Borhaug-Brooklyn return trip
           

Borhaug-Brooklyn t/r (Borhaug-Brooklyn return trip)


Photo montage from the exhibition, with photographs taken by
ninth-grade students at Lista Junior High School

On 20 June 2004 the Borhaug-Brooklyn, tur-retur exhibition opened at Lista museum. The exhibition focuses on the stream of people from Lista that commuted between Lista and America. The main theme of the exhibition is how these people also commuted between different identities. In America people often sought the company of fellow villagers and Norwegians and wanted to highlight their Norwegian connections by eating potato dumplings and celebrating May 17th. When they returned home, it was important for many of them to show that they had a past in America – for example by furnishing their homes in an American style. The exhibition includes a Norwegian-American parlor, American Christmas decorations as used in Lista, and a Norwegian studio apartment in Brooklyn. A number of photographs taken by ninth-grade students at Lista Junior High School from their work on the Round-trip to America project are also exhibited. Borhaug-Brooklyn, tur retur is a collaboration between Lista Museum, Siv Ringdal (production) and Marita Grimsø from the museum service of Vest-Agder (exhibition design).



Decorated for a Norwegian-American Christmas

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