"Insider/Outsider" – a part of "Article One"
Facts and information about the Nobel Prize and its laureates have been gathered from the early 20th century up until today. Details that over time were considered less important or even inappropriate were simply left out. LGBT-related issues are conspicuous by their absence. The biographies of Nobel laureates, however, have plenty of stories about other types of being on the outside. Here we will discuss how being an outsider can inspire innovation and creative solutions to major problems. In the exhibition Insider/Outsider will explain the importance of appreciating that which is different in order to achieve progress. Here you can see how departure from the norm complicated the lives of many Nobel laureates. This has also resulted in many new ways of solving problems. In these three videos, key individuals from the Nobel Prize system share their favourites. Before discussing being an outsider in more detail, we will first examine its opposite, being an insider.
Who is "normal”? It is an almost impossible to say who is "normal" or who is an average laureate. It's simply not possible to determine what constitutes what we can call being on the inside or belonging. With this in mind, we can begin looking at that which deviates and is called into question, that which is outside and alienated. In this exhibition, we examine nine Nobel laureates. To help clarify our approach, we have divided them into three wholly unscientifically determined categories: stubborn individuals, laureates of the "wrong" gender, and laureates of the "wrong" ethnicity.
"Article One" in Skopje, at the Chifte Amam (National Gallery of Macedonia), February 22 – March 23
"Article One" is a touring LGBTQ exhibition from some Swedish museums, with accounts of the history and contemporary life of LGBTQ-persons, initiated in Stockholm at Europride in the summer of 2008 and has been on tour on the Baltic Pride in Riga, Latvia, in Belgrade, and Sarajevo.
The exhibition is put together of several smaller exhibition parts, each produced by different museums. Every part tell a different story with one common subject: LGBTQ history. The participating museums are the Nobel Museum, the Swedish Police Museum, the Swedish Army Museum, the National Museum of Science and Technology, the National Museum of Sports and the National Historical Museum.
