Arctic Stations
| art.description.project | The exhibition is rooted in a journey to the island of Qeqertarsuaq in western Greenland, which until 1953 was Denmark’s administrative headquarters for North Greenland. Today, the former administration building houses a cultural history museum, while the University of Copenhagen has taken over a research station named Arktisk Station and the Technical University of Denmark runs the magnetic observatory of the island. Arctic Stations is thus a title referring to the site-specific starting point of the exhibition, but also to its spatial organisation: Three independent film installations serve as artistic articulations of the long stand-ing and multifaceted research work that informs Zenner and la Cour’s collaboration. Regarded not only as the spatial architecture of the exhibition, but also as a kind of historical space, the three installations us-ing 16mm film, reflects upon visual registration practices in botany, geophysics and anthropology. Here, visual registration is not understood as objective or authentic representation, but precisely as a historical effect; mediation of scientific data not understood as neutral dissemination, but as imaging practice. This approach allows professional vision, gendered positions, personal anecdotes, environment and infra-structure to come to the fore: In other words, Tinne Zenner and Eva la Cour approach scientific practices in Qeqertarsuaq as a continued image of the presence of Denmark in Greenland. Arctic Stations is a speculation on how complex scientific, institutional, industrial and commercial prac-tices are interconnected and entangled - although science often is regarded as something that can be separated from politics. | sv |
| art.description.summary | The duo exhibition Arctic Stations, utilises visual art and film to explore the relationship between politics and science in the context of the geopolitical Arctic. | sv |
| art.description.supportedBy | The Danish Art Council Danish Arts Workshop 15. Juni fonden | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | MøstingsHus,Copenhagen,Dk | sv |
| art.relation.uri | https://kunsten.nu/journal/arctic-stations-tinne-zenner-eva-la-cour-moestings-hus/ | sv |
| art.typeOfWork | Visual art and film exhibition | sv |
| dc.contributor.creator | la Cour, Eva | |
| dc.contributor.creator | Zenner, Tinne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-19T15:29:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-19T15:29:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-02-29 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/68094 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
| dc.subject | Qeqertarsuaq | sv |
| dc.subject | Greenland | sv |
| dc.subject | colonial relations | sv |
| dc.subject | scientific data | sv |
| dc.subject | visual inscriptions | sv |
| dc.subject | 16mm film | sv |
| dc.title | Arctic Stations | sv |
| dc.type.svep | artistic work |
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