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Expositionality in Action (2025) Michael Schwab
Although it is virtually impossible to formalize what ‘best practice’ on the Research Catalogue might be, it harbours by now numerous examples of expositions that ‘work.’ In this session, I want to introduce a small set of diverse expositions from JAR as a way to highlight successful choices people have taken. With a short explanation of expositionality and virtual witnessing, I aim to support an understanding of the effect that those examples have as a way of describing how media-rich articulations can productively engage with both academic and artistic expectations.
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Evolution (2025) Betty Nigianni
"New ideas might be conceived and developed more rapidly in disciplines that are more abstract. The inductive methods of experimental innovators in painting makes their enterprise resemble the more empirical disciplines considered by psychologists, while the deductive approach of the conceptual innovators makes theirs resemble the more abstract disciplines." David W. Galenson, "The Life Cycles of Modern Artists", NBER Working Paper Series, 2003. Artists and architects have been at times captivated by visionary ideological viewpoints, which they used as inspiration and to make suggestions for applications with their artworks and designs. My use of the diagram and the image aims to convey the simple message that art strives for evolution; meaning to strengthen the mind, to research capabilities, to communicate a disinterested, though not necessarily apolitical, view of social changes, to overcome banality and offer an alternative way of looking at the world. For many artists, this motivation has traditionally often gone hand in hand with political goals and motivations. The decline of the commercial art market in the 1980s gave rise to artists working mainly, but not solely, with ephemeral installations, including the ubiquitous video art, performance, and the broader range of conceptual art. Painting remained as an established fine art practice, with a renewed interest to conceptualism. The portrait is of the artist, myself, at a young age, dated 1993, when I was a student at the NTUA. Betty Nigianni is my name known as (aka), which I also used as my artistic pseudonym.
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Om prosjektet Jording med (blå)leire (2025) Sigrid Espelien
I doktorgradsprosjektet Jording med (blå)leire har jeg jobba med kunstneriske prosesser og øvelser som knytter oss tettere på blåleira i landskapet. Gjennom seks års utdannelse innenfor det keramiske kunstfeltet og kunsthåndverk2 ble vi aldri introdusert for leire ute i naturen som en del av undervisningen. Vi lærte å lage forskjellige leirer ved hjelp av råstoffer som kaolin, kvarts, pipeleire og chamotte fra innkjøpt pulver i sekker blandet med vann, men var aldri ute og gravde leire og prosesserte denne selv. Vi jobbet med importerte leirer der sintringsintervall, grovhetsgrad, farge etter brenning og krymp-prosent var printet på plastpakningen. Leirene var homogene og klare til å modellere med, og man kunne stole på at den alltid var lik fra pakke til pakke. Keramikk- og kunstfeltets gjengse oppfattelse av leire som et stabilt universelt materiale, som er relativt lik uansett hvor man kjøper den fra, blir i dette prosjektet satt i kontrast til det spesifikke og skiftende i landskapet, leira og menneskene involvert. Denne situerte kunnskapsproduksjonen i det kunstneriske doktorgradsprosjektet er et av de potensielle bidragene til fagfeltet.
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Utendørs keramikk (2025) Sigrid Espelien
Brent blåleire fra Feiring bruk avdeling Kulmoen, opprinnelig fra Alnabru, blandet med sagflis fra KHiOs treverksted, chamotte og breavsetningssand. Del av relieff til kunst i offentlig rom oppdrag, som feilbrente. Her kuttet igjennom med diamantsag på KHiOs keramikkversted.
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Landaktig poesi/Tiempos de las tierras/Poetics of landness (2025) Sigrid Espelien
Landaktig poesi/Poetics of landness/Tiémpo de las tierras er en pågående samarbeids- og utvekslingsplattform mellom Stacy Jo Scott (OR, USA), Arely Amaut (Cusco, Peru) og Sigrid Espelien (Oslo, Norge).
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