Post-Capitalist Architecture TV, Part 2

Project Spotlight: On nomadism and flow.

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A video still from Post-Capitalist Architecture TV shows artist Joar Nango at right, chatting with car mechanic Lan Paulsen who is driving the artist’s sprinter van.

Renowned Tromsø artists Joar Nango and director Ken-Are Bongo are creating their own digital TV series where they introduce their home and local environment in Sápmi. They travel through snow-covered landscapes with a mobile TV studio in their red sprinter and snowmobile. Along the way, they meet guests over a campfire coffee cup, such as academic researchers, craftsmen and activists. They explore popular construction techniques for large-scale political power structures that form the basis of the social structure in the north. Nango & Bongo takes us to the Post-Capitalist Architecture Universe (Pca-TV) and the ongoing study of architecture after the fall of capitalism.

A video still from Post-Capitalist Architecture TV shows artist Joar Nango at right, chatting with car mechanic Lan Paulsen who is driving the artist’s sprinter van.
Joar Nango and Ken Are Bongo, Post-Capitalist Architecture TV, Part 2: On nomadism and flow (video still) (2020).

Part 2: On nomadism and flow

Broadcasting from the Mercedes Sprinter he once drove from Tromsø to Athens as part of his participation in documenta 14, this is an episode on the road, looking at migration, relocation and the nomadic. The car will later play an important role in the work towards the exhibition—and in the exhibition itself—in Bergen. The episode includes conversations with anthropologist Dimitris Dalakoglou (VU University Amsterdam), archeologist on the contemporary Thora Petursdottir (University of Oslo), artist/lawyer Ande Somby from Tromsø, car-mechanic Lan Paulsen and artist, composer, filmmaker and producer Elle Márjá Eira.

Credit

The first three videos in the Post-Capitalist Architecture series were produced by Bergen Kunsthall as part of the official festival program for the Bergen International Festival in May 2020. COURTESY THE ARTISTS. 

This story is part of the Norway Partner Spotlight. View more content from the Spotlight here.