In connection with the show Vedbilder (Wood Images) by Geir Tore
Holm at Oslo Museum; Interkulturelt Museum, this seminar focuses on the concepts of ecology understood through landscape and the exploitation of nature. After an introduction by Holm, Kristina Skåden presents her research on the emergence of motoring in Norway, Hilde Methi talks about the Sámi Art Festival and Boel Christensen-Scheel moderates a conversation about art in the context of ecological thinking.
The seminar takes place in Oslo Museum; Interkulturelt Museum,
September 10, 2010, from 10:00 to 14:00. The seminar is organized as part of the MA-program for Visual Arts at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, in collaboration with the Sámi Art Festival.
The right to the land and the water.
An embodiment of economic and societal conditions.
The film is based on interviews with people who are affected by and have opinions about the Finnmark Act; managers, lawyers, politicians, historians, activists, artists and users. The different voices are put in one person’s mouth – at work in the forest.
Traditional, local knowledge meets formalized opinions on legislation and public regulations of the use of land and water.
The interviews took place in the counties Finnmark and Troms (Norway) in 2009.
The film is to be shown in the festival exhibition at the Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art, April 14 – May 5, 2010.