• Anything Can Be Used: Notes on the synthesis of desire and knowledge 

      Sørlid, Henrik (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-24)
      This thesis is centred on an analysis of collage and détournement as artistic and hermeneutic methodologies in a relatively wide sense. It focuses on how the political and theoretical dimensions of détournement, as defined by Situationist theory and practice, can be seen as parallel to - and amalgamated with - specific forms of occult practice and philosophy, particularly alchemy. Arguing that ...
    • Artworks of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Female Photographers: Identification and Analysis 

      Armand, Asmae (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-12-08)
      The Iranian Revolution and the Imposed War (Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988) and the years that followed led to inception of various cultural and social conditions in Iran. Following the formation of new intellectual and ideological movements, the art movements underwent many transformations. Consequently, arts universities began to teach various fields of arts, and a new chapter of artistic photography was ...
    • Beauty and Truth: Dialogues between Sami art and art historical research 

      Hansen, Hanna Horsberg (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2014)
    • Bristling at windows: Subversion through heterodox mythology 

      Suyono, Jillian Toshie (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-11-26)
      This thesis is a narrative of an artistic development, drawing on the intersections of meaninglessness and meaning, as well as strategies to resist capitalist recuperation. The narrative moves from the absurd in art to the society of the spectacle through the philosophies of Albert Camus and Guy Debord, then proceeds to examine the works of Scott Walker, Tetsuya Ishida, Michio Fukuoka and Lawrence ...
    • Color - The Memory of Sadism 

      Son, Hakkyung (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-11-26)
      Based on the knowledge of the color theory, I have been playing a serial performance with participants of my project. The project is for proving a slight unbalance of power between a human relationship. Furthermore, this is the experience of racism regarding of skin color. From the first step to the last step, all the process is one performance interacting with the participants.
    • Constructing Sami National Heritage: Encounters Between Tradition and Modernity in Sami Art 

      Hansen, Hanna Horsberg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-08-15)
      <br>The article explores the construction of Sami national heritage taking works from a touring exhibition, Gierdu, as the object for exploration. The exhibition opened in 2009 displaying 27 artworks from the art collection at RiddoDuottarMuseat in Karasjok in Norway. The exploration is contextualised as an understanding of heritage, tradition and modernity as dynamic concepts dealing with how we ...
    • Dagliglivsfotografier og verdensgjøring i Inuuteq Storchs Porcelain Souls 

      Stien, Hanne Hammer (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-15)
      Inuuteq Storchs fotobok Porcelain Souls (2018) baserer seg på hans foreldres dagliglivsfotografier fra Kalaallit Nunaat (Grønland) mellom slutten av 1960- og begynnelsen av 1980-tallet. Artikkelen beskriver motivene og montasjene i fotoboken og spør på bakgrunn av nymaterialistisk teori hvordan fotografiene skaper en grønlandsk verden innenfra. Videre argumenter artikkelen for at fotoboken på en ...
    • En Météo du sens - On longing for an onomatopoeic eutopia dans une langue étrangère 

      Sellik, Annika (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-12-06)
      This paper discusses the matter of shared space as embodied cognition – méteo du sens in a relation to the artistry process that arises from sonic awareness and from the processes of perception, sensing and artist’s personal relation to it. On a journey on sensing and becoming aware that our body does not limit with the physical body, one must loose their body to be able to share a space, a landscape, ...
    • Exercises in intra-acting: A zone of potential And an exercise about not dropping out. ‘Tape yourself to a green chair.’ 

      Junttila, Kristina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-15)
      This article is about the participatory performance event <i>Speak for yourself (Snakk for deg sjøl)</i> performed mainly for teenagers at schools through the Norwegian Cultural Schoolbag program (<i>Den kulturelle skolesekken</i>), but also for an open audience at Hålogaland Theatre and the Arctic Arts Festival. The center of the discussion concerns <i>what</i> has agency to initiate various ways ...
    • Fotografier i Emilie Demant Hatts bok Med Lapperne i Højfjeldet: Fotografiske møter, biografiske inskripsjoner og "våre" historier 

      Hansen, Hanna Horsberg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-15)
      Artikkelen utforsker fotografier tatt av den danske kunstneren, fotografen og forfatteren Emilie Demant Hatt (1873–1958). Fotografiene ble første gang publisert i 1913 i boka Med lapperne i højfjeldet. Gjennom ulike perspektiver på bildene viser artikkelen hvordan det er mulig å se forbi den koloniale «overflaten» til bilder tatt av denne periodens reisende og etnografer, og hvordan repatriering ...
    • Fremstillinger av kjønn i utstillingen "Flytende russisk" 

      Stien, Hanne Hammer (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2018)
      Fotografier er den typen gjenstander som de kulturhistoriske museene samler mest av (Johansen 2012). I tillegg til innsamling a fotografier inngår mange ulike fotografiske praksiser i museenes primære virksomhet, så som fotodokumentasjon og bruk av fotografi i utstillings- og formidlingssammenheng (Stien 2017, 16). Selv om den fotografiske virksomheten til museene er sammensatt og griper inn i andre ...
    • Humanly modified ground and time-based aesthetics 

      Clemmensen, Thomas Juel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-19)
      The Anthropocene not only questions perceptions of nature, but also inspires us to expand and rethink the aesthetic repertoire of landscape architecture. This article discusses process aesthetics, or time-based aesthetics, in relation to humanly modified ground, particularly the role of erosion and sedimentation. The discussion is centred around a study of the Port of Aarhus in Denmark. The study ...
    • I Never Learnt my Mother Tongue 

      Mellem, Åsne Kummeneje (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-11-26)
      This thesis reflects upon questions and issues related to the Kven culture in the context of contemporary arts. How to use the field of arts as a medium to revitalize and innovate the Kven culture of today.
    • If I were standing in your shoes 

      Lin, Pei-Han (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-12-08)
      We utilize technology to transcend the limitations of the human condition, or to map the invisible frontier at the boundaries of our physical biology. How could the masses of data produced by our societies in this modern world be used to generate an ideal form of artwork, one which decentralizes power, decolonizes peoples, degenders the individual, and counters oppression by authority? I want to ...
    • 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). ...