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  Radical Inside (2020) author(s): Palle Torsson published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design
  The goal of this work and of my research is to broaden our understanding of contemporary creative conditions in relation to how technologically constructed systems enable cultural production. The work explores specific systems and pushes the limits of their intended use. In the process, I also hope to reveal the relationship between digital systems and transformative subjects. The work Radical Inside explores 3D models from the largest sharing platform for 3D content. A multiplicity of possibilities opens up as a shift in camera perspective reveals the internal structure of the 3D models. The reorientation points to criticism of how society is structured and imagined by the heteronormative gaze. The unusual angle displaces the normative placement of the model within a reduced and rigid system - the taxonomy and categorization of the platform. From within, I can highlight and explore technology as a fundamentally surreal and queer possibility.
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  The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole (2020) author(s): Behzad Khosravi Noori published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design
  Between 1956 and 1968, the photographer Gholamreza Amirbegi captured a wealth of images from around his neighborhood in southwestern Tehran. At the time the city had just seen a major influx of working-class immigrants from the country’s smaller municipalities. By re-narrating these materials, which evoke not only particular, local memories, but also distinct subaltern histories, this overlooked archive tells stories of social change from below in Iran, as seen in Gholamreza’s subjects: global cinematic images, and unconscious colonial memory. By applying a comparative historical-material analysis, Khosravi Noori’s aim here is to develop a practice based, multi-sited archaeology of contemporary history. This approach begins with an excavation of the historical materials themselves, in order to both discover lost identities in these images, and to displace them from sedimented historical positions. In doing this, he asks the question: What happens to the past from the vantage point of the future?
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  jag vet hur folkhemmet luktar (2020) author(s): tina carlsson published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design
  jag vet hur folkhemmet luktar is an interdisciplinary project that attempts to show a more complex picture of the Swedish folkhem (“people’s home” – a term used to describe the vision of a better life for all by Swedish social democracy). The project is a response to the romanticised and idealised image of the folkhem which, in the current political climate, is mainly propagated by the far right with the populist and racist Swedish Democrats (SD) at the forefront. Using the artists own “folkhem-marinated” body as a point of departure, the exposition sketches the nodes from which the folkhem unfolded and how that created the preconditions for certain people to feel at home while others were excluded. In mapping the “folkhem nodes” photographic documentation, notes of childhood memories and a conversation with the father is used. The project investigates how the folkhem ideology was implemented through a linguistic as well as a spatial and material aesthetics. The textual memories are contextualized through a system of footnotes, that in the exposition are shown in pop-up windows and act as a commenting and associative parallel text to the memory narratives.
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  Undersökning av Långlöt 30:1. Aktiviteter kring ruinerna av Ismantorps borg. (last edited: 2024) author(s): Maria Jonsson connected to: Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  Ismantorp fort is one of Sweden's best preserved ringforts. The ancient monument is located on the island of Öland, in the midst of the forest Mittlandsskogen. For centuries the fort has been overgrown. Dating back to the 17th century, efforts have been made to depict the fort, but these attempts were often thwarted by dense vegetation, obscuring the ruins and making them inaccessible. The surrounding forest has kept the fort itself intact, as well as the memory of it, while at the same playing a part in distorting and shaping the public's perception of the monument; through the production and reproduction of plans and depictions drawn from incorrect measurements due to the obscuring vegetation. Archival records - descriptive texts, photographs, plans, drawings - document the site and the activities of archaeologists, antiquarians, scientists, public servants, land owners, locals, tourists (and vandals). Many of these records can be found at the Swedish National Heritage Board. The National Heritage Board was responsible for managing Ismantorp fort for a period of time up until 2015 when the National Property Board took over. In this exposition, Nature plays the part of preserving the memory of the fort, as well as distorting the perception of the fort. In addition to this, the vegetation seems to have been perceived as a growing threat against the preservation of the ringfort. This villainizing of nature also poses questions regarding what constitutes a place, is it first and foremost understood as Nature, or Culture? Which agents have the right to alter a place, and how are these alterations being justified? What does it mean to "restore" a monument or a place to its original state? The research presented in this exposition is also part of a project outside of Research Catalogue, where these questions are examined through the creation of physical artworks. Some of the artworks are presented as part of the exposition.
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  O≡Cyan – for a dark holism to matter (last edited: 2023) author(s): TM connected to: Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  Cyan and cyanides and their connected substances, organisms, and processes, constitute subject matter and material subject for the practice-based inquiry of O≡Cyan. Cyan emerges in photochemical and photosynthetic processes imaging us: the CMYK colour space, cyanide poison, cyanobacteria, and cyanotype. Cyanide capsules, cyanobacterial algal bloom and cyanide leaching in gold mining mark their outermost horizon. Researched with a dark holistic approach, matter, method and medium are conceptually integrated and intrinsic to each other and can give rise to a critical mass of dark holistic and cyanotopic worlding – a network of narratives, phenomena, and matter. methods on the basis of dark materiality surrounding us planetary and concerning us personally, directed towards a History of Darkness - a slowly growing ABC, or material essay for Cyan and cyanides and its dark effects.
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• Test-exposition (last edited: 2022) author(s): Test user This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
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