Forskningsgruppeleder

Sigrid Lien

Ansvarlig enhet(er)

Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier

Beskrivelse

The research interest of this group is the contemporary visual culture and its historical roots. For, as argued by among others, Nicholas Mirzoeff, the emerging global society is highly visual in character. Only in 2014, a trillion photographs were produced on a worldwide basis. These photographs are, as other visuals, our way of understanding a changing world and our place in it. (Mirzoeff 2014). The research group Visual Culture is based in the art history environment at the University of Bergen. It is a closely integrated group with a long history of collaborative relations – both related to specific projects and the context of Phd-supervision. Some of the external members of the group are former Phd-students, now working with research and teaching in affiliated institutions, for example local museums and the academy of art and design. Furthermore, and in correspondence with multi-disciplinary character of the field, the group has members from a wide range of disciplines: art history, anthropology, cultural studies, museology, media and literary studies. Our field of interest encompasses a wide range of issues, among them 19th century visual culture, visual anthropology, feminist visual studies, visual activism, architecture, the multimedial and highly conceptual contemporary art scene, digital culture and museology. Photography studies seems however to be a very important common ground in our research efforts. We are continuously engaging in work concerning its theory and history, photography in 19th century as well as contemporary art, as documents, and/or in historic processes such as migration and colonialism, in museums, photo-journalism, as tools of self-presentation, etc. The research group is a meeting place for discussions concerning the the works of visuals, what people are doing with visuals, and how meaning is created through use. But we are also concerned with questions of how visuals are felt and experienced – on emotional, bodily and intellectual levels (Edwards og Bhaumik 2008) – and how images may be used as tools to think with (Edwards 2001).

Publikasjoner

Femininitetens rom og kvinnekroppens grenser. Å lese kunstens historie med A K Dolven og Mari Slaattelid (2011)
Åsebø, Sigrun
Universitetet i Bergen
Den didaktiske gjøkunge (2012)
Hausken, Eli Kristine Økland;Steffensen, Morten;Skår, Anne Kari
Photography and the Crisis of Ethnographic Display (2014)
Nielssen, Hilde
The Aesthetics of the Bear Hunt: Contemporary Photography in the Ecology of a Sámi Museum (2014)
Lien, Sigrid
“Haunted topographies-landscape photography as an act of remembrance in the Neues Museum” (2014)
Sørensen, Tonje Haugland
Tragediens bilder – et prosessuelt perspektiv på nyhetsfotografier fra 22. juli (2015)
Simonsen, Anne Hege
Universitetet i Bergen
Evocative landscapes: new perspectives on Ellisif Wessel's photographs from Sør-Varanger, c.1896–1905 (2015)
Fjellestad, Marthe Tolnes
Konsthistorisk tidskrift
Et universitetsområde for fremtiden - Nygårdshøyden i Bergen. 1960-årenes ambisjoner, og ettertiden som tok dem ned (2015)
Lexau, Siri Skjold
Nordlit

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