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 White Out was originally made for the exhibition "Dream vs. reality"  at Gallery F15 in 2002, a show featuring photographic and video works that position themselves in a grey zone between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.

White Out: video projection at street level

From 16 - 29 January, my video work "White Out" (2002) will be screened continuoiusly in the window of Gallery S12 in Sparbankgate, Bergen.  The video will be shown in one of the main gallery windows at street level. This presentation is a collaboration between S12 and BEK (Bergen Center for Electronic Art)

White Out was initially made for the exhibition "Dream vs. Reality" at Galleri F15, Jeløy, in 2002 and has since been included in several exhibitions, including "Where Am I Now" at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Oslo (2004). In 2005 it was shown as a large public projection in the concourse of Oslo Central Station and in 2006 was part of an international video art exhibition at South London Gallery in Camberwell, South London.

Stills from White Out, video, 2002

Imagery recorded in New York between 1999 - 2001

20 12 2012

Today

20 12 2012

at 20:12 this evening

at 20:12 20/12 2012

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2012 summed up

Projects & activities in 2012.

The Documentation, Public Art and Research pages have all been updated, with links to online photo albums. During December 2012 - January 2013 more pages will be added, with information about and documentation of both recent and earlier projects. The photo project "maZine" which was featured on my former website has now been added to this site as a separate page.

January-February:
Tracking/Tracing: contemporary art from Australia. Jeremy Welsh was curator for the exhibition at Galleri 3,14 Bergen, with work by Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Kim Lawler and Fiona Foley. (Scroll down the archive page from the link above to find the information on Tracking/Tracing) The exhibition was accompanied by a one-day seminar with guest speakers Cathie Payne, Heidi Nikolaisen, Jill Walker Rettberg, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier and Steven Bode. A catalogue, with introductory essay by Cathie Payne, was issued as en e-book and also in PDF format.

Still from video Bliss by Fiona Foley

Photo by Kim Lawler from the series Between Lines

Nathalie Hartog-Gautier from the series Scanning Memories

August-September

Co-curator, together with Bergljot Jonsdottir, for Young and Loving 2012, exhibition at S12 gallery & workshop, and Galleri Format, Bergen.

Stine  Bidstrup installation

Hiromi Takazawa - wall installation

Anna Mlasowsky - video performance "Hand Made" - manipuating hot glass

Petra Thorgren - Historieskrivning / The Writing of History - prints in glass hemispheres

Petra Thorgren, detail

Petra Thorgren, Sunset Series (right) and Julia Malle, Lines of Light (left)

Julia Malle, Lines of Light

Charlotte Potter - Bottled Emotions, performance

Charlotte Pottrer - Bottled Emotions, installation

Mette Colberg - photo from Potraits series

October

Places/traces/stories
Exhibition in collaboration with Scott Rettberg as part of the start-up of the Re:place project, an art research project developed in collaboration with Oslo Academy of Art and the Grieg Academy, Bergen.

Jeremy Welsh: SMS Bamboo Forest - installation/work in progress

Scott Rettberg, Roderick Coover & Nick Montford: Three Rails Live - generative video narrative

October
Odds - participated in exhibition shown at several locations in Odda, Hardanger. The work shown was the three-screen video installation Immemorial, first made and shown in 1989 at Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and more recently exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art Strasbourg and Stenersens Museum, Oslo.

Upcoming

30 October: Workshop on Curating and Exhibiting Electronic Literature

As part of this event arranged by Jill Walker Rettberg and Scott Rettberg of the University of Bergen, I will be chairing a discussion group whose aim is to develop criteria for soliciting and curating works within electronic literature/digital arts. This is aimed towards an international electronic literature festival planned for Bergen in 2015.

On 8 - 9 November I will be participating in the ELIA biennale conference in Vienna, where colleagues from art education institutes all over Europe will be gathering to discuss current priorities and to hear keynotes by such luminaries as Ute Meta Bauer and Yoko Ono :-) Hopefully there will also be time for visits to The Secession and other art venues in Vienna.

A recent phone camera image, taken purely by accident. To get this sense of circular movement by intention would probably be extremely difficult!