Performance Lecture: Hillside Projects (HULT)
Welcome to an evening (In Swedish) that explores the nuances between truth, fiction, and artistic storytelling about reality. If you missed Hillside Projects’ (HULT Residency Programme) recent performance lecture, you now have another chance.
Truth, Fiction, and the Return of the European Roller
Searching for the European Roller (The Return of the Blue Roller) is a performance lecture that maps out the disappearance of the European roller. The lecture moves between fact and fiction, spectacle and myth‑making, humour and tragedy. The European roller is a bird that lived and bred in Sweden until 1967, after which it left and never returned. On the day of its departure, the bird left its nesting sites on Fårö, passed over the forests of Småland, and then continued toward the Atlas Mountains and warmer latitudes. But what really happened? Why did the bird leave—never to return?
Followed by:
A conversation between the artists and Beate Schirrmacher, researcher at the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) and Associate Professor at the Department of Film and Literature at Linnaeus University. The conversation departs from the question of truth claims in media, research, and art.
In collaboration with Bild och form Kronoberg and the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Linnaeus University.
We will serve light refreshments.
About Hillside Projects and the HULT Residency Programme
Hillside Projects (HP) is an artistic entity with members Emily Berry Mennerdahl and Jonas Böttern. HP works from a conceptual framework to explore notions such as failure, transformation, and listening. Their works take shape as video, performance lectures, text, sound, performative walks, and transdisciplinary collaborations. HP has been awarded a working grant within the HULT residency program in Region Kronoberg and will conduct artistic research in the region during autumn 2025.