EN BÅGE GENOM TIDEN
– Ritualer kring en Göteborgshistoria. Om Flickläroverket i Artisten.
Why are there no rituals when a building is demolished? What does women's memory mean in a city like Gothenburg? These and similar questions were raised when Flickläroverket i Artisten was demolished in 2023 to make way for The Artistic Faculty's new building at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg.
The anthology “En båge genom tiden” (An Arc Through Time) is the result of a research project at the University of Gothenburg, and was produced on behalf of and in close collaboration with Monica Sand, artist and researcher, at the Faculty of Arts, University of Gothenburg.
Public commemoration days were held where creative rituals, dance, exhibitions and conversations gave life to an educational culture and art that has touched society for generations. In the book, some 20 artists and researchers contribute new perspectives on the poetic, social and multi-sensory dimensions of the building, which together form a contemporary document in which art functions as a bearer of memory across time and space.
We interpreted this rich and varied material in art direction and design and compiled it onto 240 pages. The architecture influenced the color palette and design elements, and the playful, swinging typography draws inspiration from the artistic activities conducted in the building, centered around dance and movement. The book is bound in a flexi-cover with foil block and partial varnish.
More about the project (in Swedish) at Monica Sand’s project page.