View of Staging Independence, Tell a friend, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2008.

View of Staging Independence, Crowd 0-infinity, curator Guillaume Désanges (Work Method), Art Center for Contemporary Arts, La Tolerie, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2008.

View of Staging Independence, Ak 28, Stockholm, 2007.

View of Staging Independence, Tell a friend, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2008.

In Staging independence Anna Ådahl displays the props and the scenography with which the people and the mass are staged and stage themselves. The installation consists of a number of works in different media which refer to techniques for organization and control of masses, and for representation of the people as a stageact. A central work is Human Pyramid, a 1:1 reconstruction of a structure made to carry a mass of people, inspired by a photography by Rodchenko, Female Pyramid from 1936. In Staging independence one can also see Democracy, a series of photographs of peoples’ parks documenting their architecture and scenography, Crowd Control and Loudspeaker, two objects normally used to direct and control a crowd’s movements, and the video Fire, which implicitly refers to Elias Canetti’s analysis of the fire as the symbol for the crowds inner desire and logic.