Art Across Borders: Dislocating Artistic and Curatorial Practices in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Borderlands Studies on April 27, 2015, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2015.1036099 . The present article investigates the role of artworks in processes of bordering in the Barents Euro-Ar...

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Published in:Journal of Borderlands Studies
Main Author: Pötzsch, Holger
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis (Routledge) 2015
Subjects:
VDP::Humaniora: 000::Kunsthistorie: 120::Nyere tids kunsthistorie: 128
VDP::Humanities: 000::History of art: 120::Modern history of the arts: 129
Biennial
X-Border Art Event
neo-formalism
bordering
Barents Euro-Arctic Region
art
borderscape
Arctic
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10037/12057
https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2015.1036099
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Summary:This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Borderlands Studies on April 27, 2015, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2015.1036099 . The present article investigates the role of artworks in processes of bordering in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. Drawing upon a neo-formalist framework, it firstly analyses works that were exhibited during the X-Border Art Biennial to identify disruptive potentials vested in the artistic pieces’ formal properties, before it, secondly, addresses potential performance effects of these works and of the curatorial decision to distribute exhibition space across three cities in Sweden, Finland, and Russia. I argue for an ambivalent role of artistic and curatorial practices that have the inherent potential to articulate opposition and de-familiarize established frames for perception and cognition, and at the same time inhere the capacity to reinforce regimes of exclusion and facilitate processes of commodification and capitalization.

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