freethought: Bergen Assembly
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3173
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Bergen Assembly, Norway
- Open access status
- -
- Month of first exhibition
- September
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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V - Visual Cultures
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Founded in 2011 by the author, freethought organizes public research and studies as a way of curating urgencies. The project The Bergen Assembly was co-curated by the .freethought collective and The Norwegian Triennial in 2016. It focused on the thematic of ‘Infrastructure’. The project benefitting from a €1.5 million budget. It implemented an extended programme of events and activities across the city of Bergen beginning in 2014 and culminating in the Triennal exhibition in 2016 with exhibitions, performances, music events, conferences, an ongoing culture café site and publications.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The Bergen Assembly (The Norwegian Triennial) 2016 was co-curated by the freethought collective (cofounded in 2011 by Irit Rogoff) on the thematic of ‘Infrastructure’. Benefitting from a €1.5 million budget, an extended programme of events was initiated across the city of Bergen beginning in 2014, culminating in exhibitions, performances, music events, conferences and a culture café site. _x000D_
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freethought researches and develops protocols for public study and research as forms of curatorial engagement (the “the curation of urgencies”) and also includes Stefano Harney (Singapore), Adrian Heathfield (UK), Massimiliano Mollona (UK), Nora Sternfeld (Germany and Austria) and Louis Moreno (UK and Ghana). Inventing new forms of embodied, visualized, performative research that assembles communities around it, the freethought initiative comes at a moment of new coalitions between civic institutions, innovative research modes based in practice and engagement and new political actors emerging from within grass roots movements. _x000D_
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Informing freethought’s practice is Rogoff’s theoretical and pedagogical work on ‘The Curatorial’ – including her Curatorial/Knowledge graduate programmes and the new BA (Hons) in Curating at Goldsmiths – in which new forms of exhibition-making are studied and practised. freethought’s work encourages knowledge developed in research intensive environments to circulate beyond the academy and the development of platforms within the art world that can support such wide engagement. _x000D_
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The impact of Bergen Assembly 2016’s ‘Infrastructure’ proposition on the city included a two-and-a-half-year City Seminar as an extrainstitutional education practice, collaboration with civic institutions such as the Public Library and Literaturhaus, and the redeployment of historic buildings destined for commercial development into cultural centers. The second stage of freethought’s infrastructure project is ‘Spectral Infrastructure’ at BAK Utrecht beginning in February 2020 and continuing to April 2022.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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