LIAF Lofoten International Art Festival
6 – 29 September 2013
Curators: Anne Szefer Karlsen
Bassam El Baroni
Eva González-Sancho
Lofoten, Norway
Artists
Bani Abidi, Sven Augustijnen, Ann Böttcher, Mircea Cantor, István Csákány, HC Gilje, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Shilpa Gupta, Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young, David Horvitz, Adelita Husni-Bey, Siniša Ilić, Adrià Julià, Mahmoud Khaled, Karl Larsson, Laida Lertxundi, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Oliver Ressler, Allen Ruppersberg, Walid Sadek, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Lisa Tan, Olivier Zabat, and Knut Åsdam, with Speakers Matthew Fuller, Aaron Levy, Aaron Schuster, Tiago Bom and Ayatgali Tuleubek
This corporate hotel was selected to install two video works
"Sunsets" (2012) was installed in one of the hotel's rooms on the eighth floor
The video "Notes from Underground" was installed in the hotel's underground parking garage
‘Just what is it that makes today so familiar, so uneasy?’ is the title of LIAF 2013. By rephrasing the title of the famous 1956 Richard Hamilton collage ‘Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?' LIAF intends to establish an aesthetic, intellectual, and political position by bringing the public and those shaping contemporary art discourse closer to a heightened and sensitive understanding of the conditions that shape our consciousness and existence today. LIAF 2013 will feature a balanced variety of art projects that create connections with each other and their surroundings, forming a circuit of intense emotions, ideas, and positions.
The scarcity of art institutional structures in Lofoten offers LIAF 2013 an opportunity to explore the current moment that can be described as a shift from a condition of successive crises followed by recoveries, to one where crises shape a new permanent condition. LIAF 2013 seriously considers this condition, immersing itself in the fabric of the local community, its domestic, commercial and public spaces while exploring the current moment's global uneasiness.