ARCH+ features: Post-Capitalist Architecture

• Main Authors: Wieder, Axel, Nango, Joar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ARCH+ 2020
• Subjects: Architecture; FOS Civil engineering; Alta; Tromsø; Bergen; The Arch
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5446/54104; https://av.tib.eu/media/54104

In this zoom-conversation, Joar Nango and curator Axel Wieder sitting in Bergen Kunsthal and Stefan Gruber, co-editor of the ARCH+ edition An Atlas of Commoning: Places of Collective Production from Pittsburgh, discuss the relevance of museum spaces understood as public places, the relationship between art and architecture, the ongoing dominance of colonial attitudes in post-colonial settings, and the potentials of common knowledge as post-capitalist resources. Bergen Kunsthall´s Festival Exhibition starts this year with the format of a TV series by Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango on “architecture after the fall of capitalism”. The series has been made in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Nango’s Festival Exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall was supposed to open on 21 May, but has been moved to the fall, 4 September – 8 November 2020. Each episode of the TV series will introduce key themes that will be further developed in his exhibition, and open Nango’s working process during the ongoing pandemic to the public, leading up to the exhibition in Bergen. Joar Nango was born in Alta in 1979 and lives and works in Tromsø. He is educated as an architect, and in his diverse practice he tackles issues such as indigenous identity and decolonialization, often based on observed contradictions in contemporary architecture. His artistic practice includes site-specific installation, sculpture, photography, architectonic structures, social projects, clothing, publications and theory. The works often explore the boundaries between design, architecture, philosophy and visual art.