1/10/19

The Atmospherics 8 (river deep, mountain high) at Entrée, Bergen

Entrée
7.2 —17.2, 2019

Markeveien 4B, 5012 Bergen, Norway


Trond Lossius
Jeremy Welsh
The Atmospherics 
—River deep, mountain high



The Atmospherics is one of the ongoing collaborative projects of Trond Lossius and Jeremy Welsh. Through field recordings they capture unique qualities from different natural landscapes and urban areas. The recorded audio and video material is then filtered, edited, modified and mixed to highlight some characters or to mute others. The intention is not to document the sites, but rather to build a database of audiovisual material that is combined in different ways in their installations, where each assembly becomes a "temporary place", constructed of impulses from different geographical areas.

Since 2014, the project has moved from Bergen, Trondheim, Arendal, Førde, Utne and Campania, Italy, where it has been presented in various installations with multi-screen video and multi-channel audio. The new video adapted to the cinema format, which premieres at Entrée, summarizes this entire project, and combines material from all the different phases and parts of the country.

Lossius and Welsh have collaborated in various situations and combinations since 2004. Together with the painter Jon Arne Mogstad, in the group LMW, they produced a series of experimental installations that combined sound, digital images and painting. Lossius and Welsh were also leading the artistic research project "Re: place" at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in 2012-2013.

Jeremy Welsh (b. 1954, Gateshead, UK) lives between Trondheim and Bergen. He works within video, installation, photography, audio and performance. He is a professor of visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim, NTNU. He was a former professor, master coordinator and dean at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2001-2013), and founder and curator at The Film & Video Umbrella, London (1988-1990). His education is from Nottingham Trent University (1977) Goldsmith’s College, University of London (1982). His works have been included in several national and international collections, like the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Trondheim Art Museum, Arts Council Norway, ZKM Media Center (Karlsruhe) and MacQuarie University Art Collection in Sydney.

Trond Lossius (b. 1966, Bergen) lives between Oslo and Sotra. His projects investigate sound, place and space, using sound spatialisation and multichannel audio as an invisible and temporal sculptural medium in works engaging with the site. He has collaborated on a large number of cross-disciplinary projects, amongst others with the contemporary performance group Verdensteatret.He graduated with a Master degree in Geophysics from the University of Bergen and went on to study music and composition at The Grieg Academy. From 2003-2007 he was a research fellow at Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Lossius is currently Head of Artistic Research and Fellowship Programme at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He is one of the developers of the software framework Jamoma, and he has ported Ambisonic Toolkit to a set of plugins for the Reaper DAW.


Trond Lossius and Jeremy Welsh have received support for The Atmospherics from Arts Council Norway, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Municipality of Bergen, Municipality of Trondheim, BEK (Bergen Center for Electronic Art), Sogn and Fjordane Art Museum and NTNU / Art Academy in Trondheim.

Hardangerfjord / Odda, October 2014

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1/1/19

Year's end 2018

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.
Sun Bi Lag - installation at Joy Forum, KMD, Bergen. HD projection with four channels of digital audio
Still from Sun Bi Lag

Also in March, an installation based on an earlier live work with Michael Francis Duch was exhibited at Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, during this year's Borealis festival of experimental music. The work consists of four projections and two channels of audio
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:





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.


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.

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.



Terra Nova, Arpaise, location of the Liminaria festival, 2017



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