Artists and Curators Talks with Anna
Efraimsson
Topic Tags: Skeppsholmen Lust Island collective memory public space national property board
- Place in focus: island of
Skeppsholmen, Sweden
- Lust Island (16th century during
the reign of Gustav Vasa and Erik XIV) -> military navy based from 1625
till 1990, this is where the island got the name Skeppsholmen (Ship's
Islet) -> now owned by National Property Board (statens fastighetswerk)
- Monarchy-owned, military-owned,
state-owned
- What are the traces of collective
memory?
- How can power be constructed into
an inclusive environment and context?
- The sneaking in of capitalist
logic
- What is the choreography of the
island? Who is walking there, and when and why?
- Slow and silent violence of how
the state is governing public space in Skopje
Anna Efraimsson has switched roles between curator, producer, manager, teacher and dramaturge, etc. Since January 2020, she has been working as the director of MDT, a venue for co-production, research and presentation of dance, choreography and performance in Stockholm. From 2014-2019, Efraimsson worked as Associate Professor of Choreography with a focus on curatorial practices, and from 2017, she was the head of the Dance Department at DOCH Stockholm University of the Arts. Since 2014, she also runs the low-intensity elastic organizational body The Blob. Efraimsson is educated at the Cultural studies program at Stockholm University, Études théâtrales at Sorbonne in Paris, France and at the ICPP, Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University in the US. Efraimsson has previously worked at The Kitchen in NYC, Kulturhuset, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international dance program, Mossutställningar, Perfect Performance and other. One of her first jobs was actually Press and audience manager at Moderna Dansteatern (later MDT). Efraimsson is also proud to have started the feminist network W.I.S.P. together with Sandra Medina, Tove Sahlin and Johanna Skobe.
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