Artists and Projects

Milk & Honey
25 January – 19 February, 2017
Botkyrka Konsthall

Art historian and curator Temi Odumosu presented a mixed-media installation that explored how local heritage archives can activate global crosscurrents, through themes of memory, identity and belonging.

The focus of the installation was a photograph representing the performance artist Josephine Baker (1906-1975) milking cows at the farm Hamra Gård (Botkyrka municipality), in 1957. It is an archival document that presents an alternative view of this well known Black personality, whilst raising questions about openness and inclusion in Sweden historically.

The installation comprised mixed media components: photography, video, and sound, in combination with physical artefacts. The sonic component was a recorded conversation between Temi Odumosu and specialist Dr Ylva Habel, media and communications studies.

Milk & Honey was a research-based intervention produced as part of Residence Botkyrka’s programme Developing Nordic Cities supported by Nordic Culture Point. The installation featured in the exhibition Övergångar / Transitions.

Milk & Honey is a meditation on the complexities of memory, identity and belonging. It displays and reflects on two unusual photographs of Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975) milking cows at Hamra Gård in 1957 – a farm in Botkyrka municipality, southern Stockholm.

In addition to photographs the mixed-media installation includes an original milk cannister from Hamra Gård and film fragments from Princesse Tam-Tam (1935). It also features parts of a recorded conversation between Temi Odumosu and media scholar Dr Ylva Habel.

Stockholms Fria
Pionjär som både roade och gjorde motstånd, by Katarina Andersson

Thanks to Hamra Gård in Tumba and the City Museum in Stockholm.

The programme has received funding for the residency from the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture. Residence Botkyrka is supported by Botkyrkabyggen.