Artists PAO Festival 2019
Artists live performance program:
Photo: Stefan Schröder
Siri Austeen NO (B.1961) In her artistic practice Austeen explores the relationship between sound, site and identity. Her work focuses on the impact various listening strategies have on our perception of everyday life. Sound and the act of listening relate to the passing of time, and in that sense to how we spend our time. Austeens work is often based on field recordings, location-related installations, participatory projects, musical productions, performance and commissioned art projects. Her ongoing project Soniske forplantninger is an exploration of space and sound using various physical or architectonical materials as speaker membrane, currently involving "South North Sound Exchange" a new sound installation for a High School outside Oslo, based on field recordings from Western Cape, South Africa. Austeen received her education at Academy of Fine Arts, Trondheim 1981-85 and have since performed and exhibited in Norway and internationally such as Ultimafestivalen Oslo, Henie Onstad Art Center Oslo, Rodulfinum Praha, Bergen Art Museum, Kino Eiszeit Berlin, Lokaal 01 Breda, Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Barents Spektakel Kirkenes / Kola, Borealis Bergen mm.
www.austeen.no
www.austeen.no
Photo: Hanne Brandt
Marita Bullmann DE (B.1982) is a performance, installation and photography artist.
She lives and works in Essen, Germany. Marita studied photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.
2011 she graduated with distinctions from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. 2011 she founded with other artists PAErsche, an action-laboratory based in Germany (www.paersche.org) Since 2013 she is the organizer and art director of the performance art platform INTERVAL (www.maritabullmann.de/interval/) Since 2006 Marita showed her work across Europe, Israel, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Macao, USA, South America and China.
www.maritabullmann.de
She lives and works in Essen, Germany. Marita studied photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.
2011 she graduated with distinctions from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. 2011 she founded with other artists PAErsche, an action-laboratory based in Germany (www.paersche.org) Since 2013 she is the organizer and art director of the performance art platform INTERVAL (www.maritabullmann.de/interval/) Since 2006 Marita showed her work across Europe, Israel, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Macao, USA, South America and China.
www.maritabullmann.de
Photo: Arto Polus
Laurel Jay Carpenter USA/UK (B.1969) investigates longing and intimacy, while troubling subjectivity, in her sculptural, durational live works. Originally from the USA, she has presented internationally in traditional gallery/festival settings, as well as site-specifically in the public realm across the USA, UK, Scandinavia, Western and Eastern Europe, most notably as part of the 2007 Venice Biennale, the 2013 Festspillene i Bergen and the 2019 Prague Quadrennial. She regularly collaborates with Norwegian artist Terese Longva as Longva+Carpenter, and was, earlier in her career, an active member of the Independent Performance Group founded by Marina Abramović. For more than a decade, Carpenter served as a tenured professor of art at Alfred University in New York before refocusing her practice toward doctoral research at Northumbria University with supervisor Sandra Johnston.
She is currently based in the UK.
www.laureljay.com
She is currently based in the UK.
www.laureljay.com
Photo: Juan Otero Chaves
Ana Gesto ES (B.1978) is a visual performer and artist with a BA in Fine Arts (University of Vigo and San Carles Fine Arts Faculty in Valencia, Spain). She took part in the "Resistencia y Materialización" (Resistance and Materialization) research group at the University of Vigo from 2008 to 2011. Gesto performed and participated in "Arte de Acción" (Action Art) artistic events and has taken part in both individual and team exhibitions nationally and internationally. She develops her work around strongly identity driven-cultural and social practices. She tends to use sculpture-based language and acoustic experimentation. She works with transmuted objects of great symbolic meaning, and with the sounds those objects produce. Everyday objects that once transformed and released from their original meaning, show us other reality layers or faces. Ana adds the non-neutral nature of spaces in her actions, often interacting with the audience.
www.anagesto.com
www.anagesto.com
Konrad Juściński PL (B.1977) is a visual artist living and working in Poznań, Poland with a PhD in arts from University of Arts in Poznań - Department of Sculpture and Space Activities in 2014. Konrad has shown performances and exhibited internationally such as in Poland, Japan, Matrix Natura -“Miniartextil” at Palazzo Mocenigo - In conjunction with the 54th Biennale of Art in Venice, Italy, and Dresden in Germany. In such places as AT ARTS EXHIBITION 2018 – CASO Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Japan and Safe [.] place 6, video/installation Mediations Biennale International art festival in Poznań, Poland 2018 - Incarnate - performance, Austausch/Wymiana/Dresdner Performance Tag Dresden, Germany.
”In my works, I refer to such concepts as a safe place and utopia. The term “safe place” comes from my own artistic practice and I define it in the space of sculpture and performance. This research is aimed at the study of the phenomenon of site contemplation with particular attention given to the issue of site (in situ).
www.konradjuscinski.com
”In my works, I refer to such concepts as a safe place and utopia. The term “safe place” comes from my own artistic practice and I define it in the space of sculpture and performance. This research is aimed at the study of the phenomenon of site contemplation with particular attention given to the issue of site (in situ).
www.konradjuscinski.com
Photo: Torgrim Halvari. Costume: Ramona Salo Myrseth. Performance: Katarina Skår Lisa
Katarina Skår Lisa NO (B.1987) is a Norwegian choreographer, teacher and performer who carries Sami roots from Varanger. She works in the intersection of performance art, choreography and poetry, where the relationship between landscape and nature, human and culture is close to her as work themes. Indigenous philosophy and methodology influences her to work with an expanded choreographic practice that facilitates working in a relational, sensitive and circular ways. Katarina emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, and has both created and practiced in her own and others' works. She is educated at the Oslo Academy of the Arts (2017-2019), at the University of Stavanger (2006-2010) and at the Oslo Project School of Art (2012-2013). She is a member of Sámi Lávdi, Performance Art Oslo and Naturvernforbundet. She is currently collaborating with textile and fashion designer Ramona Salo from Kåfjord in Troms county for the work at PAO festival and in her work Gift of Stone, and in Salo's project named The Sami half-hour.
www.katarinalisa.com
Greg Pope UK/NO (B.1960) After dabbling in punk rock bands and absurdist performance, Greg Pope founded film collective ‘Situation Cinema’ (Brighton 1986) and ‘Loophole Cinema’ (London, 1989).
Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video installations, live art and single screen film works since 1996. These works include live cinema performance pieces as well as 35mm film productions and slide projection performances. His collaborations include working with sound artists Lee Paterson, John Hegre, Lasse Marhaug and Okkyung Lee and bands including Sult and Ich Bin N!ntendo. Pope has performed at festivals and events in Europe, North and South America and Australia.
www.gregpope.org
Photo: Wojciech Pacewicz
Olga Skliarska UA (B. 1993) is an interdisciplinary artist mainly engaged in performance art, ceramics, objects and visual poetry. Exploring connections between body and space, own and collective memory, her works are inspired by non-standart phenomenas, human psychology, the concept of the meaning of words. From 2017 she is a member of two performance groups Zabih (UA) and Zapora (PL/UA). She is one of the organizers of Performans Festival Zabih in Lviv, Ukraine. She has participate in festivals and events such as XIX International Art Festival INTERAKCJE, Piotrkow Trybunalski PL; Performance Art Festiwal 05 HUBENY A TLUSTY, Brno CZ; Akcja Lublin, Part 3; Lublin PL; International Performance Festival Carbonarium, Kyiv UA; XVII Art Review SURVIVAL, Wroclaw PL.
Olga graduated from Art Ceramic Department in Lviv National Academy of Art, Ukraine and is currently a student of Sculpture and Spatial Activities Department in University of Arts Poznan, Poland.
Photo: Fiona Killeen
Johanna Zwaig NO (B.1975) is a Norwegian performance artist. She has background from Ecole Internationale de Théâtre, Jacques Lecoq in Paris, from University in Oslo, and has studied flamenco in Paris, Madrid, Sevilla and Jerez de la Frontera. Conscious about the wild, rebellious roots of performance art, and with a belief in the encounter, in these times of walls, she creates works that vibrate between the personal and the political. The last years she has especially worked with the darker forms of flamenco song, learnt in the barrios gitanos of Jerez de la Frontera. She has focused on songs loaded with old screams against injustice, and connected them with symbolic actions and objects, in both long durational performances and short, explosive ones. For the time being she is also working with a wider range of songs, from French chansons and Argentinian tango to klezmer and Russian gypsy music. Zwaig’s performances have taken place at for example The Complex and outdoors at Dublin Live Art Festival, at La Bellevilloise and La Générale in Paris, at Galeria Raczej / Perfex in Poznan in Poland, and in Norway at for example The National Annual Autumn Exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, at Henie Onstad Art Centre in Bærum, at Stavanger Art Museum, at Drammens Museum, at Kunstbanken in Hamar, at Spriten kunsthall in Skien and at Kunsthall 3.14 in Bergen.
www.johannazwaig.com
www.johannazwaig.com
Linda & Aura – FI (Linda Granfors B.1978 and Aura Hakuri B.1977), is a performance duo, friends and artists who have been working together for 16 years. They met in the Fine Arts Academy in Helsinki in 2001 and performed together for the first time the same year. Linda & Aura are also painters and share the language of painting, which is visible in their performances.
- “In our work we have dealt with different kind of roles, stages of life and archetypes. The way we approach themes is not straightforward or underlining but rather descriptive, suggestive or interrogative. Trust plays an essential part in our work. The mutual trust between us as performers allows the viewers to also experience trust in the course of a performance.
The feeling of play is strongly present in our work. Not play as referring to childhood, but play as an attitude and state of mind. Play emphasizes greater use of imagination and experimentation, it also permits crossing certain borders and being free. Play can be full of light or darkness, filled with joy, comfort and frightening things.”
- “In our work we have dealt with different kind of roles, stages of life and archetypes. The way we approach themes is not straightforward or underlining but rather descriptive, suggestive or interrogative. Trust plays an essential part in our work. The mutual trust between us as performers allows the viewers to also experience trust in the course of a performance.
The feeling of play is strongly present in our work. Not play as referring to childhood, but play as an attitude and state of mind. Play emphasizes greater use of imagination and experimentation, it also permits crossing certain borders and being free. Play can be full of light or darkness, filled with joy, comfort and frightening things.”
Det Elektriske Korps NO (Einar Goksøyr Åsen B.1985 and Øyvind Mellbye B.1985)
Det Elektriske Korps is proud to present Samvær Under Tilsüns Pling Pong; an augmented table tennis system with your Life™ at stake - Wave your paddle wildly into thin air and perhaps you will be victorious and win the S.U.T Pling Pong travelling trophü?!
Irma (8) has contributed with custom designs and her father, the renowned typographer Ellmer Stefan, has composed a sequence of signs for the special Pling Pong tape that encircle the edges of the paddles.
Samvær Under Tilsün has previously hosted Grei Kafe/Sonic Theme Park I and II, with outdoor sound system, tea, griddle cake and experimental steamed raisin bun elevator. We are not very strict when it comes to the distinction between audience and performer due to the nature of our projects.
Øyvind Mellbye was educated at the Bergen Art Academy and works with sculpture, machines and ghettoblasters made from wood, metal, concrete and electronics. Einar Goksøyr Åsen is a pre-school teacher working at Deichman Biblo Tøyen. He makes music under the alias Stiv Heks and runs the cassette label Hulesystem. Øyvind and Einar are collaborating on the projects Samvær Under Tilsün and Det Elektriske Korps. Samvær Under Tilsün play hardware-freeform-tekno with 4093 megasynth and Eurorack modular.
www.tilsyn.se / www.korps.life
Artists exhibition / Video program:
Lee Wen SG (1957–2019) was a Singapore-based performance artist who shaped the development of performance art in Asia. He worked on the notion of identity, ethnicity, freedom, and the individual's relationship to communities and the environment. Lee Wen's work quickly gained international recognition since 1993, having performed and showcasing his artistic expressions in many international locations such as Gwangju Biennale and the 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial in Australia in 1999. Lee's most iconic work is his performance series titled The Journey of a Yellow Man, which started as a critique of racial and ethnic identities in 1992 and has evolved into a meditation on freedom, humility, and religious practices over more than a decade. Painting his own body with bright yellow poster paint, he expresses an exaggerated symbol of his ethnic identity as a citizen of Singapore. He was also active in artist-run initiatives, especially as part of The Artists Village (TAV) in Singapore, the performance artist collective Black Market International, as well as the festivals Future of Imagination and Rooted in the Ephemeral Speak (R.I.T.E.S.). In 2005, Lee Wen was presented with the Cultural Medallion, the highest cultural award in Singapore, for his contributions to the development of local contemporary art scene. http://leewen.republicofdaydreams.com
Nyugen Smith USA/HT/TT (B.1976) is a first generation Caribbean-American interdisciplinary artist based in Jersey City, NJ and Dallas, TX, where he is a Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Art in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Through performance, found object sculpture, mixed media drawing, painting, video, photo and writing, Nyugen deepens his knowledge of historical and present day conditions of Black African descendants in the diaspora. Trauma, spiritual practices, language, violence, memory, architecture, landscape and climate change are primary concerns in his practice. He holds a BA, Fine Art from Seton Hall University and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nyugen is the recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Performing and Visual Arts Fund, Franklin Furnace Fund, and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Exhibitions include: Museum of Cultural History (Oslo, Norway), Peréz Art Museum (Miami, Florida, USA), Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach, California, USA), Newark Museum (Newark, New Jersey, USA), Queens Museum (Queens, New York, USA). Forthcoming exhibition: Listening to the Echoes of the South Atlantic, Oslo Kunstforening, Curated by Selene Wendt. www.nyugensmith.com
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo CU (B.1984) studied in San Alejandro Art Academy (Havana, Cuba), The University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) and the Center for Art and Design HfG, (Karlsruhe, Germany). She currently has a solo exhibition call ‘Body Present’ at KIOSK, Gent, Belgium. She is also part of the Lubumbashi Biennale, Democratic Republic of Congo and ‘Emphasis on resistance: CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition’ at El Museo del Barrio, New York, US. www.susanapilardelahantematienzo.blogspot.com
Bjarte Bjørkum NO (B. 1967) is a Norwegian author, photographer and translator. He was educated at Konstfack in Stockholm as a fine art photographer. As he is of the modest type, he has been working steadily in the shadows, occasionally showing up in group exhibitions and releasing books for children aged 0-100. His latest surfacing is as part of the Collection of 100 Norwegian Photographers, a Project that was just released in book form. Bjarte has a great interest in and affection for performance art, and entertains himself with documenting performance festivals in Norway, which he has been doing for around 20 years. From time to time he can be seen wearing his red clown nose, and is frequently found on his unicycle. Just because he can. www.bjartebjorkum.com