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- Thompson, Linda Maria, Lecturer, 1978-
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(In)visible powers : witnessing the ‘tourist-waters’ of Nämforsen
- 2023
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Ingår i: Cultural Geographies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1474-4740 .- 1477-0881. ; 30:2, s. 325-332
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This artistic research reflection explores Sweden’s legally-mandated ‘tourist-release’ at the Ångermanälven River’s storied site of Nämforsen. Against World Wars and calls for energy independence of the mid 1940s, the iconic Ångermanälven River was industrialised from a free-flowing salmon river to eventually a series of 44 dams and hydropower plants. Later, a unique environmental court legal judgement resulted in ‘tourist-water’ at Nämforsen that gives the illusion of a free-flowing river during summer months. Existing for solely aesthetic purposes, tourist-water is an unexplored example of the (in)visible powers perpetuating myths associated with hydropower and place in Sweden. Through text and images, this piece reflects on witnessing this tourist-water phenomena through place-based documentary arts practice. The fieldwork is part of a doctoral project in artistic practice focusing on how photography can mediate complex issues in places of environmental change through the case of Nämforsen. Strategies such as framing, time-scaling and montage have emerged from this practice at the same time as ethical concerns related to representation are raised. This case is especially pertinent as hydropower in Sweden comes under increased scrutiny, simultaneously as it is marketed as a sustainable energy solution. The piece furthermore highlights the lasting implications of conservation efforts centred historically on aesthetic rather than ecologic values.
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Linda Maria Thompson : Emigrant Memoir
- 2019
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- May 27 2019 - September 6 2019Emigrant Memoir is the continuation of an ongoing investigation of the visualization of the migrant experience past and present, the collective and the personal. Thompson is a Swedish-American photographer based in Härnösand, Sweden. Her work explores questions surrounding transience and impermanence on both a personal and political scale.Thompson uses her unique perspective—channeling her roles as both a native of an immigrant to Sweden—in her approach to issues surrounding migration. Emigrant Memoir includes analog, digital, and experimental film processes to explore migration through the documentary image. Thompson says, “Emigrant Memoir is a series of meditations on and through migration spanning personal and collective migration stories in both the United States and Sweden. We still have our hearts in two places at once and are still negotiating the in-between, looking forward and backward at the same time.”
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- Thompson, Linda Maria, Lecturer, 1978-
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Witnessing Nämforsen
- 2022
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Ingår i: Transformations '22. - Luleå : Luleå University; Swedish Research council.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Witnessing takes form in various disciplines, from the documentary arts, environmental humanities, and artistic-research. Against ecological violence and climate crisis, artists adress incomplete histories and pervasive myths through the act of witnessing. This presentation aims to raise questions and inspire discussion regarding place-based artistic practice as a form bearing witness to- and reimagining- sites of environmental crisis. I will introduce my doctoral project which focuses on the case of the Nämforsen waterfall-turned-hydropower-plant along the iconic Ångermanälven River in Northern Sweden as a site of collective memory and imaginary potential. Through interpretive environmental rephotography, plant-based photography, and other acts of witnessing and revision, the project aims to problematize urgent challenges in representation and visibility. Drawing upon recent archive/fieldwork from this project-in-progress, this presentation opens up for a dialogue related to themes such as witnessing and revisionary impulses within artistic practice.
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- Thompson, Linda Maria, Lecturer, 1978-
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Repeat Photography, Rephotography and the Redesign of the Riverscape
- 2023
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Ingår i: Membrana – Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture. - Ljubljana, Slovenia : Membrana Institute. - 2463-8501 .- 2712-4894. ; 7:1-2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on the ways in which the environment is pictured in an industrial archive in Sweden, and how the use of photography is implicated in the industrialization of rivers. The fluid nature of landscapes, the role of landscape and colonialism connected to photography in Sweden is considered through a selection of archival photographs from log driving industry. The article centers around the case example of photographs from the Ljusnan log-driving archive. Rephotographic tendencies surface, and this article argues that repeat photography is used in the documentation of and redesign of the landscape. The terms repeat photography and rephotography are discussed and clarified. This research acknowledges rephotography for industrial purposes in contrast to environmental goals, suggesting that industrial photographic archives can provide a starting point for new narratives of places of environmental change and extractive industry.
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Emigrant Memoir
- 2019
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- Emigrant Memoir 23 februari – 5 maj 2019Linda Maria Thompson följer upp utställningen och monografin In Place of Memory från 2016. Hon fortsätter att utforska hur erfarenheter av migration visualiseras, såväl i nutid som historiskt – på det personliga planet och på ett kollektivt. Med sin egen erfarenhet av flera kulturer och med kollektiva amerikanska och svenska migrationshistorier fyllda av längtan, kärlek och förlust undersöker Linda Maria Thompson tillstånd av att befinna sig i mellanrummen. Hennes inkännande fotografier tar oss med till den ofta romantiserade amerikanska västern och till hennes nuvarande hemtrakter i Ångermanland.
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In Place of Memory
- 2016
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- The project In Place of Memory (2013-2015) draws upon personal remembrance while photographing the people and environments of several interconnected villages of Ådalen in northern Sweden. The area, known for the historic workers movement of Ådalen ’31, was during the project-time undergoing change due to a combination of years of steady depopulation and an increase in the population of asylum seekers.In Place of Memory is photographed between during a time when Sweden is grappling with its identity as a safe haven for the world’s refugees and the rise of xenophobic political parties on the far right. Much like the rest of Europe, Sweden is going through a search for identity in a changing social landscape. As a migrant myself, this work explores themes of identity and place on both a personal and political scale.
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Konsten, Samhället och Miljön
- 2023
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- Audiovisuell presentation / artist talk under Konstans konstfestival. Festivalen som var ett samarbete mellan Konstnätverket i Sundsvall (KNIS), Grannar och Region Västernorrland, fokuserade på konstens bärkraft som en konstans i samhället för frågor om hållbarhet, klimat och miljö.
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Mellanplatser / Places in Between
- 2019
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Konstnärligt arbeteabstract
- In the exhibition Mellanplatser / Places in Between Linda Maria Thompson shows her ongoing artistic research about representation and visualization of migration froma personal and political perspective; past and present. The projects #fromproject (2011-2014),In Place of Memory (2013-2016) och Emigrant Memoir (2015-2019). The common threadweaving through all the works in Mellanplatser / Places in Between is the considerationof place and time as it relates to migration. Using her own experiences of differentcultures, she relates to Swedish and American migration histories filled with longing,love and loss researching the experience of being in-between. Her photographs take usto the often-romanticized American West and the environs surrounding her present-dayhome in Ångermanland. The works in Mellanplatser / Places in Between embraces a varietyof materials and techniques, including antique analog photographic processes, plant-basedemulsions, screen-capture, digital photography of archival film, images and texts.Together, these works weave together the fates of emigrants, immigrants, migrants- past and present, raising questions about how we see and experience migration whileoffering an opportunity to reflect upon our relationship to the documentary image.
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- Thompson, Linda Maria, Lecturer, 1978-
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artist presentation
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Networking North/Decolonizing Future is the final event in Bildmuseet’s project NetworkingNorth. The seminar is organized in collaboration with CuratorLab at Konstfack.Networking North promotes networks and professional collaboration between international curators and artists living and working in northern Sweden. The project comprises portfolio viewings, lectures, workshops, and studio visits, with the aim tosupport and strengthen the internationalization of the visual arts scene in the north. This three-year project (2020-2023) was initiated by Bildmuseet in collaboration with the Regional Visual Arts Coordinators in the northern region, with the supportfrom Region Västerbotten (The Regional County Council of Västerbotten).
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