Future Worlds

Anders Birger

“If there were to be a statue of you built in the future, where should it be placed? What should it look like, and what would people think of as they passed it?

On World Refugee Day, join Anders Birger for a workshop on your future.

How do we want to be remembered, and how will we be remembered?

In this workshop we will be exploring our future stories and imagine ourselves looked back on from a not too distant future. What will be your narrative, and what stories will be told about us by our descendants? Photographer and writer Anders Birger will lead us through his own work created in collaboration with his daughter Nora, and their imagined great (great) granddaughter Clara. We will work together as a group to create our own future image remembered by those who will come after us and find ways to manifest this image for ourselves as well as for those who will inherit it.

What will be your story?”

Anders Birger is an artist within BEAF Arts Festival 2023 exhibiting ‘For Clara’; a time capsule that consists of stories from our time dealing with topics such as identity, nationality, borders and trauma, and how these topics are part of deciding how we define ourselves.

‘For Clara’ is shaped as a letter to the future. A travelling pop-up van exhibition, that presents a time capsule, containing stories, images, video and writing, that is addressed to Anders’ imaginary great great granddaughter. Large parts of the work was created in collaboration with Nora, Anders’ daughter who is nine years old. It is their attempt to imagine a future where their descendant, Clara, finds herself living as a migrant.

This workshop is free but booking is advised as spaces are limited. BOOK HERE.

For all our free workshops as part of BEAF Arts festival visit here.

Images ©️ Anders Birger