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KHiB's Yearbook
KHiB's Yearbook for the academic year 2004-2005 consists of a range of articles which describe some of KHiB's activities.The articles give the possibility for insight, overview and reflection in the Institution's work.
A new Building for the Arts and Design Education of the Future
Statsbygg and Bergen National Academy of the Arts have taken the initiative towards the City of Bergen to start a pre-project for a cultural follow-up programme for Møllendal (KOP), related to the planning processes for the area. When building the new opera in Bjørvika in Oslo, Statsbygg has made good experiences with forming a binding cultural follow-up programme, writes KHiB's Rector Nina Malterud in the introduction of Bergen National Academy's Yearbook for the academic year 2004-05.
«Sensuous Knowledge» - Creating a Tradition for Practise and Discussion of Artistic R&D
KHiB took the initiative in order to create an alternative to the many conferences that have been discussing ”What is artistic R&D?” abstractly and in overall terms, and where not everyone have had the feeling of getting anywhere. While these discussions have been taking place, however, artists from all aesthetic fields related to educational institutions like KHiB have quietly formulated and carried out projects that more or less could be called examples of exactly artistic research or artistic development work, writes R&D adviser Søren Kjørup in KHiB's yearbook 2004-2005.
The Development of the Department of Design. Along Local and International Axes
During the academic year 2004/05, three projects in particular received much attention. One of the projects was Children’s Block – an interdisciplinary project at master’s degree level, resulting in a proposal for an activity centre for children in the heart of the city (see Mr Petter Bergerud’s article below). The project Substance 05, with the postgraduate exhibition as its setting, focused on design for business development and for a better quality of life. The department also participated at the large Furniture Fair in Stockholm, when third year students presented invigorating and untraditional furniture design in the form of prototypes developed during an intense course period prior to the fair, writes Einar Wiig, Dean at the Department of Design in the KHiB Yearbook 2004-2005.
Substance 05
Substans 05 var et viktig skritt fremover sammenlignet med arrangementet året før. Fra åpningen med byrådslederen og et meget slagkraftig trommenummer ved studenter fra Griegakademiet, til en konferanse med flere deltagere og på mye høyere nivå og et bredere spekter av arrangementer. KHiB ble synligere som arrangør og arrangementet fikk en form som danner en variert helhet, skriver Dekan Einar Wiig ved Avd. for design. i årboka 2004-2005.
Nice house, but what do they do?
Cultural editor Jan Nyberg wrote a comment on 2 September 2005, discussing cultural politics in the election campaign. In his comment there was a section with a reference to us, with the title ”Nice house, but what do they do?» It continued like this: «It is very nice that a great and grand academy of arts is being built in Bergen. However, the time may also have come to create a plan for what will become of the many students who graduate from the Academy every year. [...] writes Åse Huus, Mastercoordinator at the Department of Design.
The Art of Designing a Political Idea - The Children's Block
Seventeen MA students at Bergen National Academy of the Arts have spent seven weeks designing the Children’s Block in the old City Hall Block. The unique area, which is crammed with history, could become the children’s dream city. The children must be given an opportunity to take back the city. This is where they grow up. In the planning process, they are much too easily pushed aside, writes Professor Petter Bergerud at the Department of Design.
The Best of Norwegian Furniture Design
One of the things that I am excited about, is to spread knowledge about and strengthen the subject field of furniture design in Norway. This is an important and natural part of my work as professor at the Dept of Design at Bergen National Academy of Arts (KHiB). There is a direct link between the international reputation of Norwegian furniture design and the opportunities that the students graduating from the school are given to put their knowledge into practice, writes Professor Dave Vikøren at Subject Area Furniture and Spatial Design/Interior Architecture in the KHiB Yearbook 2004-2005.
The city of Bergen. A Suitable Laboratory for Spatial Communication and Communicating Space
Department of Design at Bergen National Academy of the Arts is offering education in Visual Communication Design and Spatial Design/Furniture Design. It has become a tradition for many years to collaborate in at least one project per year on an interdisciplinary basis, writes Michael Hardt Professor at Subject Area Visual Communication, in the KHiB Yearbook 2004-2005.
The Satisfaction of Experiencing Space
The objective of these projects is to give the students training, experience and inspiration by working on a full-scale project. A framework for discussionand spatial design is being established, writes Professor Petter Bergerud, at the Subject Area Furniture and Spatial Design /Interior Architecture.
Diversity and Change
It was clearly time to turn some of our focus back towards artistic research and development. To begin with, it seemed necessary to start from scratch; to discover what each artist/teacher/academic staff member was working with and to open up for discussion, just amongst ourselves, writes Paula Crabtree, Dean at the Department of Fine Art at KHiB, in the Yearbook 2004-2005.
The Diploma Exhibition
The students that participated in the final diploma exhibition had already made some transitions from being art students working inside the institution, to becoming artists independent of the educational institution, writes Paula Crabtree, Dean at the Department of Fine Art at KHiB, in the Yearbook 2004-2005.
Painting Seminar
Why are there so many young people today that are choosing the painting in order to tell their personal stories?The explanation could also be that it has been a long time since the painting has dominated the artistic discourse and thus no longer revolutionary or radical to choose not to paint. writes Professor Jon Arne Mogstad, at the Department of Fine Art in this article from KHiB's Yearbook 2004-2005.
Experience, Memory and Re-enactment
The starting point for the project was a fascination for the ways in which experience and memory are situated on the intersection between our personal lives and collective culture, and thus involve both the individual and the social body, writes Anke Bangma, Guest Teacher at the Dept. of Fine Art, in this article which is part of the Yearbook 2004-2005.
Pure and Promiscuous
Most of all the word ‘promiscuous’ revels in casual and unrestrained sexual behaviour. It is easily horizontal, loose, always doing its best to stimulate irrational thoughts and undisciplined emotions, Sunniva McAlindenin writes this article in the Yearbook 2004-2005.
Materials Enter the Space. Exercises and Reflections on the Aspects of the Three Dimensional in Visual Art
Some time ago a student at the Department of Fine Art asked me, “And what are you doing?” I answered, “I’m working with Three Dimensional Art”. Then the student said, “Which software do you use?”, writes Guest Teacher BKH Gutmann in the Yearbook 2004-2005.
MA Studies at KHiB: Diverse Practices
The first MA group consists of seventeen master students from eight different countries, seventeen individual projects conducted by individuals with widely differing backgrounds, writes Jeremy Welsh, MA Coordinator, Department of Fine Art and Department of Specialised Art, in the Yearbook 2004-2005.
Culture for Diversity
Previously, the students were to follow certain studies within the subject area. Now however, they may form their own individual education plans, writes Per Kvist, Dean at the Department of Specialised Art in KHiB's Yearbook 2004-2005.
New Impulses in Open Landscapes
The subject area’s task is to be ready to provide the necessary diversity in courses in order for the subject’s unlimited potential of expression to be visible and within reach at any time, writes Øyvind Suul, Assistant Professor at the Department of Specialised Art, Subject Area Ceramics.
Ceramic Design Course
Ceramic design is a profession responsible for developing concepts, forms, and the aesthetics of ceramic products adaptable for industrial production. Ceramic design is today an exciting field in which a wide range of new possibilities for developing domestic and architectural products has been opened up by the availability of advanced technologies and materials, writes Marek Cecula, Adjunct Professor, Subject Area Ceramics in the KHiB Yearbook 2004-2005.
Placing the Norwegian Fine Art Ceramic Scene into the International Context
Venue: Park Avenue, New York, June 2005: I was invited to give the opening address for the touring exhibition: ‘Breakable Art: Contemporary Glass and Ceramics from Norway - Trolls: Figures in Norwegian Contemporary Ceramics¹’; at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, writes Richard Launder, Professor, Subject Area Ceramics.
NOR*TH. Converging Lines, A Prelude to Globalisation. Exhibition of Norwegian Textile Art in Bangkok
In 2005, the Norwegian embassy in Thailand, by ambassador Ragne Birte Lund, wanted to mark 100 years of diplomatic connection between the two countries. The ambition was to make an exhibition that would focus on the apparent similarities within architecture, woodcarving, textile and use of symbols that exist in the two countries’ historic material. There was also a desire to show how traditions continue to live on and to put a contemporary focus on today’s textile art and design, writes Associate Professor Jon Åsmund Pettersen at Subject Area Textiles, in the Yearbook 2004-2005.
Overtures - Am Wasser
The summer of 2005, students and lecturers at the Academy participated as part of Overtures – Am Wasser, an international art exhibition in Munich. The theme was based on water, something which has a considerable explosive force and leads to some of the global society’s most serious conflicts with respect to lack of water, pollution and as a source of military conflict. The exhibition took place in the public urban area and in local museums and cultural institutions, writes dean Per Kvist at the Department of Specialised Art in the Yearbook 2004-2005.
What is the Chromascope?
The Combiscope is the working title of an R&D project which started in 2003 and which was published at The International Colour Association’s congress in Granada in June 2005 with its new name “the Chromascope”. The preproject “Colour from BC to PC” (“Farge fra Da til Data“) was intended to build a bridge between the colour education the way it had developed at Bergen National Academy of the Arts through many years, and the increase of the use of digital media in all subject areas, writes Grete Smedal, Professor i Form and Colour.
Ideal
Ideal was the title of the last interdisciplinary term for the first year students at the Department of Specialised Art 2004/05. The term comprised interdisciplinary as well as subject specific teaching. In this article however, I will only write about the interdisciplinary part. The objective of this term was to take a closer look at different ideals within the practice of art and the institution of art; shifting aesthetic ideals as well as ideas for art’s possible functions in society, writes Assistant Professor Annette Kierulf at the Department of Specialised Art in the Yearbook 2004-2005.