Listen To Us
SUPERFLEX; Tapestry design in collaboration with Rasmus Koch Studio; Development and Production: KWY.studio (Ricardo Gomes with Gabriela Raposo and Sara Cálem; Fabrication: Flanders Tapestries, Sá-Ber and Repele
March 2018, Tunaskolan, Lund, Sweden
Östervångsskolan has been a primary school for the deaf and hearing-impaired since 1871. In 2015, due to the need for improving facilities as well as the enhancement in hearing-aid and implant technologies, Lund’s municipality decided to move the school. Östervångsskolan was therefore combined with the larger and traditional primary school, Tunaskolan.
SUPERFLEX was invited to make a new artwork celebrating the union of the two schools between deaf and hearing cultures. Through workshops and interviews with children from both schools, stories about the transition were revealed and pieced together in a large wall tapestry. The central motif of the tapestry shows four deaf students, fists raised in the air, protesting. Their protest banner reads Lyssna på oss, which translates as Listen to us.
Other student stories decorate the tapestry, as the story of the beloved baguettes or the Östervångsskolan Tree of Eternity. Patterns from the floor and stairway at the former school also find their way onto the tapestry, as well as the beautiful wall relief by the entrance of Tunaskolan, which is represented as the artwork’s background. The completed tapestry hangs in the large dining hall at Tunaskolan/Östervångsskolan.
SUPERFLEX; Tapestry design in collaboration with Rasmus Koch Studio; Development and Production: KWY.studio (Ricardo Gomes with Gabriela Raposo and Sara Cálem; Fabrication: Flanders Tapestries, Sá-Ber and Repele
March 2018, Tunaskolan, Lund, Sweden
Östervångsskolan has been a primary school for the deaf and hearing-impaired since 1871. In 2015, due to the need for improving facilities as well as the enhancement in hearing-aid and implant technologies, Lund’s municipality decided to move the school. Östervångsskolan was therefore combined with the larger and traditional primary school, Tunaskolan.
SUPERFLEX was invited to make a new artwork celebrating the union of the two schools between deaf and hearing cultures. Through workshops and interviews with children from both schools, stories about the transition were revealed and pieced together in a large wall tapestry. The central motif of the tapestry shows four deaf students, fists raised in the air, protesting. Their protest banner reads Lyssna på oss, which translates as Listen to us.
Other student stories decorate the tapestry, as the story of the beloved baguettes or the Östervångsskolan Tree of Eternity. Patterns from the floor and stairway at the former school also find their way onto the tapestry, as well as the beautiful wall relief by the entrance of Tunaskolan, which is represented as the artwork’s background. The completed tapestry hangs in the large dining hall at Tunaskolan/Östervångsskolan.
