Annika Thörn Legzdins: Deconstructing Diagramming Dreaming

The rise and fall of the modernist society – a collaborative investigation into two cities. From the publisher: “Deconstructing Diagramming Dreaming” is based on artist Annika Thörn Legzdins’s photographs and journalist Anna Tullberg’s interviews from Daugavpils and Detroit. In combination with historical image material and factual texts, the story of two cities emerges, which, based on ideological opposites, both embody the rise and fall of the construction of modernist society. The past dreams of the future and how this future has now turned out, are expressed through a choir of interview fragments interwoven with thematic image flows. The geographic situatedness of both the voices and the places has been reduced in order to create a synthesis of two societies. Interspersed passages of red-framed factual pages and historical images demonstrate the similarities between the cities. The book includes an introduction by professor Alf Rehn about the different languages and voices of cities, and about the scars of urban development. The book concludes with a travel account in the form of visual notes from encounters and places. The dream-like atmosphere of the interviews and photographs is reflected in the blue cover with its velvety texture. The structured reality of facts is alluded to in how the color red seeps out through the headband of the book.