Konstfack Collection

Editors: Magnus Bärtås, Andrej Slávik

Graphic design: Sandra Praun

ISBN: 978-91-85549-20-7

Published by:
Konstfack
University College of Arts, Crafts and Design

Funded by: Vetenskapsrådet (National Research Council)

The video essay can be said to treat its subject matter in a critical and investigative way while at the same time reflecting its processes and its considerations. It shares this preoccupation with the small, marginalized stories with an approach within the field of history, so-called microhistory. Here one studies habits and routines rather than deliberate actions, underlying mentalities rather than explicit views. In microhistory the exception is more interesting than the rule, including the everyday, the overlooked details – all this that can prove to be as important as the “grand” recognized history. This publication brings together the results of a three year artistic research project which brought together prominent practices and theoreticians within three fields – art, artistic research and microhistory – in order to build shared knowledge.

Microhistories är en antologi som publiceras på Konstfack Collection. Boken innehåller text och bild från ett forskningsprojekt med samma namn, som genomförts på Konstfack med stöd av Vetenskapsrådet. Microhistories behandlar videoessäns form. Ett kännetecken för videoessäer är att de tar upp ett fenomens detaljer för att visa hur dessa detaljer är en del av ett större sammanhang. Denna upptagenhet av de små, marginaliserade berättelserna delar den med ett historievetenskapligt angreppssätt som kallas mikrohistoria. Här studerar man vanor och rutiner snarare än överlagda handlingar, bakomliggande mentaliteter snarare än uttalade föreställningar.

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CONTENT:

**Andrej Slávik **Preface: Towards a Community of Style

Magnus Bärtås The Miracle of Tensta (Theoria)

‘[…] Dynamism in a Single Image.’
Twelve Snapshots from a Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg

SNAPSHOT 1: So, I was in Pisa as a student […]

Andrej Slàvik Microhistory and Cinematic Experience: Two or Three Things I Know about Carlo Ginzburg

SNAPSHOT 2: I came to Bologna in 1970 […]

Michelle Teran Folgen

SNAPSHOT 3: Allora, ‘microhistory’ […]

Suzana Milevska Ágalma: The ‘Objet Petit a,’ Alexander the Great, and Other Excesses of Skopje 2014

SNAPSHOT 4: […] you may say: ‘This is promising!’

Lars-Henrik Ståhl A Kind of Friend

Mika Hannula Life: A Narrative in Three Dimensions

SNAPSHOT 5: […] narration at every stage […]

Lina Selander Model of Continuation

The Touch of the Reel: A Conversation between Lina Selander, Oscar Mangione and Axel Andersson

Lina Selander Silphium

SNAPSHOT 6: ‘So, after all, you can do this!’

Behzad Khosravi Noori The Fluid Narrative of Marginography: The Necessity of Microhistory in the Hyper-Politicized Time/Place/Body in Pirooz Kalantari’s Films

Lena Séraphin The Gravity of the Eye

SNAPSHOT 7: […] a sort of counter-poison […]

Michelle Teran Rupture Sessions

SNAPSHOT 8: ‘That’s frivolous, no, I can’t do that!’

Suzana Milevska Microhistories and the Internalization of Macrohistories – a Case Study: Liljana Gjuzelova’s Projects Eternal Recurrence and Woman’s Book at the Intersection between Microhistories and Macrohistories

SNAPSHOT 9: […] and then… let’s fight!

Magnus Bärtås The Strangest Stranger

SNAPSHOT 10: […] different pieces in different colors […]

Andrej Slávik Microhistory Goes Public: From Ginzburg’s paradigma indiziario to Weizman’s Forensic Turn

SNAPSHOT 11: Invariably? We’ll see!

Lina Selander The Offspring Resembles the Parent

SNAPSHOT 12: […] dynamism in a single image.

Magnus Bärtås Epilogue: Big ships and small boats

Biographies