I made som collages from plastic stuff and paper cut outs a few weeks ago. What I tried to do was finding material «that had something» (unclear what) that I could use to start making a visual identity to my «department». When I sat there, moving the pieces around, turning them, making compositions – I saw that many of them looks like abstract landscapes. So, I started thinking about nature. After some more time my mind remebered this:
In the 2018 Swedish election the saying «re-drawing the political map» and «re-drawing the political landscape» were used a lot in Swedish media accoring to the huge success of the political party «the Swedish Democrats» – a populistic right right wing party. Back then I got kind of annoyed from media using, or mis-using this expression(s). It was used all the time and by all type of news media.
Anyway, when I thought about his a few weeks ago a also started thinking about that this has some kind of connection to my project. Maybe this is the core, but my project is all about «the Inner Political Landscape» or «the Inner Political Map». Maybe we all have to search into our selves to find out about what we believe in?
Around this time (a few weeks ago) I also learned that Thomas Hobbes wrote a book called Leviathan in 1651. In this book he describes the State of Nature, and that the State has to protect us from this very state of nature. This is the second thought on nature and politics that has strucked me in a short time.
A. Artistic Research Forum, 13.-14. Octber 2020
B. Attended Seminar #4 in the Research School
C. Started the course Approaches to and Ideologies in the
Study of Politics at the Institute for Comparative Politics at UiB.
D. Started to sum up what I've done earlier through a series of Zines.
E. Sent an application for support to Valgdirektoratet
(The Norwegian Directorate of Elections)
F. Discussing the Mid-way evaluation with Åse
G. Made the last part of Seminar #3 at the Research School,
about ethics.
H. Found out that the scientific connection between my project and the
real world is the discussion about the ignorant voter.
I. Made some collages with small plastic object and paper, and
though tabout the inner political landscape, and expressions like to re-
draw the political map or to re-draw the political landskape.
J. Trying to organize a voting stand at KMD. Contacted Bergen
Municipality
Slow Politics!
I've appliet for support for a new lecture series, to inform about and discuss political ideologies. The audience will be students at UiB.
There will be six lectures in total on these themes:
Liberalism (Cornelius Cappelen)
Socialism and Communism (Cornelius Cappelen)
Ecologism
Feminism (Lise Rakner)
Populism (Jonas Linde)
Conservatism (Cornelius Cappelen)
I've asked my main teacher in the SAMPOL 103 course, if he could be one of the lecturers, he said yes to conducting three of the lectures. He also suggested the other lecturers (professors at UiB in Comparative Politics) – that said Yes!, to my proposition!
HERE is the link to the link to the call for applications at the Directorate of Elections. And HERE is some information on how many applications that were sent in.
