Andreas Siqueland Knudsen
Camilla Figenschou
Eva Ljosvoll
Hjørdis Kurås
Kristian Øverland Dahl
Mona Bentzen
Sam Iravanian
Tor Jørgen van Eijk
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Wolves are probably one of the most misunderstood animals. Tales of cold bloodiness abound, in spite of the their friendly, social and intelligent traits. Often used as a scapegoat for missing domestic animals or a general threat to people. In its symbolic use the wolf becomes a danger, an outsider, the loner, the anti-hero or the scapegoat. The wolf in Zeitgeist is cut out from its original surroundings, daytime is changed into night shot images framed in a cross-hair, movements decelerated. The wolf is left lonely, and the reason for its fear and anxiety left out. Anxiety is not necessarily rational, and the source of anxiety or the target of blame can be difficult to trace. Night shot images have become known or connected to war images especially since the Gulf War, where "the US-led coalition was fighting a virtual war while the Iraqis tried to fight a traditional one- the two could not entirely meet" (Baudrillard 1995). Periods of heightened generalized anxiety have covered much of human history, fear was a political weapon in Ancient Rome and fear dominates today's political landscape. In this political and public anxiety, or in this pattern that constitutes an ethos or Zeitgeist, any scapegoat may be seized upon to relieve this feeling. A common denominator trough Kurås pracice are liminality. Combining different media and thematics, liminality works as a passage between different forms of framework, representing a possibility for a cultural hybrid or a celebration of paradoxes. She often samples from news, films and internet, and edits together with her own filmed material. Sampling is a way of destabilizing and personify a mass-fabricated identitiy. Her works change between fiction and reality, between participating and voyeuristic conventions, not necessarily build up from a explicit theory or dogma, but more like fragments of different course and tendencies that refer to to-days society. |