Ekeby Art and Research brings together artistic, research-based, and embodied practices that unfold slowly and in relation to one another. Rather than distinct programmes or formats, these practices form an interconnected ecology — shaped by withdrawal, becoming, and duration.
Queer Archives & Archaeologies of Feeling
Queer Archives and Archaeologies of Feeling are intertwined practices that engage with memory, absence, and the layered nature of experience. Queer Archives approaches the archive not as a fixed system, but as fragmentary, unstable, and in process. It attends to what has been excluded, silenced, or remains unrecorded — as well as to the conditions under which something becomes visible or stays hidden.
Archaeologies of Feeling extends this approach into the embodied realm. It understands emotions as historically and culturally inscribed, shaped by memory, environment, and lived experience. Feeling is approached as something that can be uncovered — through traces, residues, and objects. Together, these practices move between archive and body, between memory and perception. They explore how knowledge persists in suppressed forms and how it can still become accessible. Within Ekeby, these processes unfold through collecting, writing, listening, and time-based practices.
They resist classification and extraction, allowing for opacity, contradiction, and incompleteness, and initiate a process of working: a movement into the unknown.
The forest becomes a space of resonance — a site of withdrawal, decay, and regeneration, where what is hidden, displaced, or forgotten can be sensed and approached differently.
Rewriting Histories
Rewriting Histories emerges from this field of practice as a situated and evolving way of working. It approaches narration as a means of engaging with memory, experience, and historical gaps — not in order to reconstruct a coherent past, but to shift perspective and activate the narrative voice. Working with fragments — memories, images, atmospheres, and textual traces — the practice allows for discontinuity and contradiction. It resists the demand for resolution and instead opens up spaces for narratives that remain in transition.
Rewriting Histories unfolds through writing, reading, listening, and collective processes. It does not aim to produce fixed stories, but to sustain the conditions under which personal and collective histories can be retold.