Artistic Research Lecture Series: Liv Bugge
Di. 9.6.2026
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Visual artist Liv Bugge takes a starting point in the language she learned growing up in a dogyard for this lecture on how she thinks around artistic research, language, knowledge and learning. Her presentation invites a collective reflection on how learning, affect, and politics might emerge from acts of contact rather than control.
„The dogyard taught me the grammar of being a visual artist. If my Norwegian or English is like a trail, the language I learned in the dogyard, with the dogs, on hikes and trips, is a language that is more like a landscape. And that is how I feel about visual art, too. There are a multitude of things that are active at the same time, so this language resides somewhere beyond subject and object divisions. There are words, but the main grammar is somewhere else, in our bodies, between our bodies, and I am not sure where it is in time, maybe simultaneously past, present, and future…“
Liv Bugge’s research explores how mechanisms in society are internalized and contribute to the maintaining of normative notions and ethics around, for example, such dichotomies as life and non-life or human and nature. She has a practice informed by queer and feminist perspectives and was during the period 2012-2020 running the platform FRANK together with artist Sille Storihle.
Liv Bugge’s research explores how mechanisms in society are internalized and contribute to the maintaining of normative notions and ethics around, for example, such dichotomies as life and non-life or human and nature. She has a practice informed by queer and feminist perspectives and was during the period 2012-2020 running the platform FRANK together with artist Sille Storihle.