Djup Tid

Review by Nina Øverli

Exhibition review by Nina Øverli, published in Art+Australia
November 2019

Installation view of Djup Tid at Sörmlands Museum, 2019. Photo: Valdemar Asp

‘It is rare to see a convincing curatorial strategy that can create and convey a continuous expansion of the potential of the same artworks into different constellations and contexts. This strategy for ongoing dialogue—between the co-curators and artists, the artworks and museum objects— that expands over time and geographical locations is exciting. It feels new because it is not in a rush to define itself or the artworks it exhibits, but instead embraces the potential for continuous change. This elasticity feels refreshing; it lets go of the notion of the singular ‘super-curator’ or ‘star’ artist. Let’s hope for more of this style of curating; collaborative, inclusive, non-linear, its geographical and temporal locations expanded, yet respectful and attentive enough to maintain and reflect key concerns of the different artworks involved.’ - Nina Øverli

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Exhibition
Sörmlands Museum
4/10— 2019

This exhibition draws paralells between the depth and the surface, between what has happend inside the earth for hundreds of millions of years, with our experience right now on its outermost layer. Organised and co-curated with Joanna Nordin from Sörmland's Museum.

Exhibition
Blue Mountain Cultural Center25/5 — 2019

Within Deep Time: Scratching the surface of the antipode

Within Deep-Time: scratching the surface of the antipode - the first ‘ showing’ of our underground research, where writers, curators and artists all came up for air to set in motion a set of unlikely strategies to connect the antipodes and underground realities of Sweden and Australia.

Sound

Recordings and conversations

Curator introduction: screening program, Within Deep-Time: scratching the surface of the antipode including the premier of David Haines and Joyce Hinterding’s new work The Grounding Ungrounding, 2018.

Text
by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris

Fossils pose in museums and burn in our airplanes

Fossils pose in museums and burn in our aeroplanes. Figures from beneath our feet build the past, present and proclaim futures. As curators, it is urgent for us to share the work of these critical artists who attempt to understand this question of ‘what lies beneath our feet?’ Now the so-called Anthropocene has begun, how artists engage with geological thinking and concepts of deep time have become burning questions.

Text
by Nina Stromqvist

Entanglement in the far noth, published in A+A, 2019

Curator and writer, Nina Stromqvist set out to review the Gothenburg International Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2019, and took an unexpected turn downwards into the underground where she uncovered the entangled histories of her ancestors.

Contributors

Artists and Reseachers

Artists, curators, thinkers and makers, seaweed, stones, jellyfish and bones, Within Deep Time is held together by a constellation of humans and non-humans who like to think-together around deep time.

Related Deep Time

On looking Down …
(and other metaphorical digs)

Texts, research, links and resources.

This project has been assisted by
the Australian Government through
the Australia Council for the Arts
its funding and advisory body.

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