One of my interest deals with the relationship between the artist and the curator. I am not so much thinking about the more traditional Curator who works for an established Museum or Gallery even though one undoubtedly can notice big changes within the established art sphere as well.
I am mainly thinking about a particular type [...]
Entries from March 2007
March 28, 2007
Appropriation, simulation and dystopia. Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake”
In her book, “Oryx and Crake”, Margaret Atwood writes about a utopic world that tells the story of Snowman or Jimmy, as he used to be called, and the way he witness his best friend Crake’s biotechnological master plan of altering all life and how it became a reality. The first part tells about Jimmy’s [...]
March 23, 2007
Mandag hele året/Monday all year, Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, 2004
Picture above shows the first Monday happening called “the t-shroom project”, the 26th of April 2004, which represented a collaboration with the art group Rakett, the Latvian art group called PRIMITIVE and art bureau OPEN. The photo is taken by Henrik O. Jenssen for Studvest. Published article on both paper and web 27/04-2004, issue [...]
March 23, 2007
Kunstig Liv/Artificial Life, Tou Brewery, Stavanger, 2003
Kunstig liv – or Artificial Life – was an exhibition that explored ways of understanding life in a technocratic time. Three artists were commissioned to do specific projects related to this subject matter. They were Morten Kvamme in cooperation with Ruben Patel (Norway), Dan Mihaltianu (Romania) and Jane Prophet (UK).
Kunstig Liv was held in [...]
March 21, 2007
“Performing the text – a critical approach to performance art.”
In the autumn of 2000, I assisted Robert Sot with the curation of the performance festival “End of Millenium.” at the Theatergarage in Bergen.
The participants were Alistair MacLennan, Richard Martel, Artur Tajber, Robert Sot, Paul Panhuysen Y-space, a performance duo from Hong Kong, and Andre Stitt. In cognition to this festival, I was [...]
March 21, 2007
Lovesick essay
Picture shows detail of screen shot from Monika Ross work for Lovesick “Acts of Love” at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall.
lovesick was an exhibition addressing the theme of love in contemporary art. Love was here not only understood as something elating to emotions between men and women. In this exhibition the topic were dealt [...]
March 21, 2007
Lovesick
lovesick took place in Bergen, Norway, Opening in Bergen Kunsthall – Bergen Contemporary Art Centre on the 12th of October, 2001 and closed the 4th of November same year.
In addition to the exhibition in Bergen Contemporary Art Centre’s foyer and two rooms, Lovesick also featured a performance programme for Landmark.The exhibition furthermore appeared [...]
March 21, 2007
Gallery døgnfluen, 2000 (Midlertidig leilighetsgalleri/Temporary artgallery)
Døgnfluen was situated in a narrow dead end street, Nygård, Bergen.
Each week new banners were made. The picture above shows the banner used for the opening of the gallery the 26th of April 2000. Photo: Arne Rygg. Bannerwork by Lotte Evensen and Jørgen Ørevik.
Døgnfluen (ephemeral) was a temporary gallery that lasted six Fridays in [...]
March 21, 2007
“rhizom-e”, Carl Erik Lunde. For surface/rhizome, at Bergen Kunsthall, 2000
For surface 2000
RHIZOME-E
Mitt interessefelt er grensesnittet mellom menneske og maskin. Det er allerede forsket en god del på hvordan språket former oss. Jeg prøver å ta denne kunnskapen med meg inn på arenaen for digitale medier. Et digitalt håndtrykk er det som skjer når det surrer og går i apparatene f.eks. når en kaller [...]
