Remaining item MINOR ARCANA 26 September - 28 November 2024

Programme

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.