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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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PARSE Journal Issue #2 The Value of Contemporary Art
- 2015
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In: http://www.parsejournal.com/issue/2. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 2002-0953. ; 1:2
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- With Professor Andrea Phillips (University of Gothenburg) and Dr. Suhail Malik (Goldsmiths, University of London) , I co-edited the second edition of the peer-reviewed PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden) Journal. This edition dealt specifically with questions of value in contemporary art and included a total of 11 peer reviewed contributions.
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- Skånberg Dahlstedt, Ami, 1967, et al.
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Artistic Research: Being There, Explorations into the Local
- 2017
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In: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. - : The National and University Library of Iceland. - 1670-6242. ; 15:1
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Review (other academic/artistic)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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- Leach, Maddie, 1970
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Engaging with Place: Ruin, Memory, Regeneration : Att hämta vatten – The Fountain: An art-technological social drama
- 2022
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In: The Curatorial Thing: Audacious Landscapes. - Copenhagen, Denmark : SixtyEight Art Institute.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- AUDACIOUS LANDSCAPES took place in Copenhagen 1 – 8 October 2022, with workshops and lectures led by invited culture, science, and technology professionals. The symposium's goal was to move participants’ thinking from art histories of grief to imaginative proto-histories of thriving in profoundly changed ecosystems and to move critical inquiry from a modernising to an ecologising mindset. The aim was to find a triad of art histories, climate narratives, and innovative spatial-natural theories that could enable a new climate art history. The paper ´Att hämta vatten – The Fountain: An art-technological social drama' was presented as part of a panel with the theme of Engaging with Place: Ruin, Memory, Regeneration.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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Speaking Mandy
- 2014
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In: European Artistic Research Network Conference: Thinking on Stage, May 2 2014, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, EIRE.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I will present at the very beginning of a research process, towards the making of a new art work through which I aim to interrogate the heritage of the phonocentric Oralist tradition in the education of Deaf people. I seek to ‘read’ and deconstruct Alexander McKendrick’s film, Mandy (1952) through a co-participatory process - with Deaf people educated through Oralism and of the same generation as the child protagonist in the film - to question the advocacy of entry into the symbolic via the ‘spoken’ and ‘speech-identification’ and its relations to psychoanalytic and inter-subjective, spectator-focused film theory. Through mimetic and performative processes inherent to Oralism (such as speech-reading, lip-reading, ventriloquism, echo-practice, dubbing and lip-synchronisation) I aim to adapt Mandy - itself an adaptation of Hilda Lewis’ novel, 'The Day is Ours' (1947) – in ways that reveal the psychoanalytic dynamics of shame at play in Oralism’s delineation of Deafness as a culture and its adherence to Deafness as a disability.
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- Velasquez Atehortua, Juan, 1963
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NO2LNG in Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2017
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- FILM FROM THE DEMONSTRATION 6 AUGUST 2017 DURING CLIMATE CAMP SWEDEN AGAINST THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LIQUID NATURE GAS TERMINAL IN GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN. NO2LNG MUSIC: VARNING TILL DE RIKA, BY CATS AND DINOSAURS, PERFORMED LIVE IN THE CAMP.
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- Jewesbury, Daniel, 1972, et al.
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The Infinite City, episode 1: Talking Heads and Magic Jugs
- 2018
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In: The Infinite City podcast. - Belfast, UK : PLACE (Planning Landscape Architecture Community Environment) Northern Ireland.
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- First episode of a new podcast exploring the urban environment, regeneration and development, in which artist and writer Daniel Jewesbury conducts the listener on a walk through Belfast - past and present. Tthree moments in Belfast’s public cultural history give insight into enduring questions about art, publicness, exclusion and the city. The Infinite City is produced by Rebekah McCabe and Conor McCafferty for PLACE, with assistance from Maria Postanogova and Stuart Gray. Music for this episode was composed by Conor McCafferty. The podcast is supported by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Arts and Business Northern Ireland.
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Memories of a city
- 2017
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In: Memories of a city. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 1101-3303. - 9789188101037 ; , s. 8-16
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Presented at the international conference Challenge the past / diversify the future, the contributions collected herein deal with ways of challenging accepted historical representations of the City by offering modes of recollection and perspectives that capture both multi-sensory and multi-layered aspects of urban context. As such, they offer new empirically grounded research on the experiences of the inhabitants, both past and present, whether individually or as a collective. With a focus on the city as a space that is performed by a host of actants reaching across time through both materiality and memory, the authors critically address modes through which visual, audible, and multi-sensory representations can challenge, diversify or uproot conventions of urban representation. Four projects. Four takes on making representations of a city.
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- Olsson, Gertrud
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Den lilla skalan i den stora – Kaklet i osmanska rum
- 2022
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Den lilla skalan i den stora (2022) är ett forskningsprojekt om kakel som har mynnat ut i en bok. Mönster och ornament är något fundamentalt sedan tidernas begynnelse och återfinns i alla kulturer. Boken berättar om ornament, mönster och material, om form och teknik, och om de hantverkare som tillsammans arbetat fram de det osmanska rikets kakelklädda väggar. Kunnandet spreds och omformades i möten mellan olika kulturer när konstnärer och hantverkare flyttade till nya platser och uppdrag. Boken tar sin början i 1200-talets Konya (i nuvarande Turkiet), en central plats för kakeltillverkningen där applicering, teknik och formgivning följde seldjukdynastins stil. Under tidigt 1400-tal skedde en stilbrytning då osmanerna introducerade en persisk tradition för hur kakel kunde användas i arkitekturen. Därefter följer den lysande tidigosmanska kakelutvecklingen i Bursa under 1400-talet fram till höjdpunkten av kakelutsmyckningar i Istanbul under 1500- och 1600-talen – den högosmanska tiden. Ett kapitel tar upp det estetiska förhållningssättet under 1500-talet, medan ett avslutande kapitel är fokuserat på 1800-talet och en återblick till de tidigosmanska kakelrummen. I boken möts ornamentet, materialet samt berättelsen kring hantverkare, konstnärer och arkitekter som tillsammans arbetar fram de osmanska kakelklädda väggarna.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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De-Imagining Critical Communities
- 2015
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In: Community Arts? Learning from the Legacy of Artists' Social Initiatives Conference, Liverpool, 1st of nov.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I contributed a presentation and moderated a session. This daylong event brings together distinguished thinkers and practitioners from the field of community arts, in order to discuss the legacy of such practices in the light of a renewed interest in socially engaged art. This event will re-open conversations and instigate new ones, ensuring that important work undertaken in the 1970s and 1980s continues to resonate. Speakers: Assemble, Ania Bas, Sonia Boyce, Jason E. Bowman, Polly Brannan, Anna Colin, Anna Cutler, Rosie Cooper, Janna Graham, Granby 4 Streets Community Land Trust, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Homebaked, Sophie Hope, Nina Edge, Bill Harpe, Wendy Harpe, Loraine Leeson, Angela McKay, Andrea Phillips, Laura Raicovich, Alan Read, Frances Rifkin, Sally Tallant, Nato Thompson and Ed Webb-Ingall. This event is part of a weekend of programmes in Liverpool and beyond that considers current approaches in socially engaged art
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On the Question of Exhibition, PARSE Journal Issue 13: Parts 1,2,3
- 2021
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This issue of PARSE, published in three parts, examines the question of the exhibition. One of the aims of this series-issue is to turn attention to the material, experiential, as well as conceptual and political conditions of the exhibition that may have been overlooked within the growing literature on curatorial and exhibition histories. Our aim, as editors is not to elevate the exhibition form. Rather, we wish to interrogate exhibition as a pervasive category of display and mediation where principles of exposition, demonstration, exemplification, taxonomy, circulation, commentary, spectatorship and valorization are operative. Since the 1990’s curatorial discourse has sought to position the curatorial away from, or at the very least as in excess of, the practical tasks of exhibition-making whilst the burgeoning field of exhibition histories has created a historiographic approach to the forms, developments and questions posed by exhibition. This series of contributions seeks, in some respects to return to the fundamental question of exhibition-to interrogate it as a self-explanatory category. Part 1 published in June 2021 includes contributions from Dave Beech, Kathrin Böhm, Alaina Claire Feldman, Samia Henni, Steven Henry Madoff, Saul Marcadent, Lisa Rosendahl and Jéssica Varrichio; and roundtables with Rasha Salti, Nick Aikens, Kristine Khouri and Anthony Gardner; and with Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Gavin Wade, Mick Wilson and Franciska Zólyom. The contributions in Part 2 extend the considerations initiated in Part 1, by bridging the world-making and ordering techniques of exhibition–what we might broadly call its onto-epistemological register-with the pragmatic and technical questions of exhibitionary apparatuses, or its operational register. The purpose being not to create a dichotomy but rather to set up a field of tension and interference between different moments of production-analysis. This part offers detailed analyses of individual exhibitions, allowing for an interplay between the specificities of singular instances coupled with a wider angle from which to survey the field. Part 2 contains contributions from Ingrid Cogne Patrizia Costantin, Kris Dittel & Jelena Novak, Catalina Imizcoz, Joey Orr, Barbara Neves Alves, Mateusz Sapija, Vladislav Shapovalov, Sasha Shestakova, and Joshua Simon. The restless questioning of exhibition underpins Part 3, where artists curators and researchers unpick exhibition’s entangled relationship to pedagogy, to institutional processes, to aesthetics, to constituent work, to lived experience and the ways in which the political arises out of these entanglements. Part 3 includes texts by Doreen Mende, David Morris and Grace Samboh, Ola Hassanain, Li Yizhuo, Ginevra Ludovici, Cătălin Gheorghe, Sabine Dahl Nielsen, a visual essay by Paul O’Neill and a roundtable with Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova, Damon Reaves & Mick Wilson
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- Wulia, Tintin, 1972
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Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle) – performance lecture
- 2024
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In: Jakarta, MACAN Museum, 13 Jan 2024.
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This performance lecture is based on an eponymous installation of 115 charcoal and graphite drawings the artist made in 2019, which was based on a text published in 2018. It questions the nature of reality and the building block of human knowledge, which is perceived mainly through humankind’s limited senses, the main part of which is the eye. At an allegorical level, it interrogates how our understanding of the world is largely constructed visually and recorded through memory, and how these are also prone to manipulation, for example in state propaganda and isolated versions of state-sanctioned history. --- Art does not merely articulate an artist’s personal expression but is often inseparable from a larger historical, political, and geographical context. To kick off the 2024 Museum MACAN public programs, artist/researcher Tintin Wulia presents a performance lecture and discussion session, Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle). Exhibited as 115 illustrations drawn with charcoal and graphite, Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle) presents a connection between major world events scattered across different times and places, and how these events are recollected by humans. As the subject navigates through ideas surrounding reality, frailty of memory, and human geography and history, Wulia interrogates what we believe to be reality is constructed largely from our sensory perception, state-sanctioned histories, and fragile memories of humans.
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- Rosen, Astrid von, 1964, et al.
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Scenographic Dialogues: Staging Carl Grabow’s 1907 Designs for A Dream Play (Part 1)
- 2019
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In: Dokumenterat. - 1404-9899. ; :51, s. 4-42
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In a series of articles we, an art historian – von Rosen – and a theatre historian – Szalczer –, set out to reassess Carl Grabow’s 1907 designs for the world premiere of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play at the Swedish Theatre (Svenska Teatern) in Stockholm. By doing so, we challenge the persistently negative narrative on Grabow’s work with the production, to be found both in Swedish and international theatre and art history. The first article in the series focuses on Grabow’s color designs for the production, kept at the Swedish Museum of Performing Arts (Scenkonstmuseet) in Stockholm, and are made digitally accessible for the first time here in Dokumenterat. Within the broader field of scenography research designs have been proven to have agency beyond their realization on stage, and can also be used to access visual, spatial and multimodal resources of past performances. Our goal is to probe into how a scenographic approach to Grabow’s designs, understood as vital parts of the performance archive, may contribute to developing new historiographic methods while yielding new insights on the production history of A Dream Play. Throughout our first scenographic journey with Grabow’s designs we tested iconography as a method to explore and experience the world created by them. As we shall see in the next article, the testimonies of reviewers and illustrators indicate that Grabow’s collaboration with the production team resulted in different solutions than the perhaps early ideas envisioned in these designs. What is significant for us, however, is that regardless of its stage realization, the design-series manifests an autonomy, a unified artistic vision, conveyed by the succession of images as a painterly and multi-sensory reflection of the world of the play. What became apparent is that far from being haphazard superficial sketches, Grabow’s designs present a consistent interpretation of A Dream Play, with strong occult-spiritual overtones and attempts at painterly dematerialization, which counteract the realism and the materialization of the dream he was accused of by critics ever since. In our next article, we will further explore Grabow’s designs, including drawn and written information on their backsides, in the context of contemporary critical and pictorial response to the actual stage production. By staging a dialogue between the designs and the performance within its cultural milieu, we not only hope to learn more about Grabow’s craft and working process, but also about the constructive use of the scenographic approach in archival research.
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- Rosen, Astrid von, 1964
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Eric Axel Söderberg
- 2022
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In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (SBL).
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Biografisk artikel om scenografen Eric Axel Söderberg.
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- Rosen, Astrid von, 1964
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Scenographic approaches: conceptualizing multisensory heritage
- 2017
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In: GPS400 conference 8-9 November 2017.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- During the last decades the concept of scenography has not only undergone considerable theorization but has also expanded beyond more traditional theatrical settings to include potentially all environments, objects, actors and actions (McKinney & Butterworth 2009, Lotker & Gough 2013, McKinney & Palmer 2017, Aronson 2017). This expansion has to an increasing extent emphasized the critical, transformative potential of embodied, multisensory dimensions of scenographic events emphasizing the roles of participants and performers. In recognition of this the aim of my presentation is to identify productive approaches within scenography research to better conceptualize and examine multisensory heritage. In particular the paper will explore relational, affective and material approaches to multifaceted performative, socially engaged and artistic events. I will for example look into Dr Alda Terracciano’s multisensory digital installation Zelige Door on Golborne Road from the arts and heritage project Mapping Memory Routes of Moroccan Communities.
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Scenography and Art History: Performance Design and Visual Culture
- 2021
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Scenography and Art History reimagines scenography as a critical concept for art history, and is the first book to demonstrate the importance and usefulness of this concept for art historians and scholars in related fields. It provides a vital evaluation of the contemporary importance of scenography as a critical tool for art historians and scholars from related branches of study addressing phenomena such as witchy designs, Early Modern festival books, live rock performances, digital fashion photography, and outdoor dance interventions. With its nuanced and detailed case studies, this book is an innovative contribution to ongoing debates within art history and visual studies concerning multisensory events. It extends the existing literature by demonstrating the importance of a reimagined scenography concept for comprehending historical and contemporary art histories and visual cultures more broadly. The book contends that scenography is no longer restricted to the traditional space of the theatre, but has become an important concept for approaching art historical and contemporary objects and events. It explores scenography not solely as a critical approach and theoretical concept, but also as an important practice linked with unrecognized labour and broader political, social and gendered issues in a great variety of contexts, such as festive culture, sacred settings, fashion, film, or performing arts. Designed as a key resource for students, teachers and researchers in art history, visual studies, and related subjects, the book, through its cross-disciplinary frame, does consider, implicitly and explicitly, the roles of both scenography and art in society.
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- Yanagisawa Avén, Elisabet, 1966
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The Fold, A Physical Model of Abstract Reversibility and Envelopment
- 2017
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In: The Dark Precursor: Deleuze and Artistic Research. - Leuven : Leuven University Press. - 9462701180 - 9789462701182
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- For artistic research, the model of the fold is exceptionally interesting because it deals with how form and contents intertwine in a physical model, and how concrete and abstract interrelate on the plane of consistency. In my chapter I focus on chapter two in "The Fold" by Gilles Deleuze, and take up the concept of inflection as an elastic point in the model of the fold that discloses a reality of reversibility. Deleuze states that for Paul Klee the point as a “nonconceptual concept of noncontradiction” (15) moves along an inflection. “It is the point of inflection itself, where the tangent crosses the curve. That is the point-fold” (ibid). Through a simple sketch, Deleuze demonstrates how the point of inflection is the point where the concave turns to be convex. This is the point of inflection. What happens in the point of inflection? Is it a conjunction? A passage? It would seem that this very special point is a point that conceals a profound metaphysical realization. It is a physical point in the attribute of extension that corresponds to an invisible point of abstraction in the attribute of thought. Deleuze wants to draw attention to this point by referring to the thinking of Leibniz, the Neoplatonists, and Whitehead. Because of the existence of concave and convex, there are different point of views, depending on which place we see from. The enfolding reality has multiple points of views; each point of view is a perspective. It appears that we are captured in our point of view. There is always a reversible side of a point of view, and by the power of the imagination we can think the concept of reversibility. A physical model of the fold reveals, in fact, a metaphysical reality of the attributes, and the power of the attributes, according to Deleuze’s references to Spinoza. This thinking of Deleuze encompasses several crucial things: First, we assume that reality has a mirroring construction; in other words, reality corresponds to an abstract reality that the model of the Fold demonstrates. That is to say, physical reality and abstraction are two sides of the same coin. Second, the model of enfolding implies an innate life, the life of a monad, a singularity as a soul. Deleuze writes, “We are moving from inflection to inclusion in a subject, as if from virtual to the real, inflection defining the fold, but inclusion defining the soul or the subject, that is, what envelops the fold, its final cause and its complete act.” (24). Finally, Deleuze asks, “in order that the virtual can be incarnated of effectuated, is something needed other than this actualization in the souls? Is a realization in the matter also required, because the folds of this matter might happen to reduplicate the folds in the soul?” (29). I explore whether the way of creating folds in matter leads to a life of sensibility, by making sculptoral models of folds though a process of autogenesis. The art work consists of a preparation of a material for making folds in matter. By letting them coagulate, I thereby “freeze” the process to a fixed form, in order to let a “nondimensional point between dimensions” (16) be visible. Reference: Gilles Deleuze. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. Trans. with foreword by Tom Conley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
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- Herlitz, Alexandra, 1978, et al.
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John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
- 2024
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In: Konsthistoriepodden. - : Acast. ; :33
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Vi har länge velat prata om den amerikanske målaren John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) och när vi var i Boston och såg hans fantastiska målningar där, bestämde vi oss att göra ett avsnitt om denna spännande och redan på sin tid mycket populära konstnär! Sargent är mest känd för sina porträtt, men vi valde ”Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose”, som målades 1885-86 och som finns på Tate Britain i London. Vad betyder den mystiska titeln som låter som en trollformel egentligen? Och är det en spegling av ett och samma barn vi ser? Vilken skandal ledde till att Sargent var tvungen att lämna Paris och hur hamnade han i Cotswolds, där målningen färdigställdes under två sensomrar? Varför arbetade Sargent under långa perioder bara 10 minuter per dag med verket? Och hur kom det sig att läsarskaran bakom The Pall Mall Gazette röstade fram målningen som den man minst av alla ville ha i sitt hem?
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- Herlitz, Alexandra, 1978, et al.
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Konsthistoriepodden, avsnitt 20: Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer I
- 2021
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In: Konsthistoriepodden. - : Acast. ; :20
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Vi ska prata om Gustav Klimts porträtt ”Adele Bloch-Bauer I” från 1907, som även kallas för “Goldene Adele”, alltså “gyllene Adele” på tyska och “The Lady in Gold” eller “The Woman in Gold” på engelska. Verket fanns länge på Österreichische Galerie Belvedere i Wien, men är nuförtiden en del av samlingarna på Neue Galerie i New York. Porträttet bjuder på en mängd fängslande historier som sträcker sig från den tiden då det skapades fram till vår egen tid. Det är en målning som exproprierades av nazisterna och som inte skulle lämnas tillbaka till den rättmätiga ägaren förrän en kvinna i Los Angeles stämde den österrikiska staten och det blev ett politiskt ärende. Det är ett porträtt som nuförtiden anses vara ett konstverk som symboliserar staden Wien och dess guldålder vid förra sekelskiftet, “Wiener Moderne”, samtidigt som det har blivit ett nationell ikon för den kulturella identiteten av hela landet Österrike. Detta blev uppenbart i och med den mediala uppmärksamheten, när man med en stor affischkampanj tog farväl av verket då det lämnade Österrike. Självklart kommer vi också prata om konstnären bakom verket och vad som kan ha inspirerat honom till den karaktäristiska stilen han utvecklade under sin ”gyllene period”. Vi ska inte heller undanhålla Klimts privatliv och att han skapade sig en persona som ”womanizer” i reformdräkt. Ryktena spred sig att han var naken under sin vida rock och alltid hade modeller i sin ateljé som han strulade med.
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- Kjellmer, Viveka, 1964
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Indra’s Daughter and the modernist body: Costume and the fashioned body as scenography in A Dream Play (1915–18).
- 2019
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In: Studies in Costume & Performance. - : Intellect. - 2052-4013 .- 2052-4021. ; 4:2, s. 179-191
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article I analyse Swedish scenographer Knut Ström’s costume and set design sketches, made in Germany in 1915–18, for his production of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play. I focus on the costume sketches for the main character, Indra’s daughter, and discuss how the act of costuming is more than just dressing up a body onstage; it also produces the body and makes it meaningful in relation to the scenographic whole. The modernist female body could, among other aspects, be understood as a body with agency, a clothed body in motion where clothing, staging and patterns of movement all helped create a new, slim silhouette. This view of the female fashioned body, I argue, leaves an imprint on Knut Ström’s visual thinking in the sketch material where Indra’s Daughter emerges in corsetless, straight dresses. Ström’s staging of Indra’s daughter as a modernist woman not only anchors her in the process of social change; it also underlines the ‘othering’ qualities of costume and serves to distinguish her as an outsider in the play. As pointed out by Barbieri, costume can communicate with the spectators both metaphorically and viscerally. In the case of Indra’s Daughter, Ström could be said to use the modernist costuming of Indra’s Daughter metaphorically to set her apart from the other actors in more traditional costumes, and physically, with colours and shapes of her costumes that visibly stand out from the scenographic landscape. Ström’s creative work with the sketches for A Dream Play shows how he understood the power of the costumed body as a vital part of the scenographic whole.
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