“Stimulating reflection on human worth as expressed in various Art Forms”
TC/G Nordica’s popular barbecue will re-open this Friday at 6.00 PM. Bring your friends, enjoy the food, drinks and the live-music performed by some of our associates. The Barbecue will then run every second week during the spring.
Don’t forget our Restaurant which serves delicious Chinese and Western food.
Our movie-nights will run every second week, starting Friday the 10th of March. But already we have a teaser. TC/G Nordica’s multi-talented friend, photographer Carl Rytterfalk, has made an introduction-movie with old and new friends who happened to pass by our neighborhood Chuang Ku/LOFT. Enjoy! (click image to play)
Play Version 1 - Full (Music by the italian group Blond Readhead)
Play Version 2 - Will grow with time (Music from the French movie “Amelie”)
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The exhibition Anonymity is presented by Anonymous and lasts until the 26th of February. 40 photos, 40 texts, a video and music deals with the theme.
I see anonymity as closely connected to modernity and individualism. In traditional society your position and identity would be set by the family, the history and the local community. Identity as a straight-jacket or a seat-belt, depending on who you’re asking.
In modern society, the quest for identity is placed on the individual. Anonymity becomes the Janus-face of modernity: It can be an occasional luxury-haven for the rich and famous, and an escape-route for people trying to leave a troublesome past behind and build a new identity. Or it transforms into the curse of loneliness that plagues many urban dwellers that as been rooted up from their place of birth.
Also anonymity has been truly globalised. Refugees throw away their passports in order to hide their true identity – an anonymity pointing to a brighter future. But many untold stories show that these peoples’ future is more like a dubious lottery. In one of the photos – although we can’t see it – a refugee is handcuffed, crying over his destiny. I find this faceless photo particularly congenial.
These are part of the reasons I connected with Anonymous’ idea of starting his project in Kunming, China. The country pops up in the headlines of newspapers and magazines all over the world as an illustration of the benefits and challenges of globalisation. “Anonymity” will last for two years and is truly trance-continental: It will end in Berlin, Germany in 2007 after also having been exhibited in Bombay India, Dodoma Tanzania and one South-American country.
Of course, when you look closer on the photos, you’ll notice that there actually are differences between the people portrayed. This is perhaps the most hopeful message from this exhibition. An implicit denial of any attempt to wipe out our uniqueness. And somehow I hear: Anonymity is not a fixed position, only a starting point.
So what are you going to do about it?
Anders Gustafsson, Programs Director at TC/G Nordica
