paper issue fall 2025

Island, Oslo Winter 2024 — 35mm film, Vilde Rogeberg

Avstand_____________Distance

Close but not too close.

A familiar motto in Anthropology. But what does this really mean? When does Distance become a familiar pretext on legitimacy, objectivity and power? When is it something else?

Thinking with it, we are given the opportunity to open up a dichotomy, a space ‘between’, a space that might be traversed, or a space that can be merely observed – left alone.

In this issue the authors and pieces engage with many forms of distance and closeness.

We hope you enjoy.