Research is an important starting point for much of the ecology-oriented work in the contemporary art field. But what happens when scientific data encounters the inherent freedom of art?
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Joen Vedel believes that the debate about artistic research is rather boring and unproductive. Together with Nabil Ahmed at KiT, they call for the creation of new fantasies, motivated by the fact that there is no other solution.
Has artistic research in academia resulted in a distinction between the criteria for art in traditional arenas, such as galleries and museums, and that in art education? If so, what are the consequences for the development of the art field?
Opinion, Thea Barslund 10.10.2022
Shrink is without doubt the exhibition’s attention-grabber, and rightfully so. It is delicate, imposing, physical, alienating, and intimate, all at the same time.
Reviews, Eline Bjerkan 26.09.2022
Both the exhibitions of Winterling and Metahaven seem somewhat infatuated with the research on which they are based.
Reviews, Heidi-Anett Haugen 30.06.2022
I wonder how she transfers her motifs to the canvas. How she knows where to cut each hole. I don’t understand how it’s possible to do this by hand, but I’m equally fascinated by the way mere holes of different sizes can add up to a picture.
Reviews, Eline Bjerkan 13.06.2022
«Meta.Morf 2022: Ecophilia» is best when it advocates a rigorous, unsentimental approach to the ecology theme.
Reviews, Joen Vedel 03.05.2022
The exhibition is at its strongest at the point where the thread begins to fray and to expose the monument’s attempt to round things off, the point at which the viewer is invited to join an unresolved debate, a movement, to entertain doubt; to enter a conflicted space that acknowledges itself as already and always an arena of violence.
Reviews, Eline Bjerkan 02.05.2022
Trondhjems kunstforening has been sealed by Den norske idealstaten (The Norwegian Ideal State). Could an ideal ever be anything other than a simplification?
Reviews, Peik Elias Greaker 08.04.2022
Hege Lønne’s retrospective is a show of great diversity, which, despite an appearance of restraint, is full of vitality.
Reviews, Peik Elias Greaker 07.03.2022
At first glance, the exhibition «Exotic Dreams and Poetic Misunderstandings – Still Life» by Lin Wang has the appearance of a mouth-watering banquet, but the more I have of it, the worse the aftertaste it leaves in the mouth.
Interviews, Intervju, Märit Aronsson-Towler 01.03.2022
I’ve implemented the traditional visuals of the Chinese landscape in my works, in a simplified and exaggerated manner.
Opinion, Polare randsoner, Text Series, Eline Bjerkan 04.02.2022
Perhaps it is their faith in the moral rectitude of art that lets artists feel their consciences are clear, unlike other tourists who visit Svalbard for inspiration.
Interviews, Märit Aronsson-Towler 21.01.2022
Choosing a material involves a lot of language and expressivity.
Opinion, Susanne Christensen 15.12.2021
The corona crisis, Oslo’s penchant for pompous, iconic buildings, and the uneven distribution of resources between the capital and the rest of Norway may all have helped to pull new patrons and private money into Trøndelag’s cultural sphere.
Opinion, Stedsfornemmelser, Text Series, Eline Bjerkan 25.05.2020
Most of Trondheim’s numerous public artworks are physical objects that need looking after. There are therefore high hopes attached to the art plan for Nyhavna, which might just mark a shift in the kind of art we encounter in public space. For the time being, however, the plan is on indefinite hold.
Opinion, Stedsfornemmelser, Text Series, Anki Gerhardsen 05.12.2019
With the slogan “Make the North Great Again”, the art project Nordting has notched up a total of forty-nine public assemblies. In 2017, they stood as a candidate in the parliamentary elections.
Stedsfornemmelser, Text Series, Marte Huke 25.11.2019
In this poem, author Marte Huke reflects on Nyhavna’s past, present and possible future.
Architect Arild Eriksen has made a name for himself developing alternative forms of housing and social architecture. He runs the architecture firm Fragment Oslo and has recently completed a feasibility study in which he presents proposals for the construction of artist apartments with studios in Hovinbyen, Oslo’s largest ongoing urban development.
Opinion, Stedsfornemmelser, Text Series, Ola Sendstad 06.09.2019
When do we cease to be participants in our local environments and instead become mere consumers thereof? Architect Ola Sendstad explains how his projects, the “Blaker cheese” and the old Hundorp railway station, served as a revitalization of the sites.
Although it is sad that this is RAKE’s last summer, the venue leaves behind an artistic legacy that the town can build on.
Reviews, Stedsfornemmelser, Text Series, Eline Bjerkan 17.06.2019
The Oslo Biennial shows a refreshingly low level of branding and sensationalism. Quite the contrary, it is so unostentatious that locating its headquarters can in itself be something of a challenge. I very nearly ended up at the neighbouring offices of the Oslo Medieval Festival, which was going on at the same time.
Interviews, Intervju, Eline Bjerkan 19.05.2016
When you look at a social engaged art work and you know ahead of time what you’re supposed to feel, what the right answer is, it isn’t, to me, the most interesting art.
Interviews, Intervju, Eline Bjerkan 16.03.2015
The upcoming event 10 working days, where shows, lectures, presentations and exhibitions are held in a rapidly order, one will try and find out what exactly is the role of art and the artist in a post-industrial society. Art Scene Trondheim invited Florian Schneider to elaborate:
The problem for social movements today is that they can have a fast growth and reach great strength, but they disappear as fast as they appear. Historically, they have more in common with the mob and social unrest than with activism.
Opinion, Katya Sander 29.09.2013
On the basis of her work Caliban Katya Sander investigates the idiom of everyday things: I interact not only as an abstract unit, a consumer who can be measured, counted, registered and pre-calculated via algorithms, but also – quite simply – as a body. I touch and I take shape.
Postkulturell næring, Text Series, Astrid Mania 21.05.2012
While the exhibition «Based in Berlin» started on-going, pragmatic discussions about cultural politics in Berlin, the Berlin Biennale is surrounded by vivid, and controversial discussions about the general role of the artist, and his or her involvement in society and (global) politics.
A few months before the 1979 UK general election, Margaret Thatcher promised the Chairman of the Arts Council that her government would continue to support the arts. But once elected, she cut spending in all areas of public policy, and the cultural field was no exception. Thatcher’s belief was that the obsolete system of arts patronage should not be compensated for solely by the state, and she appointed Norman St John-Stevas as Arts Minister, who argued that the private sector must be looked to for new sources of funding.
For many of us Brattøra has been the place in Trondheim on the other side of the river where we go swimming, or catch a ferry somewhere else. Now of course it has Rockheim and other changes are afoot in this newish territory reclaimed from the sea. But, as yet, it still seems like a bit of a wasteland. Nevertheless, as we get used to the eastern part of the city coming to resemble wartorn Beirut with the digging operations for the new tunnel, focus has moved on to Brattøra as the next big urban architectural project.
