Performance: The Spell
Welcome to a performance by the artist Lisa Nyberg, held in connection to the exhibition Art and Truth-Telling, currently on display at Bildmuseet.
Location: Floor 3, Bildmuseet
Language: Swedish.
Free admission. Limited seating
In collaboration with UmArts, Umeå University
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In the performance The Spell, Lisa Nyberg leans on traditions of oral storytelling to take the audience on a journey through heritage, gifts, responsibilities and myths in an attempt to connect to a place. Through repeated phrases, gestures and questions, she weaves together historical fragments into a thread that stretches from the distant to the intimate
Art and Truth-Telling
What counts as truth? In what ways can art expand the language of truth and the process of truth-telling? Art and Truth-Telling marks the process of the Truth Commission for the Sámi people on the Swedish side of Sábmie. Through vuöllie [joik], duöjjie [Sámi crafts], drawing, installation, architecture and glasswork, the exhibition highlights the role of art in shaping personal and collective truths.
Art and Truth-Telling is the first chapter in a year-long collaboration between Bildmuseet and Gaaltije Saemien Museume, and takes its starting point in southern Sápmi. Ume Sámi, a critically endangered language from this region, is used in our translation.
