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Santiago Mostyn arriving Bergen!
Flaggfabrikken´s Artist in Residency March – April 2010: Santiago Mostyn (TrinidadTobago/US)
Santiago Mostyn (b. San Francisco, 1981) received his BFA from Yale in 2004, studied under Wolfgang Tillmans at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt, and has collaborated with the artist Swoon and the Miss Rockaway Armada collective on a series of raft-based performances along the Mississippi River. His first book, ‘Excerpt: All Most Heaven’ was published in 2008 by Tiny Vices Books.
View/buy book here
WELCOME TO B-OPEN STUDY CIRCLE!
HOST MARCH 3rd: MORTEN TORGERSUD
Flaggfabrikken, Møllendalsveien 17.
18.00 h
Morten Torgersrud is hosting the third of B-open’s series of study
circles in 2010. Torgersrud has chosen ‘Towards a philosophy of
photography’ (1983) by Vilém Flusser.
In this text Vilém Flusser avoid to discuss photography in relation to
what photographs actually depict, but rather put emphasis on formal
and material aspects such as the fact that photographs can be
reproduced and distributed, or that they are created by certain
‘programmed’ machines. Flusser points to a critical / reflexive use of
the photograph, but at the same time he uses photography as a kind of
model to examine what he calls a post-industrial and post-historical
situation.
Morten Torgersud is a visual artist and photographer currently working
at Flaggfabrikken – center for photography and contemporary art.
The text is in English.
Registration for participation: toril.johannessen[a]gmail.com.
The text will be provided by registration.
Limited seats.
WELCOME!
Hilde Jørgensen @ Visningsrommet USF
Hunter’s Game is an exhibition at Visningsrommet USF until January 24th.
Artist Hilde Jørgensen has also published Hunter´s Game as a book on STYX förlag. To buy it email hiljorg@hotmail.com
Excerpt:
A reality show
Starring
Innocence, SleepingGuilty, MyFather,
GoldenStallion, SilentSavior, Lulu,
NightCleaner, Protec, Captain Puma, Stupid,
SweetAnger, PurplePain, BillBitch, SweetAss
Candy, DreamAngel, Glossy, Lost&Found, the
Greek Coke God, GipsyKing, Sailor,
Most people look like a guy from
NordicFuckingReality with bleached hair. I
hate duplicates, even my own, but sit down at
the Bar. Fake tits, fake dicks. The river is
flowing cursed straight through. Classical
fake tan with blusher. I catch a glimpse of
BillBitch on the other side of the room.
BillBitch owes me money and I am losing myself.
Whispering as I pass you; through the corner of
my mouth; slantingly; Cunt. You are the only
one to hear it, and you give me a bambi blue
look that does not impress me.
Toril Johannessen in NO5 @ Bergen Kunsthall
Transcendental Physics
15. JAN 2010 – 21. FEB 2010
Toril Johannessen opens the spring season in NO.5. In her fascination with nature and the history of science she creates her visual works by way of methodical testing and an analytical attitude to the empirical and theoretical. The aesthetic grows up in a personal interpretation of the documentary where she also draws on metaphorical and mytholo¬gizing elements that are latent in the source material.
The exhibition in NO.5 consists of two works. One is a sculpture, which is absolutely the largest object one can possibly get into the gallery space in one piece, and thus circumscribes the volume and architectural framework of the exhibition. Unlike a ship in a bottle it is not hidden tricks that make the arrangement possible, but primarily a mapping of the physical conditions.
The second work is concerned with hypothetical points of contact between the German scientist Johan Zöllner (1834-1882) and the Canadian/US visual artist Agnes Martin (1912-2004). Inspired by the latter’s geometrical motifs, Johannessen plays on Zöllner’s discovery that parallel lines appear to be tilted when they are intersected by shorter lines at a particular angle (“Zöllner’s illusion”). A further meaning of the work can be read out of the fact that both Zöllner and Martin, through their methodical, scientific investigations, have explored various spiritual dimensions
Seminar at the Bergen Art Museum December 10th, and a screening at Entrée December 11th
Thursday @ Bergen Art Museum
10:00 Introduction by Adriana Alves, Hilde Jørgensen and Maya Økland
10:15 Hans Abbing – The value of art work for artists
11:10 Eivind Slettemeås – Art and Precarity
11:45 REKO – Fair trade in the contemporary art sector
12:15 Lunch
13:00 Dag Solhjell – Poor artists in a welfare state
14:00 Hug&Reiß – Capitalism get off my back
14:45 Panel discussion with moderator Åse Løvgren
Friday @ Entrée in Nøstegaten 49
21:00 The video art compilation WORK, curated by Isabel Reiß & Catherine Hug
The DVD compilation WORK was supported by the Swiss Arts Council PRO HELVETIA.
The seminar Why are artists poor? was carried out through the generous support of:
Bergen Kommune
Norsk Kulturråd
Norske Billedkunstnere
Frida og Olaf Rustis Legat
Bergen Kunstmuseum
Flaggfabrikken member Toril Johannessen in Ghent
World Wide Wonders is an exhibition that draws inspiration from the rich and fascinating museum collections of Ghent University. The participating artists are invited to visit one or more collections and work with the ‘wonders’ they encounter. Man’s search for truth, and his attempt to categorise or capture the wonders of the world, are central themes in the exhibition.
Curated by Guy Bovyn in collaboration with Enough Room for Space
Participating Artists: Stijn Cole, Koen De Decker, Tom De Smedt, Mariana Castillo Deball, Toril Johannesen, Irene Kopelman, Kianoosh Motallebi, Rinus Vande Velde, Maarten Vanden Eynde
Participating Museums: Museum of Ethnography, Museum of Zoology, Museum of Archaeology, Museum of Morphology, Museum for the History of Sciences, Maps room.
Open from: 18/11/2009 – 19/12/2009 Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00am to 6:00pm
Galerie Kunst-Zicht, Resto Overpoort, Stalhof 2 (use side entrance Overpoortstraat)
9000 Ghent, Belgium
Flaggfabrikken members Heidi Nikolaisen and Anne Szefer Karlsen in Marrakech
Artist Heidi Nikolaisen and artist/curator Anne Szefer Karlsen have been invited by curator Abdellah Korroum to participate in the exhibition ‘On Articulating Works and Places’, in the context of the Art in Marrakech Festival (AiM), which takes place at several venues in Marrakech this winter. Within ‘On Articulating Works and Places’ Nikolaisen will exhibit Sofia – the Missing Link, a project consisting of video, photography, text and objects that is the result of an expedition to northern Norway where she investigated the construction of history throught personal histories. Szefer Karlsen has been invited to participate in the AiM opening conference and accompanying publication.
http://www.aimbiennale.org/en/
Flaggfabrikken member Heidi Nikolaisen in St.Petersburg
Heidi Nikolaisen is exhibiting in the Mayakovsky library of St. Petersburg together with artists Kajsa Zetterquist, Anne Lise Brun, Jenny Marie Johnsen, Yngve Henriksen, Oscar Bodøgaard, Arvid Sveen and Thor Erdahl. The exhibition is part of the Hamsun celebration and a collaboration between Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter and Kunst i Nordland.
OBJECT+VERBAL
Welcome to this years B-open seminar, about conversation, articulation, mediation and knowledge production in the arts.
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Time: Friday 30th of October 2009 at 10-15.30
Place: Permanenten, Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Nordahl Bruns gate 9.
With: Boško Blagojevi?, Will Holder, Falke Pisano and Mick Wilson.
Moderator: Marianne Hultman.
Registration: hks@kunstsenter.no by 23d of October.
Entrance: Kr 50,- Payable upon arrival.
The seminar will be held in English.
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Through the seminar we want to explore the relation between language and objects. We are interested in looking at the function of language as a carrier of information and knowledge, and also the form and process of language itself: How verbal or written articulation takes part in the process of developing objects, like objects of art, and how this affects the way we look at them. Mediation of art influences not only the reception, but also the production of artworks. In light of the increasingly tightened bonds to academia through the founding of academic fellowships and PhDs for artists, the educational institutions affect artists’ relation to verbal and written articulation. We wish to address art’s role as knowledge production, and how this is connected to the use of textual and verbal expression in contemporary art production.
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Party: with food and performance at Hordaland kunstsenter after the seminar!
Performance with Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas.
At 19.00
NoK 30,- / Free entry for seminar participants
Reader: B-open has on the occasion of the seminar Objekt+Verbal edited a reader in collaboration with the participating speakers. B-open has comissioned the Canadian/Swedish curator duo Firth-Eagland/Lund to write, and the Norwegian writer Mette Karlsvik has been invited to participate and write a text after the seminar. All texts will be published at www.b-open.no
TO SPEAK – The Practice of Conversation in Contemporary Art: Practical workshop in speaking in public.
October 28th, 10 A.M – 2 P.M.
Hordaland Art Centre, Klosteret 17, Bergen
Workshop led by Erik Aarebrot and Jørgen Larsson.
Registration by October 23rd to hks@kunstsenter.no
Fee: NOK 120 incl. seminar / NOK 100 excl. seminar. Payabale upon arrival.
The workshop will be held in Norwegian.
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B-OPEN – OPEN STUDIOS IN BERGEN B-open is an organisation which initiates and coordinates the bi-annual event of open artist studios in Bergen, Norway and annually organises a seminar, thus creating a forum for diverse discussion on contemporary arts in the city. B-open is a collaboration between the two artist unions Bildende Kunstneres Forening Hordaland (BKFH) and Norske Kunsthåndverkere Vest-Norge (NKVN) and Hordaland Art Centre (HKS). B-open participates actively in the debate and reflection around the artist as contributor to society at large, and aim to organise challenging, interesting and memorable events for both art professionals and the general public. B-open is project based and recieves an annual financial support from The City of Bergen, as well as grants from The Freedom of Expression Foundation, Art Council Norway, BKFH, HKS and NKVN.
The board of B-open 2009 is Toril Johannessen (BKFH), Anne Szefer Karlsen (HKS) and Liv Midbøe (NKVN).
Flaggfabrikken´s International Artist-In-Residency
Flaggfabrikken – Center for photography and contemporary art is offering an opportunity to undertake a two months residency in Bergen, Norway.
The residency is open for artists, curators and art critics working within contemporary art.
Flaggfabrikken will with the generous financial support from the municipality of Bergen offer our guest a studio, accommodation, travel expenses paid and give a small grant towards covering other living expenses during the artist’s stay.
