Monocular5

• Main Author: Seers, Lindsay
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Karasjok; Lofoten; Norway; Persson; Pieski; Solberg; Tromso; Northern Norway; sami
• Online Access: https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24349/; https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24349/1/exterior%20Monoc5.sm.jpg; https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24349/2/interior%20Monoc5csm.jpg; https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24349/3/exterior%20Monoc5.b.jpg; https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24349/4/interior%20Monoc5.e.jpg; https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24349/5/5.Monocular1.jpg; http://samidaiddaguovddas.no/en/inauguration-of-sami-daiddaguovddas-new-center-of-contemporary-art/

Materials: wooden structure, parts of a hut, window frames, reclaimed door, tree trunk, metal chimney, deer skins, 20 minute HD projection, 5.1 surround sound. Exhibitors: Monica Edmondson, Lindsay Seers, Outi Pieski, Roger Mullin, Linda Persson, Joar Nango. The inauguration of Sámi Dáiddaguovddás new center of contemporary art will now be in the center of the Sami capital Karasjok. The inaugural will be made by Vice President Henry Olsen at the Sami Parliament and leader of the Sami Art Association, Marita Isobel Solberg. Opening Speech by Director Hjørdis Kurås. We welcome the audience with generous resources – a reception desk with cafe area and seating, shop with Sami arts, crafts/handicrafts and design, art studio and guest apartment, meeting rooms, sound studio and most importantly – good and expansive new showrooms. The inaugural exhibition “Top of the World” is introduced by curator Jan-Erik Lundstrøm, and there will be performance art and music at the opening. Sami Center for Contemporary Art/Sámi Dáiddaguovddáš (SDG) Jeagilvármádii 54, NO-9730 Karasjok, Norway Monocular, shown originally in Something in the way at the Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway, is a prefabricated wooden structure, the interior of which is rendered as if it is the exterior surface, giving the impression that the building has been turned inside out but this inversion has some idiosyncratic details, such as: a tree with a rustic box affixed to it, seemingly resembling a birdhouse; an old door; wooden stilts. It was constructed in Tromso, in northern Norway, as a flat-pack assemblage and transported to Lofoten in the spirit of its historical precedents. Inside the structure, the back wall is filled with two synchronised HD projections which cover the whole wall including the gable. The projection emerges from the 'birdhouse', which is in fact a replica of a food store traditionally used by the Sami. The narrator of the projected film is a Norwegian/English man. Seers met this protagonist by chance when travelling in Norway ...