50 Billion Micrograms. In the Search of the Aftermath of an Event

Christine Hansen

About this exposition

This exposition provides an example of how art can offer an alternative way of understanding the past through my work “50 Billion Micrograms”. The project explored a forgotten media event from 1979, in which a gigantic meteorite supposedly landed in a remote lake on the west coast of Norway. The exposition attempts to demonstrate how ambiguity was a fuel the project. In the process what I call "fluctuating thinking" was an important method. This meant that I let seemingly irrelevant and speculative elements be part of the process. In this process, the different conceptual and aesthetic elements had to be studied carefully to consider whether random ideas and speculative elements were relevant for the work. However, such an open-ended approach is often fundamental to artistic research, I argue. I had no hope of finding the answer about the meteorite or explaining this natural phenomenon. My interest was to dwell on the uncertainty and keep the wondering alive. What became increasingly important was to explore the search itself through images and sound. The exposition also ask what is an event, what keeps an event alive? Were does fact and fiction interlace?

type	research exposition
keywords	memory, PHOTOGRAPHY, site, History, artistic research, artistic processes, fluctuating thinking, sound, science fiction, meteorite
date	28/06/2019
published	28/06/2019
last modified	28/06/2019
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	The Art Academy. Department for Contemporary Art. Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
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url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/427822/427823
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.427822
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	18. 18

name	Svanevannet, 2014 (Swan Lake)
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name	ANDREAS SOLHEIM Mindre
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