1985 - Monument to a Revolution
1985 – MONUMENT TO A REVOLUTION (2015)
Collaboration with Kompani Giraff
Produced in collaboration with a group of circus performers, "1985 — Monument to a revolution" was the outcome of an attempting to seek ways of narrating and investigating a political process that had mainly taken place at the Swedish central bank — the re-regulation of the financial and credit market in the mid 1980s. This process took place in a situation where the division between politics and administration had become blurred, a shift in which the authority of decision-making was partly and gradually transferred from political to administrative units.
The performance took place and around a villa on Värmdö in the Stockholm archipelago, which was acquired in 1968 by the Swedish central bank. It was a gift to the employees when the bank celebrated its 300th anniversary. In the following decades it was frequently used for recreation, holidays, and conferences.
The performance was a five-hour theatrical experience that begun and ended with a boat ride between the city of Stockholm and Baggensnäs on Värmdö. It was an unusually bright and sunny September afternoon, a perfect day for a garden spectacle, revealed when two elephants tore the bank's façade apart.
Artist, concept, script: Andjeas Ejiksson
Circus director: Viktoria Dalborg
Costume design: Ellen Utterström
Make-up: Uuve Jansson
Impresario: Eric Schoeffler
Performers: Jan Unestam, Sara Runsten, Axel Adlercreutz, Anne Weshinskey, Aedín Walsh, Jenny Soddu.
Extras: Julia Sirelius, Nicolas Schoeffler
Pastries: Lena Eriksson
A COLLECTION OF FORTY-NINE ITEMS FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE – GIFTS SENT TO THE CENTRAL BANK OF SWEDEN ON ITS 300TH BIRTHDAY IN MAY 1968 (2016)
In May 1968, in the midst of student revolts and political struggles to reshape the future, the Central bank of Sweden celebrated its 300th birthday. On this occasion, gifts arrived from all over the world, most of them from other banks.