Plankton and drill head

Plankton and drill head
An image-amplified discursive event discussing Norway’s carbon modernity

The event will take place at Kunsthall Trondheim and online
For participation see the links to the right

(Update: due to recent recommendations from FHIO, the event will only be streamed).

This hybrid online and offline salon at Kunsthall Trondheim will discuss the ambivalences produced by fossil resource extraction for the Norwegian national narrative. Cultural theorists Alexander Klose and Benjamin Steininger will guide a conversation with invited participants, activating historical and contemporary film excerpts, exhibition programmes, advertisements, company anthems and design competitions. The aim of the event is to share knowledge and opinions with guests from the fields of cultural theory, art, science and technology, both from Norway and abroad. Together, the participants will speculate on the technical, social and geographical position of Norway in the (post-)petromodern era.

The event is a collaboration between Kunsthall Trondheim and the Goethe-Institut Oslo with the research collective Beauty of Oil (Alexander Klose, Benjamin Steininger), Berlin/Vienna.

Participants:

Gunhild Vatn, Artist, Associate Professor at Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Ellinor Marita Jåma, Director of Sami Reindeer Herder's Association Norway

Julia Leyda, Professor of Film Studies, Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU Trondheim

Siri Granum Carson, Director, NTNU Oceans

Finn Sandberg, Civil engineer, Marine technologist and previously academic director at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum