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NANNA DEBOIS BUHL & TAMAR GUIMARÃES: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE. 2005, 4:00
Reflecting on language and nationalism, The most beautiful place uses material from a language course for foreigners in Denmark. Praising the beauty of the Danish landscape, the performed text exceeds its intended function of teaching vocabulary and grammar, illustrating instead the grammar of national identity, locality and social cohesion. Recited to the tune of traditional Danish songs, the text stresses the romantic construction of identity around a “mother tongue” and natural beauty, born from anxieties over national borders and betraying a desire to return to an ‘original’ state of being.