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Violence: Materiality Editorial
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In: PARSE Journal. - 2002-0953. ; autumn:15
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The record of violence held in the fibres of Hannah Ryggen's tapestry which was damaged by the bomb Anders Behring Breivik detonated outside the entrance of the Høyblokka building in the government quarter of Oslo now exist as material traces of the violence that occurred on that July day in 2011. These fibres provide one example of the materiality of violence—the theme of this PARSE Journal issue. The materiality under discussion here has been taken quite literally; it is not particularly anxious about debates around the dematerialisation of art, nor is it taking materiality as a term related to the digital realm. Contributors do not all work from the presumption that violence is wholly negative; many oscillate between literal and symbolic registers without allocating priority to either. What the discussions published here consider are the material records of actions understood—at least from some perspectives—as violent, and what this particular treatment of materials communicates today.
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Krabstadt Education Center: Conflated Places
- 2022
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In: PARSE Journal. - 2002-0953. ; Spring 2022:14
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Krabstadt is a small town located somewhere in the Arctic where the Nordic Countries send their unwanted people and problems. It’s populated by the long-term unemployed, asylum seekers, immigrants, and those with too many overdue bills. Recently, Krabstadt has absorbed an influx of unemployed artists with PhDs, burned-out artist-teachers/teacher-artists, and institutionally stuck creatures. The local Krabstadt government seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and opened an Education Center to push Krabstadt to the forefront of education. The journal and subsequent events linked to KEC seek to establish webworks that conflate online with onsite to create platforms for learning, real and imagined.
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Violence: Materiality
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In: PARSE Journal. - 2002-0953. ; :15
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In her introduction to the anthology Materiality (2015), Petra Lange-Berndt writes, “For some, to engage with materials still seems the antithesis of intellectuality.” Lange-Berndt continues by noting that “those who have been listening to them, who are not intimidated by materials, have not predominantly been academics but artists, designers, architects, conservators or technicians.” The contributors to the Violence: Materiality PARSE journal issue confirm Lange-Berndt’s observation that acute attention to materials is far from an anti-intellectual stance, but remains predominantly the work of practitioners. Contributors represent practices often associated with craft, such as textiles and printmaking, that tend to foreground material meaning. But also represented are music and other sonic art forms, where materiality and violence relate to compositional properties (such as structural and conceptual complexity) or sensuous qualities (such as timbre and texture, density and volume). Alive throughout is the violent treatment of materials as premeditated or spontaneous action, and it may be for these reasons that a number of contributors have elected to use the format of the video essay.
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