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
– 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
Fogelstad Fågelstad Fågelsta Fågelholk Fågelbo
bird’s nest (fågelbo), wool, flax, text on sheet of paper from Fogelstad, 2019
part of Notes on a Fallow – The Fogelstad Group and Earth
Träda – Fogelstadgruppen och jord
Excerpt from text beside the bird’s nest:
19 October 2018 12:18
/.../Tonight I lay awake thinking that perhaps there is unsorted material left from the Fjaestad sisters weavery, some bits of yarn, patterns, forgotten somewhere in an attic /.../ ?
19 October 2018 22:41
/.../but before it was sold, everything that was no longer relevant was burnt. The second last owner gave me a dear memory of the aunts: she had found in an old birdhouse a ball of yarn and thread – a lovely handful of fluff from the aunts’ weaving! All that was left. /.../
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below: installation view Fogelstad Fågelstad Fågelsta Fågelholk Fågelbo (left), Sörmlands museum