Dwelling Notes

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37522/yzjeg186

Keywords:

moving image as research, critical theory, aesthetics, discontent, visual anthropology, the Arctic, imaginaries, decolonial thought

Abstract

This dialogue reflects on my long-term artistic research in the Arctic, particularly Svalbard, where I have explored the intersection of moving images, colonial histories, and lived experience. In the interview I introduce how my practice centers on a process-oriented filmmaking ethos and live editing as a method to resist totalizing and idealizing representations. Instead I seek to foreground temporal, relational, and collaborative modes of knowledge production. Through personal anecdotes and critical reflection, I engage how artistic practice as research can navigate terrains with colonial histories and their entanglement with present-day ecological and social crises. Ultimately, I propose live editing as a form of guidance that embraces and enacts indeterminacy, affect, and situated critique.

Author Biographies

  • Eva la Cour

    Eva la Cour is a visual artist working across academic research and image-making, often through long-term collaborative constellations. Her practice  involves process-oriented filmmaking to explore the role of art in relation to Danish colonial history and its entanglement with present-day ecological and social crises. She holds a practice-based PhD in artistic research from HDK-Valand (University of Gothenburg), where her thesis examined relational practicing through collaborative live editing. The outset was an explicit focus on the guide figure based on fieldwork experiences on the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard. She is currently a postdoc at the Department of Art and Cultural Studies and the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CAPE), University of Copenhagen.

  • Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy

    Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy (he/him) is a Vilnius-based researcher, writer, and artist working with film. He is an active member of the Why Cut When You Can Fade artistic research group, founder of the platform Landing, and a member of the artist-run film lab SPONGĖ. His research topics include degrowth, pollution, film poetics, and the transfer of artistic methods to the broader public.

    He is currently employed as artistic researcher at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Miki has studied Audiovisual Arts and Film Directing in LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, and acting for stage at the Thessaloniki Centre for Experimental Theatre. Miki's films and installations have been shown in Athens, Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Riga, Manchester, Vienna, and Vilnius.

Still from 'The Tour', 2012, HD-video, 36min

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Published

2025-12-11

Issue

Vol. 2 (2025): Extending the Echoes: Ways with Documentation for Artists Doing Research

Section

Articles