Completing/Critiquing the Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-2020

The conference Completing/Critiquing the Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-2020 will take place at the University of Copenhagen 3-5 November 2022.

The conference marks the completion of the four volumes of The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries (Rodopi/Brill 2012-2022) that span the developments of the arts in the Nordic countries throughout the twentieth century.

The conference will discuss and evaluate the work and suggest new perspectives on avant-garde studies and the cultural history of the Nordic countries in a European context.

Keynotes are Professor Sascha Bru, University of Leuven, Belgium, and Professor emeritus Per Bäckström, Linné University, Sweden.

Participation is free of charge but registration to Marianne Ølholm is mandatory.     

 

Room 27.0.17

15:00-15:30 Coffee and registration
15:30-16:00 Opening: Tania Ørum
16:15-17:15 Keynote: Sascha Bru: Why Write the History of the Avant-Garde?
17:15-18:30 Drinks to celebrate the four volumes of the Cultural History

 

 

Room 23.4.39

10:00-11:15 Surrealism

Andrea Kollnitz: Voluntary Outsiders. On the Roles of Endre Nemes and Thea Ekström in Swedish Surrealism

Kristoffer Noheden: Surrealism after Imaginism: Gudrun Åhlberg and Max Walter Svanberg

Susanne Christensen: Possible links between the art of Sápmi and surrealism
11:15-12:45 Othering

Sami Sjöberg: Creative Ecology: Christian Dotremont’s Immersion in Lapland

Karen Kurczynski: The Global Reception of Indigenous Artists: A Trans-National Comparison of Britta Marakatt-Labba and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Hanna Horsberg Hansen: The Sámi museum – a site of ethno-political resistance

Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir: Whiteness
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15

Avant-Garde Media: Manifestos, Journals and Small Presses

Mia Quirin: The role of the avant-garde in Swedish post-war poetics: literary historiographies, international alliances, and the relationship to the manifesto genre

Torben Jelsbak: Unmartial matriarcal manifestoes? – The Use of the manifesto in contemporary Danish literature with Olga Ravn as example

Ana Stanićević: Nordic Small Presses of the Twenty-First Century
15:15-16:00 Coffee
16:00-18:00

The Gender of the Avant-Garde

Mette Sandbye: Striving for Independence: Women Pioneer Photographers in the Early 1900s

Lars Bang Larsen: Threadbare Avant-Garde. The Work of Charlotte Johannesson

Elisabeth Friis: Re-articulating the Mother Tongue

 

 

Room 23.4.39

10:00-12:00 How to Write a Cultural History of the Avant-Garde? Part I

Kari Brandtzäg: Rolf Stenersen (1899-1978) – a forgotten protagonist of the avant-garde in Scandinavia?

Tanja Tiekso: Musical avant-garde in Finland and other Nordic countries during the Cold War (1949–1967)

Kari Yli-Annala: Avant-Garde as Art Mineure

Thomas Hvid Kromann: The expanding archives of the Situationist International – and a (possible) rewriting of the story of the movement
12:00-13:00 How to Write a Cultural History of the Avant-Garde? Part II

Peter van der Meijden: NEO, NETWORK, NET - Making sense of Fluxus and Mail Art

Laura Luise Schultz: The Avant-Garde and the Performative Turn

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen: All too Human?
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Per Bäckström: The Nordic Neo-Avant-Garde – an Appraisal of Volume Four
14:30-17:30 Completing/Critiquing the Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-2020. Editors’ Reflections

Per Stounbjerg: Art, culture, avant-garde – self-critical reflections on the choices we ended up making in our history of the avant-garde

Benedikt Hjartarson: What Have We Done? Revisiting the Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries

Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam: A Cultural History of gender and representation. Looking back on 20 years of avant-garde studies

Dorthe Aagesen: Targets and blind spots: questions of diversity and colonialism in avant-garde history