Somewhere behind archway after archway, a painting is waiting for you. It has something to tell you, in the language that only you two understand.
Tickets26 Sep
14:30
Ticket release 28 August
24 Oct
14:30
Tickets go on sale 10 October at 10am
28 Nov
14:30
Tickets go on sale 14 November at 10am
MINOR ARCANA is a participatory performance piece in the form of an oracle that gives each visitor a personalised tarot reading. The National Museum is her temple and the collection of paintings her deck of cards. The work brings together site-specific performance with dance and classical painting as the language of human life and narrative.
MINOR ARCANA on display in the exhibition Romanticism - a way to see at the National Museum. It presents a visual world that frightens, entices and opens up to unknown spaces. It turns trifles into poetry and invites the viewer to take their place in the art. In the process, you can literally become part of the art yourself.
Time
Thursdays 26 September, 24 October and 28 November 2024, 14:30-19:20.
Each individual performance experience takes about 50 minutes, 16 sessions per day.
Location
Gathering outside the Southern Light Court, National Museum.
Tickets
Purchased via the National Museum's website or at the ticket office at the museum. Tickets will be released on 28 August 2024.
For the event on 24 October, additional seats will be released on 10 October. For the event on 28 November, additional seats will be released on 14 November.
- 210 SEK including regular admission
- 50 SEK if you have a Nationalmuseum annual pass or free admission
- 160 SEK with a valid season ticket for Dansens Hus.
About Poste Restante
Since 2007 Poste Restante has produced several large-scale performance works and presented them at festivals such as Baltic Circle, (FI) Santiago A Mil (CL) and Salzburger Festspeiele (AT).
At Poste Restante, each visitor is the centre of the work, the protagonist and the ultimate recipient. Each visitor is treated with respect for their particular circumstances. Information is always clear and participation is concrete. Decisions must be made. Glass must be shattered. Fears must be challenged.
The works come in the form of activities, unexpected but sincere. For example, a fitness centre for those of us who find it hard to 'have fun', or a helpline for the politically depressed.
Poste Restante works on a site- and situation-specific basis, taking its visitors to unexpected places such as abandoned offices, churches open at night, anonymous backstreets and inaccessible embassy villas. The location is often hyper-realistic, functional and entirely at the visitors' disposal. The situation is often characterised by a sense of recognition, sometimes by an eerie feeling and sometimes by nostalgia. We move in the memory of the Folkhemmet, among the kitchen cupboards of public housing and in the gymnasiums and recreation rooms of childhood.
The works deal with difficult personal dilemmas, inner conflicts and shameful desires. There are rarely any easy answers or definitive solutions. The works want to give their visitors the opportunity to think complicated thoughts through and the courage to take their own feelings seriously.
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Stage design
Poste Restante (Linn Hilda Lamberg, Stefan Åkesson)
Costume
Poste Restante (Linn Hilda Lamberg, Stefan Åkesson)
Credits
Aurelia Le Huche, Linn Hilda Lamberg
Dancers
Yari Stilo, Majula Drammeh
With the support of
Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm
Photo of
Patrie van der Wens