Kunstjournalen B-post 2010/2011
This issue is titled "The Past Now!" and investigates how art based on research into archives and history can illuminate present social and political challenges
Mark Dion. Istallation in the exhibition «WeltWissen – World
Knowledge», Berlin, 2010. Photo: © Roman März
Annette Kierulf og Arne Rygg: The Past Now!
Editorial
Aage Langhelle: Semiotic Interaction in a Landscape of Reminiscence
Many contemporary artists use history as an essential component of their work. Few artists are as sharp as Hans Haacke. Haacke’s 2000 project DER BEVÖLKERUNG (To The People) in the north wing of the German parliament building encourages critical reflection on nation, people, population and identity.
Camilla Haukedal og Anthony Tessier: Sein
kveld
Gerd Elise Mørland:
Curated History
Artists Goshka Macuga and Guttorm Guttormsgaard clarify their own positions as storytellers and the allegation seems clear: All history is curated.
Knut Ove Eliassen: Archives and Heterotopias
«Archive» has been a key term in the aesthetic discourse of the last decade. Lifted out of its traditional context as a neutral term for, respectively, systematically stored documents, or for their storage space, the term has been recast as an analytical category that refers to and circumscribes complex institutional relations between power, knowledge and social identity
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Anke Bangma: Wendelien van Oldenborgh,
Sarah Vanagt
How can the past become a detour to approach the present? Recent works by Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Sarah Vanagt attempt to create a space in which the temporalities of colonial histories and histories as they are made in the here and now coexist.
Guttorm Guttormsgaard
Art project
Rune Nydal: Making Things Public
In the exhibition «Making Things Public – Atmospheres of Democracy» Bruno Latour awakens our memories of things to make us more conscious of our history and opportunities.
Heidi Nikolaisen: We Belong to the Same
Tree
Art project.
Dieter Roelstraete: Why Dig?
“Our modern culture is (…) not a living one. (…) It is not a real culture but a kind of knowledge about culture, a complex of various thoughts and feelings about it, from which no decision as to its direction can come.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History
Kristin Sampson: Gadamer: Art and History
According to Gadamer, art
and history have something in common: Both are capable of opening up
something unfamiliar that we can understand ourselves against.
Lene Berg: Shaving the Baroness
Shaving the Baroness is a video-projection with Dunja Eckert-Jakobi and Leander Djønne. It was first shown at Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain 2010
Victor Lind: 20 Norwegian Kroner
Art project
Vibeke Tellmann: Seeing
as Insight. The History of the Sight Metaphor: A Short Review
Many of our notions and knowledge metaphors stem from the visual; we are enlightened when we gain knowledge, we say that we ‘see’ when we understand and ‘seeing the light’ declares our capture of the truth. What is it about the sight sense that allows it such a privileged position? And what’s implied when our notions of knowledge are formed by visibility?
Vilde Salhus Røed: The Very First Image of the True
Pole
Annette Kierulf: Past Culture as Raw
Material
Welsh critic and curator Will Bradley has completed a series of projects examining various relationships between contemporary art and history; both art history and political history. He is a curator at Kunsthall Oslo where Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk is director. Kunsthall Oslo opened in the autumn of 2010 and is a new, promising, non-commercial gallery. Kunstjournalen B-post has interviewed Bradley on his curatorial background and ideas..
