Green Hijab Movement (2015 - 2018)
A long-term performance project by Frans Jacobi and Gitte Sætre. Emerging in response to ecological crisis and political unrest, the movement uses the hijab as a poetic symbol—transforming it into a green banner for environmental care, solidarity, and resistance. Through public actions, storytelling, and ritual gestures, the project creates a space where ecological awareness and social justice intertwine, inviting people to imagine new forms of collective responsibility. More info here
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Green Hijab Movement 2017 - 2018
A collaboration between Frans Jacobi & Gitte Sætre and a somewhat intrigued audience
The Green Hijab Movement is a proposal for a new global movement; it is slowly gathering momentum, and each of these events have engaged new participants. Of course, it is very, very far from being a real political movement – but it is to be understood as a potential possibility. Or as the artist Liam Gillick has termed a series of works: A ‘what if situation’.
If someone pokes the same spot over and over again, it becomes a problem. If you don’t like how the table is set, turn over the table. Green Hijab Movement turns the tables by drawing a door. A door letting in a draft, which in turn leads to movement in the air thus creating momentum. A new climate is established, with one purpose: global solidarity in the struggle for climate and environment, that does not differentiate between class, gender, culture or religion. The weather affects us all, so let´s dance! We do not have time for pessimism.
short sequence of a performance at club 'Opera', Bergen 2019 |
Full documentation video of the performance at Fylkinen, Stockholm 2018 |
'History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It' @ PALS, Fylkingen.
The evening before the Swedish general election. Stockholm 8.11.2018
Sound of thunder, a strobe light, the audience was sitting in a circle of chairs
The protagonist talked from the centre of the room, she moved slowly around and meet the eyes of every person while telling them what was on her mind.
Below you will find some nice stills from the second part, the dancing which engaged a wonderful and tough audience, Swedish feminists, artists and several Arab men who were not enthusiastic about the hijab in the first place. But as you see they gave in to global solidarity and the hijacking of symbols of power.
To access the monologue performed click here
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