Public defence

Public defence Liv Bugge: The Other Wild: touching art as confrontation

Time: Tuesday May 14, 2019, at 12.00-15.00.
Place: Main auditorium, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Fossveien 24.

Artistic Research Fellow, 2013–2019.
The Academy of fine art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts

The Other Wild: touching art as confrontation

The Other Wild sets out to address systems of control and internalized normative structures that harness and govern dualisms like life and non-life, humanness and wildness, by taking conversation and touch as a starting point in the making of artworks.

The artworks springs from the collective work and collaboration with rocks, buildings and people of the former Geological museum in Oslo and the crowd of former and present inmates, buildings and employees in the three high security prisons of Oslo, Ullersmo and Eidsberg, as well as other artists and supervisors.

The research has manifested in artworks presented to the evaluation- comittee in two venues; the exhibition The Other Wild in the Intercultural museum in Oslo, and the permanent artwork To Accept Theirs, To Make It Mine, To Wish It For Myself, installed in the high security prisons of Ullersmo and Eidsberg. The book To Accept Theirs, To Make It Mine, To Wish It For Myself carries a guide to the works in the prison, and serves as part of the reflective work together with a reflective text and a compilation of conversations. These are available online in the open archive of KHIODA.

The committee writes in their report: ”… Bugge reconfigured ‘the wild’ into a spatial-temporal in-distinction between the exposed (fossil) and the hidden (inmate), the site of exhibition (the museum) and the site of concealment (the prison) as well sight (moving image) and touch (rocks and bodies). Expanding on touch itself, and working out a notion of confrontation that does not necessarily presuppose or initiate violence, the sound piece gathers the telepathic conversation with the trilobite. This extends the idea of the otherwise as magic, as a kind of affective/aesthetic experience. Both the exhibition and the reflection piece give a clear sense of the artist’s intent to contribute to a conception and practice of touching art, as a direct refusal to representation and its presumption of the human as the foremost object and subject of knowledge and experience...“

Appraisal Committee

• - Natasha Marie Llorens, Marseille/New York (Chair)
• - Dr. Elke Marhöfer, Berlin, Germany
• - Dr. Denise Ferreira Da Silva, director, professor, The University of British Columbia

Supervisor 

• Susanne Winterling, Professor, NTNU/ Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim/ Berlin
• Dr. Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor, Colombia University, New York

Research results:

Liv Bugge's artistical doctoral result in the KHiO research archive (KHIODA)

Press contact:
Senior advisor Anne Line Abotnes
+47 920 39 851
anneabot@khio.no

Programme public defence May 14

• 12:00 – 12:10 Welcome
  By/Rector Jørn Mortensen
  Dean Stine Hebert
• 12:10 – 12:55 Presentation by Liv Bugge
• 12:55 – 13:10 Pause 
• 13:10 – 14:40 Discussion with appraisal committee
  Liv Bugge
  Natasha Marie Llorens (Chair)
  Denise Ferreira da Silva
  Elke Marhöfer
• 14:45 – Open for questions/comments from the audience (ex-audotorio)
  Conclusion from the chair of the committee
  Natasha Marie Llorens
• Closing by Stine Hebert