Abstract
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
"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
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 29 Mar 2020 |
| Media of output | Streaming |
| Publication status | Published - 29 Mar 2020 |
Keywords
- Danishness
- COVID-19
- Ecology
- sensory ethnography
- Nationalism
- H. C. Andersen