UiT Norway’s Arctic University, Harstad, in the canteen Panorama , 2nd floor.
En panelsamtale som dreier rundt tema for AMIFF 2022; Rewind and Return.
Panel members: HC Gilje (artist), Helene Sommer (artist), Pål Johan Karlsen (doctorate in psycology and editor of Psykologisk.no). Moderator: Hanne Hammer Stien (art historian at UiT Norway’s Arcitc University)
This year’s theme of AMIFF is prepared by Ida Lykken Ghosh. Here is her curator text:
“Through storytelling, archives and a historical retrospective, we want to examine the relationship between the present and the past. What do we bring with us in to the future and what do we choose to learn from the past? The pandemic seems to have caused us a collective amnesia and has erased certain timelines that were previously well defined. Has our memory become more selective or is it ourselves who consciously or unconsciously choose to edit out parts of our recent past?
In contrast to last year's festival, which bore the title The New World and largely wanted to look forward in a post-pandemic landscape, both in a political and economic aspect, with this year's festival we want to go deeper into the personal stories and look at the choices we make on an individual level.
Ghosh has invited HC Gilje to create a commissioned work for the festival. HC Gilje has moved between installation, experimental video, live performance and scenography since he graduated from the Art Academy in Trondheim in 1999. Gilje is concerned with exploration, mainly through installations, the perception of change and the transformation of physical structures (rooms, landscapes, objects , bodies) through volatile media such as light, projection, sound and movement. Gilje will make a new film based on local finds and collections in the local area.
In the work around the theme for this year's festival, where storytelling and archives are the main elements, artist Helene Sommer is a natural choice. Sommer mainly works with video, installation, text and collage, often with archival material and the mechanisms of storytelling as a starting point.
For AMIFF 2022, we are planning a two-part retrospective screening of Sommer's video productions from the period 2005 – 2021 as well as a conversation with the curator.”
Ida Lykken Ghosh