Welcome to the Oslo release of the publication Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore which follows this fall’s major exhibition, with the same title, at Kunsthall Trondheim, curated by Lisa Rosendahl, Associate Professor of Exhibition Studies at The Academy of Fine Art, Oslo.
Place: Main Auditorium, Oslo National School of the Arts.
Time: Wednesday November 7.
5pm – 6.30pm
Release with introduction by curator Lisa Rosendahl
Conversation with the artists Liv Bugge, Research Fellow at The Academy of Fine Art, Ignas Krunglevičius, Eline McGeorge, Karianne Stensland and Lisa Rosendahl. Moderated by Carl Martin Faurby and Katrine Elise Pedersen, Kunsthall Trondheim
6.30pm – 8pm
Screening of Bodil Furu’s film Mangeurs de Cuivre (2016)
The publication Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore follows this fall’s major exhibition, with the same title, at Kunsthall Trondheim. The project deals with the notion of extractivism – from the foundations in the 17th century of Trondheim’s prosperity through copper mining, until today’s many ways of extracting information, knowledge and emotions through social media and other digital communication. Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore, which has been curated by Lisa Rosendahl, presents works by Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway, David Blandy, Liv Bugge, Sean Dockray, Bodil Furu, Marianne Heier, Louis Henderson, Lawrence Lek, Hanna Ljungh, Rikke Luther, Ignas Krunglevičius, Eline McGeorge, Karianne Stensland and Anja Örn, Tomas Örn & Fanny Carinasdotter.
Extraction is a phenomenon commonly associated with fossil fuels, such as oil and gas, or with the mining of metals and minerals. In the digital era, the notion of extraction has expanded even further, to also include data- and virtual currency mining as well as the commodification of human emotions and behaviours through social media. In the 21st century, the extractive paradigm seems to be without bounds: the mining of previously unreachable territories such as the deep-sea floor and celestial bodies is fast becoming a reality, all the while the streams of data we leave behind while conducting our everyday lives are being captured, mapped and profited from, commodifying even the most intimate aspects of our minds and bodies.
The accompanying publication with newly written essays by Johanna Dahlin (Postdoctoral Fellow, Studies of Social Change and Culture, Linköping University) & Martin Fredriksson (Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Media, Linköping University), Sean Dockray (Artist), Mats Ingulstad (Researcher, Department of Historical Studies, NTNU) & Pål Thonstad Sandvik (Professor, Department of Historical Studies, NTNU), Jan M. Padios (Associate Professor, American Studies, University of Maryland, USA) and Lisa Rosendahl (Associate Professor, Exhibition Studies at the Academy of Fine Art, KHiO and curator of GIBCA 2019) will first be released November 3 at Kunsthall Trondheim.
Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore is designed by Thomas Nordby/Yokoland and published by Uten Tittel (Not Yet Titled Press), Oslo, in collaboration with Kunsthall Trondheim. The publication is supported by Arts Council Norway.