Light and shadow

More images from the ongoing collection of light and shadows. Bergen, April 2013

A voyage to the orient

shadow glass table

From exhibition opening at Visningsrom USF

Eschatology

Performing with Langham Research Center and Peter Blegvad at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, as part of the Borealis Festival 2013. The video projection was based on material shot in 2008 around the Thames Estuary and the Isle of Grain for a project being developed in collaboration with Robert Worby. The initial project idea was shelved and the material lay dormant for several years until Robert suggested it could be used as part of Langham Research Centre's commissioned piece for Borealis. The layered electronic composition, based on analog sources, combined with Peter Blegvad's multi-faceted text and the almost photographic stillness of the video material complemented one another extremely well, and suggested new ways I could work with this kind of video material in the future.

Eschatology, video footage of the banks of the Thames

Paradoks

The exhibition "Paradoks", looking at the first thirty years of video art in Norway, opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art on February 14. I am represented in the show with I.O.D., from 1984, a work that keeps getting revived. Made at around the same time as Scratch Video was impacting on the video art scene in London, it is composed from fragments of media and advertising imagery, mixed in layers and manipulated to boost the colour and the synthetic qualities of the electronic image. The video was based on an earlier work entitled "That Elusive Quality of Romance" that took the form og collages, 35mm slides used in performances and installations in the early eighties, a series of colour xerox prints (the forerunner of digital photography) and finally a video installation that was exhibited in the storefront of a JVC video shop in Piccadilly, London. I.O.D. has also been broadcast in a series of tv programmes looking at the growth of video art in the mid-eighties.

Paradoks includes a bi-lingual catalogue in which I have written an essay on the relationship between television and video in the history of video art. The catalogue is available from the National Museum bookshop.

Installation shot below. Photo courtesy of Bull.Miletic.

I:O:D: (1984)  exhibited as intended on a CRT monitor

Another earlier work, "The Dark, The Light" (1999), is currently showing within the exhibition "In The Collection: Marielle Neudecker" at Trondheim Kunstmuseum. A selection of Neudecker's works are exhibited alongside pieces selected from the museum's collection.

The Dark, The Light, together with pieces by Marielle Neudecker, Trondheim Kunstuseum. Photo Patrik Entian

Moving, Ålesund, concluded

Moving was a successful project, both enjoyable and inspiring. To see over 100 people on a freezing February night joining an art walk through a city to watch artists' videos projected on buildings was a revelation and a pleasure. All credit to the artist group Aggregat for organizing this event. Here are a few images, and there are more on the re:place blog.  Some other photos from Ålesund, not connected with the Moving event, have been added to the photo gallery.

Gathering for the tour of the city and the artworks - artists Hanne Rivrud Nansen and Helene Sommer

Some of the audience approaching the public library, site of the first projection

Please Note After Image (remix) by Jeremy Welsh - a version of the work first shown at Bergen Art Museum in 2010 as part of the BGO1 exhibition

In front of Hanne Rivrud Nansen's installation, being introduced by artist/tour guide Trine Røssevold

MOVING - Ålesund 7 - 10 February

The outdoor projection project Moving in the city of Ålesund runs from 7 - 10 February, featuring works by 10 artists. Jeremy Welsh is showing Please Note After Image (remix), a video work based on an installation previously shown at Bergen Kunstmuseum, and made in collaboration with Trond Lossius and Jon Arne Mogstad. Moving is arranged and produced by the artists' collective Aggregat, and includes an afternoon of lectures at Kube art museum  on Saturday 9 February.

http://www.aggregatatelier.no/Websted/Hjem.html

White Out: video from F15 to S12

The video work White Out (2002) is currently being shown as a window projection at Galleri S12 in Skostredet, Bergen, where it will be on show until the end of January. The work belongs to an earlier period of a current investigation of "place" through image and sound - although in this instance it is a silent projection. Shot in streets and shopping malls  of Manhattan, the video focusses mainly on reflections of pedestrians walking past the surfaces of mirrored corporate buildings. Using extreme slow motion, the video becomes like a series of moving photographs within which the elements of the image are slowly rearranged. White Out was originally made for the exhibition "Dream vs. reality"  at Gallery F15 in 2002, a show featuring photographic and video works that position themselves in a grey zone between documentary and fiction. Sound for White Out was mixed and produced by Robert Worby.

Acts of observation

Acts of observation..... watch this disappear

A book of short texts and photographs, published on Blurb, available in print as hardcover or softcover book and as an e-book. The book contains texts and photo series from recent projects investigating place, time, image and memory.