The presentation will be held in English and lasts for 30 minutes, with questions and discussion afterwards. 

The Horror of the DROP explore the potentials of utilising the genre of horror fiction to create new narratives in a political and time-based artistic practice. It is invested in the temporal qualities and entanglements of the horror genre and how these relate in strange ways, not only to the political reality spun around us, but also to art practices using the temporal as material. The research project searches for a certain condition found in horror fiction, that relates to its relentless nowness, its proposed prolonging of this now, its relation to eventality and the quasi-event and finally how horror fiction wants to do things to the body - not only in a simple reaction mode but really in the very temporality experienced in and by the body. 

Søren Thilo Funder (b. 1979) is a visual artist working primarily with video and installation. His works are mash-ups of popular fictions, cultural tropes and socio-political situations, projections and histories. They are narrative constructions insisting on new meaning forming in the thin membrane negotiating fictions from realities. Invested in written and unwritten histories, the paradoxes of societal engagement, temporal;displacements and a need for new nonlinear narratives, Thilo Funder proposes spaces for awry temporal, political and recollective encounters. Soren Thilo Funder holds an MA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and The School of Art and Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is now doing his PhD in Artistic Research at The Art Academy - Department of Contemporary Art, University of Bergen (UiB).

www.sorenthilofunder.com