Two imprints; the one of a fossil trilobite belonging to the Natural History Museum in Oslo, the other is a bronze cast taken of a tabletop in a cell in Oslo Prison. The imprint from the prison is most likely made by a human; the fossil one is most likely not, instead found, held, harvested, and placed in the museum collection by a human.
Visual artist Liv Bugge is entering into conversation with these two objects - or subjects - which have been left to us by the touch of someone or something, as well as asking how to begin this conversation. The artworks, conversations, and thoughts presented in this book springs from the doctoral research project The Other Wild, touching art as confrontation, completed with a public defence in the spring of 2019.
The practice of Liv Bugge (born 1974 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in
Oslo and Berlin) incorporates a range of different mediums, in which video
often plays an important part. Many of her works are situated in the
borderland between dreams and reality, perpetrator and victim, science
and fiction.
The work often enters into different power relations, and Bugge is
interested in aggression as both a constructive and destructive force in
society. During the past few years, she has been working with post-colonial
issues, in particular how the colonial system is explained and how one
relates to brutalities carried out in another place in space and time.
Texts by Natasha Marie Llorens, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Elke Marhöfer, Liv Bugge, Susanne M. Winterling and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Haagi Abdim, Benjamin Larsen Lipski, Monster Network (Sara Orning & Ingvil Hellstrand), Jon Lønnve, Hans Petter Graver, Gyrid Gunnes, Solveig Styve Holte, Noemi Fernandez Dahms, Ingvil Hellstrand.
