The organic, the fragile, and the ephemeral
What if history were not told through weapons, wars, and heroes — but through what we carried, shared, and allowed to disappear? Turning our gaze toward art as a form of historiography, the panel explores which stories are preserved and which are lost. Using the Carrier Bag Theory as a shared point of departure, the conversation examines the place and legitimacy of ephemeral art within history.
Following the screening of ‘The Mother Age’, we invite you to a conversation centered on Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and its significance for how we understand the past, art, and the writing of history. The event explores life in prehistoric Northern European landscapes and the traces that rarely survive — the organic, the fragile, and the ephemeral — as a counterpoint to the classical archaeological narrative dominated by weapons, war, and power.
The conversation opens up new ways of thinking about history. How is our collective memory shaped if we begin with care, community, landscapes, and artistic practices rather than conquest and domination? And what does this shift mean for both art and our understanding of the past?
This conversation will be in Danish.
This conversation is presented in collaboration with CAFx