"My fingers are itching to move the world."

- Alexander Kielland (1880)

Impact / Inntrykk er en serie personlige tekster om møtet med et enkelt kunstverk. I denne utgaven er det Merete Jonvik, førsteamenuensis i sosiologi ved Universitetet i Stavanger, som skriver om verket 4<7.83<8 av Camille Norment: En refleksjon rundt prikker, sett ovenfra.

Brazilian curator, researcher, and writer Cristiana Tejo recently visited Stavanger as the recipient of the 2025 Itchy Fingers – A Writing Residency on Art Books. During her stay, embedded in Sølvberget’s art book collection, she reflected on her first encounters with artist books in Paulo Bruscky’s studio, placing that formative experience in dialogue with a public collection inspired by the work of Alexander Kielland.

Throughout the residency, Tejo investigated the “gaps, frictions, and silences” within dominant narratives about art books, focusing on the exchange between two markedly different collections of artist publications. In this text, she poetically brings together the seemingly disparate cities of Stavanger and Recife, an artist’s private studio-archive and a public book collection, tracing how each insists on forms of art that can be touched, circulated, and lived.

Kunsthall Stavanger may be heading into its centenary year, but its roots reach further back. In 1865, a group of local citizens banded together to form what became Stavanger Kunstforening, or Stavanger Art Association. Back then, the brief was simple: champion the visual arts by buying work straight off their own walls.

Fast forward to today, as the institution, which was rebranded in 2013 as Kunsthall Stavanger with a more contemporary focus, is welcoming its newest director, British-born curator, Joseph Constable. British-Palestinian journalist and writer Jad Salfiti spoke with Constable about the legacy he’s inheriting, the future he envisions, and the nimble-fingered task of ushering a nearly century-old Kunsthall into a new era.

Hva kan vi vite om fremtidens havnivå? Og hvilken rolle spiller usikkerhet i prediksjoner om morgendagens klima? Med utgangspunkt i hennes verk Tidevannsrelieff for Sandnes, som står i Sandnes havn denne vinteren, møtte kunstner Magnhild Øen Nordahl vitenskapsteoretiker Jan Reinert Karlsen og havforsker Kristin Richter til samtale. Under kan du lese en komprimert gjengivelse av panelet, som var arrangert av KINOKINO og Sandnes kulturhus.

Eivind Røssaak's The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice, recently released by MIT Press, explores the dominant arrangements in Cory Arcangel’s artistic practice. Arcangel, famed for his computational art works, has been based in Stavanger for the past decade. Below, the concluding chapter from Røssaak's book, which examines the social and political ramifications of Arcangel’s art, is reproduced in its entirety.

Prosjektet Der vi møtes - Kunst i uterom er Stavanger kommunes største satsning på kunst i offentlige rom noensinne. Når det første delprosjektet – filmprogrammet Transitt – lanseres kommende helg, markerer det starten på månedsvis med kunstproduksjon og -formidling i forskjellige format og tidshorisonter. CAS har tatt en prat med duoen Koffi & Højgaard (Pauline Koffi Vandet og Ida Højgaard), som kuraterer satsningen.