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Tracking/Tracing; Contemporary Art from Australia
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.
