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Forest Calling – A Never-ending Contaminated Collaboration

or Dancing is a Form of Forest Knowledge /


Skogen kallar – Ett oändligt kontaminerat samarbete eller

Dansandet är en form av skogskunskap


    – Extension #2 at The Experimental Field, Accelerator, SU

    – Extension #1 In Forest Intervals


Notes on a Fallow – The Fogelstad Group and Earth /

Träda – Fogelstadgruppen och jord


    – A Growing Fallow Archive / Ett växande träda-arkiv

    – Biography of a Fallow / En trädas biografi

    – Transcript of a Fallow / Avskrift av en Träda

    – Boy! / Pojken!

    – Fogelstad Fågelstad Fågelsta Fågelholk Fågelbo

    – The Other School / Den andra skolan

    – A Growing Archive on the Women’s Barn and Livestock

    School at Fogelstad / Ett växande arkiv över Kvinnliga

    Ladugårdsutbildningen vid Fogelstad

    – A Step to the Side / Ett steg åt sidan

    – A Growing Peace with the Earth Collection

    – Transcript of Transcripts: Elin – Bang /

   Avskrifter av avskrifter: Elin – Bang 

    – Why do things when you could leave it? – An attempt,

    an in-between land / Varför gör man saker då man kunde

    låta bli? – Ett försök, ett gränsland


While I am trying to get to know Fredrika, I am always

thinking of you.


Memory of an Event

    – Memory of an Event I (Dear Honorine / Dearest Signe)

    – Memory of an Event II


History History

The Collaboration: MS and AL


Mary Wollstonecraft’s Scandinavian journey 1795 re-traced

    – The Glade I

    – The Glade II

    – Who Fooled Whom?


YES! Association/Föreningen JA!

    – A New Spelling of a Street – A tribute to Audre Lorde

    – All that you touch You Change. All that you Change

       Changes you.

    – NYPÅSTIGNA / NEW PASSENGERS

    – (art)work(sport)work(sex)work

    – Zyklische Gesellschaftsreise

    – SMOKING AREA

    – We Will Open a New Front/Lee H. Jones

    – (Dis)agreements?

    – When hell froze over


The guide and the seeing man

Project Description

I’ll be you if you’ll be me

A year of sisterhood

Getting Dressed

Bollywood Basketball

Boy!

Pojken!


text on a sheet of Elisabeth Tamm’s letterhead stationary, photograph, glass container with dog hairs collected on the carpet A Fallow in Jan. 2019, 2019

part of 

Notes on a Fallow – The Fogelstad Group and Earth

Träda – Fogelstadgruppen och jord



Throughout her life, Elisabeth Tamm lived with several dogs, “large and black”, all named Pojken (Boy). It is not known exactly how many of these dogs there were.


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Pojken on the carpet A Fallow in the library at Fogelstad with the Fogelstad Group / Women Citizen’s School, print of photograph by Axel Fredriksson, 1940’s?, adapted by Åsa Elzén with permission from

the Nordic Museum Archive, part of A Growing Fallow Archive


Pojken on the carpet A Fallow in the library at Fogelstad with Elisabeth Tamm, photographer and year unknown, Women’s History Collection, Gothenburg Uni. Library, part of A Growing Fallow Archive


Elisabeth Tamm and Pojken, photographer and year unknown, private collection, part of A Growing Fallow Archive


Emmy Karlsson and Pojken, print of photograph by Axel Fredriksson, 1920’s?, selection, title and adapted by Åsa Elzén with permission from the Nordic Museum Archive, part of The Other School

(earlier version)


installation view Boy! / Pojken! in front of A Fallow, Maja Fjaestad, 1919, Sörmlands museum


installation view Boy! / Pojken! in A Growing Fallow Archive (earlier version), Eskilstuna konstmuseum