Tina Enghoff

Displaced

Ongoing

The project DISPLACED consists of the following series:
Evidence, 2018–2020
History is Our History, 2018–2020
Objects from the Far South, 2020
 You Run but the Circle Surrounds You, Video work, 2020
Unikkaaq, (The Story) Video work, 2018
 
Displaced, 2018-2020 is based on research, site-specific art activism, outreach and local collaborations in Greenland, and it examines the archive's role in relation to personal history. The research takes us through two paralell worlds, David's memories of his stay as a child in Denmark in the beginning of the fifties, oral history, and written statements about him and Nanortalik (his place of birth) in the Danish archives. Displaced is based on postcolonial identity and tales of losing ones roots, belonging and language - but also of regaining ownership.
 
From the text by Louise Wolthers, Head of Research and Curator at the Hasselblad Foundation: Listening to Traces
The story unfolds between a detail of a snapshot from Refs­næs Coastal Hospital in the mid-1950s and a 3D visualisa­tion of stones from the beach below the hospital a lifetime later. Between David Samuel Naeman Josef Kristoffersen, one of the children in the photograph, and Tina Enghoff, who has gathered the stones and archival material included in Displaced. David Kristoffersen’s story can begin in different places at different times. Like a thin yet strong thread, it ties Greenland and Denmark together, weaving between the rods of colonisation: displacement, annexation, and silencing. David Kristoffersen’s story is, however, first and foremost his own, and he relates his memories partly in his own voice, and partly by allowing Tina Enghoff to weave new threads into the story in the form of archival material, documentation of physical places, and visual manifestations of states of mind. Individually these traces are subdued and almost negligible, but together they form a chorus of testimony to colonial history that has deep resonance.
 
From the text by Inge Høst Seiding, Former Head Archivist at Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaateqarfialu/Greenland National Museum & Archives.: Finding Yourself in the Archives
Displaced – something removed from its starting point. From its home. Something lost, something gone wrong. Dislocated.Dislodged. Here we are dealing in a dual sense with two apparently disparate entities – people and archives – but also with the links between them. David Samuel Naeman Josef Kristoffersen’s story reveals both sides of this dual sense of displacement – displacement in the memory of the individual, and displacement in the memory of the archives.

VIDEO PIECES

• You Run but the Circle Surrounds You, GL-DK 2020 (sample)

  
  

  2:31 min excerpt of the full length videoinstallation of 10:16. (do not hesitate to contact me to get access to the full videoinstallation)
  You Run But The Circle Surrounds You is based on postcolonial identity and tales of losing ones roots, belonging and language - but also of regaining ownership. The young man, Greenlander Kristian Qasdi Mikael Sanimuinaq, who sets out into a small Zealand wood appears simultaneously as the hunter and the hunted. He makes a wordless performance, embodying an experience that superimposes movements in and between Danish and Greenlandic nature.