There's a powerful social interest in form – some might call it the packaging aesthetic – which regards form as more important than content. What kind of challenge does this pose to the arts and KORO? Here we find ourselves in a domain which the sociologist Oddrun Sæther has described as the aestheticised power landscape.
A Critical Look at Berlin's Reconstruction, Collective Memory Practices and Thanotourism.
In the autumn of 2014, after many years of work, a kind of line is being drawn beneath the art project for Government Building 6 (R6), even though not everything is quite as it should be.
A successful work of public art is not the cherry but a vital ingredient in the recipe for the cake itself; an ingredient that must be added to the mix early on, before baking, to be bound together with the other ingredients.
The oil platforms in the North Sea can be seen as a historical and economic condition that has been decisive in shaping the art field in Norway as it is today. What happens to the art field when it is embedded in the oil economy?
This article has not been translated into English.
Collages from Oslo, Stockholm, Eidsvoll, Malmö, Tokyo, Hellerup and New York.
This article has not been translated into English.
This article has not been translated into English.
This article has not been translated into English.
This article has not been translated into English.