Fashioning
Afro-Swedish Identity
Program Manager
Parvin Ardalan
Idea and Concept
Arieta Mujay
Jason D. Holness
Documentation Roozbeh Janghorban
Coordinator
Mamak Babak-Rad
In its third year, Migration Memory Encounter Project (MME) has continued to host multi–act events. MME 3:2 "Fashioning Afro-Swedish Identity" took place at the newly opened workplace of Museum of Movements (MoM) at Bergsgatan 20, Saturday Nov. 16:th.
This event focused on afro-Swedish identity, fashion, culture and also honoured the memory of 400 years since the first slave ship left the coast of West Africa triggering the mass dispersion of African people during the transatlantic slave trade.
There are nearly 200.000 Swedish people of African descent living in Sweden today. However, the idea of Sweden as a utopian society, different from the rest of Europe, and disconnected from legacies of slavery and colonialism , has made it very difficult to discuss the racist structures that "Afro Swedes" face today.
"FASHIONING AFRO SWEDISH IDENTITY” was a thematic discussion of the Conversation Series by the Migration Memory Encounters project (MME).
The program was a joint venture between Malmö stad - Rörelsernas museum, Kulturrådet and the two creative and talented cultural curators that came up with the idea and had curated the program, Arieta Mujay and Jason D. Holness.
The day encompassed: live installations, art, music, poetry, photography and portraiture, panel discussions on Afro Swedish identity and experience.
*The music of the event has been removed due to YouTube copyright restrictions
Welcome to MME 3-2: Fashioning Afro-Swedish Identity
opening
Projects

MME
3.2
Live Art
Installation

My Hair…
My Crown
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by
Arieta Mujay
Olive Thelma

Performer
by
Sweden’s Pioneer Wedding Painter
Abiose
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Abiose, performer artist donated her artwork to Rörelsernas museum (MoM) at MME program. Abiose has written the text below about her artwork. Thank you Abiose!
Consolidating and Questioning the Status Quo at MOM- Artwork
Everyone has rights. Everyone has a right to their own history. Everyone has a right to live in their most authentic self, as long as no physical harm is brought to another. Everyone has rights.
As the mom in a multiracial household, awakened within me is the protective instinct of a mama- bear, tigress, bird, lion, monkey, snake, whale, shark, (and any-and-all fierce animal mothers) all rolled into one. I am protective over the path that dictates what and how my family is/should be treated.... And my family is multiracial.
Speaking for one aspect of my family, "Consolidating and Questioning the Status Quo at MOM." Is the product of the live installation created during the event "Fashioning the AfroSwedish Identity". Everyone has rights.
Live Performances

Dance as
Visual Art
by
Bee Brown
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Poetry Reading
by
Fatuma Awil
Fatuma read some of her poems that are
about racism, migration, and mothers.
Panel Discussion

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Fashioning Afro-Swedish Identity and the African Diaspora
by
Rafeala Stålkbalk Klose
Samuel Girma
Michael McEachrane

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Contemporary Artists Introduction to their Work
by
Sanna Jarl.Hansson
Sarah Nakiito
Hadil Mohamed
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Afro-Swedish
Art Exhibition
by
Sanna Jarl.Hansson
Sarah Nakiito
Hadil Mohamed
Abiose

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Fashioning the Space
by
Victoria Henry Studio X Bärg Productions
in collaboration with
