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KHiBs årbok 2005-2006
Årboken består av en rekke artikler som beskriver utvalgte aktiviteteter ved KHiB forrige studieår. Artiklene gir mulighet for innsyn, oversikt og refleksjon i kunsthøgskolens virksomhet.
- Nytt denne gangen er at artiklene først ble publisert på hjemmesiden vår etterhvert som de ble ferdigstilt, og da alle var på plass, ble de samlet og utgitt i papirutgaven. Dette ga oss også muligheten til å bruke de mulighetene som ligger i en slik dobbel publisering, nemlig at noen av artiklene finnes i en litt annen versjon på nettet enn i papirutgaven, sier rektor Nina Malterud.
- Årboken gir omverden et innblikk i KHiBs virksomhet, sier rektor Nina Malterud
- Inger Høj: Tidligere KHiB-studenter designet årboken
Les intervju med Inger Høj i Grom design som har satt årboken
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Interdisciplinarity as Strategic Choice for Academic Development
Interdisciplinarity at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts can be defined as enabling encounters between academic environments and academic cultures. In other words, interdisciplinarity encourages interaction and creates insight and knowledge across disciplines, writes Rector Nina Malterud in the KHiB Yearbook for 2005-2006.
Design Solutions for a Diverse Society
We shall train designers who think holistically and who with courage, empathy and insight provide functional and dynamic solutions for a changing world, writes Dean Einar Wiig at the Dept of Design in the KHiB Yearbook 2005-2006.
Available Substance
Thord Veseth Foss: "Identity and consumption. Why should I use all my savings on a Mica when I can get one just as good from Claes Ohlson for just a couple of hundred kroner?"
«Why should I spend all my savings on a Mica* when I can get one that’s just as good at Clas Ohlson for a few hundred?
This simple question forms the starting point of my project. As it happens, answering this question is complex and far from simple. The answer refers to class, mythology, power, trends, relations between technology and people, sex and gender, and more than anything, identity. As a designer I wanted to understand the irrational aspects of consumption, and ended up understanding the logic.»
The Physical Body of Letterforms
Kristian Pedersen: "Interlace"
We consume typography on a daily basis, and today we rely on type more than we ever have. Within a culture that is essentially characterised by visual-verbal communication, the in-depth exploration of type and its writing systems in theory and practice have an important value. Type as the visual representation of language is an integral element of any communication in modern society: It promotes, commands, directs, organises, represents or simply describes, writes Adjunct Professor Andrea Tinnes at
Subject Area Visual Communication, Dept of Design, in the KHiB Yearbook for the academic year 2005-2006.
Fascinerende skulpturpark i tre
Den 20. mai 2006 ble vinneren av konkurransen under Bergen International Wood Festival (BIWF) utropt, og dermed var den første trefestivalen vel i havn. Dette markerte slutten på fem dagers intenst arbeid hvor 24 lag med deltakere fra 22 nasjoner hadde satt hverandre kollegialt i stevne i Festningsparken. De hadde ett felles mål: å utforme den mest spennende romlige strukturen i tre.
Rafto House: - Professional Design Students
- KHiB students are creative, committed and have an excellent ability to convey their ideas, says Therese Jebsen Lynngård, managing director of the Rafto Human Rights House in Bergen. The remark comes in connection with the Spera project and Rafto Foundation’s North Korea Conference which students at the Dept of Design did in 2005–’06.
”Bugge” - Furniture for Children
Originality and innovation may not be the first words which spring to mind in connection with furniture for children. Three BA students were challenged to do something about this and set about designing a new type of furniture for children. Their result, Bugge can be taken apart, used for play, or as a piece of furniture –in other words multifunctional. The students hope a furniture company will put it into production.
Miljøsunn design – korleis telje kaloriar
Vi lever i ei bobleverd av overflod. Og det har vi høyrt før. Omgrepet ”bruk og kast” har vorte ein klisjé for lenge sidan, og vi klarer fint å le det bort sjølv om vi lang inne kjenner at det stikk litt. Men korleis kan ein eigentleg klare å motstå alle produkta som vert kasta mot oss. Vi får stadig vite alt ein må ha, og alt som er kjekt å ha. Ikkje reint sjeldan er sistnemnde gruppe totalt unyttige produkt, gjerne med ordet ”design” skreve med store typar i annonsa. Er det rart vi designarar byrjar å kjenne ein murrande kvalme i magen? Er det dette vi kan?, spør Ingeborg Hopland, masterstudent ved Avd. for design, fagområde møbel- og romdesign/interiørarkitektur i KHiBs årbok 2005-2006.
Juxtapositioning: Communication and Rejuvenation
A main challenge over the last years has been establishing an environment within the Dept of Fine Art at Bergen National Academy of the Arts where communication and cooperation form a basic foundation for developing and focusing the studies, the research, as well as a reflective and critical approach to that which we all work with: ART. Respect and maintaining an open mind are vital building blocks especially in an educational situation where the attempt at a rapport with and understanding of other viewpoints are critical and necessary in the shifting terrain of contemporary art worlds., writes Dean Paula Crabtree at the Dept of Fine Art in the Yearbook 2005-06.
Self and the City - The Politics of Monuments*
For years I have been interested in public spaces of importance in the twentieth century in Moscow, Berlin, Bucharest and Montreal. I use panoramic photography, video and other techniques to record and explore. My work touches dichotomies like public/private, absence/presence and spectatorship., writes Karen Kipphoff, Professor at the Dept of Fine Art in the KHiB Yearbook 2005-2006.
"Feeding Frenzy", a Culinary Concert – Staged in Bergen
In spring of 2006 artist Fast Forward staged a Feeding Frenzy at Landmark at BergenKunsthall. A Feeding Frenzy is a 'culinary concert' which involves cooks, musicians, waiters and the audience. During the 90 minute work, 400 plates of food were created and served to the assembled audience. The musicians were following a musical score written especially for the event and the audience were invited to do whatever they pleased. Live video of the procedure was projected for all to see. The sold out event served as a meeting ground for music, art, performance, food, media and intense social activity, writes guest lecturer Fast Forward at the Dept of Fine Art in the KHiB Yearbook 2005-06.
The Academy as Cultural and Social Practice
The notion of the Art Academy has shifted considerably within the last one hundred years. Where once the authoritative positioning of teachers, faculty, staff and professors held a strong position in the hierarchy of the institution of the academy, now a matrix of influences from such diverse sources as the community, divergent disciplines, as well as the student body, holds sway, writes Steven Dixon, guest lecturer at the Dept of Fine Art in the KHiB Yearbook 2005-06..
Art for the Public?
The Norwegian public art sphere is feeble. Serious critical discourse is often neglected in favour of populist asseverations in decisions about which art to air in the media and how this should proceed. Obviously, this varies in relation to which media one has in mind, and there are honourable exceptions. But if we look at how major mass media deals with art, it scratches, polemically speaking, on the surface of art’s emotional fringe, writes Dean Per Kvist at the in the KHiB Yearbook 2005-2006 Dept of Specialised Art.
Den kuratoriske praksis: øvelsen i å manøvrere mellom dialog og diktatur
Foto: "Øde Dekor” av Anders Frøysland, Olav Fergus Kvalsnes og Lars Tore Moen. Lofoten. Fra "Klippfisk Masala", kuratert av Liv Brita Malnes.
What springs to mind when you hear the words art and curator in the same sentence? Do you get a clear picture of efficient organisation, communication and stage management? Or do nouns like power control and hierarchy spring to mind?
Choreography of Recorded Moments
Time, pace and speed play a major part in how China develops, how it is viewed and its rippling effects globally. Whether you consider China on the outside looking in or on the inside looking out, one thing is clear: It is a country with the most superlatives; the biggest country on Earth with most inhabitants, fastest growing economy, fastest growing consumption of energy and natural resources. It is also a country coming in from the cold, and as it integrates itself on the world stage we are witness to issues of political and personal freedoms and a process of revaluation, writes Heike Baranowsky Professor at the Dept of Specialised Art in the KHiB Yearbook 2005-2006.
Kunsthandverk og kunnskapsproduksjon
Kva er i grunnen verdien og betydninga av å laga noko med eigne hender? Kva slags kunnskapsproduksjon representerer kunsthandverksfaga? Dette er døme på nokre av dei spørsmåla som THINK TANK A European Initiative for the Applied Arts, vonar å kunne bidra med teoretiske innspel til.
“This is the Article”
The first MA Exhibition from Bergen National Academy of the Arts took place in April 2006 at the city’s Kunsthall, under the title «This Is Art». The title could be seen as a question as well as a statement: «Is this Art?/This Is Art». It can no doubt be read as a facile question, a pointless discussion and a reiteration of an old debate that should have been laid to rest long ago, but the important point is that one function of an art academy will always be to ask the question again, to seek and to find new answers. Each new generation of emerging artists will have their own set of terms to define what, for them, is art, and why, and how., writes Jeremy Welsh, Professor and Master Coordinator at the Dept of Fine Art in the KHiB Yearbook 2005-2006.
The Canon as Norm and List
«In museums we execute the art of the past», mused the poet Paul Valéry as he strolled around a Louvre filled with spectators. And this is precisely how canonised masterpieces are increasingly succumbing to lack of air in Norway’s national museums, suffocated by big business as well as education. Perhaps it’s time to store the art museum itself away in a museum?»
Adriana Alves: Experimenting with Different Media
Adriana Alves completed the MA programme in Art in 2006 and she was part of the exhibition “This is Art” at Bergen Kunsthall in April the same year. Her MA project featured, among others, a cowboy and a hooker fireing at each other. - I wanted to display and experiment with archetypes that so often appear in the popular media, she recalls.
Manipulated Landscape
I’ve enjoyed my time here enormously; the courses I followed were top quality, very rewarding, says former student Øystein Dahlstrøm.