2012 January

Marthe Elise Stramrud in group show

Written on January 23, 2012 at 17:46, by alette

The magazine “FØLGENE” is the result of Gruppe 11’s attempt to produce one common artwork and one common text by constructing a chain of art and a chain of text following these rules:

1. One person initiates the chain by making and passing on an artwork to the next person in the chain.

2. The next person puts together a work based on what is received, and then passes it on to the next person in the chain.

3. Each person is only able to see what the predecessor has done, and so it continues through the nine people in the group.

4. Meanwhile, a text is sent through a differently ordered chain, following the same concept.

5. The text should be approximately 10 sentences long, and should be inspired by the text one receives.

6. Each person has one week to complete the artwork and one week to write the text.

7. One cannot show the works to anyone in the group, besides the next person in the chain.

8. The work must be completed wherever the artist is situated at the time.

For the event at Bergen Kjøtt on the 20th of January GRUPPE 11 will continue the event presented at ONO on the 12th of december 2011 where the magazine “FØLGENE” which includes the nine artworks and the text made up of 9 paragraphs that were the result of the chain, was launched. In addition to “FØLGENE” there will be an exhibition where each of the members present what they have developed from the work they made in the chain and at ONO. In the exhibition, the artwork will take into consideration what came before them AND what came after them in the chain. By doing this, Gruppe 11 continues the chain.

Gruppe 11 was initiated in May 2011, when 9 students from Bergen National Academy of the Arts received their BFA in Photography. Eager to maintain their affiliation as a group, they created the artist collective Gruppe 11. The group functions as a platform for making art through exhibitions, publications and live events.

GRUPPE 11 consists of Audar Kantun, Carl-Oskar Linné, Arne Pedersen, Ellen Henriette Suhrke, Hedvig Biong, Eivind Egeland, Elias Björn, Marius Moldvær and Marthe Elise Stramrud.

FØLGENE ER STØTTET AV BERGEN KOMMUNE

Tracking/Tracing; Contemporary Art from Australia

Written on January 19, 2012 at 21:57, by maya

Professor Jeremy Welsh is curator for an exhibition at Galleri 3,14 in Bergen where renowned Australian artists present some of their work. The public are also welcome to a one-day seminar, with Flaggfabrikken member Heidi Nikolaisen among others, concerning themes directly related to the works in the exhibition.

The Exhbition opens Friday 20 January at 1800 HRS. The seminar starts Saturday 21 January at 12. Read the seminar program here:

http://www.khib.no/norsk/kalender/2012/01/trackingtracing/

About the Speakers
Two of the seminar speakers are directly connected – Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, one of the exhibiting artists, and Cathie Payne, author of an essay in the exhibition catalogue. Cathie Payne will speak broadly of the exhibition in relation to some of the historical background that is relevant for the works, and will also discuss the theme of “Landscape and Memory” which is central to the selection of works in the exhibition and is also a philosophical enquiry with which she is engaged.

Nathalie Hartog Gautier will speak about her own work from the series “Scanning Memories”, represented by a series of prints in this exhibition. Working with archive materials as well as her own images, sher creates a visual journey that is both documentary or diaristic and imaginary or imaginative. Linking her own cultural background in France to the landscapes of her adopted home in Australia, she creates a bridge between continents.

Bergen National Academy of the Arts is represented in the seminar by artist Heidi Nikolaisen of Subject Area Photography of the Dept. Specialised Arts. Her current project involves research and travel. “We belong to the same tree” is an investigation of branches of her family who migrated from Norway to Canada at the beginning of the last century. Through photography, video and personal encounters, she explores themes of belonging, migration, distance, cultural likeness and difference.

Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Cultures at the University of Bergen. In her lecture “Sharing photos: filtered moments of life in social media” she will examine the ohenomenon of photo-sharing sites, photoblogs and other arenas within social media, that are having a fundamental impact on the way we make, use and consume photographic images.

Steven Bode is artistic director of The Film and Video Umbrella, London, and a respected curator within the field of artists’ moving image work. In recent years he has curated and produced works by some of contemporary art’s most renowned film & video makers, including Tacita Dean, Isaac Julien, Jane & Lousie Wilson, Johan Grimonprez, AK Dolven, and many others. Here, Steven will present and discuss a number of landscape and journey-themed projects he has curated and produced.