Art History Lectures no. 13 & 14 (by Ingrid Halland)

Art and the Anthropocene: Posthumanism and deep relationalism

10.15 – 12.00, Knut Knaus

During the last decade, the Nordic contemporary art scene has seen a dramatic increase in processual artworks with an ethical value base directed towards destabilising human exceptionalism. Simultaneously, in disciplines such as philosophy, literature, art history, and cultural studies, there has been a new development in theory and method that attempts the same. This lecture weaves together key tendencies in art and thinking in the 2010s, and introduces the term ‘deep relationalism’ to describe a turn towards an ethical aesthetics for our posthuman times.  
 

Towards Method: Institutional Practice and Artistic Research

14.15 – 16.00, Knut Knaus

During the last decade, the term “artistic research” has been established as a key concept in the fields of art and architecture. These are practices where the traditional work (material or intangible) is not an end point, but instead a process-based project where the work becomes part of a complex context with specific references, which often position themselves in relation to specific knowledge traditions. This lecture discusses the turn towards artistic research and method in contemporary art.