People & Things / Folk & Ting

Folk & Ting - People & Things online art project (bottom right story is translated to english)
in collaboration with
The Museum of Post War Reconstruction, Hammerfest
part of Museale Forstyrrelser - Norsk Kulturråd / Museal disturbances by Arts Council Norway
2009

Finnmark and Northern Troms, in the far north of Norway, experienced a devastating attack on their society during world war 2: the scorched earth tactic: Everything was burned down. This art work is based on a series of interviews and photographs, investigating whether that kind of collective experience still might create a certain kind of interest in 1) things - since they lost everything -  or 2) an openness towards foreign people - since they themselves, or their grand parents, had the experience of being refugees, in need of being welcomed others, in the south of Norway - all within remembered history.

Notes: Photo, sound, text - Interviews - Stories - Four small pieces - Contemporary Finnmark - War experience - Relations to things - When strangers become people - Vadsø - Hammerfest - The Museum of Post War Reconstruction -Arts Council Norway - Partly translated/partly norwegian

On the People&Things site: the Hans Edvard Bentsen-film (bottom right), is translated - and the one above (top right) should be possible to understand anyhow.

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