HardScore

HardScore, a workshop and concert at Wrap, Bergen, from 2 - 7 December 2024. Initiated/directed by Jeremy Welsh, with the participation of Mareike Dobewall (voice/sounds/performance), Michael Francis Duch (double bass/sounds) and Alwynne Pritchard (cello/voice/sounds). Jeremy Welsh, video and bass guitar.

A series of performances were developed and recorded on video. Video projections were used for the performances. Musical performances combined acoustic and amplified sound.

Video from the project will be released and posted online at Vimeo in the near future.

Upcoming projects in May 2024

The exhibition 6 Songs, ABOT, IOD at Kunstgarasjen finished on Sunday 21 April, and the next two projects are right around the corner, both coming up the first weekend in May.

https://langegaarden.no/neste-utsillling

Galleri Langegården in Bergen will be showing the 2024 digital film Blank Pages, from 4 - 26 May. (Still images below).  

Together with Trond Lossius, Tijs Ham and Øyvind Brandtsegg in the group Pixels.Frames.Beats.Drones, I will be staging the latest version of the performance project Persistent Disequilibrium at Rosendal Teater in Trondheim as part of the Meta.Morf biennale for art and technology.

As has been the case with previous iterations of Persistent Disequilibrium, we will take some of the elements of earlier performances and will add new material that is specific for this performance. 

https://metamorf.no/2024/pixels-frames-beats-drones/

Documentation photos from Kunstgarasjen

Today I received the documentation photos of 6 Songs, ABOT, IOD at Kunstgarasjen, Bergen. Thanks to photographer Thor Brødreskift for excellent pictures ! 

6 Songs (2024) is a series of large digital prints that are also considered to be graphic scores to be interpreted by musicians. During the exhibition opening, bassist Ole Amund Gjersvik improvised a response to the series, and on Sunday 7th. April, musician Alwynne Pritchard will interpret one or more of the pieces.

ABOT: A Box of Time (2020-21) is a series of 52 collages, plus one large scale digital print, made in March 2024.

IOD is a nine minute video made in 1984, and shown in numerous festivals and exhibitions, as well as television broadcasts over a 40 year period. In 2013 it was purchased by The National Museum, Oslo and featured in the exhibition Paradox, a survey of Norwegian video art.

The exhibition at Kunstgarasjen, Møllendalsveien 15, Bergen, continues until 21st. April.

 

The first exhibition of 2024

A long overdue update...   The early part of the year was spent preparing new work for current and upcoming exhibitions and performances, applying for funding, and all of the other kinds of preparation and groundwork that are necessary.

The first show of the year opened in Bergen at Kunstgarasjen on March 15th. and is on show until April 21st. On Sunday April 7th. there will be an artist talk in the gallery and this will include a performance by musician Alwynne Pritchard who will interpret the print series 6 Songs, a set of large format digital prints that are also graphic scores.

The exhibition consists of digital prints, collages and video. The collage series ABOT (A Box of Time) consists of 52 pieces that were produced during Covid lockdown. The series also exists in digital form and has previously been shown as an electronic slide show. Limited edition digital prints of the whole series are also available. The video shown in the exhibition is I.O.D. from 1984, a work that was an early experiment with electronic collaging techniques in video post production. Based on a series of small paper collages that were made into 35mm slides, projected on rotating surfaces and filmed, the video has been widely exhibited as both single screen work and as a multi channel installation. I.O.D. has also been featured in tv broadcasts in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia and is in the collection of The National Museum, Oslo.

Images below are from the opening of the exhibition on 15th. March. Artist talk and concert on 7th. April at 2.00 pm.