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Tekst: Anne Marthe Dyvi
It takes time to understand an art institution. And parts of the art institution tend to be a bit anonymous. For instance the Fellow Researchers. What do they do?
I know of the description done by the institution, and by The National Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowships Programme. But I wanted to know what it is like from the inside.
What is artistic research? What does a Fellow Researcher do?
Pedro Gómez-Egaña is a researcher in art at Bergen National Academy of the Arts, and he has kindly answered some of my questions.
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This autumn there will be held a conference in Bergen, Norway in order to discuss organizing and starting up a contemporary art biennale in town.
I decided to interview Francis McKee, former director of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, which now has taken on the form of a bi-annual festival in Glasgow.
Julie: Could you explain the starting point of the GI festival, such as who initiated it, on what background, and what were the strategies to make it become successful?
Francis: GI grew out of the Glasgow Art Fair. There is an annual fair in the city around April which predominately sells traditional paintings, nothing contemporary or that would be recognized as such in the contemporary art world. (more…)
Chloe Lewis & Andrew Taggart
Master Weekend at Hordaland Kunstsenter 6-8 March 2009
Monument to a man who survived a nine-storey fall in his underwear after attempting to build a bridge into his neighbour´s apartment
wood, plexiglass, 2009
Monument to a man who survived a nine-storey fall in his underwear
after attempting to build a bridge into his neighbour´s apartment
wood, plexiglass, 2009
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In relation to the focus this autumn on artists’ financial circumstances, with Kunstneraksjonen and several talks about the precarious position of the artist (Eivind Slettemeås: Kunst og Prekaritet), here a link to an article about the parallel tendencies in many countries.
Susanne Jaschko – presentation at Bergen National Academy of the Arts, November 2008.
Recording mp3/1:33 min/43 MB/English
With permission/© Susanne Jaschko