Shadowplay

Every site consists of many layers. Certain stories connected to it have been continuously traded and have a certain place in the collective memory. Like a detailed development plan these stories bring some kind of order and help us interpret a site. But what happens to all that does not fit in a detailed plan, or to that which is created alongside it? The layers of stories are many and sometimes parallel. Some may be more obscured or hidden from the general memory, but are still visible for those who look carefully. These traces are sometimes preserved only as a hint on the back of a photograph. Other times the traces can be much more elaborated, as in a series of notebooks that are carefully packed into a shoe box and handed over to the local museum. What happens when we take a closer look at these traces? Which stories emerge in such process? And how do they emerge?

How can an artistic activation of these microhistories pave the way for a more complex understanding of the layers of overlooked details and events that Rydöbruk holds? And at the same time how can we suggest ways for these microhistories to be present in temporary contexts, here, today?