Project: Troll perceptions in the Heartlands – artistic research to widen our imagination capacity
A transdisciplinary design project emerging out of southern rural Sweden, expanding the formal field used to generate sustainable future scenarios through site-specific crafting and crafting video animations informed by folktales and mythology.
Project information
Project managers
Katarina Bonnevier, The art- design & architecture group MYCKET
Mariana Alves Silva, The art- design & architecture group MYCKET
Thérèse Kristiansson, The art- design & architecture group MYCKET
Other project members
Mathilda Tham, Linnaeus University
Åsa Ståhl, Linnaeus University
Christina Zetterlund, Linnaeus University
Marie Carlsson, Madam snickeri
Magdalena Marano, Madam snickeri
Familjen Bergström-Hartmann, Ormestorp gård
Karin Drake, REX Animationsfestival
Participating organizations
Linnaeus University, Sagobygden & Sagomuseet i Ljungby, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm.
Financier
The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
Timetable
Jan 2021 – Dec 2023
Subject
Design
Website
https://mycket.org/Troll-Perceptions-in-The-Heartlands-artistic-research-to-widen-our
More about the project
Once upon a time, humans lived in harmony with Earth. Trolls, fairies, and other spirits roamed freely around the villages of Sweden. Then came an era when humans started exploiting nature, pushing Earth to her limit. In the process they shut out all the conversations and relations they used to have with their non-sentients neighbors. Now, there is an acute need for radically different imaginaries of how to live with Earth again.
In "Trollperception in the Heartlands", we turn to folktales and legends to reconnect to that time when people in our regions lived closer to, and were more subordinated to nature. Trollperception in the Heartlands is a transdisciplinary design project emerging out of southern rural Sweden, expanding the formal field used to generate sustainable future scenarios through site-specific crafting and crafting video animations informed by folktales and mythology.
During a three-year period, the project delves into trolls, spirits, and animism together with a diverse network of affiliated collaborators from various disciplines and geographical locations. We will craft together, while simultaneously mediating and sharing these artworks through filmed animations - investigating what new and unforeseen knowledge can be derived from the process itself.
The aim is to explore troll perception through artistic research, and to create and share viable ways of designing and living for the future. Returning people to a dialogue with Earth and its fellow creatures.
