Symposiet på museet på fredag 13. september er et fagseminar som foregår på engelsk, og er åpent for alle interesserte, men krever påmelding til ingrid.halland@ikos.uio.no

Welcome to the symposium «Extraction and Aesthetics: Pasts, Currents, Futures» at the
Jøssingfjord Science Museum, 13 – 14 September. The symposium is organized by the
research project “How Norway Made the World Whiter” (NorWhite) in collaboration with
Velferden Center for Contemporary Art.
The symposium is organized in connection to the research exhibition ‘Campaign!’ at
Jøssingfjord Science Museum and the research exhibition ‘Hidden Stone’ at Velferden.
Friday 13. September 2024
Symposium day 1 at Jøssingfjord Science Museum. The symposium will be live-streamed.
Zoom- link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/68140536535?pwd=clbVUyB3kXfLu9xPCP9Y7TBvWynkin.1
Meeting ID: 681 4053 6535
Password: 91p7VKAw
10:00 | Welcome by Ingrid Halland |
10:15 | Introduction by Tonje Haugland Sørensen, PhD, Senior Researcher in the NorWhite project, the University of Bergen |
11:00 – 11:45 | Speaker 1: Karen Pinkus, professor at Cornell University, US, author of the book Subsurface (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) |
12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch at Jøssingfjord Science Museum |
13:00 – 13:45 | Speaker 2: Siobhan Angus, historian and curator and author of the book Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke University Press, 2024) |
14:00 – 14:45 | Speaker 3: Patrick Anthony, Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Uppsala universitet, Sweden, author of the forthcoming book Unearthed: Science and Environment Across Mineral Frontiers |
15:00 – 16:00 | Coffee, fruits, snacks, and guided tour in the exhibition “Campaign!” by Ingrid Halland |
16:00 – 16:30 | Speaker 4: Velferden – Senter for Contemporary Arts, by Maiken Stene and Hans Edward Hammons |
16:30 – 17:15 | Speaker 5: Stephanie O’ Rourke, Senior Lecturer in art history at University of St Andrews, Scotland, author of Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2024) |
17:30 – 18:30 | Break |
18:30 | Dinner at Jøssingfjord Science Museum (for invited guests) |
Saturday 14. September 2024
Symposium day 2 at Velferden Center for Contemporary Art
11.30 – 11:45 | Introduction to the exhibition ‘Hidden Stone’ by Marte Johnslien |
11:45 – 12:30 | Lunch at Velferden |
12:30 – 13:30 | Artists talks by participants at SANDSKOLEN (‘The Sandschool’): Siri Austeen, Stefan Schröder, Agnes Mohlin, Naomi Fisher, Maiken Stene and Hans Edward Hammonds |
13:30 – 16:00 | Workshop in groups with field walks |
16:00 | Bus departure from Velferden to Stavanger (reserve a seat by contacting us) |
18:00 | Arrival in Stavanger |