Artist talk: Arkæologi, myte og modstand – med Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind, Marie Berg Christensen
Schedule
Tue Jan 13 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark | Copenhagen , SK
Oplev en samtale med den udstillingsaktuelle dansk-palæstinensiske kunstner Larissa Sansour, forfatter og instruktør Søren Lind samt ph.d. og post doc i kritiske kulturarvsstudier Marie Berg Christensen.Hvordan skriver vi historier om modstand, fravær og tilstedeværelse – og hvem har retten til at definere, hvad der huskes, og hvad der slettes fra historien?
Med udgangspunkt i Sansours skulpturelle installation Archaeology in Absentia spørger vi til, hvordan arkæologi, fiktion og myter kan bruges som redskaber til at skabe – og udfordre – de fortællinger, der former vores forståelse af fortiden og muligheder for fremtiden.
Deltagerne i talken er Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind og Marie Berg Christensen. Samtalen er på engelsk og modereres af Stine Hebert fra HEIRLOOM center for art and archives.
I værket Archaeology in Absentia har Sansour begravet håndmalede porcelænstallerkener med det traditionelle palæstinensiske modstandsmønster på steder i Palæstina og Israel – fra Jerusalem og Ramallah til Haifa og Det Døde Hav. Koordinaterne til disse hemmelige nedgravninger er indlejret i bronzeskulpturer, modelleret over en russisk atombombe fra Den Kolde Krig, og præsenteres i montrér som arkæologiske artefakter, som beviser og modstand.
“We are depositing facts in the ground for future archaeologists to excavate” konstaterer hovedpersonen i værket In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain, som kredser om, hvordan fiktion og myter kan blive politiske værktøjer. I filmværket følger vi en modstandsgruppe, der begraver porcelæn med det formål at skabe et fremtidigt, fiktivt folk – en opfundet historie, der en dag kan blive til arkæologisk virkelighed for kommende generationer.
Samtalen denne aften vil udfolde, hvordan arkæologi og historiefortælling kan bruges både til at bevare, undertrykke og omforme erindringer – og hvordan kunsten kan skabe nye rum for at tænke historien anderledes.
Tidspunkt: 13. januar 2026, kl. 17.00-19.00
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Billede: Larissa Sansour, Installationsview fra udstillingen These Moments Will Disappear Too på Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2025. Foto af Anders Sune Berg.
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Join us this evening where we invite you to a conversation with the Danish-Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour, instructor and writer Søren Lind and Marie Berg Christensen, who holds a PhD in Critical Cultural Heritage Studies and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the same field.
How do we write histories of resistance, absence and presence – and who has the right to define what is remembered and what is erased from history?
Taking Sansour’s sculptural installation Archaeology in Absentia as a point of departure, we will ask how archaeology, fiction and myth can be used as tools to create – and challenge – the narratives that shape our understanding of the past and possibilities for the future. The talk is in English and moderated by Stine Hebert from HEIRLOOM center for art and archives.
In Archaeology in Absentia, Sansour has buried hand-painted porcelain plates with the traditional Palestinian resistance pattern in various locations in Palestine and Israel – from Jerusalem and Ramallah to Haifa and the Dead Sea. The coordinates of these secret burials are embedded in bronze sculptures, modeled on a Russian Cold War atomic bomb, and displayed in vitrines as archaeological artifacts, as evidence and as resistance.
“We are depositing facts in the ground for future archaeologists to excavate” as the main character in the video work In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain states. The work revolves around how fiction and myth can become political tools for creating new realities. The film follows a resistance group burying porcelain with the aim of creating a future, fictional people – an invented history that may one day become an archaeological reality for generations to come.
The conversation this evening will revolve around how archaeology and storytelling can be used both to preserve, suppress and reshape memories – and how art can create new spaces for rethinking history.
Date: 13 January 2026, 17.00-19.00
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Image: Larissa Sansour, Installation view from the exhibition These Moments Will Disappear Too at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2025. Photo by Anders Sune Berg.
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Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 København K, Danmark, Copenhagen , Denmark
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