Swan-Shapes of Denmark in Corona Crisis Times
Recorded by Utterslev lakes, this audio essay tentatively circles around Denmark and Danishness through the figure of the swan. I have been watching mute swans, Denmark's national birds, in Utterslev in the last 2 weeks of Corona crisis. From here, I make associative connections to plastic-wrap...
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| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/publications/47e80cd4-1c49-4900-81bb-1b07b32cc16e https://hdl.handle.net/1800/47e80cd4-1c49-4900-81bb-1b07b32cc16e https://soundcloud.com/user-112901805/swan-shapes-of-denmark-in-corona-crisis-timeswav |
| Summary: | Recorded by Utterslev lakes, this audio essay tentatively circles around Denmark and Danishness through the figure of the swan. I have been watching mute swans, Denmark's national birds, in Utterslev in the last 2 weeks of Corona crisis. From here, I make associative connections to plastic-wrapped swan paddle boats on the lakes in central Copenhagen; a swan strangled in 2013; swan evacuations in times of Avian flu and swan figures in the fairy tales of H.C. Andersen. "This connection of everyone with lungs", mentioned in the essay, refers to a collection of poems by Juliana Spahr. www.ucpress.edu/book/978052024295…eryone-with-lungs "Swans' nest", the fairytale by H.C. Andersen, can be read here (in Danish): www.andersenstories.com/da/andersen_f…er/svanereden |
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