That was it, 2018 is over already! It is a truism that the years seems to pass more quickly as we get older, and it is also the case that an action-packed year can seem shorter than a year in which nothing seems to happen.
So here is a brief summary of activities in 2018, with links, where appropriate, to works that are published online. It has been a year in which collaborations with musicians has been the main focus of my work, ranging from the University of Agder research project "Music Without Borders" focussing on exchanges between Norwegian and international folk musics, to a recent series of films with contrabass maestro Michael Francis Duch, performing solo works by contemporary composers.
In March I organised the workshop "e-x-p-a-n-d-e-d" at Surnadal Billag with the participation of artists and musicians Ellen Røed, Craig Wells, Nazaré Soares, Magdalena Manderlova, Jørgen Wassvik, Michael Francis Duch and Sigurd Saue. During five intensive days the group, in various configurations, developed a series of site-specific interventions, installations and performances, some of which have subsequently been further refined and exhibited or performed. Together with Craig Wells I produced the audio visual work Sun Bi Lag (video projection with four channel audio) which was later exhibited at Joy Forum, Bergen, in November.
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| Sun Bi Lag - installation at Joy Forum, KMD, Bergen. HD projection with four channels of digital audio |
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| Still from Sun Bi Lag |
During the year three new films were made with Michael Francis Duch, each of them a solo performance on double bass, of works by three composers: Hanne Darboven (Opus 17a) Pauline Oliveros (Horse Sings from Cloud) and Michael Pisaro (Mind is Moving IV). The first in the seruies, Opus 17a, was featured in the exhibition Double Lives: Visual Artists Making Music at MUMOK, the museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Vienna
All three films have now been published on Vimeo, links below:
All three films have now been published on Vimeo, links below:
A long standing collaboration with Trond Lossius (sound) and Jon Arne Mogstad (painting) was revived in summer 2018 for the installation (By painting) I Can Travel Light Years at Surnadal Billag. The installation consisted of a large-scale wall painting and several canvasses, digital slide and video projections and four channels of audio. See link to documentation video below.
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| Light Years, at Surnadal Billag June/July 2018 |
I also collaborated with Jon Arne Mogstad in another context in the summer of 2018, as curator for his solo exhibition at Trondheim Art Museum: It's Painting Today (just like any other day). The show, featuring paintings from the past five years, ran from mid June until late September.
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| Jon Arne Mogstad paintings at Trondheim Art Museum, Gråmølna, June 2018 |
Next up, in February 2019, is a show at Entrée, Bergen, of the latest, and perhaps final, instalment of The Atmospherics, the collaborative project with Trond Lossius that has been ongoing since 2014. The previous work in the series, The Atmospherics 7: Terra Nova, was produced during Liminaria, an international sound art workshop and festival in Campania, Italy in September 2017. The work was shown again in Southern Italy as part of Happy Earth Day in summer 2018. When first shown, as a live performance, the work consisted of an outdoor video projection with four channels of audio. It was subsequently re-edited for stereo sound and is published in this form on Vimeo. The work for Entrée, The Atmospherics 8 (river deep, mountain high) will be a single screen 4K projection featuring material generated throughout the three year duration of the project.
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| Terra Nova, Arpaise, location of the Liminaria festival, 2017 |
Looks great as 2D images on a computer screen. It must be so much more dazzling in the gallery.
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