<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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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). ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...