2009 April

Toril Johannessen at Hordaland Kunstsenter 17.04-26.04

Written on April 12, 2009 at 21:36, by maya

TORIL JOHANNESSEN & SIDSEL MEINECHE HANSEN –
THE GENERIC STONE

OPENING APRIL 17th AT 7pm

LECTURE SATURDAY APRIL 25th AT 1pm

The ultimate consequence of conceptually based art is a total absence of objects. With this exhibition we will take a closer look at the status of the art object and its’ value by mapping the process of production and the materiality of the one object on display in the exhibiton – a stone produced in a laboratory.

Hordaland Art Centre (HKS) has invited the two artists Toril Johannessen and Sidsel Meineche Hansen to show their recent project The Generic Stone to discuss issues related to knowledge production based on an object.

The Generic Stone is a type of granite, which is one of the most common rocks to be found. The stone on display at Hordaland Art Centre is a synthesis in the sense that it is composed of pure chemicals. The stone is consequently synthetic, while its chemical composition is identical to that of granite, and in that sense also natural. In a lecture to be held in the exhibition the artists will tell how the stone came about, its material specifics and the process that produced it.

The artists write: In physics there is no such thing as synergy, or increased power through interactions. In comparison, one can say that the process of creating the stone in principle is, scientifically speaking, without synergy: A certain set of known factors, pure chemicals, are put together in one machine to form a prescribed result: synthetic granite. What is put in is equal to what comes out, producing no new scientific insights. However, unlike physics, the synthetic stone’s transition from one knowledge system to another – from science to design and to art – enables a position where we can talk about knowledge-related synergies, namely that it generates a discourse. In our lecture we will analyze the process and the production of the stone to examine the value and knowledge production in which the project will result.

The artists would like to thank Rune Selbekk, curator of mineralogy at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo.

The project is supported by Nordic Culture Point.

(This text is from www.kunstsenter.no)

Flaggfabrikken presenterer HOLY WATER @ Landmark 21:00

Written on April 2, 2009 at 13:51, by maya

This spring´s artist in residence Susanna Majuri from Finland will present her works at Landmark tonight 21:00. Please join us and her invited friends Lau Nau and Cyber Puppy 007 for an evening rich of impressions, and maybe even some dancing. Click here for more info…