Artists PAO Festival 2016
Agnes Btffn (FR/NO)
Agnes Btffn is a visual artist educated at the Norwegian art academy in Oslo and the print workshop in Stavanger. Born in France and lives in Norway. She has been part time teacher at the Rogaland school of art (1989-2007), has curated and organized collective projects and exhibitions in Norway and France and created residency projects in Norway and Palestine.
She works on themes with social/existential context like immigration, burqa, meeting with the other, weapon, focuses on how the victim deals with pain… the subjects are created through video, painting, installation, multimedia, printing, all connected with live actions, and often the participation of the «public». Many of her performance works unfold as stunts in spaces of all kinds. agnesbtffn.wordpress.com
Anne-Liis Kogan (EST/NO)
Anne-Liis Kogan, was born in 1984 in Tartu, Estonia, but has been living in Norway since 1997. She is half Estonian, half Russian, and this has affected her artistic practice in many ways. Her work explores notions of identity, displacement and community and how the individual participates and negotiates his/her place in their current collective culture. Her actions are characterized by negotiating borders and participation, as well as dealing with misunderstandings and incomprehension. She works with performance, sound and video as well as community and relational projects. www.anneliiskogan.com
Denis Romanovski (BY/SE)
Denis Romanovski is an artist and organizer based in Gothenburg. Since 2000 presenting his works in various countries worldwide. As an organizer he has been co-running performance festival Navinki in Minsk (1999-2008) and during recent years - Performance Art Links festival in Stockholm. His artist practice often extends to and merges with tentative experimentation, interest in technologies, shifting between points of view and unexpected humorous outcomes. He embraces performance art for forming non-narrative memories and dynamics of individual engagement in the present audience.
Examples of previous titles: Concert for the Flowers, Ocean Filled With Horizons, Auditory Navigation, Phantom Expression, Random Argumentation, Kara(oke)Tribune, Futureview, There Are No Fish Here. romanovski.se
Denis Romanovski is an artist and organizer based in Gothenburg. Since 2000 presenting his works in various countries worldwide. As an organizer he has been co-running performance festival Navinki in Minsk (1999-2008) and during recent years - Performance Art Links festival in Stockholm. His artist practice often extends to and merges with tentative experimentation, interest in technologies, shifting between points of view and unexpected humorous outcomes. He embraces performance art for forming non-narrative memories and dynamics of individual engagement in the present audience.
Examples of previous titles: Concert for the Flowers, Ocean Filled With Horizons, Auditory Navigation, Phantom Expression, Random Argumentation, Kara(oke)Tribune, Futureview, There Are No Fish Here. romanovski.se
Karen Nikgol (IR/NO)
Karen Nikgol (b.1983) is a painter, performance artist and curator. His artistic work is erotic, mysterious and an attempt to bring solemn symbols in new, vibrant and contemporary expression. With a strong fascination for the occult, new age and club culture, he tries to create a vibrant state of spiritual human expression. In recent years he has worked with rap, drum bass, stage productions, yoga and club aesthetics to create this condition. One of his latest projects is the erotic, transsexual and neon infected performance production "Satyricon" at Black Box Theatre in August 2016. Karen is also co-founder and curator of the exhibition space Noplace, Oslo.
Kiyoshi Yamamoto (JP/BR/NO)
Artist Born in Brazil, but deeply influenced by the Japanese culture of his parents, Kiyoshi graduated with a master’s from the Bergen Academy in 2013 where he lives and work. Yamamoto has already exhibited internationally and participated in diverse projects in London, Helsinki, Milan, Copenhagen and Paris. In spring last year, he was invited to design for the Vossa Jazz festival and to take part in Dimanche Rouge’s ‘Focus on Norway’ performance-art event in Paris, Agalaus National Art festival and Riddu riddu festival in Mandal kåfjord. His textile works have recently been acquired by The Norwegian National Museum for Arts, Crafts and Design, KODE museum and Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum national museum of decorative Arts and Design Trondheim, Norway.
Yamamoto is currently working as Assistant lecture at Bergen National Academy of Arts and Design.
kiyoshiyamamoto.com
Artist Born in Brazil, but deeply influenced by the Japanese culture of his parents, Kiyoshi graduated with a master’s from the Bergen Academy in 2013 where he lives and work. Yamamoto has already exhibited internationally and participated in diverse projects in London, Helsinki, Milan, Copenhagen and Paris. In spring last year, he was invited to design for the Vossa Jazz festival and to take part in Dimanche Rouge’s ‘Focus on Norway’ performance-art event in Paris, Agalaus National Art festival and Riddu riddu festival in Mandal kåfjord. His textile works have recently been acquired by The Norwegian National Museum for Arts, Crafts and Design, KODE museum and Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum national museum of decorative Arts and Design Trondheim, Norway.
Yamamoto is currently working as Assistant lecture at Bergen National Academy of Arts and Design.
kiyoshiyamamoto.com
Liv Kristin Holmberg (NO/DE)
Holmberg works with ritual theater often based on utopian philosophy.
She has a master of Fine Art from Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo / Kunstakademiet. She is also trained as a classical pianist and organplayer from the Norwegian Academy of Music, Academy of Music in Goethenborg, Music Conservatory in Kristiansand and the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki). Academical studies in philosophy, history of ideas, psychology and musicology from the University of Oslo and the Humboldt-Universität (Berlin).
Selected exhibitions / performances: Berlin Art Week, Høstutstillingen, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Spriten Kunsthall, Borealis Samtidsmusikkfestival, NoSPHERE Arts (NY), Østlandsutstillingen, Happy Days, Black Box Teater, Kulturkirken Jakob, PAB Open, Mago Eidsvoll Verk, Skulpturbiennalen, Fotogalleriet, Autocenter Gallery (Berlin) m.m. Holmberg lives and works in Oslo and Berlin. www.livkristinholmberg.no
Holmberg works with ritual theater often based on utopian philosophy.
She has a master of Fine Art from Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo / Kunstakademiet. She is also trained as a classical pianist and organplayer from the Norwegian Academy of Music, Academy of Music in Goethenborg, Music Conservatory in Kristiansand and the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki). Academical studies in philosophy, history of ideas, psychology and musicology from the University of Oslo and the Humboldt-Universität (Berlin).
Selected exhibitions / performances: Berlin Art Week, Høstutstillingen, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Spriten Kunsthall, Borealis Samtidsmusikkfestival, NoSPHERE Arts (NY), Østlandsutstillingen, Happy Days, Black Box Teater, Kulturkirken Jakob, PAB Open, Mago Eidsvoll Verk, Skulpturbiennalen, Fotogalleriet, Autocenter Gallery (Berlin) m.m. Holmberg lives and works in Oslo and Berlin. www.livkristinholmberg.no
Olga Prokhorova (RU/FI)
Olga Prokhorova is an artist originating from Russia living in Finland. She studied Performance Art in Sweden (Haparanda) 2007-2009. Olga is working with Performance Art, installations and visual arts in Russia, Sweden and Finland. With a background as journalist her main-theme is gender, questioning of classical beauty canons in society and breaking comfortable patterns of behaving.
Portraying a moment of life, creating a caricature - there is a big part of humor in her art works.
Pavana Reid (TH/UK/NO)
Born 1963, Khonkaen Thailand, moved to Northern Ireland in 1988. She is nowadays based in Bergen, NO. Member of Bbeyond, the performance art organisation base in Belfast. Graduated in Fine & Applied Art from University of Ulster in 2009.
The question of ones identity both as an individual and as a part of a community is always a lot more complicated than we can imagine. If an identity is what describes who we truly are, then it has to change with us, not just conform to a certain type, or group. As an individual, my way of life; the way I live and what I believe determine who I am not the idea of what I or other people think of me.
I see my performance as an experience in relationship between people, place and time I choose actions or situation to demonstrate the simplicity of life as an individual. www.facebook.com/PavanaArt/timeline
Born 1963, Khonkaen Thailand, moved to Northern Ireland in 1988. She is nowadays based in Bergen, NO. Member of Bbeyond, the performance art organisation base in Belfast. Graduated in Fine & Applied Art from University of Ulster in 2009.
The question of ones identity both as an individual and as a part of a community is always a lot more complicated than we can imagine. If an identity is what describes who we truly are, then it has to change with us, not just conform to a certain type, or group. As an individual, my way of life; the way I live and what I believe determine who I am not the idea of what I or other people think of me.
I see my performance as an experience in relationship between people, place and time I choose actions or situation to demonstrate the simplicity of life as an individual. www.facebook.com/PavanaArt/timeline
Tania García (VE/ES)
Born in 1984 in Caracas, Venezuela, as daughter of a Portuguese mother and a Galician father, both intrepid travellers. Childhood elapses, on a plane, in a car, on a train and in different towns and cities of Spain, Portugal, and the United States. Surrounded by art and creativity, spending long periods in Brazil, Colombia, the Netherlands and France. She received her Master in Fine Arts by the University of La Laguna (2009) and a MA in Philosophy by the same University (2015). She is based on Tenerife, Canary Islands.
Her artistic work arises from the question: WHERE ARE YOU FROM? It is a simple, and basic question, perfect to start a conversation; it is supposedly easy to answer and leads to a soft approach, a politically correct conversation that does not invade the privacy of the person who is been asked. Personal circumstances such as to be born in an unknown country, to feel belonging to a country that deny you citizenship, to grow among an amalgam of very different cultures and countries... can lead this simple question in something uncomfortably complicated and extensive to answer.
www.tania-garcia.com
Vivian Chinasa Ezugha (NG/UK)
I am woman of colour living in a world where the past meets the present. I came to England at the age of 8 with my mother, two sisters and brother. We came for a better life. I carry a suitcase of stories, moving from one city to the next, seeking to reconnect with my past.
Born in Enugu State, Nigeria, Chinasa Vivian Ezugha is a performance and a visual artist living and working in Norwich England.
Ezugha graduated from Aberystwyth University, School of Art in 2014 and has performed nationally and internationally. Her work has been shown as part of BUZZCUT Festival, Glasgow Scotland, Steakhouse Live - Tender Lion at Artsadmin, London England and she was awarded the Wales International Arts award in 2015 to take part in Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, Chicago, US. She was also awarded the Leverhulme Arts Scholarship as part of Wysing Arts Centre, (Cambridge, UK) summer art school.
vcezugha.wixsite.com/work-in-progress
Yingmei Duan (CN/DE)
Yingmei Duan is a curious observer who asks questions of all facets of life in order to continuously learn and develop. For the past sixteen years she has concentrated on making performance art and researching the medium, often exploring human instincts such as fear and desires, examining society and questioning its conventions and human behaviour. Within her performances she crosses mediums and often incorporates sound, video and installation. Besides her solo projects Yingmei work with people from different cultures, ages and areas of life and has realized over 80 collaborative performances. Her artworks frequently in progress, and can stretch over long periods of time. Born in China, Yingmei Duan is part of the Chinese avant-garde. She worked as a painter for many years living in the legendary art district of Beijing's East Village. In 1995 she participated in the performance “To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain”, which is considered to be one of the classics of Chinese modern art. She became a pure performance artist under the influence of Marina Abramovic, with whom she studied at the HBK Braunschweig in Germany from 2000 to 2004. There, she also worked for about two year with the filmmaker and action artist Christoph Schlingensief. Yingmei Duan has made her name in numerous national and international exhibitions, festivals, residencies, lectures and workshops through her performance art. www.yingmei-art.com
Yingmei Duan is a curious observer who asks questions of all facets of life in order to continuously learn and develop. For the past sixteen years she has concentrated on making performance art and researching the medium, often exploring human instincts such as fear and desires, examining society and questioning its conventions and human behaviour. Within her performances she crosses mediums and often incorporates sound, video and installation. Besides her solo projects Yingmei work with people from different cultures, ages and areas of life and has realized over 80 collaborative performances. Her artworks frequently in progress, and can stretch over long periods of time. Born in China, Yingmei Duan is part of the Chinese avant-garde. She worked as a painter for many years living in the legendary art district of Beijing's East Village. In 1995 she participated in the performance “To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain”, which is considered to be one of the classics of Chinese modern art. She became a pure performance artist under the influence of Marina Abramovic, with whom she studied at the HBK Braunschweig in Germany from 2000 to 2004. There, she also worked for about two year with the filmmaker and action artist Christoph Schlingensief. Yingmei Duan has made her name in numerous national and international exhibitions, festivals, residencies, lectures and workshops through her performance art. www.yingmei-art.com
Zierle & Carter (DE/UK)
Interdisciplinary, multi-sensory and often site and context responsive, over the last decade Alexandra Zierle (DE) & Paul Carter’s (UK) practice has spanned performance and live art, socially engaged practice, video, sound, installation, and photography. Through their collaborative practice, Zierle & Carter critically examine different modes of communication and what it means to be human, addressing notions of belonging, dynamics within relationships, and the transformation of limitations. Their work sites an embodied investigation into human interactions and encounters, acting as an invitation to venture into the spaces in-between the external and internal, permanent and transient, spoken and unheard. The work fundamentally explores society’s conventions, traditions, and rituals, often flipping them on their head, reversing orders, and disrupting the norm.
Their work has been widely exhibited internationally throughout Europe, Canada, United States, South America, Australia, in Asia and Africa.
www.zierlecarterliveart.com
Interdisciplinary, multi-sensory and often site and context responsive, over the last decade Alexandra Zierle (DE) & Paul Carter’s (UK) practice has spanned performance and live art, socially engaged practice, video, sound, installation, and photography. Through their collaborative practice, Zierle & Carter critically examine different modes of communication and what it means to be human, addressing notions of belonging, dynamics within relationships, and the transformation of limitations. Their work sites an embodied investigation into human interactions and encounters, acting as an invitation to venture into the spaces in-between the external and internal, permanent and transient, spoken and unheard. The work fundamentally explores society’s conventions, traditions, and rituals, often flipping them on their head, reversing orders, and disrupting the norm.
Their work has been widely exhibited internationally throughout Europe, Canada, United States, South America, Australia, in Asia and Africa.
www.zierlecarterliveart.com