Flickläroverket – Art and research seminar on social memories and experiences of a place
Save the date December 7 and 8. Welcome to take part in an artistic research project. The intention is to both preserve and create new memories of a place with artistic methods. The place of interest is the building from 1935, integrated in Artisten at Götaplatsen, that once hosted the first secondary school for girls, Flickläroverket, later Kjellbergska, in Gothenburg.
Welcome to see an exhibition with archival images and photos, take part in dance performances once performed in the building. Talk to women who were pupils at the school at the time, and discover what art students are doing today.
The aim of the project is to both to preserve and to create new memories of the place with artistic methods.
Artistic Memory Processes at Flickläroverket in Artisten, December 7 and 8
(The program will be documented with film, photo, sound)
December 7: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m
10 at Götaplatsen: Memory walk to Flickläroverket in Artisten, led by Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt, choreographer and researcher
11.00 Welcome: Monica Sand
Guided walk in the building: Kjell Thorbjörnsson
11.45 Historical dance, led by Gun Lund, dancer/choreographer
12.40 Site-specific dance performance by dance teacher students, HSM
Lunch/Lunch concert:
13.00-13.40 Installation and memory performance: dance, bass flute, sound mix:
Anders Hagberg, Anna Wennerbeck and Åke Linton
14.00 Conversation with former female students at Flickläroverket
Exhibition with archival material, drawings, photos, objects
December 8: 9 a.m - 5 p.m
9-12: Flickläroverket - rituals around a history of Gothenburg: Architecture, memory, democracy: Jonsereds seminar in Flickläroverket/Artisten.
Chair: Lena Ulrika Rudeke. OBS the seminar is in Swedishwww.gu.se/evenemang/pop-up-akademi-flicklaroverket-ritualer-kring-en-goteborgshistoria
LUNCH
1.30 pm. In the backyard of Artisten: Gunilla Bandolin, artist and landscape architect, presents the ideas behind the art installation from 1991
14.30 Guided walk in the building by Kjell Thorbjörnsson
Conversations with women, former students at Flickläroverket
Exhibition with archival material, drawings, photos, objects
16.00 Historical dance, led by Gun Lund, dancer/choreographer
16.45 Place-specific dance performance by dance teacher students, HSM
About the project
The art- and research seminar takes place in the building of Flickläroverket (Secondary school for girls in Gothenburg) inaugurated in 1935, at Götaplatsen. The girls at the school were often the first in their family to go on to higher education. It was a time when more women took place in professional and social life. The female lecturers became role models of a new public role for women. A sculpture of Fredrika Bremer in the staircase and the silver brooch with an image of Pallas Athena on the school caps, brought in feminist values. Many of the former pupils came to greatly influence cultural life, research, politics and education, in Gothenburg and nationally.
The building, designed by the architect Ragnar Ossian Swensson, carries a rich artistic and cultural heritage that combines women's educational history, architecture, urban planning, art, and cultural history. The location at the cultural centre at Götaplatsen, still characterize the activities in the house. In 1992, the building was integrated into the Academy of Music and Drama, named Artisten (the Artist). The University of Gothenburg is now planning to expand the building to host the entire Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, which means that the old Flickläroverket will be demolished to make room for a new building, designed for future artistic education and research, to carry on the legacy.
