SHINGO YOSHIDA
Seeking Hidden
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The Cuckoo's nest
FILM / PHOTOGRAPHY / EXHIBITION VIEW
“The Cuckoo's Nest” Video installation + Wall drawing
Year : 05-2017 Harlösa Sweden. The Avian Kingdom
Length : 27min
Format : 4K ProRes 422 HQ
Installation place : pavillon am milchhof_ Schwedter Str232 Berlin 19-27 May 2018
Special thanks to
Susanne Meyer, Ludovic Méhauté, Christoph Rothmeier
Sound : Shingo Yoshida
Text : Anne-Marie Heydeck
*Synopsis
In 1644 a resistance nest was built by defenseless farmers against the Swedish army approaching from the North.
700 civilists were executed and their dead bodies were thrown into a valley in Harlösa.
Since they were never burried, their traces can be found until today.
Denmark lost the historical province Scania to Sweden in 1648 with the end of the Thirty Years' War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in European history.
In the following decades the Danish so-called “Snapphanars“ kept resistance as guerilla fighters against the Sweds.
If one was caught, exucution was done by breaking wheel or impalement.
The two colors of the flag of Scania remind of the connection to Denmark and its belonging to Sweden.
It has been kept in remembrance by the locals.
あらすじ
1648年にヨーロッパの歴史でも血なまぐさい紛争の1つである30年戦争、デンマークとスウェーデンの領土争いがありました。
美しい森の谷には未だに発見されていない700もの遺体が眠っていると言われています。
よって、過去はデンマークであって、現在はスウェーデンであるこの土地には、今現在、デンマークとスウェーデンに属することを連想ささせる赤と黄色で構成されたスカニアの2色の旗が存在しています。
またしかし、怪しくも偶然なのか、その美しい土地は軍隊の練習場となってしまっています。
























