︎art grows roots︎art heals roots︎art soothes roots︎art untangles roots︎art cuts roots︎art reveals roots︎art nourishes roots︎art transforms roots︎art celebrates roots︎art shocks roots︎art touches roots︎art strengthens roots︎art honours roots︎art connects roots ︎art reclaims roots
Mirai Nemoto Nilsson ︎ Artist ︎ m.nemotonilsson@gmail.com ︎ Gothenburg (SE)
CRISIS RETOLD, BFA DEGREE PROJECT, 2019
Crisis Retold is a design research project which delves into the complexity surrounding Sweden’s national emergency preparedness and defence to war crisis on a holistic level. The project aims to critically question what a safe space is in society and challenge dominant narratives of crisis. The research is visualised through a series of digital collage posters, demonstrating the unstable nature of crisis influenced by our shared history and present precursors. The work is accompanied with a film A Safe Space which retells the narrative of shelter rooms as a neglected space through performance and assemblage of archive footage. As part of the research, design students were engaged in a narrative-building workshop where they utilised performance, spoken word and a selection of archival and contemporary images depicting crisis and war.
Work exhibited at Kulturparken Småland, Växjö, May 2019.
︎ Narrating crisis workshop with design students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzIKkDgumbk
