ABSTRACT
This chapter explores moments of Dan berg's academic life that is often inexpressible in the standard academic voice and which, in turn, require a different way of writing and knowing. It is mid-winter and cold. The girl walks back and forth on the sidewalk of the dark bridge. The bridge is high and the sea below is frozen. According to the urban myth it is a suicide spot. The installation struck a nerve in a country not used to being challenged politically by former mental patients turned artists. K gives him a fragmented analysis of the artwork which is featured the artist, Anna Odell, simulating a psychosis on Liljeholmsbron, a bridge in central Stockholm, and it mainly contained a montage of videos. The people watching the horror of the artwork: fascinated, troubled, excited, angered, or sad. All his friend's suicides were failures. But arguably, such failure, heartbreaking as it is, is also precious.
