Desire for Misplacement (2014)
Performance lecture with digital slide projection and video. First installment produced and performed in 2014, in the exhibition Fast Forward, curated by Jason E. Bowman.
‘Financed by what is now called the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg, the German ethnographer Curt Nimuendajú travelled to Brazil in the 1920s expecting to meet the most hospitable of inhabitants, but instead found something else. Considering the politics of ethnography, the slide-show presentation Desire for Misplacement took a performative detour from a published report by Nimuendajú, by appropriating some of his personal mishaps and a few fortunate circumstances with Kjell Caminha’s own private accounts of a transformed guest in Sweden.’
Documentation of performance lecture Desire for Misplacement (2014). Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden. Photos by Jéssica de Albuquerque Johansson.
