken 13, Tensta. Guided tours place. every Wednesday, 14:00, meet at Tensta konsthall. Sunday 19.1 and 26.1, 12:00 Tensta Library guided tours by City Museum guides, meet Tensta Library opened in 1971, in at Kämpingeback 13, tickets 100 kr. premises across from Tensta Centrum. The City Museum’s model apartment When Tensta Träff was opened in 1984, in Tensta is located in one of Svenska the library moved there. In conjunction bostäder’s properties on Kämpingebacken with renovation plans of the library 13, just north of Tensta Center. The during the winter of 2013 and spring 2014, apartment, consisting of three rooms and an extension library has been opened a kitchen, is a period piece from the 1960s, in the entrance of Tensta konsthall. illustrating what it looked like during the The extension is mainly containing time that the Artursson family, with three books dealing with local history and children, lived there. With the help of the children’s literature. Some of the library’s mother, Irene Artursson, the apartment programming has also moved to the has been recreated as it was, with the gallery – for instance, Book-chat. old kitchen cupboards, wallpaper, and interior decoration. Even the stairway has been reconstructed in its original form, Tensta underground station & Helga with period spatter-paint decoration. The Henschen Tensta apartment is one of a series of Programme and guided tour Saturday model apartments in Stockholm that show 15.2, 15:00, meet at the gallery. In us how people in Stockholm lived during cooperation with the Friends of Helga different periods of time. The apartment Henschen. in Tensta was opened in conjunction with Tensta underground station was opened the Housing Fair in 2006. The apartment in 1975 by the king. On the same occasion, is typical for the Million Dwelling the period art piece, made by Helga Programme – well-planned and adapted Henschen, was unveiled. Henschen wanted the art in the underground station The Helga Henschen Room to celebrate the residents of Tensta – Visit Café Grönligen and the Helga hence the theme, “A rose to immigrants. Henschen Room, with paintings and other Solidarity, sisterhood.” The walls of the work by the artist, at Järva Folkets Park station are filled with naïvistic images (People’s Park), Eggeby Gård (Eggeby and quotes. Eighteen signs with the Farm). Open Monday-Friday, 11:00–16:00. word “Sisterhood,” written in as many languages, are placed along the tracks. Specially written texts, www. Henschen wanted there to always be tenstakonsthall.se/bag pictures made by children displayed in Four texts have been specially written for the station; therefore from 2013 to 2016 Tensta Museum: Historian om Tensta photographs taken by students at the Ross konsthall (The Story of Tensta konsthall) Tensta Upper Secondary School will be on by Jan Ekman; Tensta – en plats som view in the station. ständigt ska bli batter (Tensta - a place Helga Henschen was born in 1917 in that is continually going to be better) by Stockholm. She was the granddaughter Emma Holmqvist; Mamsell Josabeth of the banker, Ernest Thiel, founder Sjöberg by Lawen Mohtadi and Kulturarv of Thielska Gallery in Stockholm. She (Cultural Heritage) by Boris Buden. studied at the Art Academy in Stockholm from 1940-1945, with teachers such as The Women’s Center in Tensta-Hjulsta Isaac Grunewald and Akke Kumlien, The Women’s Center in Tensta-Hjulsta and was married to writer Peter Weiss. (KTIH) was started in 1997 and is a Henschen was active in the Cultural voluntary women’s association. The Workers’ Social Democratic Association, association is multi-cultural, with the Peace Movement, and the World members from some twenty countries, Brotherhood. Today her work may be and contributes toward increasing found in several places, for example, in the women’s possibilities to engage themselves collections at Moderna Museet and the and influence society. The Center aims Swedish National Museum. at breaking women’s isolation and segregation, reinforcing women’s self-

22 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden confidence and identity, improving their language skills, and supporting women’s health. They arrange language courses and other educational activities. At present, the Women’s Center in Tensta-Hjulsta has about twohundred and fifty members. Its previous activities in cooperation with Tensta Konsthall include Tea and Coffee Salons, which started in spring 2012 and are an ongoing project, which enables KTIH to present their members and their activities in the gallery. On Thursday 20.3 The Women´s Center will have a Tea and Coffee Salon at Stockholm City Museum.

translate 23 Program – The architects and researchers Helena Mattsson, Meike Schalk, and Sara Thursdays and Saturdays, 14:00 Brolund Carvalho introduce Aktion introduction to the exhibition. Arkiv, a documentation initiative about Wednesdays, 14:00 Visit to Stockholm regeneration projects in for example City Museum’s museum apartment in one Samverkansprojektet Tensta 1989–1995 of the Million Program houses in Tensta. by Loggia arkiteter AB / architect Ylva Meet at Tensta konsthall. Larsson. – The architects STEALTH.Unlimited & Saturday 18.1 Peter Lang along with participants in the 14:00 Opening Royal Institute of Art’s course Urban Re- – Maria Lind, director, welcome speech. mix talk about Haunted by the Shadows of – Speech by the democracy advocate the Future: ARTEFACTS and about the Barakat Ghebrehawariat with Revolution presentation in Stockholm City Museum’s Poetry: Yodit Girmay-Abraha. museum apartment in Tensta. – The artist Katarina Lundgren introduces – Visit to the museum apartment. her project, Artificiella höjder. – Open café with hot dishes, sandwiches, – High school students and members of and pastries. Konsthallsklubben Anisa Omar and Bilan Rage present the video Vårt Tensta. Sunday 19.1 – Binna Choi, director at Casco in 12:00 Tour of the Stockholm City Utrecht, presents on the Grand Domestic Museum’s museum apartment by guides Revolution Library. from the museum. Meeting point at – Zozan Bozarslan tells about growing up Kämpingebacken 13, tickets 100 kr. in Tensta and what the Kurdish context in 2 pm: The artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Tensta have meant Fernando Garcia Dory, and Erik Sjödin – The filmmaker Brita Landoff remembers present their work in Tensta Museum. Tensta gymnasium during the 1980s, when Binna Choi, director at Casco in Utrecht her film Bland svartskallar och blekfisar and artist Åsa Norberg presents The was made. Grand Domestic Revolution Library.

Wednesday 22.1 Saturday 1.2 18:30 Students from KTH in Tensta 15:00 Artist Peter Geschwind presents the present a project based on The Traffic installation Time Space Shuttle (Apollo Administration Office’s photographs from Pavilion), which is a part of Tensta Tensta, 1966–77. In collaboration with museum. KTH in Tensta. Sunday 2.2 Thursday 23.1 14:00 Architect Ylva Larsson lectures 13:00 Tour of Spånga kyrka, one of the under the title “Tensta united action–a oldest stone buildings in the Stockholm united action that turned into popular area. In collaboration with Spånga education that turned into a popular församling. movement–until it came to a sudden stop and the work was put on ice–in Sunday 26.1 “hibernation” it turns out– 12:00 Tour of the Stockholm City maybe”. Museum’s museum apartment by guides from the museum. Meeting point at Wednesday 5.2 Kämpingebacken 13, tickets 100 kr. 18:30 The urban historian Håkan Forsell 12:00–17:00 Vegan brunch in the café. presents a lecture entitled “From city life 14:00 Students from KTH in Tensta to lifestyle—housing and urbanity during present a project based on The Traffic one century.” Administration Office photographs from Tensta, 1966–77. In collaboration with Saturday 8.2 KTH in Tensta. 12:30 Architect Erik Stenberg shows apartments in Tensta that were built Thursday 30.1 according to his blueprints. Meet at Tensta 10:00–14:00 Act 3 of Rehersals, a project by konsthall. In collaboration with KTH Petra Bauer & Sofia Wiberg in cooperation School of Architecture. with Kvinnocenter in Tensta-Hjulsta: The language of movements: Stina Nyberg.

24 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden Sunday 9.2 Saturday 15.2 14:00 Peter Lang, professor in 15:00 Helga/Rebella, a program about architectural theory at the Royal Institute Helga Henschen, the artist behind of Art, with participants from the course Tensta’s subway station, in words, images, Haunted by the Shadows of the Future– and in music followed by a tour of the Tensta Apartment Workshop, organizes Tensta subway station with Kent Malte a “listening and watching session” based Malmström as cicerone. The tour takes on audio from the time period around the about 45 minutes. In copperation with creation of the residential area of Tensta. Helga Henschens Vänner. The audio is played on a reel tape recorder and slides are shown on an old projector. Tuesday 18.2 Followed by a discussion. In cooperation 10:00–14:00 Act 4 of Rehersals, a project with the Royal Institute of Art. by Petra Bauer & Sofia Wiberg in cooperation with Kvinnocenter in Tensta- Wednesday 12.2 Hjulsta: The politics of emotions, Petra 18:30 Tom Avermaete, professor at the Bauer and Sofia Wiberg. Faculty of Architecture of Delft University 18:00 Lecture by The Silent University at of Technology, gives a lecture on “Norms ABF.huset. TBC. and Forms of the Public Spaces in Late Modern Housing Estates.” The Wednesday 19.2 lecture addresses norms and forms in 18:30 Conversation between the late modernist housing projects’ public documentary filmmaker Brita Landoff spaces, with examples from France and and headmaster Sofie Nyström about other countries. Is it possible to create Ross Tensta gymnasium over the past 30 radically new public spaces and common years. In cooperation with Ross Tensta spaces? In cooperation with Stockholms gymnasium. Arkitektförening.

Thursday 20.2 Tensta bibliotek. Part of Artoteket, the 18:00 Artist Katarina Lundgren talks lending system for newly created artworks. about the project Stockholms tippar och toppar, which in November 2013 Sunday 2.3 inaugurated Tensta Museum’s branch at 14:00 Artist Behzad Khoosravi Noori Stockholm City Museum. At Stockholm present the video Incandescence, a City Museum. portrait of Megafonen.

Friday 21.2 Wednesday 5.3 16:30 Opening of Artoteket, a lending 18:00 Aktion Arkiv arranges a witness system of newly created artworks, at seminar about an international housing Tensta bibliotek. A project by Hans conference held in Tensta in 1989. Carlsson. Participating, among others, will be architect Rod Hackney and organizer Saturday 22.2 Erol Sayin who were both participating 15:00 Helena Mattsson, Meike Schalk, and in workshops in Tensta in 1989. The Sara Brolund de Carvalho present Aktion moderators are Helena Mattson and Arkiv in Tensta. Meike Schalk. In collaboration with The Institute of Contemporary History, Sunday 23.2 Södertörn University, Stockholms 12:00–17:00 Vegan brunch in the café. Arkitekter and KTH School of 14:00 Lecture with Rohat Alakom: “When Architecture. Sweden became the land of the Kurds– An afternoon about Kurdiska Föreningen Sunday 9.3 Spånga’s history.” In collaboration with 14:00 Art and asylum rights activism, Kurdish Association Spånga. a seminar connected to The Silent University, an autonomous knowledge Thursday 27.2 platform for undocumented migrants, 18:00–19:00 Study group with Hans refugees, and asylum seekers initiated by Carlsson: The art and the welfare state at the artist Ahmet Ögüt. translate 25 Tuesday 11.3 Thursday 20.3 18:00 Lecture by The Silent University at 18:00–19:00 Study group with Hans ABF-huset. TBC. Carlsson: The art and the welfare state at Tensta bibliotek. Part of Artoteket, a Thursday 13.3 lending system of newly created artworks. 18:00–19:00 Study group with Hans Carlsson: The art and the welfare state Sunday 23.3 at Tensta bibliotek. A part of Artoteket, 14:00 Celebration of Newroz (new year’s) lending system of newly created artworks. with Kurdish Association Spånga at Tensta konsthall. Sunday 16.3 14:00 Under the title “The city now Wednesday 26.3 and then: Planning and ideology in 18:30 Spånga Fornminnes- och Stockholm and Leningrad/St. Petersburg,” Hembygdsgille presents and discusses sociologists Lisa Kings and Zhanna “Tensta before the million program,” Kravchenko lecture on similarities based on their archive of photographs. between two cities operating under different societal systems. Saturday 29.3 15:00 Artist Marion von Osten presents Tuesday 18.3 In the Desert of Modernity—Colonial 10:00–14:00 Act 5 of Rehersals, a project Planning and After. by Petra Bauer & Sofia Wiberg in cooperation with Kvinnocenter in Tensta- Sunday 30.3 Hjulsta: Everyday community, KITH 12:00–17:00 Vegan brunch in the café. 14:00 Architects STEALTH.Unlimited Wednesday 19.3 & professor of architectural theory 18:30 Screening of The Stuart Hall Project, Peter Lang lead a seminar about future John Akomfrah. In collaboration with scenarios in Tensta. Cinemafrica.

Thursday 3.4 Thursday 10.4 18:00–19:00 Study group with Hans 15:00 Tour of Spånga kyrka, one of the Carlsson: The art and the welfare state at oldest stone buildings in the Stockholm Tensta bibliotek. A part of Artoteket, a area. In cooperation with Spånga lending system of newly created artworks. församling.

Friday 4.4 Saturday 12.4 15:00 Art and literature walk in Tensta. 14:00 Artists Bernd Krauss & Nina Meet at the art center. In cooperation with Svensson present their project Tensta Tensta bibliotek. Travsällskap, which in December 2013 opened Tensta Museum’s branch at the Sunday 6.4 Museum of Medieval Stockholm. 18:30 Author Johanna Langhorst talks with the art center’s mediator Emily Sunday 13.4 Fahlén about her book Förortshat (2013). 14:00–16:00 Tour at Glömmingegränd, In cooperation with Tensta bibliotek. where Ylva Karlsson talks about and displays collaborative projects at Tuesday 8.4 Glömmingegränd (1989–1995). 18:00 Lecture by The Silent University at 16:00–19:00 Conversations about the ABF-huset. More information coming regeneration of Glömmingegränd with a soon. buffet at Glömmingegränd’s community room “Familjeboet,” with Ylva Larsson Wednesday 9.4 of Loggia arkitekter AB, Helena Mattson, 18:30 Professor of Social and Economic Meike Schalk & Sara Brolund Carvalho Geography, Irene Molina; “What happens from Aktion Arkiv, and other guests. when welfare is replaced by oppression?– The role of politics in processes of Wednesday 16.4 segregation in Sweden,” part 2. 18:30 Artist Marwa Arsanios performs a lecture performance called “Have you ever killed a bear? Or Becoming Jamila.” In

26 Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden collaboration with the Royal Institute of Art. Erik Stenberg. Meet at Tensta konsthall. Wednesday 23.4 In collaboration with KTH School of 18:30 Author Johanna Langhorst talks Architecture. with the art center’s mediator Emily Fahlén about her book Förortshat (2013). Thursday 8.5 In cooperation with Tensta bibliotek. 18:00 Aktion Arkiv arranges the debate, “The Struggle of the space at ABF-huset.” Sunday 27.4 From the 1990s, a series of important 12:00–17:00 Vegan brunch in the café. new projects were created through the suburban project. But at the same time Tuesday 29.4 several free meeting places disappeared or 10:00–20:00 Open house at Ross Tensta were commercialized. The debate invites gymnasium. Screening of Brita Landoff’s representatives from different citizen film, Bland svartskallar och blekfisar, in initiatives that were active then and today, the auditorium. as well as from the ’60s and ’70s, to discuss 10:00–14:00 Act 6 of Rehersals, a the struggle of the space. project by Petra Bauer & Sofia Wiberg in collaboration with Kvinnocenter in Tensta- Friday 9.5 Hjulsta: Earthly explorations, Hong-Kai 15:00 Walk in Tensta, focusing on older Wang. history. With archeologist Barbro Århem. 18:00 Lecture by The Silent University at Meet at Tensta konsthall. In collaboration ABF-huset. TBC. with Stockholm City Museum.

Saturday 3.5 Saturday 10.5 Seminar about The Kitchen with Elin 13:00 Tea and coffee salon with spring Strand Ruin. market. In collaboration with Women´s Center in Tensta-Hjulsta. Sunday 4.5 14:00 Walk in Tensta, with a focus on the million program’s exteriors. With architect

Sunday 11.5 Friday 16.5 13:00 Seminar on structural racism, part 2. 15:00 Art and literature walk in Tensta. In cooperation with Institute for Research on Meet at Tensta konsthall. In collaboration Migration, Ethnicity, and Society, REMESO, with Tensta bibliotek. Linköpings universitet. Saturday 17.5 15:00 Artist and architect Elin Strand Tuesday 13.5 Ruin presents The Kitchen. 18:00 Lecture by The Silent University at ABF-huset. TBC.

Wednesday 14.5 18:30 Under the title “The transformations of the city,” sociologists Lisa Kings and Zhanna Kravchenko lecture on urban development. In collaboration with ABF.

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Staff at Tensta konsthall Fahyma Alnablsi, host Emily Fahlén, mediator Ulrika Flink, assisting curator Asrin Haidari, communikation and press Maria Lind, director Paulina Sokolow, communikation and press Hedvig Wiezell, producer

Interns Maja Andreasson Karin Hauptmann Mirja Majevski

Hosts Nora Chaker Lars Hedelin Evelina Hedin Bruno Hibombo Carl-Oskar Linné Masha Taavoniku

Production Linda Persson Johan Wahlgren

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