Utantill/By Heart is an installation and investigation focusing on oral storytelling and origin stories. The tradition of telling stories beyond the written word is a folk and indigenous practice that passes on knowledge between generations.
Bypassing text, oral exchanges have the capacity to circumvent institutional and hegemonic history to develop storylines that stretch beyond colonial time. Retelling is an embodied and political act that secures and reinvigorates culture. Lisa Nyberg invites us to both consider and practice oral storytelling, to develop our capacity for imagination and collective myth making.
Nyberg’s own attempts at oral storytelling builds on Swedish and Saami folk traditions, as well as lecture performance and embodied pedagogy. Working as an artist, teacher and researcher Nyberg is interested in the relationship between knowledge and art – in how art can help us understand the world and each other and in how art operates the more than rational in our societies and culture and gives form to the unknown. In her artistic practice this interest has taken the form of performances, installations, workshops and sound pieces; a free university and a think tank on radical pedagogy; educational art programmes, an open studio space and a residency program for artists at risk. Nyberg is an associate professor at Umeå Academy of Fine arts, Sápmi/Sweden.
Kilde:
roda – soft water on hard stone
roda – soft water on hard stone