Welcome to the symposium "Extraction and Aesthetics: Pasts, Currents, Futures" September 12 - 14!
The symposium is a series of lectures organized by the research project How Norway Made the World Whiter and Velferden. The lectures discuss the relationship between mining, landscape change and aesthetics in the past, present and future.
PROGRAM:
Thursday 12.09: Departure from Stavanger at 09.00 by shared bus. Walks and excursions in the Sokndal area (mining facilities and industrial areas Blåfjell, Sandbekk, Jøssingfjord).
Friday 13.09: Lectures by international researchers at Jøssingfjord Science Museum: Karen Pinkus, Stephanie O'Rourke, Siobhan Angus and Patrick Anthony. The lectures will also be streamed digitally.
Saturday 14.09: Artist presentations and workshop with SANDSKOLEN at Velferden - Sokndals Scene for Samtidskunst. Departure in the afternoon by bus to Stavanger.
MORE ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS:
Karen Pinkus is a professor of literature at Cornell University, USA and published the book Subsurface (University of Minnesota Press) in 2023.
Siobhan Angus is a historian and curator who recently published the book Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke University Press 2024).
Stephanie O'Rourke is an art historian at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and her book Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction (University of Chicago Press) will be published in autumn 2024.
Patrick Anthony is a historian and researcher at Uppsala University where he is working on the forthcoming book Unearthed: Science and Environment Across Mineral Frontiers.
Artworks © Maximilian Schob