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We wish you all a wonderful holiday season!
This year has been full of adversity as well as stories of recovery and redemption, and we face the new year with hope and optimism.
2020 has been a productive year for CAS, despite disruptions to our residencies and local programming. Weâre proud to have collaborated with more writers and published more articles than ever before, and have strengthened our commitment to supporting artists and writers in every way possible. Below, weâve gathered some of our favorite articles that reflect in their own ways the challenges and resilience of the art world throughout the last year.
We have also grown our staff, and are thrilled to welcome Maiken Winum as a new addition to our CAS editorial team!
We are grateful to all of you who read our articles, contribute to our Arts Calendar and continue to support CAS. Most importantly, we want to thank our writers for their poignant, relevant, innovative, challenging and personal contributions to our local arts discourse. You make our work possible.
Holiday Reading
We would like to encourage everyone to support their local artists! Read CAS Editor Heather Jones' thoughts on buying and selling art in Collecting Art in a Time of Global Crisis.
For those located in Stavanger, a visit to the exhibition From the Balcony at Stavanger Kunstmuseum will provide an insight into some of the region's many artworks. We recommend reading a full reviewof the exhibition in a good selection from the region by Maiken Winum.
Artist, organizer and writer Juliana Foronda's we meet at the edges is a poetic and subtle free-form text that takes common tables as a point of investigation â their structure, ubiquity, and their increasing importance as sites/locations for gatherings, work, and meetings.
Art historian, curator and writer Espen Johansen writes about art in the public space in the text In Search of the Immaterial Monument. He discusses issues affecting timeliness and monuments, and points to the importance of the examining the power structures at play in the commissioning process.
Our 2020 Research Focus has revolved around sound, and we have commissioned texts that investigate the concept from different perspectives. Stine Janvin's performative text The performance starts here invites the reader to perform a physical exercise around sound. The text later formed the basis for the performance Always With You, commissioned by the Munch Museum, which was her contribution to Performa NYC's Telethon and its 15th anniversary.
Welcome Maiken Winum
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Maiken Winum as an Editor at CAS! She has worked as a curator, cultural advisor and art critic for over 10 years. Winum holds an MA in Aesthetic Theory from the University of Stavanger, and has completed a post-Masters course in architecture at The Royal Academy â Design, Architecture, and Conservation in Denmark. In addition to her role at CAS, she is currently engaged in architectural projects, art writing, and the project Kunsthall Stavanger 2025. We look forward to working with her to further develop CAS in the years to come.