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Accepted Paper
Paper short abstract
Titel: Beechwood Narratives My proposal investigates folk narrative as embodied and poetic material. Daily forest walks, dance, and text open hidden archives. Personal ancestry and national silences meet and disrupt, creating new ways to narrate heritage and resistance.
Paper long abstract
My proposal explores the idea of folk narrative as something that is both inherited and discovered through embodied experience. Walking daily through a beech forest – where in Swedish bok means both beech and book – became an encounter with hidden archives. The trees appeared to offer up their stories, their trunks spinning as if to show every side, their leaves carrying messages in the wind. These walks became a site for listening to layered histories, including those excluded from the official story of Sweden. By inviting a collaborator to embody my great-great-grandfather, a shaman, I confronted a suppressed family lineage and its disruptive potential for national narratives. I would like to examine how these “folk narratives” carry a subversive charge, challenging the silences imposed by dominant historiographies, and how dance, film, and poetic text can become methods for unearthing and reanimating them.
If there is space (?) I would like to share a recorded 15-20 min audio guide to present the embodiemnt of my Beechwood Narrative
Moving stories? Emergent narratives in walks through nature(s)
Session 2 Monday 15 June, 2026, -