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Hannah Clarkson (UK), Matilda Tucker (US/Germany), Konstantina Pappa (Greece), and Milagros Bedoya (Peru)

Fiskis Collective

https://fiskiscollective.wixsite.com/fiskis

Stockholm, Sweden
Fiskis Collective brings together 4 artists with backgrounds in visual arts, writing, and architecture, focusing on the potential of storytelling for empathy and political agency. Together with Fisksätra Museum, a ‘cultural and political laboratory’ in a Stockholm suburb characterised by its diversity of languages and immigrant communities, our work explores ideas of urban justice, civic participation and empowerment through writing, interviews, video, listening sessions, and translation.

Call for ideas 2021

Decolonial SpråkCafe


Stories from here and elsewhere

Decolonial SpråkCafe


Stories from here and elsewhere
A språkcafé exploring language as a tool for empathy, through translation, fictioning and collective storytelling
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Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Thinking and dwelling in the ‘here and elsewhere’ through language(s) and storytelling, we strive for a future architecture which stretches across cultural, geographical and/or emotional distance, yet remains grounded in everyday communities and the politics of home. We are interested in writing as an experiment in sharing everyday struggles and building collective narratives of care; the role of listening in agency and creating future communities; and translation as a collective act of fictioning.
Reinventing in a decolonial context the language cafe (språkcafé) provided for new immigrants and refugees to practice Swedish, we invert its only rule—that we must write and speak in (and become more) Swedish. Thus the language café becomes a tool for experimenting collectively with a richness and multiplicity of languages and knowledge. With ‘svenskaspråket’ as one expressive option amongst many, we employ language as a tool for empathy beyond concrete linguistic understanding.


Decolonial SpråkCafe


Stories from here and elsewhere

Decolonial SpråkCafe


Stories from here and elsewhere
A språkcafé exploring language as a tool for empathy, through translation, fictioning and collective storytelling
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Thinking and dwelling in the ‘here and elsewhere’ through language(s) and storytelling, we strive for a future architecture which stretches across cultural, geographical and/or emotional distance, yet remains grounded in everyday communities and the politics of home. We are interested in writing as an experiment in sharing everyday struggles and building collective narratives of care; the role of listening in agency and creating future communities; and translation as a collective act of fictioning.
Reinventing in a decolonial context the language cafe (språkcafé) provided for new immigrants and refugees to practice Swedish, we invert its only rule—that we must write and speak in (and become more) Swedish. Thus the language café becomes a tool for experimenting collectively with a richness and multiplicity of languages and knowledge. With ‘svenskaspråket’ as one expressive option amongst many, we employ language as a tool for empathy beyond concrete linguistic understanding.



Idea by

Hannah Clarkson (UK), Matilda Tucker (US/Germany), Konstantina Pappa (Greece), and Milagros Bedoya (Peru)
Fiskis Collective
Stockholm
Sweden
Fiskis Collective brings together 4 artists with backgrounds in visual arts, writing, and architecture, focusing on the potential of storytelling for empathy and political agency. Together with Fisksätra Museum, a ‘cultural and political laboratory’ in a Stockholm suburb characterised by its diversity of languages and immigrant communities, our work explores ideas of urban justice, civic participation and empowerment through writing, interviews, video, listening sessions, and translation.