”Herre-Jesus-gi-meg-kraft-og-styrke” ( En vulgærtolkning av Feyerabend )

The road into the research world can manifest itself as thorny and tearful for many. With this project we try to say something about why ...This project contains a case study on the storytelling tradition of the Roma People through inviting Roma children and their parents to a story-telling workshop with subsequent interviews of both groups. The interviews were meant to engage the children and get them to tell their own stories also to other children in schools and kindergartens, i.e. a kind of cultural event from child to child. Secondly, the stories would get collected and published in book form. Further we would write an article on the basis of interviews and experiences of the workshop.Used method: Qualitative interviews and practical work / story workshop with eight children and three adults from the Roma People, in the period of August 2011 to January 2012.Results:We achieved very little contact with the children and the Roma environment in general. Also at the story-telling-day arranged at the Museum for Cultural History and at the Nordic Black Theatre in Oslo came interviewers and children / adults never in a real interview situation.If "anything goes" we should have reached our goal by now, but this time no. What does the scientist do when the project fails? Maybe "anything goes" is more a saying than a key to science? The questions we were left with is: Could we have used a different method, what could we have done differently?Doubts came to benefit method, and the focus of the project was just that.Description of the project:How to visualize a failed research project by focusing on methodology in form of an installation?

The installation “Oh, Lord Jesus, may force and strength flow upon me" (A crude interpretation of Feyerabend) consists of:One short film with a series of children's drawings with one anonymous Roma history.1 short film where a man from Swedish Roma People, talks about the Norwegian Roma culture.1 short film on a Roma orchestra1 presentation of methodology used in research (audio).7 chairs, 3 small monitorsSeveral old suitcases, and one mind map on the wall.