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Lidman gave to the miners during the strike. Can you say something briefly about how the speech is connected to the strike collection? IJ: Sara Lidman was a key figure during the strike. She came to Kiruna as a reporter for TV 2 and gave an impromptu speech at the general meeting in Kiruna Gymnasium on 12 November 1969. Sara was well acquainted with the plight of the miners. In 1968 she wrote the texts for a book called Gruva (Mine), about the inhumane working conditions in the LKAB mine, accompanied by Odd Uhrbom’s photography. It was an exposé–– portraits in words and images, anonymous stories of the abuses at the state-owned enterprise––and a book that would come to play a major role in the strike’s development and in defining the dispute. For example, it came out that the finance minister Gunnar Sträng disliked the book’s influence and sought to discredit it. At the strike meeting in Kiruna Gymnasium, Sara decided to donate 10,000 SEK of the honorarium she received for the second edition of Gruva to form the nucleus of a strike fund. It was a telling gesture that encouraged Wednesday 20.3 18:30 Screening of the film Kamrater motståndaren är välorganiserad by Lars Westman and Lena Ewert with an introduction by Ingela Johansson. Talk about the representation of the strike between Ingela Johansson and Robert Nilsson, Phd student in History at Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet. Moderator: Giorgiana Zachia, producer, Tensta konsthall. Saturday 6.4 14:00 Ingela Johansson presents the exhibition at Tensta konsthall. Wednesday 17.4 18.00 Witness seminar: What was the meaning of the medium of the exhibition in relation to the 1968-movement? with Louise Waldén, Carl Henrik Svenstedt, Helena Friman, Eva Persson and Sköld Peter Matthis. Moderators: Kjell Östberg and Maria Lind, director of Tensta konsthall. In collaboration with The Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University. 4 other cultural workers to follow suit. The staging of Sara Lidman’s speech therefore gives the collection a background context in the nationwide fundraising effort and explains directly how the strike fund came into being. Sara also had a strong rhetorical voice that influenced public opinion and she spoke passionately at demonstrations to get people to support the strikers. Sara was also very good friends with Berta Hansson and Siri Derkert, two of the artists represented in the collection. Berta directly initiated an art auction at Galleri Heland in Stockholm. What’s on at Tensta konsthall during What happened with the art of the strike? in collaboration with ABF Every Thursday and Saturday 14:00, Tensta konsthall’s staff introduces the exhibition Wednesday 13.3, 17:00-20:00 Opening with performance at 17:00 by Cecilia Nilsson, who stages Sara Lidman’s speech to the striking miners. Thursday 25.4 13:00-17:00 Seminar about representation and the gift of solidarity with Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor of Cultural Studies at The Centre for Baltic and East European Studies; Ludger Hagedorn, Research Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen; Leonard Neuger, Professor of Polish at the University of Stockholm; Tora Lane, Researcher in Slavic Studies at Södertörn University; Gustav Strandberg, Doctoral student in Philosophy at Södertörn University; and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University. Solidarity: something that there was so much of in the ’70s in Sweden, or the ’80s in Poland. But what happened to the word after that? Solidarity has many languages. It manifests itself in gestures, gifts, and encouragement. But how does it relate to power? Where does solidarity stem from? Who does it include (or exclude)? What is the value of a (symbolic) gift offered in a gesture of solidarity offer? One of the most striking features of solidarity is the possibility of giving a gift of language as such, finding means to express what was silenced, and to represent common What happened with the art of the strike?
experience. The Swedish artists who supported the great strike of the miners in 1969-1970 did so in an act of solidarity. But who gave the gift of language—the miners or the artists? Wednesday 15.5 18.30 Talk about Filialen between Pär Stolpe and Maria Lind. In 1969, Pär Stolpe was hired by Pontus Hultén to make Moderna Museets exhibitions and museum programs more radical. This resulted in the experimental project Filialen (The Branch) (1971- 1973). Filialen was a public education project with focus on counter cultures, protest actions, and on the third world, with the aim of looking at the social and political movements following 1968 to broaden the notion of the image. Filialen got its own department in one of the barrack buildings on Skeppsholmen i Stockholm. As a curator, Stolpe set out to reach an audience not familiar with art to visit the museum. He wanted to incorporate the processes of democracy into the exhibition space to evoke questions around the freedom of speech. Some of the exhibitions were Mitt hem är portraits of the miners and their relatives. Central in the film are the mass gatherings and the unity of the miners. Self-presentations Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is a professor of philosophy at Södertörn University (Sweden). She has also worked as associate professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil. Her field of research is continental philosophy, with focus on phenomenology, hermeneutics, German Idealism, and hermeneutical readings of ancient philosophy. She is the author of O começo de deus: A filosofia do devir no pensamento tardio de F. W. J. Schelling (Vozes, 1998), A doutrina dos sons de Goethe a caminho da música nova de Webern (UFRJ, 1999), Para ler os medievais: Ensaio de hermenêutica imaginativa (Vozes, 2000), Lovtal till intet: essäer om filosofisk hermeneutik (Glänta, 2006), Olho a olho: ensaios de longe (7 Letras, 2011), Att tänka i skisser (Glänta, 2011). She has also translated several works of philosophy into Portuguese, among others Being in Time by Martin Heidegger. translate Palestina (My home is Palestine) with Odd Uhrbom, Folkets och maktens murar (The People and the Walls of the Power) with Gun Kessle and Jan Myrdal, and Kvinnor (Women) with Grupp 8. During Stolpe’s time as a curator at Moderna Museet, “evenings of solidarity” and fundraisers brought together popular artists, activists, and political groups to support groups like the striking miners during the Miners’ Strike from 1969 to 1970, and The Black Panthers. Friday 17.5 15:00 The Great Mine Strike of Sweden (1970) av Margareta Vinterheden och Alf Israelsson. 73 min. "If you can go to the moon you should be able to have a 100 percent emission…" says the miner Björn Holmberg when he describes the background of the strike. One of the reasons for it was the dangerous work environment with the hazardous diesel gases in the mine. The documentary follows the strike in Malmfälten together with material from the general assemblies, demonstrations and union meetings as well as personal Helena Friman. In the late 1960s, when I took the step into the world of the museum, it was a time of confrontations when the role of the museums changed rapidly, and many of them transformed into stages for social critique and debate. At the Stockholm City Museum where I worked until 1992, we made exhibitions that criticized the city planning and the capitalist society’s waste of resources. Some of the exhibitions were Spanien (Spain) 1936, Än sen då (So What), Staden i retur (The recycled city) and Du gamla du fria (Thou ancient, Thou free). One exhibition informed viewers about the Black Panthers’ work with children and schools in USA’s big cities. In 1993 The EU decided that Stockholm was going to be the European Capital of Culture in 1998. I gave the committee of the Capital of Culture a suggestion about a special “Stockholm education” for the people who worked with the infrastructure in the city. These would be custom-made classes that would take place out on the streets of the city with the city itself as an instrument and learning tool. The committee took on the suggestion and from fall 1996 until New Years Eve in 1998, I Stockholm-educated thousands of 5
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