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Pinholecam registrations 2008-2015: GLStrand II

Grand Complications

Peru III

År seks hundre millioner og søtten etter det første primitive kretsløpet

Chemical spills XV

Magnesium sulfat og gummispray på papir, innrammet


Chemical spills III 

Pinhole cam series 2008-13: Kunstnernes hus

Pinholecam registrations 2008-13: Kunsthaus Essen

Risotrykk på 170 g papir, fra Pauseromsplakater, en solidaritetsaksjon fra kunstnere til sykepleiere. 60% av summen går til Leger uten grenser

Pauseromsplakat

Wiggle Room is a non-linear, retrospective, image-based book. The book provides a comprehensive presentation of Andrea Bakketun's artistic practice over the past seventeen years. It explores what happens when works are resumed with new experiences and fields of interest, and what appears when they are connected across time and context.

Monumental soap sculptures, pump systems, video collages, research-based projects and kinetic sculptures directed by insects — Bakketun's works operate in a state of flux, processed through a rich spectrum of materials and media. The fragility and impermanence of the relationship between subject and object in the world around us is explored intuitively and in an eclectic manner. In Bakketun's work, however, the juxtaposition itself takes precedence over the parties involved; it is in the combination of elements that the works arise. The processes can be reminiscent of alchemical activity in which driftwood from consumer society is joined with the forces of nature.

Together with designer Franziska Nast, Bakketun has worked with her own image archive as an open material and source. They have fragmented and reassembled works in an undulating dramaturgical and non-hierarchical way. Wiggle Room allows several directions at the same time and explores the openness to change, new connections and derailments in Bakketun's work. Works are reactivated and meet across time and context. The reader is also given the opportunity to form new narratives, without any right answer or direction.
The picture material in the book is accompanied by newly written texts by musician and artist Espen Sommer Eide (NO) and curator and writer Maija Rudovska (LV), in addition to text work and diary notes written by Bakketun herself.

The book is published on its own and together with Grand Complications, a 212-page book published by Distanz Verlag in 2020.

Arts Council Norway, The Audio and Visual Fund, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard's foundation and the Visual Artists' Remuneration Fund have supported the book.

Concept and design:                   
Franziska Nast

Text:  
Espen Sommer Eide and Maija Rudovska

Copy editing:  Jason Havneraas

Printed by: Livonia Print

Published by:  Grieg Wyller forlag, Santolarosa and Textem Verlag, 2023

Hardback, swiss bind, 336 pages

Wiggle Room

Chemical spills X

Leaving space for a thousand years

Peru IV

Soskjerm med trykk (sugekopper følger med, slik at arbeidet kan festes på vindu)

Solskygge (hund)

Big dogs

Pinholecam registrations 2008-15: GLStrand III

Natriumhydrogensulfat på papir, innrammet

Chemical spills XIV

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Andrea Bakketun

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