Visual artist Liv Bugge takes a starting point in the language she learned growing up in a dogyard for this lecture on how she thinks around artistic research, language, knowledge and learning. Her presentation invites a collective reflection on how learning, affect, and politics might emerge from acts of contact rather than control.Liv Bugge’s research explores how mechanisms in society are internalized and contribute to the maintaining of normative notions and ethics around, for example, such dichotomies as life and non-life or human and nature. She has a practice informed by queer and feminist perspectives and was during the period 2012-2020 running the platform FRANK together with artist Sille Storihle.
Liv Bugge studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Belgium. She completed her PhD, “The Other Wild: Touching Art as Confrontation”, at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2019. Bugge’s research explores how mechanisms in society are internalized and contribute to the maintaining of normative notions and ethics around, for example, such dichotomies as life and non-life or human and nature. She has a practice informed by queer and feminist perspectives and was during the period 2012-2020 running the platform FRANK together with artist Sille Storihle. Bugge has had solo presentations at, among other places: Kunsthall Trondheim, Marabouparken Konsthall in Stockholm, Kunstnernes Hus and Intercultural Museum in Oslo, and Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand. She was part of the 2022 Venice Biennale and has previously presented work at among others Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. She is Professor of Sculpture and Installation at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. During 2025 she has been guest researcher at The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (HDK-Valand and Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Sweden), centre for artistic research committed to interdisciplinary practice and research in the meeting between contemporary art and the future of politics.