Tree of Dawn: Translation as a Method
(2022)
author(s): Aurora Del Rio
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
This research is part of my doctoral project Archetypes of Contamination, which focuses on the relationship between symbolic images and processes of environmental transformation. This exposition, Tree of Dawn, develops by looking for the correspondence between radioactive contamination and the traditional Latvian image of the Sun-Tree as found in the Dainas, an ancient form of poetry transmitted orally through songs. My artistic process uses a re-creation and re-interpretation of ritualistic practices. With a focus on radioactive contamination, my research looks at how the experience of contaminated spaces can be read through specific myths connected to the land to interfere with the creation of personal and collective realities. The exposition moves through methods of translation as a way of reflecting on the limits of knowledge, where translation is thought of in the wider senses of transposition, deciphering, decoding, and reading through.
PERFORMATIVE THEOLOGY
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Network for Performative Theology
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The purpose of this exposition is to collect data of what Performative Theology can be and become primarily within an academic research but also beyond. The expo will be a timespace nurtured by members the Network for Performative Theology, established 6 October 2022 in Oslo.
Whyte&Zettergren
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author(s): Whyte&Zettergren
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Whyte&Zettergren is an artistic duo comprising Jamaican dancer and performance artist Olando Whyte and Swedish visual artist Rut KarinZettergren. The duo’s works constitute an ongoing investigation of places, materials, and bodies as bearers of historical memory. Their collaboration makes visible how contemporary and historical connections between the Nordics and the Caribbean, shaped by the transatlantic slave trade, continue to affect cultures in the Atlantic world. Through their creative processes, they search for methods to process historical traumas and strive to create rituals that envision possible futures.
Their works have been performed and presented at various venues, including 3:e Våningen, Galleri Gerlesborg, TEGEN2, and Konsthall C in Sweden; The Living Art Museum and Explorer Festival in Iceland; Fd Molyne's Sugar Estate, Stokes Hall Grate House and Fort Charles in Jamaica and the Museum of Impossible Forms in Finland.
Herring, Iron, Gunpowder, Humans and Sugar
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Whyte&Zettergren
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Herring, Iron, Gunpowder, Humans & Sugar (HIGHS). With the project they visit locations historically linked to the triangular trade, the economic system underpinning the transatlantic slave trade. At these historical sites, Whyte&Zettergren perform live acts with choreography, storytelling, and ceremonial actions. In the acts they use objects crafted from materials extracted, manufactured, or exported from these locations.
