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- Skånberg Dahlstedt, Ami, 1967, et al.
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Artistic Research: Being There, Explorations into the Local
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Ingår i: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. - : The National and University Library of Iceland. - 1670-6242. ; 15:1
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How does artistic research engage with the concept of local? In what ways can art practice be an intervention into traditional notions of history and culture? How does it engage with local and global identities? This book raises questions about transient art practices and site-specific works within communities, as well as art and research based experiences localized in urban and rural spaces, within the body and memory. Being There is a wide-ranging anthology that demonstrates the field of artistic research has never been stronger. The essays and meditations are by visual artists, writers, performers, filmmakers, historians, sound artists, and activists who have worked together in the Nordic Summer University and who share a desire to unite their creative practices with critical enquiry. Their contributions were generated within twice-yearly symposia that moved between Nordic and Baltic countries over a three year cycle of practice-based research. Some contributions are enigmatic meditations on place, whilst others, paradoxically, address the question of what is local through the notion of the nomadic. Whether describing quests of individual artists, or relating to collective endeavours, these works are engaged with the spaces in between. Each offers the reader a thoughtful encounter with the aesthetic, and the political, within a myriad of art practices across a rapidly evolving Europe. A part of the series NSU-press and the subject areas Philosophy and Art
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- Olsson, Nils
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Trosföreställningar
- 2015
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Ingår i: Kunstkritikk. - 1504-0925.
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- Önnerfors, Andreas, 1971
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“The (Syn)Aesthetics of Conspiracy”: Review of Douglas Eklund and Ian Alteveer (eds.), Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, New Haven, London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press 2018, 196p., 222 color illustrations 4 b) John J. Curley, A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and the Art of the Cold War, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2013, 296p., 32 color and 136 b/w illustrations, in Athenaeum Review Issue 3, Fall/Winter 2020, p. 199–206.
- 2020
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Ingår i: Athenaeum Review. - 2578-5168. ; Fall / Winter 2020:3, s. 199-206
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- It appears as if art and conspiracy are intrinsically linked. Art uncovers the power of imagination and establishes the visualization of strong semantic relationships: a depiction, a representation, a performance of the hitherto unseen, the transformation of the imagined or real object into a subject/body of perceivable aesthetics. Art thus expresses an immediate interconnectedness between perception and picture and immerses the viewer into connections never seen before. Between September 2018 and January 2019, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met Breuer) in New York hosted an exhibition titled “Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy” and which attempted to expose “two kinds of art about conspiracy that form two sides of the same coin” (Met Breuer, 2018). Accordingly, the exhibition was divided into two parts, one dedicated to artists exposing deliberately hidden dimensions of socio-economic realities from public record and the other featuring artists “who dive headlong into the fever dreams of the disaffected, creating fantastical works that nevertheless uncover uncomfortable truths in an age of information overload and weakened trust in institutions” (Met Breuer, 2018). Thus, the curators operated along the tiny border between exposing true conspiracies and conspiracy theories. Visiting the exhibition, this approach caused however more confusion than clarity, possibly reflecting the epistemological complexity of conspiracism as such or a premeditated ambiguity created intentionally by the curators.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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Review Essay: Coming to Grips with the Greenland Ice. Historical Flashbacks. Cornelia Lüdecke (hsg.), Verborgen Eiswelten. Erich von Drygalskis Bericht über seine Grönlandsexpeditionen 1891, 1892-1893, München: Ausgust Dreesback Verlag 2015; Janet Martin-Nielsen, Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination. Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Northern Studies. - 1654-5915. ; 9:2, s. 109-126
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a review of two books that deal with exploration and research in Greenland over the course of several historical periods. The focus is on the efforts to understand the character of the ice and its impact on human life, both of indigenous peoples and researchers over time. The first book highlights a little known episode of exploration in the late 19th century and the second is one of the otucome of a recent science studies program at Aarhus University. It throws considerable new light on Alfred Wegener's expedition and subsequent expeditions during the period of the Cold War and later. The program, entitled Exploring Greenland: Science and Technology in Cold War Settings, traces how politics and research in Greenland have been intertwined and how this inlfuenced research agendas and modes of multi-national collaboration.
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