2018

Rugged, weathered, above the sea

The second edition.

Coast Contemporary explored the social, economic, and political values of the Norwegian landscape. Rugged, weathered, above the sea built upon the Romantic pictorial and literary construction of Norway through its landscape to question the enduring depiction of an untouched and limitless territory: a depiction at odds with the country’s oil production boom and its intensive fish farming industry. This experimented into the “politics of landscape”.

Curated by Charles Aubin, in dialogue with founder Tanja Sæter.
The film program evolution, meet orgasm was curated by Rhea Dall and Charles Aubin.
Art Book Fair co-curated by Bergen Art Book Fair, Mondo Books, Heavy Books and Lodret Vanret.
Curatorial contributions by several institutions invited to bring an artist for The Cabin Series.

Locations: Lofoten, Hurtigruten (a ship), Trondheim and Bergen.

Coast Contemporary explored the social, economic, and political values of the Norwegian landscape. This six-day program gathered artists, architects, curators, writers, and environmental scholars who explored Norway’s centuries-long construction of a national affinity for nature, and how a changing climate—both in the Nordic region and in areas from which tens of thousands of new arrivals have migrated—will transform cultural imaginations.

Rugged, weathered, above the sea built upon the romantic pictorial and literary construction of Norway through its landscape to question the enduring depiction of an untouched and limitless territory: a depiction at odds with the country’s oil production boom and its intensive fish farming industry.

This experimented into the “politics of landscape” unfolded through a daily program of performances, screenings, readings, panel discussions, lecture-performances, as well as pop-up exhibitions aboard and visits onshore in Lofoten, Trondheim, and Bergen.

Text by curator Charles Aubin.

e-flux, October 7, 2018

The 2018 edition was supported by KOROURO, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the embassies of Paris, London, Rome, Copenhagen, Berlin and the Consulate General in New York, the Arts Council Norway, the City of Bergen and the City of Stavanger.

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