På engelska: Art talk BeLonging - Adam Lundberg

PLEASE NOTE! The event is given at the Stockholm School of Economics and in English

Welcome to an art talk with Adam Lundberg, PhD-student at Uppsala University, on the topic “Culinary Ghosting and Landscape Re-Placement: Michael Rakowitz and Dar Al Sulh”. This art talk is part of the ongoing program-series around the exhibition BeLonging: Michael Rakowitz and the Mesopotamian collection, currently shown in the school’s atrium. The talk will be held in the Schumpeter Room.

This talk centers on Michael Rakowitz, who reimagines the cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria through the creative reassembly of artifacts blown apart by war and/or looted over the long history of colonization. By focusing particularly on two interventions in Malmö (Rakowitz’s exhibition The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist in 2019, and his subsequent performance dinner Dar Al Sulh in 2022, both at Malmö Konsthall) this talk explores how landscapes come to be re-placed, particularly through artistic hauntings, and what that means for the production and entanglements of landscape, art, and memory.

Adam Lundberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Geography at Uppsala University. His research is situated at the intersection of cultural geography, memory studies, critical theory, and art history. Focusing on the work of two contemporary visual artists — Yael Bartana and Michael Rakowitz — Lundberg’s thesis explores critical artistic interventions that engage with and materialize the complexities of diaspora and displacement, of both people and objects, and how these interventions reshape and re-place landscapes marked by ruination.

Vegetarian lunch wrap included.