Full Description
The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 is the final volume of the four-volume series of cultural histories of the avant-garde movements in the Nordic countries. This volume carries the avant-garde discussion forward to present-day avant-gardes, challenged by the globalisation of the entertainment industries and new interactive media such as the internet. The avant-garde can now be considered a tradition that has been made more widely available through the opening of archives, electronic documentation and new research, which has spurred both re-enactments, revisions and continuations of historical avant-garde practices, while new cultural contexts, political, technological and ecological conditions have called for new strategies.
Contents
Preface
Contributors
The Long Avant-Garde Tradition - Restaging, Resisting, Renewing
Tania Ørum and Laura Luise Schultz
Section 1: Paradigmatic Cases
Introduction to Section 1
Benedikt Hjartarson
Appropriating the Past to Examine the Present - On Matias Faldbakken as Media Artist
Anders Skare Malvik
Magma and Persona - Material Generativity in the Work of Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Holger Schulze
DOGMA 95 and The Idiots - A Renewal of Avant-Garde Realism in Film
Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
Feminist Avant-Garde Film of the 1970s as Gender Politics - The Example of Tornerose, by Jytte Rex and Kirsten Justesen
Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
Such Stuff as We Are Made of - Kirsten Dehlholm, Billedstofteater and Hotel Pro Forma
Laura Luise Schultz
"An American Poet Only Writing in Finnish" - Leevi Lehto's Seminal Role in Contemporary Finnish Poetry
Anna Helle and Martin Glaz Serup
Section 2: The Promises of Technology
Introduction to Section 2
Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
The Avant-Garde and the Computer Industry - Art and Technology Collaborations at Datasaab and IBM Sweden from the late 1960s to the 1990s
Anna Orrghen
Miracle Machines - The Creative and Democratic Promise of the Photocopier: Danish Xerography 1979-1995 in an Avant-Garde Perspective
Lise Skytte Jakobsen
Avant-Garde Anomalies and Transnational Trajectories - The Place and Time of Gunvor Nelson's Collage Films of the 1980s
John Sundholm
Art for Aliens - On Goodiepal's Xenophile Posthumanism
Jacob Wamberg
Erkki Kurenniemi - Life Is an Algorithm
Lars Bang Larsen
Life in a Code - Mikael Brygger's "NASDAQ 30.5.2010" as Found Poetry
Miikka Laihinen
Section 3: The Performative Turn
Introduction to Section 3
Laura Luise Schultz
She Splits Phallic Cucumbers with a Knife - The Norwegian Vienna Activist that Art History Forgot
Susanne Christensen
"Don't Panic. Black, No Sugar is a New Way of Life!" - An Icelandic Street Theatre between Carnival and Disturbance
Magnús Þór Þorbergsson
Two Different Perspectives on the Avant-Garde in Finnish Dance in the 1980s - Reijo Kela and Sanna Kekäläinen
Aino Kukkonen
Hilarious Imperialists - Baktruppen's Bad Family Photos from the World Tour
Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt
Jessie Kleemann between Orsoq and Turpentine
David Winfield Norman
Humour as an Avant-Garde Strategy in Three Generations of Feminist Art: Kirsten Justesen, Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen and Maja Malou Lyse
Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
Precarious Fiction and Precarious Spectatorship - The Artistic Practice of SIGNA as Theatrical Avant-Garde
Thomas Rosendal Nielsen
Section 4: Intervention and Institutional Critique
Introduction to Section 4
Laura Luise Schultz
The Skinnebach Effect - Towards a Poetic Institutional Critique
Mathies G. Aarhus
The Stunt Poets - A Literary Avant-Garde in the Neo-Liberal Age of Mass Media
Wenche Larsen
We Are a Song the Band Doesn't Play - Systematic Systemic Critique in Contemporary Swedish Poetry
Elisabeth Friis
The Sámi Museum in Karasjok - A Story of Resistance
Hanna Horsberg Hansen
S.L.Á.T.U.R. - The Obtrusive Composers' Collective
Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir
The Guerrilla Paradigm or "Feminist-Avant-Garde" - Towards an Alternative Feminist Canon
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir
Section 5: Venues
Introduction to Section 5
Benedikt Hjartarson
J.O. Mallander and the Nordic Neo-Avant-Garde
Sami Sjöberg
Was ist der Fall? What is the Case? Mr. Klein's Last Moments (P)reconstructed by Mail
Peter van der Meijden
Toward a Kinetic Icelandic Culture - Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Suðurgata 7 and Experimental Film in Iceland
Benedikt Hjartarson
Look Back, Dig Out, Mix Up, Think Forward - The Archival Activism of OEI
Thomas Hvid Kromann
The Bergensbrag Generation - The Rise of Independent Literary Platforms in Norway, 2000-2005
Susanne Christensen
Investigative Infrastructures - Nordic Small Presses of the Twenty-First Century
Ana Stanićević
Locality and Literary Intervention - Ida Börjel's Skåneradio
Marianne Ølholm
Danish Children's and Youth Television from an Avant-Garde Perspective
Christa Lykke Christensen
The Ultima Festival in Oslo - Institutionalising the Avant-Garde?
Astrid Kvalbein
Section 6: Subcultures
Introduction to Section 6
Laura Luise Schultz
The Copenhagen Punk Years - Art with No Future?
Marie Arleth Skov
The Performance Group Værst's Nine Performance Videos for Sort Sol's Album Flow My Firetear
Magnus Kaslov
Beyond the Borders - Elgaland-Vargaland and the Association for Temporary Art
Håkan Nilsson
The Happy Antagonist - Pasi "Sleeping" Myllymäki's Underground Super-8 Films
Tytti Rantanen
Immigrant Film Co-Operatives in Sweden - The Most Typical Avant-Garde
Lars Gustaf Andersson and John Sundholm
Specialists in Revolt - The Surrealist Group of Stockholm
Kristoffer Noheden
"To Be Fully Subconscious" - On the Medúsa Group
Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir
Home to Hell - Tóroddur Poulsen
Kinna Poulsen
A "Cow-Napping" in Context: From the Scribble Board to Zero Tolerance - (Sub)Cultural Interventions in the Public Realms of Stockholm, 1968-2004
Jacob Kimvall
"... because enmity and admiration go hand in hand" - Guy Maddin's Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Kjartan Már Ómarsson
Section 7: Postmodernism and Re-Enactments
Introduction to Section 7
Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
Postmodern Avant-Garde in Theory and in Poetry in Finland at the End of the Twentieth Century
Harri Veivo
Avant-Garde vs. "Avant-Garde" - Danish Artists of the 1980s as Successors to and Rebels against the 1960s Avant-Garde
Kamma Overgaard Hansen
Traces of Avant-Garde Strategies in Danish Poetry of the 1980s
Marianne Ølholm
Cecilie Løveid - Postmodern Recycling of the Avant-Garde
Wenche Larsen
French Feminist Theory and Surrealism in Karin Moe's Kjønnskrift (Sextext)
Gerd Karin Omdal
"New. Fantastic. Different" - Mariaana Jäntti's Amorfiaana (1986) and Monika Fagerholm's Diva (1998) as Finnish Feminist Avant-Garde Prose Fiction
Kaisa Kurikka
The Arctic Mongrel - Pia Arke's Ethno-Aesthetics as Post-Colonial Avant-Gardism
Mette Sandbye
Section 8: The End of the Avant-Garde?
Introduction to Section 8
Tania Ørum
Superflex and the End of Art
Solveig Gade
A BIGamist Bricoleur - The Postmodern Avant-Gardism of Bjarke Ingels
Kasper Lægring
Avant-Garde Design in Denmark - Four Cases Concerning Furniture
Peter Brix Søndergaard
Avant-Garde and Post-Colonial? - How to Square the Circle in a Nordic Country with a Colonial Past
Anne Ring Petersen
Constructing an Avant-Garde Canon in the Twenty-First Century - On the Icelandic Poetry Group Nýhil
Benedikt Hjartarson
Precarious Life - Nielsen's Search for a Life beyond Identity
Laura Luise Schultz
A Contemporary Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries? Subversion or Subvention
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen
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