Vis #6 - THEME: CONTAGION

VIS issue 6 ”Contagion” presents five expositions that show contagion as an artistic concept, in reflections and analogies, in artistic experiments and in-depth studies, in living examples of how performative touch and transmission has been complicated and made impossible under restrictions and isolation – but also illuminates physical presence and touch as a basic prerequisite for art.

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Alexandra Crouwers

THE PLOT, THE COMPOSITOR, AND MOURNING/MISTAKES

In the Summer of 2019, a small family forest fell victim to a spruce bark beetle plague. Unusually mild winters caused larvae numbers to explode, and extreme drought weakened the otherwise more resilient trees.

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Timo Menke

CORONA INFLUENTIA OCH DEN MĂ–RKARE MATERIAN

In my practice as an artist, I constantly return to the dark agency of cosmic and (micro)biological matter. I explore how it may transform, “infect” or enter into symbiotic relationships, that are linguistic, visual, and trans-material in the spirit of Karen Barad.

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LIV KRISTIN HOLMBERG

CONTAGION AS A CREATION MACHINE

The exposition ”Smitte som skapelsemaskin” (Contagion as a creation machine) is based on the artistic project Kroppsliturgiske eksperimenter that explores the boundaries emerging when performing arts and human bodies enter the sacred space of a church.

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ANNA LINDAL, ELIOT MMANTIDI MOLEBA, GUNHILD MATHEA HUSVIK-OLAUSSEN

A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE THEME CONTAGION

Filmed discussion between Anna Lindal, musician, and main editor of issue #6, Eliot Moleba, PhD candidate in theater direction at KHiO and Gunhild Mathea Olaussen, scenographer and sound artist, about the theme of VIS #6, “Contagion”.

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