A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-44456-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 1044 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 2177 g

Reihe: Avant-Garde Critical Studies / A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries

The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 is the final volume of the four-volume series of cultural histories of the avant-garde movements in the Nordic countries. This volume carries the avant-garde discussion forward to present-day avant-gardes, challenged by the globalisation of the entertainment industries and new interactive media such as the internet. The avant-garde can now be considered a tradition that has been made more widely available through the opening of archives, electronic documentation and new research, which has spurred both re-enactments, revisions and continuations of historical avant-garde practices, while new cultural contexts, political, technological and ecological conditions have called for new strategies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hjartarson, Benedikt

Ørum, Tania

Skovbjerg Paldam, Camilla

Schultz, Laura Luise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Contributors

The Long Avant-Garde Tradition – Restaging, Resisting, Renewing

Tania Ørum and Laura Luise Schultz

Section 1: Paradigmatic Cases


Introduction to Section 1

Benedikt Hjartarson

Appropriating the Past to Examine the Present – On Matias Faldbakken as Media Artist

Anders Skare Malvik

Magma and Persona – Material Generativity in the Work of Björk Guðmundsdóttir

Holger Schulze

DOGMA 95 and The Idiots – A Renewal of Avant-Garde Realism in Film

Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen

Feminist Avant-Garde Film of the 1970s as Gender Politics – The Example of Tornerose, by Jytte Rex and Kirsten Justesen

Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam

Such Stuff as We Are Made of – Kirsten Dehlholm, Billedstofteater and Hotel Pro Forma

Laura Luise Schultz

“An American Poet Only Writing in Finnish” – Leevi Lehto’s Seminal Role in Contemporary Finnish Poetry

Anna Helle and Martin Glaz Serup

Section 2: The Promises of Technology


Introduction to Section 2

Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam

The Avant-Garde and the Computer Industry – Art and Technology Collaborations at Datasaab and IBM Sweden from the late 1960s to the 1990s

Anna Orrghen

Miracle Machines – The Creative and Democratic Promise of the Photocopier: Danish Xerography 1979–1995 in an Avant-Garde Perspective

Lise Skytte Jakobsen

Avant-Garde Anomalies and Transnational Trajectories – The Place and Time of Gunvor Nelson’s Collage Films of the 1980s

John Sundholm

Art for Aliens – On Goodiepal’s Xenophile Posthumanism

Jacob Wamberg

Erkki Kurenniemi – Life Is an Algorithm

Lars Bang Larsen

Life in a Code – Mikael Brygger’s “NASDAQ 30.5.2010” as Found Poetry

Miikka Laihinen

Section 3: The Performative Turn

Introduction to Section 3

Laura Luise Schultz

She Splits Phallic Cucumbers with a Knife – The Norwegian Vienna Activist that Art History Forgot

Susanne Christensen

“Don’t Panic. Black, No Sugar is a New Way of Life!” – An Icelandic Street Theatre between Carnival and Disturbance

Magnús Þór Þorbergsson

Two Different Perspectives on the Avant-Garde in Finnish Dance in the 1980s – Reijo Kela and Sanna Kekäläinen

Aino Kukkonen

Hilarious Imperialists – Baktruppen’s Bad Family Photos from the World Tour

Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt

Jessie Kleemann between Orsoq and Turpentine

David Winfield Norman

Humour as an Avant-Garde Strategy in Three Generations of Feminist Art: Kirsten Justesen, Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen and Maja Malou Lyse

Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam

Precarious Fiction and Precarious Spectatorship – The Artistic Practice of SIGNA as Theatrical Avant-Garde

Thomas Rosendal Nielsen

Section 4: Intervention and Institutional Critique

Introduction to Section 4

Laura Luise Schultz

The Skinnebach Effect – Towards a Poetic Institutional Critique

Mathies G. Aarhus

The Stunt Poets – A Literary Avant-Garde in the Neo-Liberal Age of Mass Media

Wenche Larsen

We Are a Song the Band Doesn’t Play – Systematic Systemic Critique in Contemporary Swedish Poetry

Elisabeth Friis

The Sámi Museum in Karasjok – A Story of Resistance

Hanna Horsberg Hansen

S.L.Á.T.U.R. – The Obtrusive Composers’ Collective

Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir

The Guerrilla Paradigm or “Feminist-Avant-Garde” – Towards an Alternative Feminist Canon

Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir

Section 5: Venues

Introduction to Section 5

Benedikt Hjartarson

J.O. Mallander and the Nordic Neo-Avant-Garde

Sami Sjöberg

Was ist der Fall? What is the Case? Mr. Klein’s Last Moments (P)reconstructed by Mail

Peter van der Meijden

Toward a Kinetic Icelandic Culture – Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Suðurgata 7 and Experimental Film in Iceland

Benedikt Hjartarson

Look Back, Dig Out, Mix Up, Think Forward – The Archival Activism of OEI

Thomas Hvid Kromann

The Bergensbrag Generation – The Rise of Independent Literary Platforms in Norway, 2000–2005

Susanne Christensen

Investigative Infrastructures – Nordic Small Presses of the Twenty-First Century

Ana Stanicevic

Locality and Literary Intervention – Ida Börjel’s Skåneradio

Marianne Ølholm

Danish Children’s and Youth Television from an Avant-Garde Perspective

Christa Lykke Christensen

The Ultima Festival in Oslo – Institutionalising the Avant-Garde?

Astrid Kvalbein

Section 6: Subcultures

Introduction to Section 6

Laura Luise Schultz

The Copenhagen Punk Years – Art with No Future?

Marie Arleth Skov

The Performance Group Værst’s Nine Performance Videos for Sort Sol’s Album Flow My Firetear

Magnus Kaslov

Beyond the Borders – Elgaland-Vargaland and the Association for Temporary Art

Håkan Nilsson

The Happy Antagonist – Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki’s Underground Super-8 Films

Tytti Rantanen

Immigrant Film Co-Operatives in Sweden – The Most Typical Avant-Garde

Lars Gustaf Andersson and John Sundholm

Specialists in Revolt – The Surrealist Group of Stockholm

Kristoffer Noheden

“To Be Fully Subconscious” – On the Medúsa Group

Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir

Home to Hell – Tóroddur Poulsen

Kinna Poulsen

A “Cow-Napping” in Context: From the Scribble Board to Zero Tolerance – (Sub)Cultural Interventions in the Public Realms of Stockholm, 1968–2004

Jacob Kimvall

“… because enmity and admiration go hand in hand” – Guy Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital

Kjartan Már Ómarsson

Section 7: Postmodernism and Re-Enactments

Introduction to Section 7

Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam

Postmodern Avant-Garde in Theory and in Poetry in Finland at the End of the Twentieth Century

Harri Veivo

Avant-Garde vs. “Avant-Garde” – Danish Artists of the 1980s as Successors to and Rebels against the 1960s Avant-Garde

Kamma Overgaard Hansen

Traces of Avant-Garde Strategies in Danish Poetry of the 1980s

Marianne Ølholm

Cecilie Løveid – Postmodern Recycling of the Avant-Garde

Wenche Larsen

French Feminist Theory and Surrealism in Karin Moe’s Kjønnskrift (Sextext)

Gerd Karin Omdal

“New. Fantastic. Different” – Mariaana Jäntti’s Amorfiaana (1986) and Monika Fagerholm’s Diva (1998) as Finnish Feminist Avant-Garde Prose Fiction

Kaisa Kurikka

The Arctic Mongrel – Pia Arke’s Ethno-Aesthetics as Post-Colonial Avant-Gardism

Mette Sandbye

Section 8: The End of the Avant-Garde?

Introduction to Section 8

Tania Ørum

Superflex and the End of Art

Solveig Gade

A BIGamist Bricoleur – The Postmodern Avant-Gardism of Bjarke Ingels

Kasper Lægring

Avant-Garde Design in Denmark – Four Cases Concerning Furniture

Peter Brix Søndergaard

Avant-Garde and Post-Colonial? – How to Square the Circle in a Nordic Country with a Colonial Past

Anne Ring Petersen

Constructing an Avant-Garde Canon in the Twenty-First Century – On the Icelandic Poetry Group Nýhil

Benedikt Hjartarson

Precarious Life – Nielsen’s Search for a Life beyond Identity

Laura Luise Schultz

A Contemporary Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries? Subversion or Subvention

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Benedikt Hjartarson is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. He has published a number of articles, edited volumes and books on the European avant-garde. He is editor-in-chief of Brill’s Journal of Avant-Garde Studies.

Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam is associate professor of Art History at Aarhus University. She has published a monograph on Surrealist collage and articles on art, literature, gender studies and feminism.

Laura Luise Schultz is associate professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She has published articles and monographs on Gertrude Stein, theatre and performance and is an editor of the theatre journal Peripeti.

Tania Ørum is professor emerita at the University of Copenhagen. She has published monographs and articles on modernism and avant-garde and is General editor of the volumes of A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries, a subseries of Avant-Garde Critical Studies (Brill).