Ballata - video for Lemur

Ballata is a short video made for one of the tracks on Lemur's latest album  Mikrophonie on Plus3db Records. 

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Three Rooms

Three Rooms was a concert held on Friday 2 December in Galleri KiT at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU. The concert featured three solo performances by Michael Francis Duch (double bass), Kim Myhr (guitar & electronics) and Ingar Zach (percussion & electronics) with video projections by Jeremy Welsh. The concert was part of an ongoing collaboration between Duch and Welsh, with the aim of establishing a research platform for contemporary music, visual art and performance, focussed on site-specific and place-related concerts, events and exhibitions.

Video documentation of the three performances can be viewed here:

https://vimeo.com/194310313   (Michael Francis Duch)

https://vimeo.com/194313391  (Kim Myhr)

https://vimeo.com/194333465   (Ingar Zach)

Michael Francis Duch

Forum for Artistic Research, Stavanger

Travelling home after attending the autumn forum for artistic research, hosted this time by the University of Stavanger. The following is a small homage to Fluxus artist George Brecht, (whose works were the subject of my BA thesis long ago) prompted or inspired by the final presentation of the conference, concerning silence in artistic collaboration.


Silence

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The Atmospherics 5 documentation and Some Texture Maps, new video online

The Atmospherics 5: Stop, Hey, Watch That Sound by Jeremy Welsh and Trond Lossius finished its run at Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde on 9th. October. Documentation of the installation is now online at Vimeo.

A new video work by Jeremy Welsh, Some Texture Maps (12 min. 2016) is currently showing at Kunstagarasje, Bergen.

Some Texture Maps (2016) Click to go to online video

The Atmospherics: Sop, Hey, Watch That Sound (2016)  Click to view video documentation

Surnadal Billag

Surnadal Billag (Surnadal Bus Company) - a former local bus station in Surnadalsøra, Møre & Romsdal, Norway, which is now being repurposed as a multi-purpose art space, run by Jon Arne Mogstad and Martinus Grimsmo. This week we held a workshop there for new Fine Art students. Next year there will hopefully be announced an international residency programme, after the space has been renovated. There will also be a programme of workshops, exhibitions, concerts and other events. I will be collaborating with Jon Arne and Martinus on the content of the programme. Watch this space for further information!

The images below are from the main floor, but this is only one part of the building.

SAAR 16, Tromsø

This week I am in TROMSØ for SAAR 16 (The Summer Academy for Artistic Research) with colleagues and research fellows/Phd students from Norway, Sweden and Finland. It promises to be an intensive and exciting week ! Images will follow....

O.F.F. - Oslo Flaneur Festival 2016

For Oslo Flaneur Festival 2016, which took place between 23 - 25 June, I produced a small digital slideshow "A Selection from The Museum of Traces". The images in the slideshow are from a large, and ever-growing collection of photographs usually taken on walks in and around a variety of cities where I have lived, worked or visited. Some of the images belong to other projects such as the image series Mazine (2009 - 2010)  and some are simply part of an archive of material that is the basis for the development of various projects and events, which have included the concert/performance "Muffled Cyphers" with the Langham Research Centre.

The Atmospherics 5: Stop, Hey, Watch That Sound - exhibition opening

Video of the improvised performance by Bergen Barokk during the opening of the exhibition on 18th. June. Click on the photo to go to the video.

Installation at Sogn & Fjordane Kunstmuseum

The Atmospherics part 5: Stop, Hey, Watch That Sound!

The latest installation in the series The Atmospherics by Trond Lossius and Jeremy Welsh opened on 18 June at Sogn & Fjordane Art Museum in Førde. The new installation is entitled "Stop, Hey, Watch That Sound!" and is the largest to date in this series. Audio is played back through a 20 loudspeaker surround system, with 10 speakers mounted at floor level and 10 high up on the gallery walls, 7 meters above the floor. Video is displayed on 8 projections and 2 Ultra HD 4K tv screens. During the opening, Bergen Barokk played a short improvised concert, responding to the sound and images in the installation.

Imagery and sound for this installation was recorded during several field trips in Sogn & Fjordane, Hardanger, Trøndelag and Lofoten. The soundscape and the image sequences mix material from different locations, so that the result is a hybrid place or space, constructed from details of many different places. All of the videos used in the installation are of different lengths, so that the combination of images changes continually, as does the correspondence between image and sound. 

The Atmospherics began in 2014 and is a further elaboration of themes developed during there research project Re:Place at Bergen Academy of Art & Design in 2012-2013. The project so far has resulted in one short video film, made as a tribute to deceased composer Morten Eide Pedersen, and four previous installations:

The Place Sound Makes In Passing:  Galleri 3,14, Bergen, November 2014
Flags, Flames, Smoke and Bridges: Visningsrom USF, Bergen, December 2014
Til It Rains I'm Gonna Stay Inside: Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, January 2015
And Sometimes The Light Hurts Our Eyes, Heimdal Kunstforening, Trondheim, January 2016

Part 6 of the project is planned for autumn 2016, to be shown at a location in Hardanger. More information will follow!

Pink Shoelaces and Expanded Cinema

It has been a busy couple of weeks, this early April. First I was in Kabelvåg, Lofoten, to hold a course on Expanded Cinema and Video Installation at Nordlands Kunst og Filmskole, then in Trondheim for Pink Shoelaces, an exhibition in public space that I co-curated with David Breida, and that was produced by the group PUNKTET Visningsrom. 15 artists (students & graduates) from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art took part in the exhibition, which also featured lectures and guided tours. The project took place in the area of Trondheim known as Skansen, a public space skirted by the railway and harbour, with a new pedestrian walkway along the edge of the fjord.

Dolphin performance at the harbour edge by Guri Simone Øveraas

Party tent, custom wine labels and 1970's atmosphere by Andreas Wallroth

Light and video installation by Johanna Edgren

Lighthouse: film & video projection in window by Nazare Soares

Sculptures by Per Ellef Eltvedt

Video screening in Skansen Station House by Anders Solberg

Light installation in Skansen Lighthouse by Thea Meinert

Hanging textile work in Skansen Lighthouse by Thea Meinert

Two columns under the railway bridge: sculpture by William Bentsen

Sculpture in the harbour by Sigrid Bøyum

Guided tour and lecture by Simon Harvey

Hanging textile work on the harbour wall by Ida Westberg

Stateless Passport: sculpture by Mujahed Khallaf

Textile landscape image by the fjord: Øyunn Hustveit

Sculpture beside the pedestrian walkway: Per Stian Monsås

The shoes that inspired the exhibition title! Katja Van Etten Jaren

My curator talk (and pink shoelaces!) for the finnissage.

Simon Harvey and  PUNKTET leader Ella Jahr Nygaard at Skansen Station.

VP3 at Kunstgarasjen, Bergen

Today I installed a video projection for a window at Kunstgarasjen, Bergen's new space for contemporary art. It's a back projection onto a three-paned window, set in a concrete wall in the parking area of the building. The imagery is re-edited material from a commissioned work I made in 2014 for St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim. The screening is part of a new show at Kunstgarasjen that opens on Friday 1. April. The work is entitled "VP3" (Video Painting nr. 3)

MWB (Music Without Borders) in Finnmark

The artistic research project Music Without Borders, based at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, is now in its second year. In mid-March, Bjørn Ole Rasch, project leader, and myself travelled to Kautokeino in Finnmark to record two Sami vocalists at Arctic Studios, together with musician/producer Roger Ludvigsen. The core of the project is series of recordings of traditional folk music from Setersdal in the south of Norway, and each new iteration is a response to these recordings. So far, musicians from Asia and from the Middle East have responded to the recordings, in many different ways. This time we were working with musicians representing a very different tradition in Norwegian music, coming from the far north, in the county of Finnmark. Kautokeino is a small town on the Finnmark Plateau, a centre of cultural activity for the Sami population and it lies in the midst of a spectacular landscape. Both musicians we recorded on this occasion are highly accomplished exponents of the Sami vocal tradition known as "Joik" - deeply immersed in the tradition of this music, but equally able to improvise and to respond directly to the recordings that were played to them. It was a privilege and an inspiring experience to work with Roger Ludvigsen,  Per Tor Turi and Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska!

Arctic Studios, Kautokeino

Overview of Kautokeino from the top of the old ski jumping structure