Åsa Elzén
Åsa Elzén
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
– Memory of an Event I (Dear Honorine / Dearest Signe)
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Scandinavian journey 1795 re-traced
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
– (art)work(sport)work(sex)work
– Zyklische Gesellschaftsreise
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
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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below (from top down):
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