Talk
Åpent forum: Charlotte Bik Bandlien
Towards An Anthropological (Post Artistic) Practice
Converging art and everyday life through 1:1 scale projects, post-artistic practices reconfigure dialectics between disciplines, thus resembling the integrated societies anthropologists traditionally studied. Bandliens collaboration with the collectives HAiKw/, Blank Mountain College and Department for Usership constitutes the empirical backdrop for her reflections on epistemological issues related to such new forms of interdisciplinarity – and ontological issues related to post-artistic practices. The talk is based on articulations of Bandlien's practice set forth as invited guest editor of a special issue of the Norwegian journal KunstogKulturon “art and anthropology”, published by the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and Universitetsforlaget (forthcoming December 2016).
Charlotte Bik Bandlien (b. 1977) is an anthropologist specialized in visual and material culture. Applying synthesized theoretical perspectives, her research centers around interdisciplinary aesthetics investigated through collaborative practice. Work presented at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Parsons the New School for Design in NYC, Oxford University, Design History Society, Theaster Gates' Arts Incubator in Chicago, Uncontaminated Oslo, Rogaland Kunstsenterand Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. Bandlien has previously held positions as strategic brand planner at Bates Advertising and researcher at the National Institute for Consumer Research, and was contributing editor to Personae magazine. She is currently asst. professor of theory and methodology at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Dept. of Design.
Åpent Forum is a student initiative, conceived in 1999 at the Oslo Academy of Fine Art, and invites scholars and practitioners from art and sciences to share their thoughts.
The program is free and runs in English.
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