This is me prepping a short talk next week at THE COLLECTIVE BODY DISMEMBERED conference on Histories of Art, Identities and the War in Ukraine. at @smkmuseum Dressed (virtually) as one the traditional danish hot buns that i remember that my family bought, each and every year, on occasion of the national public holiday called "Great Prayer Day", but that no one quite seemed to knew what to with or particularly enjoyed. A small feeling of not quite belonging, or for that matter wanting to belong, to a single national narrative or tradition. The privileged of being able to pass as a native, without ever feeling obliged to feel or act like one. A feeling that is, at least partially, the legacy of my Russian grandmother flight from a Russia whose traditions had been forgotten by the time I was born. An wonderment at local danish customs and a way of remaining unsettled, that I think holds value and is worth holding on to and even nurturing. Tuesday 31 May 2022, (9:00–18:00) at the National Gallery of Denmark #putinsnose #hutbuns #hveder #stayingwiththetrouble #ukraine #blahblahblah (at SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd-gOcatyFD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
