...nästan som en i familjen

Abstract

In the essay, an iconologic analysis is made on the videowork ...nästan som en i familjen by Astrid Göransson, with support from Margareta Rossholm Lagerlöf's theories on experience and insight, Karl Hansson 's theories on figurality and Vivian Sobchack's theories on morphing. The videoworic is a coal animation which artisanally has been drawn in a real room and then filmed for animation. The analysis draws on how the artist abolish our concept of history by mixing now and then, as well as attributing iconologic works of art in the story. A great emphasis is made on the sensuous experience and the work of the hand; both in the making of the film and the depiction of objects in the same. This materiality opens up towards existential questions of belief and their place in our present time. The work is compared to an altar piece in its layout, which is put in relation to the montage-technique ofthe film.

The question, if analyses of videoworks and films of art can be enrichened by methods within the field of art theory and history, is answered by showing how the work is part of an art-historical context which is widening the understanding and the experience of it. This is compared to how videoworks previously has been examined with methods within the field of film theory. The work as such is in constant motion through morphing and transformations, and here starts a discussion on boundary crossing between various ways of working with, and depicting motion picture in a time when the concept of art in itself is under change. The question of contents, whether the work mirrors Sweden's transformation from an agrarian society to a modern society, widens. New questions rises in regard to which degree structures from the past lives on in new shapes.