Ewa Berg

2.6 An A/R/Tographic Itinerary – In Unsecure Territories, What is the Meaning of Coincidence? (Paper)

Ewa Berg – Malmö University, Sweden

Abstract:

This study takes its starting point from a performance lecture of own artistic, ongoing work with serigraphy/collage. To a/r/tograph and use the meaning of chance in one’s own creation together with the work of student teachers constitutes this a/r/tographic itinerary and palimpsest of different matter. Material poetic moment (Waterhouse, 2021) is formed when I forget time and space and let my image elements have the agency they have. Power over me. Power over my embarrassment. Through this performance, a diffraction is opened (Barad, 2003), an agentic cut takes place (Lenz Taguchi, 2012) where my image creation takes a new direction, an opening is formed by chance. Coincidence decided that I would carry out this performance. My living inquiry (Irwin, R. L., LeBlanc, N., Ryu, J. Y., & Belliveau, G., 2018) becomes what we will become (Deleuze and Guattari, 2015) both my students and me? What happens when my students work with Chance and Conceptual Contemporary Art Methods as incentives for their own doing and creation? Here it becomes important to see how the student in the Berndsen et al (2020) model is an important piece of the puzzle in the a/r/tography. Without students, one cannot develop one’s own teaching. And without your own artistic creation and writing you can’t develop these four modes. In unsecure territories, the meaning of coincidence guides you. From nonsense to sense.

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10.6 Gathering Hope (Workshop)

Ewa Berg – Malmö University, Sweden

Eva Stene – Malmö University, Sweden

Abstract:

In this uncertain time with war, climate changes, anxiety and uncertain territories, we want to create a counter force, a hope and offer an artistic workshop. In this workshop you will make posters that form the basis for zines. Zines for Hope. To make artistic calls to the future. We want to re-terrorialize (Deleuze and Guattari, 2015) and fold a new place for this manifestation. Like the Situationists, from the sixties we want to break new ground in the landscape. Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix (2015). Kapitalism och schizofreni Tusen platåer. Hägersten: Tankekraft