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KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Border Aesthetics Dissemination 2010

Awarded: NOK 74,067

The research project Border Aesthetics (19458/V12), part of the KULVER Assigning Cultural Values research programme, aims to investigate how changing perceptions of borders relate to shifting practices of aesthetic evaluation through both theoretical refl ections and a sequence of interlocking case-studies that focus on the literature, film and video art produced by creative artists working in, or imagining, border regions and the Barents Region in particular. The Border Aesthetics Dissemination 2010 grant strengthens the dissemination of the activities of the project in its first period, setting up and preparing for both tradition and innovative forms channels of communication with the public and with specific groups of end-users: the general public, crea tive artists and writers, the populations of transborder regions populations, students, academics, actors in debate and criticism, and culture- and border-related policy institutions and groups. It does so in ways which acknowledge and change research dis semination in it specific relationship to border culture and to aesthetics in general.

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KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting