• Manifesto: Uselessness as practise against System 

      Aitken, Ruth Alexandra (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-11-28)
      This thesis discusses Neoliberalism, Empire and production-consumptions cycles in relation to how we value the environment and art. It goes on to discuss how they are reinforced by, or impact on contemporary arts practice and participation in the arts industry, using the Fluxus Movement as an example. Two art works are discussed from the perspective of the artist and put into the context of global ...
    • Materialfølelse og virkekraft 

      Stien, Hanne Hammer (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022)
    • MUTE ASH Memory, Image, Place and Loss 

      Dahle, Øistein Sæthren (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-21)
      Mute Ash is a text that explores a personal photographic archive and a personal story. The text poses questions around memory, image, place and loss.
    • On Crits and Games—and Crits as Games 

      Kim, Jeuno JE; Storihle, Sille (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      A conversation between artist and educator Sille Storihle and the Krabstadt Education Center (KEC) about overlapping interests in educational models and games. Issues discussed are the role of games in education, experiences with the format of the group crit, and the question whether it is still a solid component of arts education or how it could be deployed differently. Storihle shares their work ...
    • Perception and appreciation of plant biodiversity among experts and laypeople 

      Breitschopf, Eva; Bråthen, Kari Anne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-06)
      <p>1. Plant biodiversity, which is fundamental for the delivery of ecosystem services, is in decline. Yet, knowledge about how plant biodiversity is perceived and appreciated is scarce. <p>2. We studied biologists' and laypeople's perception and appreciation for plant communities that differ in plant biodiversity,using ranges of plant biodiversity known to affect ecosystem services. We investigate ...
    • Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery in Sápmi – Becoming a Nation at The Arctic University Museum of Norway 

      Stien, Hanne Hammer (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      The point of departure for this essay is a series of eleven contemporary photographic portraits of Sámi people in large formats presented in the exhibition Sápmi – Becoming a Nation (2000-) at the Arctic University Museum of Norway, in Tromsø.1 The photographs were commissioned by the curators, and they were shot by documentary photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker Harry Johansen (b. 1958). ...
    • Primitive Approaches to Domestic Living 

      Hester, Anna (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-19)
      This text highlights our attitudes towards ways of living depending on specific materials and techniques. Exploring how my art practice in relation to the domestic, challenges the use of functional art within our own and other realities. In the hope that it will give me the answers to my own minute domestic issues.
    • REFRESH RATE: ON THE AGE OF FLUX AND AFTER AFFECT 

      Kovalevskij, Vsevolod (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-11-28)
      This essay is about constantly refreshing hyperobjective human conditions - the after affects of posthumanist thinking in the age of constant flux. I use the term constant flux to describe the intensity of change in the technological world where one feels somewhat dysfunctional or like a misplaced object, who can’t process all of the incoming data. This is an essay about one day as a hyperobject ...
    • Repetition and Difference: Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing 10 years 

      Hansen, Hanna Horsberg (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2017)
      In 2007, Tromsø Art Academy accepted its first students in the BA program in the art department at Tromsø University College (Høgskolen i Tromsø, HiTø). Much has happened since then: Tromsø University College has become part of the University of Tromsø (UiT) - The Arctic University of Norway; and the Academy has added a division of creative writing, as well as a complete curriculum offering the BA, ...
    • Riksväg 25, delat samhälle innebär en gemensam skuld. Hur vi tänkte och med vad? 

      Torell, Lisa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-13)
      På platser runt Hovmanstorp i Småland, fortsätter Palettens serie med verkberättelser i egna ord, med att Lisa Torell skriver med egna ord om sitt och Johanna Gustafsson Fürsts verk "Riksväg 25, delat samhälle innebär en gemensam skuld". Erfarenheten av arbete på (en) plats i ett lokalt geografiskt sammanhang ger ett slags kunskapsnärvaro eller improvisationskunskap. Kompetensslumpen, kallar Torell ...
    • Sami Artist Group 1978-1983: Otherness or Avant-Garde? 

      Hansen, Hanna Horsberg (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2014)
    • The Sámi Museum in Karasjok: A Story of Resistance 

      Hansen, Hanna Horsberg (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-08-15)
      In Karasjok, on the Norwegian side of Sápmi, there is a cultural-historical museum, Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat (SVD) (The Sámi Museum), and an art collection comprising 1,400 works of art. The museum building was completed in 1972. Different ideas for an art museum in connection to the SVD building have existed since the 1980s, but for various reasons no plans for an art museum have so far come to ...
    • Shifting coasts: developing new coastal concepts 

      Tynan, Eimear Mairéad (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Coastal environments are closely under the radar of the impact of climate change. Approximately 680 million people live in low-lying coastal zones according to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report from 2019.1 The report presents key threats to coastal environments that include permanent submergence, more frequent and intense flooding, loss and change of ...
    • A Tender World - Transience, Control and the Inevitable 

      Björklund, Maija Liisa (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-12-09)
      In the thesis, I attempt to investigate uncertainty and change, seen through the concepts of tenderness or vulnerability. Using examples from movements and practices like Deep Adaptation and Deep Listening, I also link this perspective to my recent art practice during the MA studies at UIT through concrete projects, and methodolgies used.
    • Unyoking the Unconscious Posthuman Desires: On the Psychology of Cognitive Capitalism, Transcendental Political Systems and the Existential Technologies of the Mind 

      Jaspé, Phoebe (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-12-08)
      This thesis has no traditional narrative structure and the form stimulates a schizophrenic and bipolarity stance of the world, filled with different epiphenomenal characters and voices between fiction and reality, much like a manuscript based on my own experiences. A pre-determined and an orchestrated future is becoming more of a reality as technologies advance further, it seems that building a ...
    • Veien til vannet 

      Gjelstad, Rebecca (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-22)
      Oppgaven handler om å gjøre UiT Campus, der det idag finnes parkeringsplasser, til et attraktivt sted man ønsker å være. Dette gjøres i min oppgave ved å fremheve og forsterke vannets kvaliteter gjennom hele året.