A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 / / edited by Benedikt Hjartarson, Tania Ørum, Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam, and Laura Luise Schultz.

• Superior document: Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; 41
• TeilnehmendeR: Schultz, Laura Luise,; Ørum, Tania,; Paldam, Camilla Skovbjerg,; Hjartarson, Benedikt,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1060 pages)
• Notes: The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 brings the series of cultural histories of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries up to the present. It discusses revisions and continuations of historical practices since 1975.

The 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.

Table of Contents

Preface -- 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 & 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? Subversion or Subvention / Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen -- Index.