Eva La Cour
Doctoral Student
The Film, Photography and Literary CompositionAbout Eva La Cour
Eva la Cour is a Danish visual artist and researcher with a background in fine arts as well as visual anthropology. She works with audio-visual and spatial forms of montage and display, performance and text, always negotiating with her surroundings. As such her work reflects a general interest in skilled visions, mediation and knowledge formations, which she particularly has investigated in relation to landscapes of authorship and ownership in High Arctic terrains.
At Valand Academy of Art Eva la Cour is a teacher and doctoral candidate with the practice-based artistic research project The Figure of the Guide: Mediating the Open Terrain.
More on the research project:
The Figure of the Guide: Mediating the Arctic Terrain is an artistic research project that seeks perspectives on the mediating agency of customary geopolitical, geohistorical and geoaesthetic approaches to the Arctic region, through live-narrated image performance constructions and essayistic film-experiments with collaborative live-editing.
The research uses years of fieldwork material from the High Arctic Archipelago Svalbard. This extraordinary unpeopled place that became peopled in the context of the colonialization of the Arctic, can in many ways can be regarded as a regional anomaly characterized by transient cosmopolitan communities. Nevertheless, Svalbard often functions visually representative. This makes it an interesting place to explore the figure of the guide as a tool to analyze the image-political Arctic, attending especially to the Arctic’s neo-colonial location in the context of environmental crisis. In this sense, the topic of the research hinges in the intersections between environmental histories and their mediation; imaginary geographies and their materialities. It bridges anthropological debates on practice and the construction of knowledge with contemporary discourses on decoloniality and materiality, which allows for modes of inquiring that lack previous research: Through a critical approach to the notion of the essayistic film-experiment, and use of collaborative live-editing, the research brings together questions of 'how to construct an altered sense of historical / contemporary narrative?' with 'how to share authorship and ownership in a live-situation?'. Because, this situates and skills the guide in a context of image production and political economy across artistic and scientific research.
Designed as a consecutive series of film-experiments, the PhD project is a time-space in which a work in progress is repeated and refined. While seeking perspectives on how artistic practices may enable a shift in focus from that of representation to that of mediation, it more generally speculates on the political and aesthetical implications of such a shift.
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Honeycomb Image/Archive
Cladding
Eva La Cour
The National Museum of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland. - 2019-01-01 -
XX’s
Linocuts
Eva La Cour
Kunsthal ved siden af, Svendborg, DK - 2019-01-01 -
Where and Whereto? / Sumi
Sumullu?
Eva La Cour, Jakob Jakobsen
Hospital Prison University Archive, Art Space in Copenhagen, DK - 2018-01-01 -
Live-editing as mediating
mechanism
Eva La Cour
The Creative Image conference, Manchester, UK - 2018-01-01 -
A Montage of Notes from Svalbard : Mediating the Arctic through Artistic
Research
Eva La Cour
Artistic visions of the Anthropocene North : climate change and nature in art - 2018-01-01 -
A montage of notes from Svalbard mediating the Arctic through Artistic
research
Eva La Cour
Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: Climate Change and Nature in Art - 2018-01-01 -
Weather phenomenology & Video
Historics
Eva La Cour
Skulpturlandsby Selde / Sculpture City Selde, 2017. Sculpture City Selde is a platform for art in public space. In 2017 the focus is video art and ten invited international artist engaged with the people of Selde as the subject and material for their video productions. The project aims to explore and experiment with the possibilities of video art. In 2016-2017 the artists visited the city to commence their site specific research and preparatory work, in fall 2017 the works are exhibited in Selde’s public areas. - 2017-01-01 -
Martin’s
Eye
Eva La Cour
Århus Kunsthal Contemporary art centre located at the centre of the city of Aarhus, Denmark. Later, in a significantly different version, at: The Swedish Research Council’s Symposium on artistic research, Stockholm (November 2017). - 2017-01-01 -
Arktisk
Station
Eva La Cour
Engelsholms Slot, Vejle, DK. A two day artistic gathering and program of presentations, organized and curated by FOE – tidsskrift for Form og Erfaring. (A Danish collective and journal in the field of ast and litterature). - 2017-01-01 -
Castles of
Sand
Eva La Cour
Theater Am Zee Part of a program performed at Klein Verhaal and curated by 2m3, a non-commercial performance platform in Bruxelles. From the 27th of July to the 4th of August Pol Pauwels from 2m3 curated a program of solo performances in connection to the returning theater og performancefestival ’Theater ann Zee’ in Oostende. - 2017-01-01 -
A montage across frameworks on
Svalbard
Eva La Cour
Nordic Geographers Meeting/Performing Urgency (conference) - 2017-01-01 -
Mediating Climate
Change
Eva La Cour
Martin's Eye - 2017-01-01 -
The landscape as
image
Eva La Cour
Experiencing the Everyday - 2017-01-01 -
Double Storey
Array
Eva La Cour
Grafikernes Hus, Copenhagen, DK - 2016-01-01 -
En
fortidsforestilling
Eva La Cour
Kritik - 2016-01-01 -
Autopia
Eva La Cour
Presentation and performance: Overgaden – Institute for Comtemporary Art (www.overgaden.dk, Copenhagen, Denmark) Published by: Antipyrine (www.antipyrine.dk) - 2016-01-01 -
Potemkin
Village
Eva La Cour
Light Field (filmfestival) / The Lab, San Francisco, California, USA - 2016-01-01