Things have been quiet here for some months, but now it is time for some updating. Although Covid restrictions continue, not everything has stopped, and in fact there has been quite a lot of activity. The exhibition Ta Deg Tid / Take Your Time, in which Michael Duch and myself showed our film Mind Is Moving IV, continued until the end of January. The music, composed by Michael Pisaro, has been recorded inside Nidarosdomen (Trondheim Cathedral) and Michael will release it on cd this spring. That will provide the opportunity to do more with the film and possibly a live performance with projections.
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| Mind is Moving IV, installation shot at Nordenfjelske Kunstindustrimuseum |
At the end of January a new exhibition opened at Kunstgarasjen, Bergen with works by gallery members. In that show I am presenting four digital prints from the series "I hvert øyeblikk / At Any Given Moment", parts of which have previously been exhibited at Surnadal Kulturhus (Vårsøg utstilling 2019), at TEKS in Trondheim, along with the video installation The Atmospherics 9, and earlier at MacQuarie University Gallery in Sydney, where several of the prints are also in their collection.
The newest work in The Atmospherics series, together with Trond Lossius, was completed in autumn 2020, initially for inclusion in an online presentation of the archives of BEK (Bergen Center for Electronic Art). There it is streamed within "Å Video" a selection curated and commented by Anne Marthe Dyvi. The video is now also streaming from a showcase in my own Vimeo account and is ready to be "exported" for screenings and exhibitions offline. The Atmospherics 11 (remake/remodel) is a single screen video work with stereo sound, mastered in 4K video and available for screening in 4K or HD. It is an unusual work in the context of the whole series, which has mainly comprised multi channel installations for gallery and museum spaces. It is a 40 minute piece, made from material that has featured in the installations Atmospherics 1 - 9.
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| The Atmospherics 11 (remake/remodel) on Vimeo |
Trond Lossius and myself, together with Craig Wells, will be doing a series of audiovisual performances during the course of 2021 at different venues within Vestlands Fylke (The province of Western Norway). Dates and venues are yet to be confirmed. The events will feature field recordings, live music and projections.
Other news is that I am one of the two curators for a series of events at Surnadal Billag arts centre in Møre og Romsdal running from April through late September. Events I am programming will be happening over the whole period, whilst Fabia Bürger will be curating a compact and intense programme in June, with artists from Norway and Germany.
The first event in the series will be an exhibition at Surnadal Billag in April by Kwestan Bawan Jamal (Iraq/Norway) and Carl Martin Hansen ( Denmark/Norway). Later in the season there will be a collaborative project by Trond Lossius and Ingeborg Annie Lindahl, and then an all-star sound art and multimedia event with artists including Michael Duch, Øyvind Brandtsegg, Alex Murray Leslie (Chicks on Speed) and Magdalena Manderlova. In late September in collaboration with Surnadal Kulturhus we will stage a one-day mini film festival in the cinema, alongside a video installation by Hasan Daragmeh in the adjoining gallery. Full details of the entire 2021 programme will be posted on the Surnadal Billag website in early April.
