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Nina Poulsen / Nitte Alter

I am an anthropologist currently working on a PhD project concerned with contemporary art exhibitions. Here is a list of some of the questions I am interested in, if anyone should have any interesting thoughts that they would like to share with me on some of these themes and issues, you should be more than welcome to get in touch:

How can we study, analyze and represent the material processes of cultural change within the global system?
How does the global traffic in culture happen?
How do artistic objects change their meaning and value and which are the actors and institutions involved in these processes of (ex)change?
What is the meaning of time in contemporary art?
How is the notion of art appropriated by emerging art markets/ new art communities? (virtually, geographically, politically, economically, aesthetically speaking)

Inspiring and inspired visitors

I spent the morning yesterday in the exhibition and had a lot of interested and interesting visitors. It seems to be easier to introduce the concept of the exhibition and of SL from a recognizable context, which New Berlin perfectly provides. People often seem to get very inspired and start developing ideas and concepts for [...]

What is a piece of art compared to the feeling of being able to fly?

My first day at the exhibition as well as first day in SL, so I didn’t have much of a head start compared to the visitors in SMK. Not underestimating the quality and value of both Sachiko Hayashi and Mogens Jacobsens works which both caused great excitement, surprise and discussions, I did find, though, that [...]