Bode, Mike ; Schmidt, Staffan | OFF THE GRID

Boken utforskar teman kring avskildhet och livsstilar utanför det vanliga samhället.

• Off the grid utforskar samtida konst och arkitektur.

• En djupdykning i konsthistoriska perspektiv.

• Utgiven som häftat band.

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Art Monitor
ISBN: 9789197775700
Bokserie: ArtMonitor avhandling

Omfång: 258 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2008-10-28

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Off the grid is an artistic research thesis which puts a Swedish housing estate in a video interview dialogue with homeowners in the North–eastern US through focusing on three topics: travel, self-definition, and community. Based on the situated, visual and conceptual image the project merges seemingly incompatible experiences: eight residents in Husby, an immigrant community outside Stockholm, and eight house–holds not connected to the utility grid, in upstate areas of New England and New York State – and two artistic researchers at University of Gothenburg.

Off the grid is an artistic research thesis which puts a Swedish housing estate in a video interview dialogue with homeowners in the North–eastern US through focusing on three topics: travel, self-definition, and community. Based on the situated, visual and conceptual image the project merges seemingly incompatible experiences: eight residents in Husby, an immigrant community outside Stockholm, and eight house–holds not connected to the utility grid, in upstate areas of New England and New York State – and two artistic researchers at University of Gothenburg. The interviewees are paired together and handed unedited copies of each other’s reflections. We asked them for their comments, elucidating the practical and metaphorical consequences of travel, self-definition, and community. Even though backgrounds, stories and current conditions differ, an understanding of common interests and similarities are clearly identified. Among the three questions discussed the right to self-definition stands out as central: it is opposed, delayed in its implementation, violated or threatened – still, all participants individually and/or collectively struggle to uphold it. In thinking with the visual and conceptual image Off the grid also offers new perspectives on the significance of artistic research, contributing to its further contextualization.

Off the grid av Bode, Mike ; Schmidt, Staffan hittar du under Särskilda konstnärer inom Konst | Konsthistoria | Konstvetenskap | Arkitektur i huvudkategorin Humaniora.

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