{"product_id":"a-cultural-history-of-the-avant-garde-in-the-nordic-countries-since-1975-9789004444560","title":"A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 is the final volume of the four-volume series of cultural histories of the avant-garde movements in the Nordic countries. This volume carries the avant-garde discussion forward to present-day avant-gardes, challenged by the globalisation of the entertainment industries and new interactive media such as the internet. The avant-garde can now be considered a tradition that has been made more widely available through the opening of archives, electronic documentation and new research, which has spurred both re-enactments, revisions and continuations of historical avant-garde practices, while new cultural contexts, political, technological and ecological conditions have called for new strategies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic avant-garde and cultural history.\"    [...]    \"[This] is a very focused volume, which, with the introduction and introductions to each individual section, educationally takes the reader by the hand through the various avant-garde activities documented. Add to this the fact that each individual article is well written, highly interesting and thought-provoking, and that each should lead to further study at various university levels (many deserving of their own PhD theses). [...] The editorial tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic cultural history has also provided new perspectives on the second neo-avant-garde wave that cancels the dichotomy between center and periphery; instead it is shown that [...] the Nordic countries show power to constitute such centers in international cultural history.”  -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023.      “En tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska avantgarde- och kulturhistoria.\"    [...]    \"[Detta] är en mycket fokuserad volym, som med introduktionen och inledningar till varje enskild sektion, på ett pedagogiskt vis för läsaren vid handen genom de olika avantgardeaktiviteter som dokumenteras. Lägger man till detta att varje enskild artikel är välskriven, högst intressant och tankeväckande, och att var och en borde leda till vidare studier på olika universitetsnivåer (mycket förtjänar egna doktorsavhandlingar). [...] Redaktionens tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska kulturhistoria har dessutom gett nya perspektiv på den andra neoavantgardevåg som upphäver dikotomin mellan centrum och periferi; istället visas att [...] de nordiska länderna uppvisar kraft att utgöra sådana centrum i den internationella kulturhistorien.”  -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Contributors    The Long Avant-Garde Tradition – Restaging, Resisting, Renewing   Tania Ørum and Laura Luise Schultz    Section 1: Paradigmatic Cases     Introduction to Section 1   Benedikt Hjartarson  Appropriating the Past to Examine the Present – On Matias Faldbakken as Media Artist   Anders Skare Malvik  Magma and Persona – Material Generativity in the Work of Björk Guðmundsdóttir   Holger Schulze  DOGMA 95 and The Idiots – A Renewal of Avant-Garde Realism in Film   Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen  Feminist Avant-Garde Film of the 1970s as Gender Politics – The Example of Tornerose, by Jytte Rex and Kirsten Justesen   Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam  Such Stuff as We Are Made of – Kirsten Dehlholm, Billedstofteater and Hotel Pro Forma   Laura Luise Schultz  “An American Poet Only Writing in Finnish” – Leevi Lehto’s Seminal Role in Contemporary Finnish Poetry   Anna Helle and Martin Glaz Serup    Section 2: The Promises of Technology     Introduction to Section 2   Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam  The Avant-Garde and the Computer Industry – Art and Technology Collaborations at Datasaab and IBM Sweden from the late 1960s to the 1990s   Anna Orrghen  Miracle Machines – The Creative and Democratic Promise of the Photocopier: Danish Xerography 1979–1995 in an Avant-Garde Perspective   Lise Skytte Jakobsen  Avant-Garde Anomalies and Transnational Trajectories – The Place and Time of Gunvor Nelson’s Collage Films of the 1980s   John Sundholm  Art for Aliens – On Goodiepal’s Xenophile Posthumanism   Jacob Wamberg  Erkki Kurenniemi – Life Is an Algorithm   Lars Bang Larsen  Life in a Code – Mikael Brygger’s “NASDAQ 30.5.2010” as Found Poetry   Miikka Laihinen    Section 3: The Performative Turn    Introduction to Section 3   Laura Luise Schultz  She Splits Phallic Cucumbers with a Knife – The Norwegian Vienna Activist that Art History Forgot   Susanne Christensen  “Don’t Panic. Black, No Sugar is a New Way of Life!” – An Icelandic Street Theatre between Carnival and Disturbance   Magnús Þór Þorbergsson  Two Different Perspectives on the Avant-Garde in Finnish Dance in the 1980s – Reijo Kela and Sanna Kekäläinen   Aino Kukkonen  Hilarious Imperialists – Baktruppen’s Bad Family Photos from the World Tour   Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt  Jessie Kleemann between Orsoq and Turpentine   David Winfield Norman  Humour as an Avant-Garde Strategy in Three Generations of Feminist Art: Kirsten Justesen, Hanne Nielsen \u0026amp; Birgit Johnsen and Maja Malou Lyse   Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam  Precarious Fiction and Precarious Spectatorship – The Artistic Practice of SIGNA as Theatrical Avant-Garde   Thomas Rosendal Nielsen    Section 4: Intervention and Institutional Critique    Introduction to Section 4   Laura Luise Schultz  The Skinnebach Effect – Towards a Poetic Institutional Critique   Mathies G. Aarhus  The Stunt Poets – A Literary Avant-Garde in the Neo-Liberal Age of Mass Media   Wenche Larsen  We Are a Song the Band Doesn’t Play – Systematic Systemic Critique in Contemporary Swedish Poetry   Elisabeth Friis  The Sámi Museum in Karasjok – A Story of Resistance   Hanna Horsberg Hansen  S.L.Á.T.U.R. – The Obtrusive Composers’ Collective   Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir  The Guerrilla Paradigm or “Feminist-Avant-Garde” – Towards an Alternative Feminist Canon   Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir    Section 5: Venues    Introduction to Section 5   Benedikt Hjartarson  J.O. Mallander and the Nordic Neo-Avant-Garde   Sami Sjöberg  Was ist der Fall? What is the Case? Mr. Klein’s Last Moments (P)reconstructed by Mail   Peter van der Meijden  Toward a Kinetic Icelandic Culture – Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Suðurgata 7 and Experimental Film in Iceland   Benedikt Hjartarson  Look Back, Dig Out, Mix Up, Think Forward – The Archival Activism of OEI   Thomas Hvid Kromann  The Bergensbrag Generation – The Rise of Independent Literary Platforms in Norway, 2000–2005   Susanne Christensen  Investigative Infrastructures – Nordic Small Presses of the Twenty-First Century   Ana Stanićević  Locality and Literary Intervention – Ida Börjel’s Skåneradio   Marianne Ølholm  Danish Children’s and Youth Television from an Avant-Garde Perspective   Christa Lykke Christensen  The Ultima Festival in Oslo – Institutionalising the Avant-Garde?   Astrid Kvalbein    Section 6: Subcultures    Introduction to Section 6   Laura Luise Schultz  The Copenhagen Punk Years – Art with No Future?   Marie Arleth Skov  The Performance Group Værst’s Nine Performance Videos for Sort Sol’s Album Flow My Firetear   Magnus Kaslov  Beyond the Borders – Elgaland-Vargaland and the Association for Temporary Art   Håkan Nilsson  The Happy Antagonist – Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki’s Underground Super-8 Films   Tytti Rantanen  Immigrant Film Co-Operatives in Sweden – The Most Typical Avant-Garde   Lars Gustaf Andersson and John Sundholm  Specialists in Revolt – The Surrealist Group of Stockholm   Kristoffer Noheden   “To Be Fully Subconscious” – On the Medúsa Group   Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir  Home to Hell – Tóroddur Poulsen   Kinna Poulsen  A “Cow-Napping” in Context: From the Scribble Board to Zero Tolerance – (Sub)Cultural Interventions in the Public Realms of Stockholm, 1968–2004   Jacob Kimvall  “… because enmity and admiration go hand in hand” – Guy Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital   Kjartan Már Ómarsson    Section 7: Postmodernism and Re-Enactments    Introduction to Section 7   Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam  Postmodern Avant-Garde in Theory and in Poetry in Finland at the End of the Twentieth Century   Harri Veivo  Avant-Garde vs. “Avant-Garde” – Danish Artists of the 1980s as Successors to and Rebels against the 1960s Avant-Garde   Kamma Overgaard Hansen  Traces of Avant-Garde Strategies in Danish Poetry of the 1980s   Marianne Ølholm  Cecilie Løveid – Postmodern Recycling of the Avant-Garde   Wenche Larsen  French Feminist Theory and Surrealism in Karin Moe’s Kjønnskrift (Sextext)   Gerd Karin Omdal  “New. Fantastic. Different” – Mariaana Jäntti’s Amorfiaana (1986) and Monika Fagerholm’s Diva (1998) as Finnish Feminist Avant-Garde Prose Fiction   Kaisa Kurikka  The Arctic Mongrel – Pia Arke’s Ethno-Aesthetics as Post-Colonial Avant-Gardism   Mette Sandbye    Section 8: The End of the Avant-Garde?    Introduction to Section 8   Tania Ørum  Superflex and the End of Art   Solveig Gade  A BIGamist Bricoleur – The Postmodern Avant-Gardism of Bjarke Ingels   Kasper Lægring  Avant-Garde Design in Denmark – Four Cases Concerning Furniture   Peter Brix Søndergaard  Avant-Garde and Post-Colonial? – How to Square the Circle in a Nordic Country with a Colonial Past   Anne Ring Petersen  Constructing an Avant-Garde Canon in the Twenty-First Century – On the Icelandic Poetry Group Nýhil   Benedikt Hjartarson  Precarious Life – Nielsen’s Search for a Life beyond Identity   Laura Luise Schultz  A Contemporary Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries? 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