In Transit #3
Joar Nango
ANCB, in collaboration with the ZEIT-Stiftung, invites protagonists from literature, sociology, arts and civil society for a conversation, a reading or a performance about land and territory, the concepts of ownership and translocation, protection and borders.
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Date: Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Introduction
ANCB, in collaboration with the ZEIT-Stiftung, invites protagonists from literature, sociology, arts and civil society for a conversation, a reading or a performance about land and territory, the concepts of ownership and translocation, protection and borders. Some participants will also share their personal experience with exile, transit, inclusion and exclusion, longing and belonging, adding a special voice to these global, challenging and pressing themes.
This series is part of ANCB’s long-term programme Borders and Territories: Identity in Place, discussing the spatial consequences of geopolitical, socio-cultural, economic and ecological aspects of home, displacement, migration and identity in a transdisciplinary dialogue. It also represents a continuation of the project Transit Spaces in collaboration with the ZEIT-Stiftung.
Programme
#3 Joar Nango, Artist and Architect, Tromsø in conversation with Axel Wieder, Director of Bergen Kunsthall
Norwegian-Sámi artist and architect Joar Nango talks with Axel Wieder about indigenous identity and decolonialisation, movements across borders and creating places with possibilities for improvisation. The dialogue is tying in with the Festival Exhibition 2020 that presented Joar Nango at Bergen Kunsthall to great media acclaim. For the first time, a Sámi artist was selected for this prestigious annual exhibition of Norwegian artists. The Sámi are an indigenous people of Europe – a concept, Europeans tend to associate solely with their collective colonial legacy on other continents. Initially trained as an architect, Nango investigates traditions and experiences from his cultural background in Northern Norway, characterised by flexibility, pragmatism and adaptation to nature. His artistic practice explores the boundaries between design, architecture, philosophy and visual arts, with an emphasis on indigenous identity, climate issues and marginalisation of ethnic groups. Current projects include a large-scale commission for the opening of the new National Museum in Oslo and a collaboration with ArkDes in Stockholm.
Video © Reframe
In collaboration with:
ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Supported by:
Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin
Norwegian Embassy, Berlin
Danish Embassy, Berlin
