P.E.T. Biographical Tour #3

Sally Sofie Hagen – A biographical guided tour – Bergen 2001

The Sally Sofie Hagen-tour took place in Bergen, as a part of the UKS-biennale in 2001.

This arrangement was administred by the Bergen Tourist Office in cooperation with Bergen Kunsthall – a communal art-institution. Here, buses departed from Bergens Main Square, directly outside the tourist-office, at 1PM on Saturdays and Sundays between September 15:th and October 7:th.

Sally Sofie Hagen was an inventor, who’s life and work had a significant influence on the social, political and economical development of Bergen throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s. The story furthermore involves a narrative of the historical class distinctions of Bergen.

The memory plaque over Sally Sofie Hagen is installed outside the maternity ward of Haukeland Hospital – Sally’s place of birth.

 

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
2001

duration of the project
15.9 - 7.10 2001

assistant
Camilla Petersson

guide
Annika Lundgren

photo documentation
Marianne Lauritz

idea, manuscript and arrangement
Annika Lundgren