læs bogen her - Den Frie

PIA ARKE: Nature Morte alias Perlustrationer 1‐10, 1994
guilt and shame of this history. And I guess I would like to
ask, in response to Irit’s point on Danish brand and identity
- what does this shame and guilt consist of?
Irit Rogoff (IR): What I was trying to think about is maybe
slightly different. It has to do with part of the nation, which
means consciousness of one’s self and it often has to do
with precisely setting limits and then the intensification of
what happens within it. I was thinking, while looking at the
photograph, that it looks too much like the Wild West. It
borders Denmark, but it is so many many miles away. The
frontiers that limit the horizon to one’s nation, and the fact
that it is connected to adventure and exploration, also represents
a kind of a liberation of the stuffiness of an overcoded
and over-restricted bourgeois life, which is what the
Wild West is. So it seems to me that there is a whole set
of relations that one needs to think about in terms of how
it is constituted here. I was also thinking about the fact
that every year we have quite a number of students from
Denmark at Goldsmiths College in one of our programmes,
and they have a very strong investment in cosiness - something
we find very difficult to understand and engage with
critically. So if the frontier is that far away, how does that
constitute the whole nation in terms of cosiness, domesticity,
interiority and so on? It seems to me in the mutuality of
those relations, geographically in terms of consciousness,
that there is an enormous amount to think about.
MJ: I would like to ask Carsten about his talk on artistic research.
Is it something you connect with in the artist’s work
in particular? Does it spring from that?
Carsten Juhl (CJ): Yes, to a certain degree. I had wondered
about it when I wrote a book on global aesthetics and world
feelings. When doing that, I thought there was some kind of
dialogue going on, also because we had some major prob-
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