Anders Skare Malvik

Anders Skare Malvik, PhD-Student

Jeg er stipendiat i nordisk litteraturvitenskap og tilknyttet det NFR-finansierte forskningsprosjektet Transkulturell estetikk. Samtidslitteratur og mediekultur

My dissertation project explores the intersection between art media culture and subjectivity in the art and literature of Matias Faldbakken (1973).

Case Study:

The Norwegian artist and author Matias Faldbakken (under the pseudonym Abo Rasul) is well known for his somewhat nihilistic description of Scandinavian repressive tolerance in the trilogy Scandinavian Misanthropy. As a visual artist he repeatedly returns to the paradoxes of the avant-garde in order to question the relation between art and society today. His artistic expression is one of negation, indifference, minimalism and anti-aestheticism, often deployed through strategies such as the readymade, postproduction and intervention.

Problem:

Unnoticed by most critics however, Faldbakken's recycling of avant-garde strategies also takes part in a probing of contemporary art's – and its recipient's – media technological surroundings. That is, his oeuvre invites a negotiation between art, media culture and subjectivity. The question is thus: How do we analyze this negotiation?

Method:

Being methodologically inspired by Mieke Bal's concept analysis, I deploy the word interface as an analytical tool, a critical concept, to answer this question. 1) Interface denotes the mode through which digital code translates into perceivable expressions in contemporary media culture (the screen being an obvious example), as such it designates the modes through which the subject engages with digital technology. 2) But interface can also mean meeting place, common surface, contact point or boundary, or mode of interaction between separate substances, entities or discourses. 3) Finally, the material surface of a work of art, or rather the point of interaction/dialogue between work and beholder, art and subject constitutes an interface. Drawing a trajectory between these different meanings of interface, I aim to describe an aesthetic of the interface in Faldbakken's art and literature: an aesthetic practice negotiating the stakes of art, subjectivity and media culture in the present.

Generally, I am Interested in:

• Art/literature and media technology
• Art/literature and politics
• Linguistic/aesthetic violence
• "The Modern Break Through" (1870-1890) in a media historical perspective

Publications:

• "Det muliges kunst. Jacques Rancière og distribusjonen av det sanselige", http://www.trondheimkunsthall.com/news/Detmuligeskunst.JacquesRancireogdistribusjonenavdetsanselige
• Naivismus, Nihilismus, Negation - zur Ästhetik in Abo Rasuls Unfun. I: Figuren des Dazwischen. Naivität in Kunst, Pop- und Populärkultur. Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2010 ISBN 87-88027-56-2. s. 109-133
• Grensesnittets estetikk. En begrepsanalytisk tilnærming til samtidsestetikken og dens medieparadigme. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 2009 (3-4) s. 5-20
• "Skriften i mørket" Estetikk og modernitetskritikk i Thure Erik Lunds Compromateria. Masteroppgave i nordisk litteratur. Vår-07.. Trondheim: NTNU 2007 105 s.
• "Olsson-koden. Om de "uvesentlige" kvalitetene i Tommy Olssons kustkritikk", i Riss 2/2008
• "Frykten for språket", i Riss 2/2005
• "Lars Ramslie lever! Om resepsjonen av Fatso", i Motskrift 1/2004
   

Research (papers and publications):

http://www.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/wa/fres?sort=ar&pnr=36549&la=no&action=sok

Teaching:

2012:

• Nord 2101: Samtidslitteratur og mediekultur. Avantgarde og samfunnskritikk på 2000-tallet (Contemporary Literature and Media Culture. Avant-garde and Critique of Society after 2000)
• Nord 1108: Litteraturhistorie (Literary History)

2011:

• Nord 1104: Teori, sjanger og retorikk (Theory, Genre & Rhetoric)
• Nord 2312: Litterære kulturmøter og kulturell identitet (Literary Cultural Encounters and Cultural Identity)
• Nord 3501/Alit 3800: Masteroppgaverelatert fordypningsemne (Masterthesis Seminar)

2010:

• Nord 2100/Nord 3502: Mennesket og det moderne. Litteratur, teknologi og mediehistorie (Man and the Modern. Literature, Technology and Media History)

2009:

• Nord 1104: Teori, sjanger og retorikk (Theory, Genre & Rhetoric)
• Nord 3501: Masteroppgaverelatert fordypningsemne (Masterthesis Seminar)

2008:

• Nord 1104: Teori, sjanger og retorikk (Theory, Genre & Rhetoric)