2010 August

Flaggfabrikken´s exhibition space KNIPSU opens on Friday!

Written on August 24, 2010 at 08:28, by maya

Flaggfabrikken Presenterer start our new project space KNIPSU with a solo show by the American artist Lindsay Foster. Foster was an artist in residency at Flaggfabrikken this Spring.

( i n ) a u t o n o m y

Friday August 27th, 8 o´clock in Komediebakken 9 until September 12th.
Interested in exploring the space between—the ambiguities of interacting, connecting and communicating, Foster purchased a vintage motor home, fixed it up and headed out to experience the unknown.

That was the romantic plan — escape urbanity, leave the studio and embrace the open road. Interested in encountering wisdom within a temporary autonomous zone, questioning lifeworld and engaging in existential quandaries, she set out to confront the idea of both outsider isolation and insider community. The archetype became a way of studying relations – to strangers, the elements and the psychology of symbols. Interwoven social roles, specifically that of the father figure, involving power, respect and trust is foregrounded in this body of work.

Lindsay Foster was born in Seattle, Washington (1980) and currently lives and works in Seattle and Los Angeles.

She received a BA in Sociology and Studio Art from the University of Puget Sound in 2003, studied photography and film at the Maine Photographic Workshops and earned her MFA from CalArts in 2008.

Her work has recently been shown at The National Center for Contemporary Art in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the 700IS Film Festival, Iceland; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; PDX Film Festival, Portland OR; Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles; Open Gallery, Los Angeles; Angels Gate Cultural Center; AIR Gallery, New York; Los Angeles Center of Contemporary Art and the Torrance Art Museum. Foster is also the founder of TMHR (The Motor Home Residency), a mobile artist residency. She plans to begin residence at the HISK, Belgium in 2011.

Er du kunstner i Bergen?

Written on August 20, 2010 at 12:00, by maya

Bergen Kommune kartlegger for tiden behovet av produksjonslokaler for det visuelle kunstfeltet i Bergen.

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men kun de svarene som kommer inn innen 20. september 2010
blir tatt med i rulleringen av Kulturarenaplanen.