Talk
Open Lecture: Eline Mugaas – Artists’ Publishing
"A radical approach to image-making necessitates exploring the practices of both art pedagogy and exhibition practices as educational technologies.” *
In 2018 Eline Mugaas took part in Fotogalleriet’s discursive programme Let’s Talk About Images exploring the embodiment of the Image and the abandonment of spectatorship. Alternating between documentary, staged events and storytelling, her art practice shows how images both create and transform content. Alongside fellow artist Elise Storsveen, Mugaas is internationally credited with ALBUM, a series of photobooks published between 2008 – 2014. Each issue consists of deftly juxtaposed found images dealing with a different theme; heterosexuality, commodities and commodification, the lonely man, feminity, architecture, the desire for children, outer space, the creative female and nature. ALBUM engages in a sophisticated metanarrative on the human body, sexuality and the social lives of images.
The lecture is part of this year’s artists’ publishing workshop run by Associate Professor Victoria Browne at KHiO’s Art & Craft.
Eline Mugaas lives and works in Oslo. Born in 1969, she studied at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York. She is currently represented by Galleri Riis and shortlisted for the Lorck Schives Art Prize, to be awarded by Trondheim Art Museum in November 2019.
