Oceanic Horror or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism

Soren Thilo Funder

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Oceanic Horror or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism (2024)

Soren Thilo Funder

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About this exposition

Søren Thilo Funder PhD in Artistic Research University of Bergen Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art Supervisors: Daniel Jewesbury, Darla Crispin, Anne Helen Mydland and Frans Jacobi. Artistic reflection and documentation of artistic result submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) in Artistic Research at the University of Bergen. Date of public defence: 8.12.2023 'Oceanic Horror - or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism' is an artistic research project that explores the potentials of utilising the genre of horror fiction to create new narratives in a political and time-based art practice. It is invested in the temporal qualities and entanglements of the horror genre and how these relate in strange ways, not only to our current tempor(e)ality and the modes of financialisation that informs this, but also to art practices using the temporal as material. Framed around the revisiting of the mid-nineties trading firm 'Island' in the advent of high frequency trading and its successor the trading company 'Archipelago', pushing the algorithmic trading systems further into the splash of web 2.0, 'Oceanic Horror' uses the methodologies of Transrealism and Meandering to create new nonlinear narrations revolving around the relationship between the opaque structures of absolute capitalism and the socio-political horror experienced in everyday life. The research project searches for a certain condition found in horror fiction, that relates to its relentless nowness, its proposed prolonging of this now, its relation to eventality and the quasi-event and finally how horror fiction wants to do things to the body - not only in a simple reaction mode but really in the very temporality experienced in and by the body. The artistic result of 'Oceanic Horror' was exhibited at Kunsthall 3.14 in Bergen 21.04.2023 - 04.06.2023, comprising a multi-channel video installation combining digital renderings with fictional cinematic scenes in an immersive total installation of office furniture sculptures forming makeshift sleep stations in the exhibition space. The reflection for 'Oceanic Horror' is presented in this Research Catalogue exposition, including both written material, images and a comprehensive archive of all the video works that make up the entangled narratives of 'Oceanic Horror - or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism' Norwegian: 'Oceanic Horror - or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism' er et kunstnerisk forskningsprosjekt som utforsker mulighetene i sjangeren skrekkfiksjon til å skape nye utrykk og narrativer i politisk og tidsbasert kunstpraksis. Prosjektet utforsker skrekksjangerens temporale oppbyggning, estetikk og kvaliteter. 'Oceanic Horror' anvender både som kunsteriske metoder og utrykk 'transrealisme' og 'meandering' for å skape nye ikke-lineære fortellinger og kunst som dreier seg om forholdet mellom de ugjennomsiktige strukturene i 'absolutt kapitalisme' og den sosio-politiske 'horroren' som oppleves i hverdagen. Med utgangspunkt i historien om det reelle handelsfirmaet 'Island', som i midten av nittitallet var med i oppstarten av høyfrekvent aksjehandel, og dens etterfølger, selskapet 'Archipelago', som ledte bølgen av algoritmiske aksjehandelssystemer i web 2.0, søker forskningsprosjektet etter en viss tilstand som finnes i horror fiction, som relaterer seg til dens nådeløse nåhet, dens foreslåtte forlengelse av dette 'nå', dets forhold til 'event' og 'kvasi-event' og hvordan horror fiction ønsker å gjøre ting med kroppen - ikke bare i en enkel reaksjonsmodus, men egentlig i selve temporaliteten som oppleves i og av betrakterens kropp. Det kunstneriske resultatet av 'Oceanic Horror' ble vist på Kunsthall 3.14 i Bergen 21.04.2023 - 04.06.2023. Utstillingen besto av en flerkanals videoinstallasjon som kombinerer digitale gjengivelser med fiktive filmatiske scener. Vist i en totalinstallasjon av kontormøbelskulpturer som danner provisoriske sovestasjoner i utstillingsrommet. Den kunsteriske refleksjonen som følger 'Oceanic Horror' presenteres på Research Catalogue og inkluderer både tekster, bilder og et omfattende arkiv av alle videoverkene som utgjør de sammenfiltrede fortellingene til 'Oceanic Horror - or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism'

type	research exposition
date	01/06/2023
published	10/01/2024
last modified	10/01/2024
status	published
share status	public
affiliation	Faculty of Fine Art, music and design, University of Bergen
copyright	Soren Thilo Funder
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1955415/1955416
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/kmd-ar.1955415
published in	Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
portal issue	7. PhD 2023
connected to	Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen

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