If there exists such a thing as higher dimensions, we cannot experience them from the perspective of our three-dimensional constitution. They exist on the level of theoretical physics, as a mathematical possibility in theories of how the world is constituted.  

At the first half of the 1900s many artists got influenced by the emerging scientific idea of an expanded fourth dimension of space. They drew on it as a formal, artistic method to stimulate their imagination, pushing themselves towards edge of the perceivable / knowable and inviting art audiences to move out of their fixated world views. This meeting of art and science had a considerable influence on our cultural development, in ways that might be underrepresented in our canonical art historical understanding. 

PhD candidate Sidsel Christensen will share intriguing highlights from this history, and also talk about how she engages with this legacy in her own artistic research, to stimulate a more contemporary, multidimensional speculation. 

Sidsel Christensen is a visual artist and currently PhD research fellow at The Art Academy, KMD in Bergen. She maintains a crossdisciplinarity focus, that traverses the artistic areas of New Media and Installation, and engages in spatial, textual and performative practices. Currently, her research is manifested in the arena of “performative installations”, consisting of bigger audio / visual assemblages in the gallery, that create a framework for performative gestures and interactions. 

Sidsel has presented her work in range of art institutions and contexts, amongst others Stavanger Art Museum, Kunsthall Stavanger, Rogaland Kunstsenter, KINO KINO, Kunstnerenes Hus, Perfomence Art Bergen, Gallery Entrée in Norway, as well as The Institute of Contemporary Art (UK), Photo London (UK), The Tetley (UK), Hjellegjerde Gallery (UK), David Roberts Art Foundation (UK), VEGA ARTS (DK), X and Beyond (DK), CPH:DOX (DK) Ancharpark (DE) and Insitu (DE) and The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 

Monday Lectures is a public platform combining invited guest lecturers and professors and researchers of the faculty at KMD. Monday Lectures aim to create a diverse programme of lectures exploring a wide range of disciplines and research topics. Lectures typically take place Mondays 10:00 at the Knut Knaus Auditorium and are free and open to all.