Topos Bokforlag

Photographing urban environments and architecture for more than a decade, Cities of the West is interested in what common denominators can be found between several cities of the West. As a keen observer picking up on psychogeography and atmospheric tension, Lybeck are interested in what architecture and public spaces can tell us about our attitude towards humanity.

Essay by Marius Moldvær.

Artistic practice as a voice of discourse and reaction. An inquiry into the petroleum industry, its technologies, impact and how these shape the understanding of nature and human sense of self in a time of ecological entanglements. The topic is pursued by investigating the notion of gesture, technology and commodification in our industrial age, questioning our image of nature, its status as a resource, and what kind of self understanding our instrumental world view has created. With the increasing knowledge of climate change and other human caused ecological disturbances; What future are we shaping and what choices can we make? Process publication that samples images, essays, interviews and object archive from TTT project https://www.technologicaltwilight.com/

Jeg har mindre til felles med dette landskapet (I have less in common with this landscape) by Peter Dean is based on Dean's artist in residence work in Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard. The book contains analogue photographs, field notes and sketches of phenomenological investigations of the landscape around the researcher town of Ny-Ålesund. Deans explorations leads us to the Austre-Brøgger glacier, which is one of the world's fastest melting glaciers. The book examinates and problematizes humans’ relationship with nature, and Svalbard as an object of colonialism. This continues today in the form of tourism, research and strategic presence on the archipelago.

An essay written during the spring of 2021 is icluded in the publication. Dean reflects about the experience of his visit to Svalbard in 2016, as a professional artist and responsible adult, motivated by his first visit as a four-year-old child in 1995. The text questions the romanticizing of nature as something wild and untouched, and how he now is critical of his own travel back to Svalbard.

In 2019 Arild Våge Berge was commissioned to make a public artwork for the new building of Sogn og Fjordane Regional Court and and Sunnfjord and Ytre Sogn land consolidation court in collaboration with Art in Public Spaces (KORO), Norway.

For the making of the installation that now adorns in the foyer of the court building in Førde, the artist travelled through the county previously known as Sogn and Fjordane, now part of Vestland county. Berge collected items and made encounters with persons living and working in the region. The collected material was then used as components for the art installation.

The publication Forhandlingar (negotiations) is a photographic and textual account of the journeys Berge made around the county. The book also contains documentation of the archive of objects Berge built up during this period, and which were used to construct the sculptures and installations in the court foyer.

Europa is a photographic essay which chronicles the artist’s travels throughout the European continent during the years of 2015-2018. Thirty-eight atmospheric black-and-white photographs depict landscapes, seas and cities. Accompanied with its abandoned objects, creatures, humans and historical traces. The continent is understood as one holistic land mass, unaffected by national borders and common dogmatisms. Looking beyond the current political climate, the book offers a way to reacquaint with the beautifully diverse and mystical Europe.

The artist has been working with photography for more than a decade. His practice as a photographer is greatly influenced by the traditions of straight photography and of photojournalism from the forties, fifties and sixties. Employing a formal and non-staged style of photography, he carries the legacy into contemporary practice.

Noöspherics is a book by Erin Sexton. It includes process and traces of her 2017 solo exhibition Noösphere (Lydgalleriet, Bergen, NO), as well as interviews with and essays by her local and international collaborators, discussing neuroscience, dance and rhythm, collective consciousness, UFOs, Norse mythology, radio technology, and art.

Erin Sexton (b1982) is a Canadian artist whose works could be described as ritualistic science fiction experiments. They accelerate toward speculative futures where alternate modes of perception might somehow liberate us. In her sculptures and installations she tries to blur the boundaries between abstract models and everyday objects, searching for playful potential within paradox. Global warming and existential threat are undercurrents in her work, explored through expanded notions of time and materiality. As a licensed amateur radio operator (LB9OH/VE2SXN), transmission and collaboration are central to her practice.