Artists PAO Festival 2018
Emily Promise Allison CA (B. 1988)
Studied sculpture at Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, CA and Sculpture and Environmental Art (BFA Exchange), Glasgow School of Art, UK.
In addition to her work as an artist Allison is a designer, performer, and children's educator devoted to the discovery of alternative approaches to culture and society. She lives with a desire to witness an individual’s discovery of an unknown ability; enabling a collapse of perceived hierarchies between knowledge, lived experience, and naivety. www.emilypromiseallison.com
Vilde Løwenborg Blom NO (B. 1991)
Living and working in Oslo is working with themes revolving lust, materiality, intimacy and the abject. She is using candy and sweets as a material in sculpture, installation and her performative work. Blom is educated at KHIB art and design school in Bergen, Iceland Academy of the Arts and Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts.
www.vildeblom.com
Vilde Von Krogh NO (B. 1965)
from Oslo is working with a wide range of media such as performance, video, drawing, sculpture and installations. Von Krogh is the initiator and Dean of Prosjektskolen, Norway’s first art foundation school that specializes in three dimensional art and new media, where her work as a teacher is integrated in her artistic praxis and mission. Von Krogh has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as Stenersenmuseet, Kunstnernes Hus and Museum of Contemporary art in Oslo and various galleries, museums and alternative spaces in Europe. In later years she is collaborating more with other artists, particularly with performance where the artists involved become the extended scenography within the theme.
www.vildevonkrogh.no
from Oslo is working with a wide range of media such as performance, video, drawing, sculpture and installations. Von Krogh is the initiator and Dean of Prosjektskolen, Norway’s first art foundation school that specializes in three dimensional art and new media, where her work as a teacher is integrated in her artistic praxis and mission. Von Krogh has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as Stenersenmuseet, Kunstnernes Hus and Museum of Contemporary art in Oslo and various galleries, museums and alternative spaces in Europe. In later years she is collaborating more with other artists, particularly with performance where the artists involved become the extended scenography within the theme.
www.vildevonkrogh.no
Kachun Lay CN/NO (B. 1989)
Is a Chinese-Norwegian artist from Lillesand based in Oslo. Lay works process-oriented in the field of sculpture, drawing, installation and performance.
His work is about our personal relationships with the individual and social circles. As he extracts elements from his own identity and experiences that have created changes around him, the work works as an excerpt from a mental diary. He defines his practice as a mixture of confessional and material-based art.
Through his working method, Lay tries to manifest a state of mind and create a narrative for the viewer. He does this by using metaphors as a tool to create visual expressions that reflect the working-process.
www.kachun-lay.com
Is a Chinese-Norwegian artist from Lillesand based in Oslo. Lay works process-oriented in the field of sculpture, drawing, installation and performance.
His work is about our personal relationships with the individual and social circles. As he extracts elements from his own identity and experiences that have created changes around him, the work works as an excerpt from a mental diary. He defines his practice as a mixture of confessional and material-based art.
Through his working method, Lay tries to manifest a state of mind and create a narrative for the viewer. He does this by using metaphors as a tool to create visual expressions that reflect the working-process.
www.kachun-lay.com
Manuel López ES (B. 1992)
Born in Lanzarote is a Valencia-based interdisciplinary artist working between performance, site-responsive actions, video and sound. His work explores the intersections between body, context, and process-action. López holds an MFA in Visual and New Media Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He Graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and Music from the Conservatorio Profesional de Música Josep Climent. López has performed in Europe and the United States, highlighting Xarkis Festival (Koilani, Cyprus), INTERVAL o9 (Essen, DE), Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival (Sofia, BG), Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (Chicago, US) Warsaw International Performance Art Weekend (Warsaw, PL), CREATurE Live Art Festival (Kaunas, LT), Month of Performance Art Berlin (Berlin, DE), and Acción!MAD (Madrid, ES) among others. His work has been featured in group exhibitions in Europe, United States, South America and Iran.
www.manuellopez.info
Alastair MacLennan UK (B 1943)
Is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work looks into political, social, spiritual, religious, ethical and aesthetical questions. He has performed since 1972 more than 600 art performances in countries across the world, in galleries, museums, festivals and public spaces. MacLennan represented Ireland at the 47 Venice Biennale, with inter-media work commemorating the names of all those who died as a result of the Political Troubles in Northern Ireland, from 1969 to then date (1997). During the 1970's and '80's he created long, non-stop performances in Britain, America and Canada, of up to 144 hours duration. He presents Actuations (performance/installations) in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, North America and Canada. Subject matter deals with political, social and cultural malfunction. He is a founding member of Belfast's Art and Research Exchange and a founding member (and current board member) of Belfast's Bbeyond performance art organization. Since 1989 he's been a member of the performance art entity, Black Market International, which performs globally.
"Art is the demonstrated wish and will 'towards' resolving inner and outer conflict, be it spiritual, religious, political, personal, social, cultural...or any interfusion of these." vads.ac.uk/collections/maclennan
Is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work looks into political, social, spiritual, religious, ethical and aesthetical questions. He has performed since 1972 more than 600 art performances in countries across the world, in galleries, museums, festivals and public spaces. MacLennan represented Ireland at the 47 Venice Biennale, with inter-media work commemorating the names of all those who died as a result of the Political Troubles in Northern Ireland, from 1969 to then date (1997). During the 1970's and '80's he created long, non-stop performances in Britain, America and Canada, of up to 144 hours duration. He presents Actuations (performance/installations) in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, North America and Canada. Subject matter deals with political, social and cultural malfunction. He is a founding member of Belfast's Art and Research Exchange and a founding member (and current board member) of Belfast's Bbeyond performance art organization. Since 1989 he's been a member of the performance art entity, Black Market International, which performs globally.
"Art is the demonstrated wish and will 'towards' resolving inner and outer conflict, be it spiritual, religious, political, personal, social, cultural...or any interfusion of these." vads.ac.uk/collections/maclennan
Ann Noël UK/DE (B. 1944)
Was born in Plymouth, England and has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany since 1980. Working in a wide-range of materials such as painting, graphic design, printmaking, photography and performance she has shown her work globally over the last 4 decades. Her career began in 1964 at the Bath Academy of Art, where she studied with the visual poet John Furnival. After graduating with a Diploma in Art & Design in 1968, she went to Stuttgart, Germany to work with Hansjörg Mayer, one of the first publishers of artist’s books by Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, Richard Hamilton and others. This led to her becoming an assistant to Dick Higgins, publisher of the Something Else Press in New York. Here she met and married Emmett Williams, then editor-in-chief at the press, and met other members of the FLUXUS movement. During the 1970s Noël was graphic workshop supervisor at the California Institute of the Arts, lecturer in printmaking at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Visiting Artist at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. From 1982 to 1987 she published a series of artist’s books with the Rainer Verlag Berlin. Her exhibitions include participation in many Construction in Process events worldwide, organized by the International Artists’ Museum in Lodz, and at the first Liverpool Biennale in England. She has taken part in FLUXUS Festivals since 1985. Documentation of her solo performances can be seen at the museum FLUXUS+ in Potsdam. www.ann-noel.com
Was born in Plymouth, England and has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany since 1980. Working in a wide-range of materials such as painting, graphic design, printmaking, photography and performance she has shown her work globally over the last 4 decades. Her career began in 1964 at the Bath Academy of Art, where she studied with the visual poet John Furnival. After graduating with a Diploma in Art & Design in 1968, she went to Stuttgart, Germany to work with Hansjörg Mayer, one of the first publishers of artist’s books by Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, Richard Hamilton and others. This led to her becoming an assistant to Dick Higgins, publisher of the Something Else Press in New York. Here she met and married Emmett Williams, then editor-in-chief at the press, and met other members of the FLUXUS movement. During the 1970s Noël was graphic workshop supervisor at the California Institute of the Arts, lecturer in printmaking at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Visiting Artist at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. From 1982 to 1987 she published a series of artist’s books with the Rainer Verlag Berlin. Her exhibitions include participation in many Construction in Process events worldwide, organized by the International Artists’ Museum in Lodz, and at the first Liverpool Biennale in England. She has taken part in FLUXUS Festivals since 1985. Documentation of her solo performances can be seen at the museum FLUXUS+ in Potsdam. www.ann-noel.com
Irma Optimist FI (B. 1952)
Irma Optimist is a mathematician and she started doing performance art in 1989. Since then she has performed at dozens of festivals, museums and galleries all over the world. During the beginning of her career, she was famous for the ironic and parodying aspects of her performances. These were directed as criticism of the prevalent masculine concept of art. Many of the works were interactive and simultaneous, based on mathematical dynamics of chaos.
In most of her work, Irma Optimist has been very personal, discussing the conditions of identity, femininity, and death. Gender, locality and nature have been her themes. The works themselves are transformations, in which the existence of the artist is connected to ritual and live installation. Irma Optimist has also acted as a curator and brought many well-known international performance artists to events she has organized in Finland. Since 2000, she has been involved in organizing Là-bas, a permanent forum for living art and experimental culture. Irma Optimist has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of Finnish Art Society in 2012 and in 2013 the State Prize of Art.
Irma Optimist is a mathematician and she started doing performance art in 1989. Since then she has performed at dozens of festivals, museums and galleries all over the world. During the beginning of her career, she was famous for the ironic and parodying aspects of her performances. These were directed as criticism of the prevalent masculine concept of art. Many of the works were interactive and simultaneous, based on mathematical dynamics of chaos.
In most of her work, Irma Optimist has been very personal, discussing the conditions of identity, femininity, and death. Gender, locality and nature have been her themes. The works themselves are transformations, in which the existence of the artist is connected to ritual and live installation. Irma Optimist has also acted as a curator and brought many well-known international performance artists to events she has organized in Finland. Since 2000, she has been involved in organizing Là-bas, a permanent forum for living art and experimental culture. Irma Optimist has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of Finnish Art Society in 2012 and in 2013 the State Prize of Art.
Lisa Tostmann DE (B. 1990)
Born in Germany, makes work that explores topics like the in-between, the unknown, the mysterious, the ephemeral, the visible and invisible and the dynamics behind humor.
Lisa is an interdisciplinary artist, working in Performance Art, Installation and Drawing. She is currently living in Dresden, Germany, where she is a student of Art Education and Teaching Assistant for Performance Art at the Dresden University of Technology. She has presented several works in Germany, Poland and Czech Republic and is a former member of the Performance Art collective Seite.30. She has worked as a teacher for Performance Art in Germany and the Netherlands.
Hilmar Fredriksen, Kurt Johannessen and Kjetil Skøien collaborated on performances in the 90s. They did in total 4 performances together showing individual and collaborative works at Kunstnernes Hus and Bergen Kunsthall in 1993 and in 1996 they went to Japan at Gallery Lumani in Tokyo and Art Hall Kyoto.
The three artists will for the first time since the 90s be reunited at PAO Festival 2018.
Hilmar Fredriksen (B. 1953) in Trondhjem was active in the Norwegian avantgarde in the 1970s and 80s. Fredriksen create work in various techniques such as video, painting, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance. Fredriksen is inspired by conseptual art and minimalism, and he has exhibitited his works internationally such as in in The Biennal of Sydney, Australia, The Biennal of Sao Paulo, Brasil, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Carnegie Art Award, Kristus, F15 video Fluxus und die Folgen, Wiesbaden, Lhasa,Tibet, Body Navigation St. Petersburg, Russia and in Norway at institutions such as Bergen Kunstmuseum, Henie-Onstad kunstsenter, Trondheim Kunstmuseum and Sørlandets Kunstmuseum Kritiansand.
Kurt Johannessen (B. 1960) works with performance, books, video and installation. He has produced over 200 performances throughout Europe, Asia and USA since the early 80s. His performances often have a poetic and minimalistic language. Johannessen has exhibited extensively in Norway in art institutions such as Bergen Kunstmuseum and Kunstnernes Hus (2007). He publishes artist’s books through his own publishing company and many of his books are related to text, while others are created from drawings and photos. The text-works are often stories consisting of one sentence and are visual, poetic, and sometimes humorous. He has made over 90 books with many translated into English and some purchased by The Norwegian Culture council. www.zeth.no
Kjetil Skøien (B. 1952) living and working in Oslo is educated at The Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. Skøien has worked within a wide range of media such as video, photography, performance, painting, drawing, as well as in theater as a dancer, actor, director and with scenography. In1985 he started the theatercompany Passage Nord Teater. He has exhibited at various institutions such as Kunstnernes Hus, Stenersenmuseet, Rogaland and Sørlandets Kunstmuseer, Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Malmø Konsthall, Maki Gallery and Lunami Gallery in Tokyo, Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, ICA in London, Al Mattah Art Gallery in Ramallah, The Art Museum in Yerevan and Grace Exhibition Space in New York. www.kjetilskoien.no
The three artists will for the first time since the 90s be reunited at PAO Festival 2018.
Hilmar Fredriksen (B. 1953) in Trondhjem was active in the Norwegian avantgarde in the 1970s and 80s. Fredriksen create work in various techniques such as video, painting, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance. Fredriksen is inspired by conseptual art and minimalism, and he has exhibitited his works internationally such as in in The Biennal of Sydney, Australia, The Biennal of Sao Paulo, Brasil, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Carnegie Art Award, Kristus, F15 video Fluxus und die Folgen, Wiesbaden, Lhasa,Tibet, Body Navigation St. Petersburg, Russia and in Norway at institutions such as Bergen Kunstmuseum, Henie-Onstad kunstsenter, Trondheim Kunstmuseum and Sørlandets Kunstmuseum Kritiansand.
Kurt Johannessen (B. 1960) works with performance, books, video and installation. He has produced over 200 performances throughout Europe, Asia and USA since the early 80s. His performances often have a poetic and minimalistic language. Johannessen has exhibited extensively in Norway in art institutions such as Bergen Kunstmuseum and Kunstnernes Hus (2007). He publishes artist’s books through his own publishing company and many of his books are related to text, while others are created from drawings and photos. The text-works are often stories consisting of one sentence and are visual, poetic, and sometimes humorous. He has made over 90 books with many translated into English and some purchased by The Norwegian Culture council. www.zeth.no
Kjetil Skøien (B. 1952) living and working in Oslo is educated at The Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. Skøien has worked within a wide range of media such as video, photography, performance, painting, drawing, as well as in theater as a dancer, actor, director and with scenography. In1985 he started the theatercompany Passage Nord Teater. He has exhibited at various institutions such as Kunstnernes Hus, Stenersenmuseet, Rogaland and Sørlandets Kunstmuseer, Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Malmø Konsthall, Maki Gallery and Lunami Gallery in Tokyo, Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, ICA in London, Al Mattah Art Gallery in Ramallah, The Art Museum in Yerevan and Grace Exhibition Space in New York. www.kjetilskoien.no
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