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“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes.”


Dionne Brand

To All the Gods, Honey, To the Mistress of the Labyrinth, Honey In Equal Amounts



Collaboration with Ina Hagen, Emmeli Persson and ITAB 2019


ITAB 2019 were

Daniel Murisima
Ida Ippolito
Hannes Schelin
Mika Sundell,
Isabella Gillborg
Maria Muhoza,
Niko Erfani.

In collaboration with Ina Hagen, the Index Teen Advisory Board (ITAB), Index Foundation, and Index curator and producer Emmeli Person, To all the Gods... was a performative city walk, which staged actions, interventions, and observations generated through a discursive six month engagement with the Index Teen Advisory Board; a year long, paid, educational and institutional advisory project run by Index, through which eight 15-20 year olds provide feedback and critique on the curatorial program.

Between February and June, Hagen and Archer instigated a number of exercises and conversations with the group, ultimately inviting propositions and interventions from the ITAB members to observe and temporarily re-code behaviour in public spaces in the city.

Taking inspiration from historical and mythological images of Labyrinths, non-linear narratives through Borges Garden of Forking Paths, and the Bloco, a Brazilian carnival form which moves through public space without fixed route or leadership, skirting the grey areas between permitted public assembly and spontaneous happening. To all the Gods... was an assemblage of these propositions into a non-linear, performative walk through the city.

Led by a map which wove links to digital content into the movement through physical space, audience-participants were guided in re-staging the ITAB propositions, in each case led by a short film made by the respective ITAB member, and gifted a limited edition of objects.