Fabian Heffermehl
Project
Imprint and Tactility as Cultural Techniques in Russian Modernism
Summary: What you touch, touches you back. Writing and painting start in the tactile interaction between hand and surface. At the same time tactility is in the nature of violence and torture. The project investigates a shift in Russian modernism from the predominating nexus between image and eye, to the skin. On basis of the skin’s capacity for perception, suffering, imprint and imagination, I intend to identify tactile strategies in the memory of Stalin’s terror.
Academic interests
- Art
- Icons
- Memory
- Modernism
- Body
- Russia
- Gulag literature
Background
EDUCATION:
2015: Doctor of Philosophy (Uppsala University)
2010: Master of Arts (Humboldt University)
2008: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Oslo National Academy of the Arts)
2007: Bachelor of Arts (Oslo University)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2015-2016: Researcher and lecturer in Russian literature and history (Uppsala University, Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies)
2006: Trainee (Norwegian Refugee Council in Armenia)
2005: Intern (Royal Norwegian Embassy in Azerbaijan)
Publications
Heffermehl, Fabian (2016): “The Icon and the Hand. Acheiropoiesis as a literary technique in Shalamov’s glove”, in Journal of Icon Studies, pp. 1-22.
Heffermehl, Fabian (2016): ”Wi-Fi in Plato’s Cave – The Digital Icon and the Phenomenology of Surveillance”, in Suslov, Mikhail (et al. eds.); Digital Icons, n. 14, pp. 27-47. http://www.digitalicons.org/issue14/wi-fi-in-platos-cave-the-digital-icon-and-the-phenomenology-of-surveillance/
Heffermehl, Fabian (2016): ”Wi-Fi in Plato’s Cave – The Digital Icon and the Phenomenology of Surveillance”, in Suslov, Mikhail (ed.); Digital Orthodoxy in the Post-Soviet World – The Russian Orthodox Church and Web 2.0, Ibidem, pp. 83-110.
Heffermehl, Fabian (2015): ”Нерукотворность и проблема мнемотехники ГУЛАГа”, Wiener slawistischer Almanach, n. 76, pp. 215-245.
Heffermehl, Fabian (2013): ”Иван Карамазов как математик”, Достоевский и мировая культура, n. 30 (1), pp. 217-233. http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:666381/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Heffermehl, Fabian (2013): ”Från cyklopens kyss till ikonens blick – Optiska experiment och omvänt perspektiv i rysk modernism”, Arche n. 42-43, pp. 26-37.
Heffermehl, Fabian (2012): ”Pavel Florenskij mellom geometriske utopier og ikonkosmologi”, Nordisk Østforum, vol. 26, n. 3-4, pp. 287-306. http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:608052/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Heffermehl, Fabian (2011): ”Империализм Достоевского”, Scando-Slavica 57:1, pp. 88-109. http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:469022/FULLTEXT02.pdf
Heffermehl, Fabian (2008): ”Мир на изнанку – иллюзия объема как свидетельство о существовании Бога”, in Ianovskii, Oleg (ed.); Российские и славянские исследования, n. 3, pp. 356-362.Heffermehl, Fabian (2007): ”Verden på Vrangen – en formal-estetisk analyse av ikonets dybdeillusjoner”, Nordisk Øst Forum, n. 4, pp. 475-488.
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2019). Kuss eines Zyklopen. Die umgekehrte Perspektive Florenskis zwischen Kultbild und Kunstbild. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. ISSN 0044-2992. 82(1) . doi: 10.1515/ZKG-2019-0005 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2018). From Curved Space to Reverse Perspective: Interdisciplinary Tendencies in Russian Theory of Painting (Tarabukin reads Florenskii). Slavic and East European Journal. ISSN 0037-6752. 62(1), s 93- 117 Full text in Research Archive.
- Heffermehl, Fredrik Fabian (2017). From Curved Space to Reverse Perspective: Interdisciplinary Tendencies in Russian Theory of Painting (Tarabukin reads Florenskii). Slavic and East European Journal. ISSN 0037-6752. 62(1), s 93- 117
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2016). The Digital Icon and the Phenomenology of Surveillance, In Mikhail Suslov (ed.), Digital Orthodoxy in the Post-Soviet World. Ibidem-Verlag. ISBN 9783838208718. Chapter 3.. s 83 - 110
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2016). The Icon and the Hand. Acheiropoiesis (nerukotvornost') as a Literary Technique in Shalamov's Glove. Journal of Icon Studies. ISSN 2473-7747.
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2015). Проблема нерукотворности и мнемотехники ГУЛАГа. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband. ISSN 0256-5234. 76
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2017). Die Ikone in der Literatur des Gulags.
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2017). From Face to Hand – Inside Perception in Hamsun and Shalamov.
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2017). Геноцид? С чем его едят?’ Тактильность, печать и архаизм в текстах В.Т. Шаламова и С.С. Аверинцева.
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2017). Икона и рука: Варлам Шаламов и его рассказ "Перчатка".
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2017). Проблема нерукотворности и мнемотехника ГУЛАГа.
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2016). Tarabukin Reads Florenskii – on the Connection between Mathematical and Pictorial Spaces in Russian Modernism.
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2016). Von der Ikone zum Daktylogramm – Abdrück und Berührung als Kulturtechniken der russischen Moderne.
- Heffermehl, Fabian (2016). Тело, слагаемое из вибрации человеческого «нутра».