Luffare Narratives

The video installation Luffare Narratives (2009 / 2012) explores memory, imagination, play, and continuous states of becoming. Luffare is a Swedish word meaning rambler, wanderer or vagrant.
The narrative is formed around a conversation between me and a childhood friend, as we talk about memories we have of a game we used to play, involving playacting. Most of our games entailed the becoming of something or someone else, including luffare.

The conversation centres on the act of becoming someone else, the immersion into the game that we both experienced, real life outside of the game, the difficulties in discerning what elements of the game were real and what was imagination, how we perceived ourselves as luffare, and how this game crossed over to other games.

We also discussed the lack of documentation of this and other games we played; how, despite its absence from our family albums, the luffare game was an important element in our formative years, and how we perceive ourselves today in relation to this particular game.

The installation was exhibited at Wimbledon College of Art in 2009, and as part of my solo exhibition disruptive desires in 2012.