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.
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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.
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.
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.
