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Gustav Vasa 500 years

A performative exhibition experience

The Castle of Kalmar

2020.04.04 – 2020.11.08  
Client: Castle of Kalmar
Location: The Prison tower, the Burned room and the Rust Chamber.
Project manager: Mimmi Mannheimer
Team: TAS + JAC studios + graphics Sophia wood
Technique: JAC studios and Tue Friborg
Light: TAS + JAC studios and Tue Friborg
Playwright: Mia Törnqvist  
Voice: Shanti Roney
 
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Exhibition architecture / Touring exhibition / Installation art / Furniture
A performative experience, visually and audio, ties back to the story of power, manipulation and propaganda.
500 years ago the Swedish king Gustav Vasa made his entrance to the Castle of Kalmar. The exhibition spins around GV managing his task, through power, manipulation and propaganda, at the time being in the world and Sweden. Communicated in a one-off design. An extensive core in stainless steel standing on a tripod creates the axis of the main space.
A collection of time capsules, containing objects and sound, is structured on the core unit, accessible to the visitor through the cones and lightstrings in acrylic. Talking to the visitor. Changing colours of different emotions. The units is accompanied by archival material and benches for sitting. The narrative is connected to the other exhibition galleries telling the history of the outside world at the time being.