Mar. 12, 2017
The Hardbakka Ruins Project has recently launched the open call for its 5th and final year workshop and exhibition program. For this occasion, participants are invited to consider the relationship between…[read on]
Article by Dorrell Merritt in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2016
The Hardbakka Ruins project is an annual site specific art workshop, focusing on architectural ruins of military, industrial and agricultural structures within Bergen, Norway. The project, is now…[read on]
Blog post – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015.
For this year’s workshop and exhibition, Hardbakka Ruins Project relocates to the city of Bergen. Keeping the Hardbakka Ruins in mind…
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Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Apr. 21, 2014.
Since the 1990s there has been a considerable push in art practice towards socially-engaged, participatory methods. Instead of removing art from the ‘useless’ domain of aesthetics and relocating it into praxis or politics, this year’s
Hardbakka Ruins Project aims to think about art as existing in an ambiguous territory that deals with complex social concerns like political engagement, affect, inequality, class, narcissism, and social norms….
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