Session 6: Book launch - Jan Pettersson: Printmaking in the expanded field

Abstract

Video recording of the book launch of Jan Petterssons book Printmaking in the expanded Field. The book launch was held at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts library, January 24 2018, and was part of the Artistic Resarch week 2018 program.

Join Professor Jan Pettersson, Head of Print and Drawing, for an informal discussion around the publication Printmaking in the Expanded field. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Theodor Barth together with Christina Lindeberg who is the Editor of the Swedish magazine Grafik Nytt published by Grafiska Sällskapet in Stockholm.

The radical changes within the field of printmaking the last 20 years has totally changed the approach towards the media. Printmaking is now an art form that consists of sculpture, performance, clothes, installation, the commercial aspect, cyberspace, artist books, multiples, ready-mades, newspapers etc. The result is a cross pollination which in its turn points to the total reflection of todays contemporary art.

The aim with this publication is to emphasize / bring forward / implement and discuss the situation of printmaking today, from its tradition, the theoretical aspects, the historical, and what is and can happen, globally, in the future. It is an examination of the expanded field, within the media (including the book).

The Publication, Printmaking in the Expanded Field, discusses the following six topics, listed below:

Dissemination of knowledge Visual delight and collapsing strategies Contemporary Constituencies of print Print in public space The expanded field Leaving an imprint