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In a Place like this (last edited: 2024)

Johan Sandborg, Duncan Higgins

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In A place Like This sets out to investigate and expand the issues and critical discourses within Sandborg and Higgins' current collaborative research practice. The central focus for the research is concerned with how art, in this instance photographic and painted image making and text, can be used as an agent or catalyst of understanding and critical reflection. The research methodology is constructed through photography, painting, drawing and text. This utilises the form of an artist publication as a point of critically engaged dissemination: a place for the tension between conflicting ideas and investigation to be explored through discussion. The research question is focused on how the production of the image and the act of making images can communicate or describe moments of erasure or remembering in terms of historical and personal narratives with direct reference to moments of violence and place. This is seen not in terms of a nostalgic remembrance of the past; instead as one that is rife with complicated layers and dynamics where recognition is denied the ability to locate a physical representation. Embedded in this is an exploration of particular questions concerning the ethics of representation: the depiction of ourselves and other? In this sense it brings into question an examination of the act of remembering as a thing in itself, through the production of the image and text, contexts of knowledge and cultural discourses explored through the form of an artists publication.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsKMD, Faculity of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, post-photography, PHOTOGRAPHY, Painting, memory, place, image, collective research in arts, KMD_Art
date01/11/2010
last modified11/11/2024
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationKMD_ART
copyrightJohan Sandborg, Duncan Higgins, KMD
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/32161/32162
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.32161
connected toFaculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen


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