"Eventyret om svart til hvitt” [The Farytale of Black to White] directed by Robert Dahl (1956), commissioned by Titan Co. and Titania AS. Film found in Kronos Titan's archive. Østfoldmuseene archive.

Research Projects

The Materiality of White

The Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Funded by

The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
(2022 - 2025)

How Norway Made the World Whiter

The University of Bergen

Funded by

The Research Council of Norway
(2023 - 2028)

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events

Symposium 'White Waste: Crafting Mining Waste in Norway and India through Arts-Based Research'

On 19th September 2023, the TiO2 Project will organize the mini-symposium "White Waste?’ Crafting Mining Waste in Norway and India...

events

TiO2 research studio September 2023

We are thrilled to announce our first public event in the TiO Project. The research exhibition 'TiO2 Prøvefelt' [trial fields] will be on...

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Call for Papers: Deep White

The TiO2 project group is excited to announce the call for papers for the symposium Deep White: Myths, Materialities, and Ideologies of...

publications

The Whitest White in Arkitektur

The latest issue of the Swedish journal Arkitektur - The Swedish Review of Architecture (no. 1, 2023) includes the photo essay 'Vårt...

news

Exhibition review of 'Gaea Norvegica'

Norwegian art journal Kunstkritikk has published a review about Marte Johnslien's exhibition 'Gaea Norvegica' at KRAFT. Art critic...

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Fieldwork with students February 2023

In week 8, the TiO2 project travelled to Sokndal, Norway, with Master's students in ceramic arts from The Oslo National Academy of the...

Inaccurate stories in the media

In order to clarify inaccurate claims about the TiO2 project that circulate in various websites, we have given an interview in...

events

Exhibition by Marte Johnslien at KRAFT

Marte Johnslien will open her first solo exhibition connected to the TIO2 project at KRAFT in Bergen

publications

‘With-On’ White: New article in Aggregate

The article "‘With-On’ White: Inconspicuous Modernity with and on Aesthetic Surfaces, 1910-1950" will be published by Aggregate

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TiO2 in Morgenbladet

In November, the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet joined our fieldwork in Titania in Sokndal. The result is now published as the major...

people

3-year Postdoc Fellowship in NorWhite

There is a vacant postdoctoral position affiliated with 'How Norway Made the World Whiter,' to be based at the Department of Linguistic,...

people

1,5-year Researcher Fellowship in NorWhite

There is a vacant 1,5 year researcher position affiliated with 'How Norway Made the World Whiter,' to be based at the Department of...

events

Keynote by Ingrid Halland at Aedes

In December 2022, Ingrid Halland gave the keynote lecture "Towards Deep Surfaces" at Aedes in Berlin

people

Fieldwork November 2022

Fieldwork in Sokndal in November 2022 with our collaborators Titania AS and Velferden

publications

Marte Johnslien: White to Earth

White to Earth is a publication with text and photographs by Marte Johnslien, Principle Investigator of 'The Materiality of White.' The...

"Eventyret om svart til hvitt” [The Farytale of Black to White] directed by Robert Dahl (1956), commissioned by Titan Co. and Titania AS. Film found in Kronos Titan's archive. Østfoldmuseene archive.

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