Gustav Vigeland is Norway's most famous sculptor. He died in 1949. Today I went to Vigelandmuseet and discovered he was a 100% confirmed Monsterfucker Enjoyer:

But hey don't you mlm monsterfuckers feel left out or anything, he's got you covered, too:

Didn't seem to be a big fan of the responsibilities of parenthood:

Also, a vehement character shipper.

"NOW KISS."

- Gustav Vigeland, probably

Very into encouraging the youths to explore their interests in veterinary medicine:

Sculpting people in trees and lifting cups:

And also just stacking loads of people like a mile high because suffering or something:

Vigeland was an pretty cool guy and you should look up his expressive & challenging art.

Christmas Prince Frog

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"Peer Gynt" (2019) - Erik Ulfsby

Films I've watched in 2023 (42/119)

A remarkable production in more ways than one.

Toralv Maurstad has for more than half a century, in Norway, been synonymous with the role of Peer Gynt. In this version he plays Peer as an old man looking back on his life, while seven other actors play Peer at various stages of life.

Ever present on stage, old Peer (Maurstad) and the Button Moulder (Svein Tindberg) observe as scenes from Peer's life are played out.

The costumes are interesting. While they're mostly white/grey, by the use of projected images and very carefully hit marks/positions on stage, several scenes start out with the characters seemingly in colourful, elaborate costumes.

Maurstad had suffered a stroke just a few years prior, so seeing him back on stage as Peer, at the age of 92, was extra special.

Thankfully it was recognised how important this production was as a piece of Norwegian theatre history, it was filmed and has been released on DVD by Naxos. I highly recommend getting and seeing it!

Frogner Park, Oslo 2001

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The start of Autumn. Frogner Park, Oslo, Norway. October 2023.

some of my favorite sculptures by Gustav Vigeland in Frogner Park, Olso

Research seminar: Postmemory and the archaeology of the ghost.

My subject: The Witness Blanket (2019) by Carey Newman

(English translation from French)

Carey Newman, The Witness Blanket, 2019, wood sculpture with inlay of various objects, Human Rights Museum, Winnipeg, Canada, 3.23 m x 11.96 m.

During the research seminar on postmemory and the archaeology of the ghost, I chose to work on Carey Newman's The Witness Blanket (2019). Newman's father is indigenous to the Hayalthkin'geme community. His father was separated from his family and sent to one of the rehabilitation residential schools that were located across Canada. He never told his children much about what happened to him or the violence he suffered.

I will present a short history of the residential schools, an analysis of part of Newman's work, and a conclusion. I will use testimonies from the artist's book, testimonies from other survivors, and articles about the children's living conditions.

To begin with, I need to outline the origins of schools for Aboriginal children. In 1876, Canada introduced the Indian Act. This law made it possible to control and discriminate against indigenous peoples. As Jacinthe Dion, Jennifer Hains, Amélie Ross, and Delphine Collin-Vézina explain, the Act was made up of several points: "measures linked to the colonization of Aboriginal peoples led to various traumas such as the loss of territory, confinement to reserves, drastic changes in lifestyles, the loss of traditional healing ceremonies and rituals, and the advent of residential schools to educate young people". The authors recount the period of operation of: "These institutions were set up by the Canadian government with the collaboration of religious institutions around 1880 and operated until the last school closed in 1996. According to Marie-Pierre Bousquet, Canada had: "Officially, there were one hundred and thirty-nine residential schools in Canada, at least recognized by the federal government for the purpose of paying compensation to former students […] In 1920, a new section of the Indian Act made schooling compulsory for Amerindian children aged 7 to 15". These boarding schools were camps set up to educate (according to the white colonizers) the indigenous people, or rather to destroy their identities and cultures.

The children separated from their families had to live in very harsh conditions in these institutions, leaving the after-effects described by Jean-François Roussel: "cultural and linguistic uprooting, serious damage to family ties, psychological, physical, sexual and spiritual violence". Many children died in these schools. There is no exact number, but Raymond Frogner and Dominique Fooisy-Geoffroy have drawn up a list of the victims:

"Around 150,000 children attended residential schools; More than 4,000 confirmed deaths; 400 unmarked burial sites; 32% of deaths where names were not recorded; 23% of deaths where sex was not recorded; 49% of deaths where the cause of death was not recorded; And, finally, several abandoned cemeteries". All this data was used by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2008 - 2015), to ensure that the government apologised to the victims of the residential schools (the survivors and the dead), to their families and communities, and also to compensate the victims. This act was recognised as cultural genocide, defined as "the destruction of structures and practices that enable groups to live together as groups".

Carey Newman, The Witness Blanket, 2019, wood sculpture with inlay of various objects, Human Rights Museum, Winnipeg, Canada, 3.23 m x 11.96 m.

It is in this context of recognition of the crime committed by the Canadian government and the church, but also of reconciliation, that the artist Carey Newman has worked on his work: The Witness Blanket (2019) in partnership with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The work is a sculpture. It is made from objects such as bricks, pieces of wood, and a door. They are salvaged from the rubble of residential schools, but also from donations by survivors of these schools, such as photos, letters, and personal objects from that era. All these elements are mounted and organized like a patchwork quilt on eight wooden panels. The motifs can be found in the culture of certain indigenous peoples. In the center of the room is a wooden door, also from a boarding school. Above the door is a copy of the Indian Act. To create the motif, the artist placed the objects in the same way. I decided to concentrate on three objects.

Carey Newman, The Witness Blanket, 2019, wood sculpture with inlay of various objects, Human Rights Museum, Winnipeg, Canada, 3.23 m x 11.96 m, close-up of the bowl.

In the sculpture is a yellow bowl representing the eating disorders of the father passed on to his children. This transmission is defined as post-memory, a term explained by literature professor Maria Hirsch: "The non-verbal, non-cognitive acts of memory transfer that occur within families in terms of symptoms. The painful psychosocial conditions experienced by parents in the past […] that children hear, see and feel in the present. Memory is tangible. It is embodied". With Newman's father, it was the fear of going hungry: Even today, my father's experience of eating at boarding school affects me and my family. For example, because I was taught not to waste food, it's still difficult for me not to eat everything I'm served […] When I had my own child, I realized that I was instilling in him the same harmful eating habits". The reason for this trauma of going hungry is the conditions in which these children lived. In Newman's book, there are testimonies from survivors. One of them explains what the victims ate: "the pupils were given moldy bread and cold, watered-down soup". There is also the punishment suffered by the father, which was passed on: "In boarding schools, pupils were often forced to finish everything on their plates. That's also what happened in my house when I was a child. I was told that if I didn't eat my dinner, I'd be served the same thing for breakfast". This simple story about food is passed down from generation to generation. If the generation that is the victim of this violence cannot close this chapter in its history (close, not forget), it runs the risk of passing on the same violence to the next generation. This bowl represents a trauma bequeathed to the next generation.

Carey Newman, The Witness Blanket, 2019, wood sculpture with inlay of various objects, Human Rights Museum, Winnipeg, Canada, 3.23 m x 11.96 m, close-up of the hairs.

In The Witness Blanket (2019), hair has been hung on one of the panels. This hair belongs to the artist's sisters. The reason for the presence of the girls' hair is to pay homage to their cultures. In indigenous culture, hair is very important. According to Newman, hair "represents strength and is only cut in times of mourning". Hair is an important element in indigenous culture. That's why, when children were sent to boarding schools, the heads of these institutions (priests and nuns) cut their hair with great violence. As writer and survivor, Bev Sellars explains: "Our hair was cut and we were 'deloused' with the pesticide DDT […] Although we held a towel over our face, some of the DDT fell out after we removed the towel, stinging our eyes and giving us a horrible taste". The aim was to humanize the children and create a racist stereotype of the dirty native.

Carey Newman, The Witness Blanket, 2019, wood sculpture with inlay of various objects, Human Rights Museum, Winnipeg, Canada, 3.23 m x 11.96 m, close-up of the door.

The door at the centre of the sculpture is part of the rubble of an infirmary at St. Michael's boarding school. Carey Newman chose it first and foremost for its sombre history: "because of the abuses committed in the boys' infirmary at St. Michael's […]". Although the artist does not go into detail about what might have happened in the infirmary, we can quickly imagine what might have taken place. In 2018, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation conducted a survey: "One in two Canadians is unaware of the existence of residential schools". The door in Newman's work is not closed, to represent a past that must not be forgotten. There are two handprints on the door: they are the handprints of the artist's daughter.

It's a way of including several generations in the same project, and it's also a way for these families to share their common histories. As Sarah Henzi, a professor of indigenous literature, describes it: "The legacy of the historical burden of different systems of assimilation reminds us that anger, pain, shame and racism are passed on from one generation to the next". Newman's sculpture helps to shed light on a forgotten part of history, while at the same time addressing the psychological plight of the victims and their families.

Bibliography

Books:

NEWMAN C. & HUDSON K., The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation, Victoria, Orca Book Publisher, 2022.

SELLARS B., They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School, Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2013.

Journals articles:

BOUSQUET M-P., « La constitution de la mémoire des pensionnats indiens au Québec », Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, N°46, 2016, p. 165-176.

DION J., HAINS J., ROSS A. & COLLIN-VÉZINA, « Pensionnats autochtones : impact intergénérationnel », Enfance et famille autochtones, N°25, 2016, p. 1-25.

HENZI S., « La grande blessure. Legs du système des pensionnats dans l’écriture et le film autochtones au Québec », Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, N°46, 2016, p. 199-211.

NICOLAOU A.,  « Postmemory at work in Maria Anastssiou’s Notes: Remembered and Found », Einkofi, 2023, p. 1-6.

ROGNER R. & FOISY-GEOFFROY D., « Qui sont ces enfants perdus ? Origine et conception du registre des noms des enfants autochtones décédés dans le système des pensionnats du Canada, selon le Centre national pour la vérité et conciliation », Archives, N°48, 2019, p. 149-159.

ROUSSEL J-F., « La Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada sur les pensionnats autochtones », Théologiques, N°23, 2015, p.31-58.

Podcast:

FONTAINE F., 21 décembre 2018, La reconnaissance du génocide culturel au Canada, [ émission de radio ], radiofrance, consulté le 04 avril 2023 à l’adresse suivante : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/la-reconnaissance-du-genocide-culturel-au-canada-8280696

frogner, norge / frogner, noreg / frogner, norway

New project

Tarjei will have a small role in the new movie called “Olsenbanden – Siste skrik!”. The movie will have it’s Norwegian premiere this autumn. 

Olsenbanden( The Olsen Gang ) is a Danish comedy film series about the eponymous fictional criminal gang. The gang members are harmless, extremely rarely target ordinary citizens, and never use violence. The first film came in 1968; during the next thirty years a total of fourteen films were made.

In the film “Olsenbanden – Siste skrik”, the ambitious, and somewhat unfortunate, goal of the criminal gang is to steal some Scream paintings from the Munch Museum. Lead roles are played by  Anders Baasmo, John Carew and Elias Holmen Sørensen.

source: https://www.nrk.no/kultur/charlotte-frogner-er-nye-_valborg_-1.15978243

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I am at Vigeland Park and Frogner Park.

What do you do on a lazy Sunday? Some days we love to go for a short walk, take an easy run or bike ride just to get outside and enjoy life. #presence #healthyexercise #healthyliving #healthypresence #rechargeyourself #refocus #beingtruetoyourself #liveauthentically #wellnesslifestyle #healthybeing #healthydoing #healthyliving #healthythinking #nowmindset #intelligentmindset #negotiatemindset #winningmindset #navigatemindset #growthmindset #mentalmastery #healthyplanning #peaceofmind #listentoyourheart #listentoyourbody #planyourlife #strategicplanning #effectiveness #outdoorlife #timetorelax #rebalanceyourbody #rebalanceyourmind (ved Frogner Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChP8pWmKlQ-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Das Interview - Christopher Kieling (at Frogner) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeRIUynKlrO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

نشرة محاكم اوسلو الجنائية لهذا اليوم الجمعة 12 نيسان - ابريل 2024

صوت النرويج / الجمعة 12 نيسان - ابريل 2024 / أوسلو / نشرة اوسلو القضائية، نشرة صادرة عن صوت النرويج بتصريح من المكتب الاعلامي لمحكمة اوسلو الجنائية، واهم ما جاء فيها: تشهد القاعة 207 من محكمة اوسلو الجنائية محاكمة رجلين وامرأة وجهت لهم الشرطة تهم ارتكاب جرائم مخدرات خطيرة، ووفق لائحة الاتهام، قام المتهمين بزراعة أكثر من 100 نبتة حشيش في غرفة في Haugenstua وقاموا بتركيب معدات كهربائية لمحاولة زراعة أكثر من 400 نبتة حشيش. وفي القاعة 316 تجري جلسة متابعة قضية جنائية تم تأجيلها سابقًا، حيث اتهم طبيب نفساني في أواخر الستينيات من عمره بإساءة استخدام منصبه لممارسة الجنس مع مريضة. تم تجريد المدعى عليه من تصريحه كطبيب نفساني في عام 2019، كما تم اتهامه بموجب قانون العاملين في مجال الصحة لأنه اساء للمهنة وللاطباء النفسيين. والى القاعة 327 حيث يحاكم رجل يبلغ من العمر 51 عامًا بتهمة طعن زوجته المنفصلة عنه في شقتهما المشتركة في منظقة Stovner. اما القاعة 317 فتشهد اتهام رجل وامرأة في أواخر الثلاثينيات من العمر بالسرقة المشددة والحرمان من الحرية. ووفق لائحة الاتهام، دخل المتهمين مع امرأة تبلغ من العمر 30 عاماً وشخصاً آخر، شقة رجل في Majorstua، وقاموا بربط يديه وتغطية عينيه وتهديده بسكين. وفي القاعة 369 تجري محاكمة رجل يبلغ من العمر 67 عامًا بتهم اغتصاب امرأة في العشرينات من عمرها في شقة في Frogner. والقاعة 818 تشهد محاكمة شاب يبلغ من العمر 33 عامًا بتهمة ارتكاب جريمة احتيال خطيرة على 15 ضحية وبمبلغ اكبر من 20 مليون كرونة نرويجية في شكل استثمارات مختلفة من 2016 إلى 2022. بينما تشهد القاعة 418 اتهام شاب في العشرينات من عمره بإيذاء جسدي خطير، وبحسب لائحة الاتهام قام المتهم باسقاط المجني عليه شخصًا في Youngstorget وضرب رأسه بالحجارة المرصوفة بالحصى. واكد التقرير الطبي إن الإصابات كانت مهددة للحياة وأدت إلى شلل جزئي. وختام النشرة مع محاكمة شاب في منتصف العشرينيات من العمر بتهمة اغتصاب شقيقته، التي لم تتمكن من مقاومة الجريمة.//انتهى/و.ك/التقاير/صوت النرويج/محاكم النرويج الجنائية/وزارة العدل/خاص     المحرر المسؤول : وسام كريم العزاوي           الاعداد والنشر: صوت النرويج اليوتيوب والتواصل الاجتماعي: علي العزاوي الصور: صوت النرويج التصاميم: صوت النرويج اليوتيوب: القناة على اليوتيوب التيكتوك: اذاعة صوت النرويج … برنامج انت والنرويج … برنامج صباح الخير اوسلو … معهد التدريب والتطوير الاذاعي والتلفزيوني النقل والاقتباس ونسخ الصور بدون الاشارة الى المصدر يعرضك لغرامة تصل الى 3000 كرون نرويجي Read the full article

Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway. October 2023.