Museum of Forgetting

Our projects, exhibitions and events, are not tied to any one traditional form of expression or genre, but come together in the ambition to look critically at contemporary issues in the crossfire between memory and forgetting.
The project started out from an ambition to look critically at the way the dominant media organisations dealt with the Iraq War. We placed the light on the absence of historical reflection and lack of deliberate articulated thought on future consequences within medias coverage. They, possibly out of an ambition to be impartial and objective, choose most of all to transmit NEWS in the present, i.e. reporting on details from the ongoing war. Yet, the innumerable amounts of details, deaths, bombs and so forth became increasingly difficult to fit into an overarching narrative, an understanding, any understanding, of the events. It is as if medias coverage most of all contributed to the thickening of the "fog of war". This later changed and a more sober phase entered with more of historical reflection and critical reporting.
This is how we started out with several discussions, events and art exhibitions. From this point we have moved on to raise questions about memory and forgetfullness in relation to gender, America, multiculturalism, private vs public etc.
Our next project will be an art exhibition showing Cartoons from Arabic countries. Our ambition is to highlight something that was completely forgotten in the so called Cartoon crisis, namely the long and rich tradition of Arabic satirical cartoons and drawings. The works will be exhibited in Beirut and Norrköping at the same time, as well as electronically, synchronized, on two different websites of major newspapers in Sweden and in Libanon.