Guleed Mohamed

Tensta in Love!

Celebrations of national pride usually revolt me with their invention of nationhood as a form of nostalgia and their parading of ersatz symbols of so called collective culture. Worse! They also create a forum for nationalist extremism and the normalisation of bigotry hidden behind a pathetic patriotism.


  

Love Tensta

If the saccharine tabloid sentimentality of the forthcoming royal Swedish marriage has you singing Sex Pistol lyrics or mumbling about Cromwell, Danton and Jefferson. If you feel that the word love has been hijacked by yellow press mock sensationalism and begin to fear that nationalist sentimentality may never end. There is hope. Check out http://www.lovetensta.se/.


  

culturally innovative and socially engaged

We ended last year at the art centre with a debate at Kulturhuset and a release of the book 163 04/ VENEZIA NEW YORK PARIS.


  
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