The Art of Speculating About the Future
The concept for the first Bergen Assembly is appropriated from a 1960s Soviet sci-fi novel. The outcome is both fascinating and annoying through its refusal to make itself accessible to a wider audience.
The concept for the first Bergen Assembly is appropriated from a 1960s Soviet sci-fi novel. The outcome is both fascinating and annoying through its refusal to make itself accessible to a wider audience.
Local artists take on climate change in Boden, a Nordic Biennial in Örebro, and a Golden Lion-winning filmmaker in Stockholm. This is the Swedish art summer.
Gitte Ørskou becomes the director of Moderna Museet, Danish Social Democrats issue a new cultural policy, and the gallery Signal in Malmö shares art prize with other cultural initiatives.
‘Artists find the measure of their own time just by doing their work’, says Julia Scher who began making art about surveillance long before the Internet really existed.
Ephemeral and relational art set the aesthetic agenda of the Oslo Biennial, which risks disappearing without a trace.
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