P.E.T. Biographical Tour #2

Alice Stiernfeldt Tanwier – A biographical guided tour – Copenhagen 2000

The second arrangement by P.E.T., Alice Stiernfeldt-Tanwier – A Biographical Guided Tour, took place in the Copenhagen area.

This event was promoted in cooperation with the Copenhagen tourist-organization, that distributed tickets and information. The tours started out from the City Hall Square (along with most Copenhagen guided tours) and departed every day at 2 PM between July 29:th to August 2:nd; a total of four tours.

Alice Stiernfeld-Tanwier was born on a Danish oil-rigg in the 60’s, to a mother who mysteriously disappears and is presumed dead, immediately after having given birth. With none of the men claiming the child, she is named after the rigg and sent to grow up in a Copenhagen orphanage. Later adopted by the wealthy Stiernfeldt-family, she dedicates her life to tracking down and confronting her biological father. The story involves the development of the Danish oil-consortium, and takes the passengers around the center as well as the outskirts of Copenhagen while reinterpreting a number of historical and political events of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

 

Public Educational Tours is a continuous series of guided bus-tours, and a project about history writing.

Our conception of existence and idetity, as well as our visions for the future are lagely defined by our officially documented history. The information recorded here not only documents past events, but also creates and shapes those to come and is consequently an immensly powerful political tool.

As history writing can never be an objective documentation, it is necessarily selections of events based on the documenting individuals, institutions or nations subjective choise. This, in turn, depends upon factors like political and financial interests along with a specifik (traditionally male Western) point of view in terms of religious conviction, national and cultural background, social and educational status, race, gender etcetera...

From this perspective, the representation of the state of affairs in our history-writing cannot really be said to be less fictitious than any other individually conceived interpretation, presented by anyone, and at any given point in time.

production year
2000

duration of the project
29.7 - 2.8 2000

assistant
Stine Loft Rasmussen

guide
Annika Lundgren

photo documentation
Milo Photography

idea, manuscript and arrangement
Annika Lundgren