Staying With the Trouble*
– of Working Together.

2017

By: Nanna Elvin Hansen

Featuring: Maria Cariola, Dejene Daba, Arendse Krabbe, Edward Stanley and Barly Tshibanda

Presented at: The Others Art Fair in Torino curated by SixtyEight Art institute, Astrid Noacks and InstantHERLEV institute, Astrid Noacks Atelier and Rundgang at Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi

*Adoption from Donna Haraway ‘Staying with the trouble - Making Kin in the Chthulucene’

The video work was based on a series of interviews and actions, developed with inspiration from the brazilian Theater of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal. The work asks questions on how to collaborate in groups of people with very privileges in ways that break with white supremacy and racism. 

I invited people with whom I already cooperate in the Bridge Radio to perform the series of actions. We work together in groups consisting of people who live under different conditions with and without Danish citizenship. I asked them to perform the task of arranging a number of objects to visualize formations of power and asked them how to collaborate in subversive ways. Ignorance of privilege shows to strike everywhere, which has everything to do with a dominant colonial culture. It even happens in groups that aim to work in anti-fascist and anti-racists ways. We have to articulate that and work with it to overcome – come beyond it.