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Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften | 17. Nr. |
Februar 2010 |
| Sektion 4.5. | Arctic, Antarctica, Alps, Art – Imagining the Extreme / Natural Sciences, Humanities, Arts – Dialoguing SektionsleiterInnen | Section Chairs: Knut Ove Arntzen (Universität Bergen), Gabriele Rampl (Scinews, Innsbruck) und Victoria Joan Moessner (University of Alaska) |
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WORLD FLAGS - a visual art project –
concept and produced by Elsebet Rahlff
Elsebet Rahlff (visual artist, Bergen, Norway) [BIO]
Email: rahlff@c2i.net
This art work creates a dialogue between art, culture and nature. It consists of symbols and signals from the whole world, shown through the traditional national flags, made transparent by perforated holes and by being multicoloured grey. World Flags strongly connects to the contextual space where they are shown . Bringing up and suggesting questions related to new risks : the environment, the body, identity, disease, multiculturalism etc. This art project is shown in special chosen locations, in a variety of contexts, throughout the world. It is hereby put into a never ending process and development, challenging and being challenged by the surroundings . World Flags only needs one colour : the multicolour of grey, which is not found in any of the national flags from before. World Flags are shown on installations of maximum 100 flagpoles on which the flags alternate, being 180 pieces. Some of the places World Flags have been shown until now are : MAM Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, Alexander Platz Berlin/Germany, Nordic House Reykjavik/Iceland, European Parliament Brussels/Belgium, The Festival Square Bergen/Norway.
World Flags close up
World flags EU parlamentet BXL
World flags Festival Square Bergen
World flags Festival Square Bergen 2
World flags Festival Square Bergen 3
4.5. SektionsArctic, Antarctica, Alps, Art – Imagining the Extreme / Natural Sciences, Humanities, Arts – Dialoguing
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