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OMPRÖVNINGAR - ARKITEKTUR I BRYTNINGSTIDER : Ombyggnadskultur och Restaureringskonst 2023-2024
No full textI dream that you batter away at me until my joints come apart like wax, and I fall into pieces
No full text"I dream that you batter away at me until my joints come apart like wax, and I fall into pieces" delves into the intertwined realms of homosexuality, martyrdom, and mortality. Through a lens that spans from historical figures like Saint Sebastian to gay painters during the HIV epidemic like Patrick Angus and Hugh Steers, the essay navigates the complexities of desire, shame, and societal perception. It traces the trajectory of homoeroticism in art, from Renaissance paintings to modern sculptures, illuminating the enduring struggle for visibility and acceptance faced by the LGBTQ+ community. The narrative weaves personal introspection with an analysis of cultural iconography, culminating in a reinterpretation of Saint Sebastian as a symbol of queer resilience and defiance. In its exploration of mortality and extinction, the essay unveils the interconnectedness of individual identity with broader societal narratives, inviting readers to contemplate the delicate interplay between desire and societal constraints
The Haunting of Image-Systems
No full textHarun Farocki's interest in image systems was above all an interest in the historical relationship between social struggles, technologies, myths and systems of domination. Taking Farocki and Sylvia Wynter as their point of departure, the artist Blaise Kirschner and the author and curator Anselm Franke examine the current reproduction and reconfiguration of the worldmaking, ‘mythopoeitic’ function of modern and a-modern image systems: materials for the anatomy of a newly consolidating fascism
Forty Viewpoints in Seven Instances on the Reconstruction of Two Environments by Björn Lövin
No full textInvisible Trains
No full textI feel the need to warn you This will get personal Whether I like it or not, I must tell you I was born in Miskolc The city of heavy industry Where you find 161,265 souls The county capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén The fourth largest city of Hungary. My mother once or twice or rather 31 times told me a story She had already moved up to Budapest Met my biological father and had gotten pregnant I keep the other part out of this story the part about her education in architecture – We don’t have the time for that Even-tho it is tempting to tell It has some funny turns as well Just like the story about my birth I don’t know why But my mother likes to talk about herself But this time it’s getting too far She doesn’t know but it bothers me I don’t want to hear this particular story I am interested in notions of memory, found stories that people might not notice but are important to me. These stories originate in my home country, Hungary. I collect Hungarian words and phrases, translating them into English and then into Swedish—I have noticed that I often use English as the bridging language between Hungarian and Swedish. This puzzle of languages shapes my current work, which takes the form of multimedia installations. For my solo exhibition presented at Galleri Mejan, I created an installation called Invisible Trains, which revolves around found footage filmed in my hometown, Miskolc. In the work, a tourist visiting the city decides to film her trip on a little railway. She films her journey up to a mountain called Bükk, passing all sorts tourist attractions and sights. While visiting her husband’s family in Miskolc, they decide to go up to the famous fish farm called Garadna, however, the fish farm is closed when they arrive so they decide to go back to the city. The footage feels edited but at the same time not, as there seems to be a linear order. Jumping on the little railway, going up the mountain and then down again, they end their journey at a viewpoint. They look down at the houses they recognize. I decided to travel to Miskolc and take the same journey up to the mountain. I then transformed this experience into an installation where the sound of a whisper guides the visitor around the gallery space. A video work, sculptures, and analog projections serve as clues embodying the attraction sights
Katalysator 2023–2024
No full textDenna publikation är ett resultat av läsåret 2023–2024 i kursen Restaureringskonst fördjupningskurs/Katalysator vid Kungl. Konsthögskolan. Materialet har tillkommit inom ramen för läsårets tema 'Hur bidrar restaureringskonst till långsiktig hållbarhet'. Kursen är en ettårig deltidskurs (30 hp) på avancerad nivå för yrkesverksamma arkitekter, antikvarier, ingenjörer med flera som tidigare har genomgått någon av kurserna i Restaureringskonst vid Kungl. Konsthögskolan. Kursen fördjupar restaureringskonstens basämnen, dess ideologi, historia och tillämpningar.
Tales They Don't Tell You : Essay on artistic practice around photography, queer theory and multiculturalism.
No full textIn this text I retell the story of a close friend of mine that went missing a few years ago. I also dive into world geographies and how they interconnect unexpectedly, for example through water. In the Hindu scripture Shatapatha Brahmana, written between the 6th and 8th centuries BCE, one encounter scientific knowledge of geometry, observational astronomy, and many tales, where time is told in a cyclical, nonlinear way. The book recounts how the sweat dripping down the god Shiva’s head is the water of Ganges River, where the ashes of generations of deceased people travel along the currents like a miniature collection of the past. I depart from a lens-based practice to explore remains of traces of stories, contrasts between inherited cultures and gay love. Through the migratory movement from India to Norway made by my father in the 80’s, the same period as the fathers of my Norwegian cousin’s migrated from, Algeria, Morocco, and Argentina. I came to know about the importance of the permanence as some of them stayed and influenced our cultural microcosmos of diaspora perspective. While some of them departed back again to their birth countries leaving mythical-like aura behind. From the get-go our shared upbringing in the Scandinavian landscape made us witness the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of our human existence and filling a gap between having two cultures. And a question to the difference between being of or having a minority background. The artistic expression can be intricately intertwined with the nuanced language of gestures, transcending linguistic and cultural motifs. Through a local Indian newspaper shipped to my hometown in Norway ever since I was a child, arised a playful game of trying to understand and learn these symbols and cultural motifs