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SUMMARY:Edvard Munch's Photography: The Experimental Self
DESCRIPTION:The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography\, an exhibition organized by American-Scandinavian Foundation with The Munch Museum in Oslo that first brought the photographic work of the master painter to NYC in 2017/18 before traveling worldwide\, returns to Scandinavia House this winter with a newly conceived design and a section including vintage camera equipment alongside the release of the 2020 illustrated book The Experimental Self: The Photography of Edvard Munch\, awarded with diploma as one of The Year’s Most Beautiful Books\, 2021 by Grafill\, Norway’s National Organization for Visual Communication. \nInternationally celebrated for his paintings\, prints\, and watercolors\, Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) also took photographs. In 2017/18\, the exhibition The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography at Scandinavia House drew widespread acclaim for introducing audiences to his photographic and film work\, emphasizing the artist’s experimentalism and examining his exploration of the camera as an expressive medium. This exhibition includes Munch’s experimental portraiture of friends and family as well as his self-portraiture\, including images from what he termed his “Fatal Destiny” portfolio\, staged between 1902 and 1908. By probing and exploiting the dynamics of “faulty” practice\, such as distortion\, blurred motion\, eccentric camera angles\, and other photographic “mistakes\,” Munch photographed himself and his immediate environment in ways that rendered them poetic. In both still images and in his few forays with a hand-held moving-picture camera\, Munch not only archived images\, but invented them. As a recent Financial Times Magazine review of the works states\, “Munch’s mercurial snapshots trace the survival of an artist obsessed with loss… his photographs remain tantalisingly opaque a century on.” \nHaving since traveled to eight venues worldwide\, including Seattle\, Oslo\, Stockholm\, Fredrikssund (Denmark)\, and Bergen\, the exhibition will be returning to Scandinavia House beginning December 10 in a new iteration\, including photographic enlargements and a display of the amateur camera models similar to those he used in his work. The exhibition will also feature a “selfie station” for visitors to interact with Edvard Munch’s experimental self-portraiture\, as well as the opportunity to browse the new publication\, which includes 120 fully illustrated pages alongside essays by curator Patricia G. Berman\, Tom Gunning and MaryClaire Pappas\, available for purchase in the Shop. On loan from the Munch Museum in Oslo\, Norway\, the approximately 50 copy prints in the exhibition and a continuous projection of Munch’s films will be accompanied by contextualizing didactic panels as well as a video presentation. It has been organized by the American-Scandinavian Foundation in partnership with The Munch Museum in Oslo\, Norway. It has been supported by the Inger and William Ginsberg Support Fund.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/edvard-munchs-photography-the-experimental-self-2/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:EXTREME NORTH
DESCRIPTION:On March 24\, Scandinavia House and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a virtual program with acclaimed author Bernd Brunner and renowned Germanist\, writer\, and mastermind of @neinquarterly\, Eric Jaronski! In today’s program\, hear a reading by Brunner from his latest book\, Extreme North (W. W. Norton\, February 2022)\, translated by Jefferson Chase – an entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North\, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmaking – followed by a conversation with Jarosinski. \nScholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North\, whether it be as a frozen no-man’s-land\, an icy realm of marauding Vikings\, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers\, colonists\, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern “cabinet of wonders” and imbued Scandinavia\, Iceland\, and the Arctic with a perennial mystique. Like the mythological sagas that inspired everyone from Wagner to Tolkien\, Extreme North explores both the dramatic vistas of the Scandinavian fjords and the murky depths of a Western psyche obsessed with Nordic whiteness. \nIn concise but thoroughly researched chapters\, Brunner highlights the cultural and political fictions at play from the first “discoveries” of northern landscapes and stories\, to the eugenicist elevation of the “Nordic” phenotype (which in turn influenced America’s limits on immigration)\, to the idealization of Scandinavian social democracy as a post-racial utopia. Brunner traces how crackpot Nazi philosophies that tied the “Aryan race” to the upper latitudes have influenced modern pseudoscientific fantasies of racial and cultural superiority the world over. The North\, Brunner argues\, was as much invented as discovered. Full of glittering details embedded in vivid storytelling\, Extreme North is a fascinating romp through both actual encounters and popular imaginings\, and a disturbing reminder of the power of fantasy to shape the world we live in. \nThis event will take place as a Zoom webinar; registration is required at the link above. Registered attendees will receive Zoom webinar information via email prior to the event. \n \nAbout the Speakers\nBernd Brunner is an historian\, lecturer\, and author of many acclaimed books whose work has also appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly\, the Paris Review\, and Aeon\, among other outlets. He splits his time between Istanbul and Berlin. \nEric Jarosinski is a writer\, speaker\, and German scholar. He is best known\, however\, as the editor of @NeinQuarterly\, a Compendium of Utopian Negation found on Twitter.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/extreme-north/
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SUMMARY:Music on Park Avenue with Per Tengstrand & Opus - The Schumann concerto
DESCRIPTION:Music on Park Avenue is back! The popular series hosted by Scandinavia House and Per Tengstrand welcomes its audience back to Victor Borge Hall beginning in the fall of 2021. Beginning in February 2022\, the chamber music group Opus @ Princeton University will return for the final three concerts of the season\, continuing their popular performances with Tengstrand of piano concertos in chamber settings as well as chamber music works.  \nIn tonight’s performance\, Tengstrand and Opus will perform “Piano Concerto in A minor\, Op. 54\,” the only concerto written by Robert Schumann. Of all the romantic piano concertos\, this might be one that works best in a chamber setting; having gone through years of failed attempts to write a concerto for piano\, Schumann finally succeeded with this one\, which became one of the most popular concertos in the repertoire. \nTickets to this event must be purchased in advance online at the link above; concerts will take place in Victor Borge Hall. Attendees are required to follow all Scandinavia House safety protocols\, including wearing masks during the program and observing social distancing rules in signage. Please read our full safety protocols here. \nMusic on Park Avenue will conclude with a performance on April 21\, 2022. \nThe Music on Park Avenue concert series is supported in part by a generous grant from The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and in part by the Lynn Carter Fund of the ASF. \nABOUT PER TENGSTRAND\nPer Tengstrand has firmly established himself as one of today’s most exciting pianists. He has been described by The Washington Post as “technically resplendent\, powerful\, intuitively secure\,” and by The New York Times as “a superb Swedish pianist” whose recital “was rewarding\, both for its unusual programming and for his eloquent\, technically polished performances.”Tengstrand is the subject of the acclaimed Swedish documentary The Soloist\, directed by Magnus Gertten and Stefan Berg (Sweden\, 2003)\, which was featured at the International Festival of Cinema and Technology in New York. \nIn 2005 he was decorated by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden with the “Litteris et Artibus” Medal for outstanding service to the arts. During the pandemic\, Per started making music documentaries which were viewed and appreciated by people all over the world. As this line of work will continue\, the documentary Beethoven and the Freedom of the Will is planned to have its world premiere at Scandinavia House in 2022. \nABOUT OPUS\nFounded in 2014 by Edward Leung ’16 and Jisoo Kim ’16\, Opus (formerly Opus 21) is dedicated to bringing an eclectic repertory of chamber music to Princeton University and beyond. Consisting of a select roster of undergraduate pianists and string players\, Opus presents innovative programming\, embracing both traditional and contemporary repertoire. Committed to new music\, members of Opus were invited to perform the North American premiere of composer Sam Wu’s “dolphin song” at the 2015 APAP|NYC\, the world’s largest networking forum and marketplace for performing arts professionals. \nMost recently\, Opus was the featured artist at the Helsingborg Music Festival in Sweden\, giving multiple concerts at prestigious venues. As cultural ambassadors\, Opus strives to broaden the public’s interest in chamber music and collaborate with other peer institutions and conservatories. Upcoming performances feature collaborations Harvard\, Yale and Columbia Universities.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/music-on-park-avenue-with-per-tengstrand-opus-the-schumann-concerto/
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