recent activities
Illuminating the Non-Representable
(2025)
Hilde Kramer
Illustration as research from within the field is of relatively new practice. The illustrators discourse on representation (Yannicopoulou & Alaca 2018 ), theory (Doyle, Grove and Sherman 2018, Male 2019, Gannon and Fauchon 2021), and critical writing on illustration practice was hardly found before The Journal of Illustration was first issued in 2014, followed by artistic research through illustration (Black, 2014; Rysjedal, 2019; Spicer, 2019).
This research project developed as response to a rise in hate crime towards refugees and the targeting of European Jews in recent decade. A pilot project (This Is a Human Being 2016-2019) treated how narratives of the Holocaust may avoid contributing to overwriting of history or cultural appropriation.
Asking how illustration in an expanded approach may communicate profound human issues typically considered unrepresentable, this new project hopes to explore representation and the narratives of “us” and “the others” in the contemporary world through illustration as starting-point for cross-disciplinary projects. The participants from different disciplines, have interacted democratically on common humanist themes to explore the transformative role of illustration in contemporary communication.
our projects should afford contemplation of illustration as an enhanced, decelerated way of looking; and drawing as a process for understanding - a way of engaging in understanding the other, as much as expressing one’s own needs (McCartney, 2016). This AR project consisted of three symposia and three work packages, and the artistic research unfolded in the symbiosis of these elements. Our investigation of illustration across media and materials continues as dissemination and exhibitions even after the conclusion of the work packages in 2024.
2025 COLLAGE ARCHIVE ON 2019 LGP PERFORMATIVE REHEARSALS & INSTALLATIONS
(2025)
New Art
A visual, emotional & conceptual archive of Performative Reharsals and Performative installations that anticipated the LGP Method's integrative logic by Transdisciplinary artist. This archive links 2019-2025 anti autobiographic artistic process trough creative collaborations.
This article presents a series of digital collages created through the daily reworking of personal archives—photos, performance records, and installations. These images are not final works but a catalogue of affective documents in motion.
They explore the blurred boundaries between memory, artwork, and archive. This visual practice is part of the ongoing evolution of the LGP Method, showing how transformation and process are central to its structure.
After the method's formalization, a new identity—New Art—emerged, emphasizing mobility, reinvention, and the spiritual-emotional dimension of creative work.
This archive also acknowledges the valuable collaborations with artists, performers, and institutions who engaged with different stages of the process, activating the method from multiple perspectives.
Ester Viktorina
(2025)
Malin O Bondeson
In this work, I want to show some excerpts from my grandmother's patriarchal resistance. The narrative and the photographs will be at the center. They will clarify Esters Lindberg's attempt to negotiate and renegotiate her position within the usual norm. The narratives and photographs will hopefully give an expanded understanding of what it could be like to live as a woman with a desire for freedom in Sweden during the early 20th century.
recent publications
The dramaturgy of Conversation
(2025)
ingrid cogne
The dramaturgy of Conversation aims to tackle different approaches, analyses, and practices of conversations. Several forms of conversations and various related knowledges are questioned from different positions and perspectives. The data studied come from personal, external, or created (for and within the project) archives. In this project, researcher Ingrid Cogne analyses, develops or transforms, re-articulates and re-structures the ways in which one creates, inhabits, and facilitates conversations.
The central question of The dramaturgy of Conversation as a methodology is HOW: How can the context, structure, location, and duration of existing or created situations of conversation support the (re-)articulation of the persons involved? How can one use or work with conversations? How can one read, inhabit, and embody the parameters of a conversation? How can one facilitate a conversation? How does a situation itself facilitate the meeting with knowledge? How can one create a situation of conversation that will be the facilitator itself?
The dramaturgy of Conversation proposes situations, settings, and protocols of conversations that involve, combine, or isolate various languages (spoken, bodily, and written), “in-between” and relational knowledge, and dialogical methods and processes as well as formats of communication.
The dramaturgy of Conversation is a methodology that focuses on “how” practical knowledge can be read, unfolded, and circulated within the “doing”. It is a research project that facilitates the access to the unknown and the inarticulable – navigating between quantity and quality, fiction and reality, material and immaterial, visible and invisible.
This research is aproached by the author as the context wherein a self-reflective process can be (re-)articulated and CO- and reciprocal activations of hardly articulable knowledges can be performed. With this re/search, Cogne insists on the need of “conversation” to be practiced and considered as knowledge.
Duration: 15.1.2019 – 14.1.2025
Project leader: Ingrid Cogne (IKW)
Funded by: FWF - Austrian Science Fund | Elise-Richter PEEK (V709)
Institution: IKW, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
RESPONSIVE SPACE – SOUNDING INTO MATERIALITY
(2025)
Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen
RESPONSIVE SPACE – SOUNDING INTO MATERIALITY (2014–2020) is an in-depth research project into the interrelationship between us and our surroundings.
The artworks can be described as large sculptural sound installations which blur the lines between visual art, performing arts and sound art. The works explore space, material, sound, body and time as equal parts in a composition.
The main artworks of the research INTERFERENCE, RESONANCE, SEDIMENT, PLACE 1 and PLACE 2 are in a variety of ways inquiries towards an expanded experience of the dialogue between presence and materiality. The artworks are composed environments which respond and take shape and form from their surroundings, seeking to touch proximity zones where we as humans can sense aspects of being closely intertwined with our surroundings.
The act of listening is of central importance in the artistic survey. Olaussen stages space utilising the mediums of sound, minimalistic sculpture and dramaturgical structures.
This exposition is part of Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen’s artistic research project Responsive Space – Sounding into Materiality (2014–2020) at the Norwegian Theatre Academy, Østfold University College. The project complies with the guidelines for the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme from 2019. Artistic practice and reflection are at the heart of the research programme.
Originally published in Norwegian in 2020, this work has now been translated into English by Peter Cripps, with the support of the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills.
Nomadic Aesthetics — Travelling Installations as Moral Geography
(2025)
Dorian Vale
This essay explores Nomadic Aesthetics as a post-disciplinary ethical philosophy grounded in movement, displacement, and moral geography. Through the lens of travelling installations, Dorian Vale interrogates how contemporary art carries not only material form but migratory conscience. Installations by artists such as Francis Alÿs, Mona Hatoum, Chiharu Shiota, and Khalil Rabah are examined not as static works, but as mobile testimonies—witnesses to border regimes, global inequality, and spiritual unbelonging. The essay argues that when art moves, it inherits moral weight: the crate becomes a coffin, the gallery a customs post, and the viewer a pilgrim. Nomadic aesthetics reframes mobility not as logistics, but as liturgy. It positions the travelling installation as a modern secular relic—bearing not truth as monument, but truth as residue. This is a theology of movement: truth that survives only by circulation.
Title: Nomadic Aesthetics — Travelling Installations as Moral Geography
Keywords:
Post-Interpretive Criticism, Nomadic Aesthetics, Installation Art, Moral Geography, Migrant Artworks, Travelling Exhibitions, Globalization, Francis Alÿs, Mona Hatoum, Ai Weiwei, Chiharu Shiota, Khalil Rabah, Ethics of Movement, Conscience in Contemporary Art, Aesthetic Displacement, Witnessing, Museum Critique, Portable Truth, Moral Cartography
License:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Publication Year:
2025
Movement / Framework:
Post-Interpretive Criticism (The Museum of One)
DOI (Placeholder until generated):
[To be automatically assigned by Zenodo]
Journal / Series:
The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism (ISSN 2819-7232)
Volume: III
Publisher: Museum of One (Registered with Library and Archives Canada)
Persistent Identifiers:
ORCID: 0009-0004-7737-5094
ISNI: 0000000537155247
Wikidata: Q136308879 (Museum of One)