Artist live performance programme
Alt Går Bra, The Russians Did It, Barents Spektakel, Kirkenes, 2020.
Photo: Max Malyutin
Alt Går Bra
Alt Går Bra pursues affirmative aesthetic forms, elaborated through philosophical and historical inquiries. Its exhibitions, discursive events, and publications portray Classicism and Romanticism as deep structuring principles, well beyond the realm of aesthetics. Reviving the scorned skill of the hand, Alt Går Bra explores today’s artistic potential of the figurative and the beautiful. An unusual intensity leads Alt Går Bra to hectic levels of production that break through the barriers between contemporary art and the general public with complex content.
Founded in 2015, Alt Går Bra is based in Bergen and Paris. Its work has been presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Palais de Tokyo, University of Westminster, KODE, and Bergen Kunsthall.
http://altgarbra.org/
Alt Går Bra pursues affirmative aesthetic forms, elaborated through philosophical and historical inquiries. Its exhibitions, discursive events, and publications portray Classicism and Romanticism as deep structuring principles, well beyond the realm of aesthetics. Reviving the scorned skill of the hand, Alt Går Bra explores today’s artistic potential of the figurative and the beautiful. An unusual intensity leads Alt Går Bra to hectic levels of production that break through the barriers between contemporary art and the general public with complex content.
Founded in 2015, Alt Går Bra is based in Bergen and Paris. Its work has been presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Palais de Tokyo, University of Westminster, KODE, and Bergen Kunsthall.
http://altgarbra.org/
Photo: © F. Susann Jamtøy
Gideonsson & Londre
Through long-lasting processes, the artist duo Gideonsson/Londré search for a dissolved state in-between paralysation and ecstasy. Their practice involves performances, installations and interventions that consist of different forms of highly regulated everyday activities, in relation to alternative experiences of time. How changes in rhythms and time-flows open up for other positions and temporary detachments from established ideas about subjectivity.
In their recent work they explore what constitutes an active body in relation to different physical inclinations. How our daily body positions revolve around notions of a healthy upright posture, in contrast to the bent, inclined or horizontal. They are interested in how these physical formations can open up towards other modes of co-existence. The leaning body is always inclined towards something, dependent on somebody else to stand, never in itself enough.
Gideonsson/Londré live and work in Kallrör, Sweden, and received an MFA from The Royal Institute of Art in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Who wants to live forever? Kunsthall Trondheim (2020), Change, Havremagasinet Sweden (2019), I am vertical, ESPAI 13 Spain (2018).
https://www.gideonssonlondre.com/
Through long-lasting processes, the artist duo Gideonsson/Londré search for a dissolved state in-between paralysation and ecstasy. Their practice involves performances, installations and interventions that consist of different forms of highly regulated everyday activities, in relation to alternative experiences of time. How changes in rhythms and time-flows open up for other positions and temporary detachments from established ideas about subjectivity.
In their recent work they explore what constitutes an active body in relation to different physical inclinations. How our daily body positions revolve around notions of a healthy upright posture, in contrast to the bent, inclined or horizontal. They are interested in how these physical formations can open up towards other modes of co-existence. The leaning body is always inclined towards something, dependent on somebody else to stand, never in itself enough.
Gideonsson/Londré live and work in Kallrör, Sweden, and received an MFA from The Royal Institute of Art in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Who wants to live forever? Kunsthall Trondheim (2020), Change, Havremagasinet Sweden (2019), I am vertical, ESPAI 13 Spain (2018).
https://www.gideonssonlondre.com/
Collage. Original photos by Marte Dahl
HanneJanne Duo
Hanne B. Nystrøm (1964, Oslo) has her education from the Norwegian National Academy of Ballet and Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She works with sculpture, animation, drawing and performance. Nystrøm often utilizes herself and the people around her as models. She draws inspiration from magazines, fashion and film, and animals and humans are central to her practice. Her work is often humorous, but also dark and tragic.
Janne Aass (1960, Oslo) is educated at the Writing Academy in Bergen, where she studied drama. Aass has an MA in literature and theater studies. As a young woman she worked with political theater in Christiania, Copenhagen, and has since written plays for institutional theaters. In her work with performance, she focuses on dreams and expectations as contrasted with our so-called reality. She often uses fragments of text from literature, diaries and almanacs in order to highlight lived life in an absurdist perspective.
This is the first time Janne Aass and Hanne B. Nystrøm collaborate as a duo. The project started during Hausmania Theater’s Performance night in the Fall of 2020 when we realized we wanted to make something together. We used as our starting point the perspective from the theory of evolution that humanity, as a species, is capable of making ourselves and all other species extinct using war and the destruction of the environment. Our present day is intensely oriented toward multitasking, but we seem to be lacking the understanding that earth is both our past and our future. Our performance, which lasts for about 30 minutes, is titled “Also this shall pass.”
https://www.hannebnystrom.com/
https://janneaass.wixsite.com/mysite
Hanne B. Nystrøm (1964, Oslo) has her education from the Norwegian National Academy of Ballet and Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She works with sculpture, animation, drawing and performance. Nystrøm often utilizes herself and the people around her as models. She draws inspiration from magazines, fashion and film, and animals and humans are central to her practice. Her work is often humorous, but also dark and tragic.
Janne Aass (1960, Oslo) is educated at the Writing Academy in Bergen, where she studied drama. Aass has an MA in literature and theater studies. As a young woman she worked with political theater in Christiania, Copenhagen, and has since written plays for institutional theaters. In her work with performance, she focuses on dreams and expectations as contrasted with our so-called reality. She often uses fragments of text from literature, diaries and almanacs in order to highlight lived life in an absurdist perspective.
This is the first time Janne Aass and Hanne B. Nystrøm collaborate as a duo. The project started during Hausmania Theater’s Performance night in the Fall of 2020 when we realized we wanted to make something together. We used as our starting point the perspective from the theory of evolution that humanity, as a species, is capable of making ourselves and all other species extinct using war and the destruction of the environment. Our present day is intensely oriented toward multitasking, but we seem to be lacking the understanding that earth is both our past and our future. Our performance, which lasts for about 30 minutes, is titled “Also this shall pass.”
https://www.hannebnystrom.com/
https://janneaass.wixsite.com/mysite
GOLDEN EXCHANGE, 2017, Photo by Istvan Virag
Kirsty Kross
Kirsty Kross is an Oslo based artist originally from Brisbane, Australia. Her work focuses largely on humans' relationship to the attention economy and growing ecological uncertainty. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from the University of Queensland and a Masters Degree of Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts. Kirsty Kross exhibited and performed at Bergen Assembly, Høstutstillingen,Tenthaus and PINK CUBE as well as Clockwork Gallery, Parkhaus Projects and Galerie Crystal Ball in Berlin.
https://www.kirstykross.com/
Liv Reidun Brakstad
Liv Reidun Brakstad (b. 1943) is a Norwegian performance artist. She was born in Hjelmeland in Ryfylke, and was originally educated as a nurse. She got her artistic education at the Nansen school and Strykejernet, and she also studied under Hilmar Fredriksen in 1994 at the National Academy of Art. Brakstad is a pioneer in the context of Norwegian performance art, and has, with her artistic concepts and approach to the audience, helped bridge some of the estrangement often associated with the genre. Brakstad also works with installation, painting and collage. She has participated in the Autumn Exhibition several times, and was awarded Rune Brynestad’s Memorial Grant in 2001.
In her performances, Brakstad usually works with physical objects that become imbued with a symbolic value. Her performances are often presented in unusual locations, like in pedestrian areas and streets. The pieces often live both in the world of institutional art and street performance, between the private and the public, and are seldomly without an underlying political message. Brakstad has called herself a political artist.
Brakstad has been invited to showing, or taken the initiative to present, more than 150 performances, both locally, nationally and internationally. She is known for having, at invitation from herself, performed at every edition of the Venice biennial since 1995, with great interest from both the audience and the media. Some of her performances are documented in her own book, “Who makes the pattern on the mackerel.”
https://www.livreidunbrakstad.no/
Liv Reidun Brakstad (b. 1943) is a Norwegian performance artist. She was born in Hjelmeland in Ryfylke, and was originally educated as a nurse. She got her artistic education at the Nansen school and Strykejernet, and she also studied under Hilmar Fredriksen in 1994 at the National Academy of Art. Brakstad is a pioneer in the context of Norwegian performance art, and has, with her artistic concepts and approach to the audience, helped bridge some of the estrangement often associated with the genre. Brakstad also works with installation, painting and collage. She has participated in the Autumn Exhibition several times, and was awarded Rune Brynestad’s Memorial Grant in 2001.
In her performances, Brakstad usually works with physical objects that become imbued with a symbolic value. Her performances are often presented in unusual locations, like in pedestrian areas and streets. The pieces often live both in the world of institutional art and street performance, between the private and the public, and are seldomly without an underlying political message. Brakstad has called herself a political artist.
Brakstad has been invited to showing, or taken the initiative to present, more than 150 performances, both locally, nationally and internationally. She is known for having, at invitation from herself, performed at every edition of the Venice biennial since 1995, with great interest from both the audience and the media. Some of her performances are documented in her own book, “Who makes the pattern on the mackerel.”
https://www.livreidunbrakstad.no/
Magnus Logi Kristinsson
Born in 1975 in Iceland, Kristinsson has been creating solo performances since 1999 when he moved to Amsterdam to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, focusing on performative practice and receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2003. From 2005 to 2007 he was performing with the interdisciplinary performance group Oblivia. Kristinsson is currently living and working in Helsinki, Finland.
Language and the body become structural and sculptural forms in Kristinsson's performance-based practice. Through a systematic manner of speaking his diverse listings become a mix of concrete poetry and music, while his physical presence is put to the test as it borders on the inanimate.
https://cargocollective.com/maggilogi/MAGNUS-LOGI-KRISTINSSON
Born in 1975 in Iceland, Kristinsson has been creating solo performances since 1999 when he moved to Amsterdam to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, focusing on performative practice and receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2003. From 2005 to 2007 he was performing with the interdisciplinary performance group Oblivia. Kristinsson is currently living and working in Helsinki, Finland.
Language and the body become structural and sculptural forms in Kristinsson's performance-based practice. Through a systematic manner of speaking his diverse listings become a mix of concrete poetry and music, while his physical presence is put to the test as it borders on the inanimate.
https://cargocollective.com/maggilogi/MAGNUS-LOGI-KRISTINSSON
Maline Casta
Maline Casta is a stage designer and visual artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Graduating with a master degree in stage design from NYU's Tisch School of the arts, Maline has been working internationally since 2004, creating project in Europe and the US. With a focus on dance, opera and performance, her costume design credits include institutions like Compañía Nacional de Danza de España in Madrid and New York Philharmonics, as well as acclaimed experimental stages in Stockholm. Maline also holds a master in visual storytelling from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm where she also has been a faculty member in recent years. Malines own work is often interdisciplinary and uses a playful approach towards social challenging issues. She has created several commissioned large scale interactive performance installations where the audience has been a central part of the work, as in the outdoor tea party My Old China (2013) or Hey! (2016) where she filled a city gallery in central Moscow with straw and invited the audience to play. In her awarded exam work I've never been fond of reality she used play theory to investigate the limits of the current economical system. Using the child's perspective has also been central to several recent collaborations such as Under, together with dance company Nomodaco, a performance/installation for babies from 6 months and their parents on the theme of Antropocen. Similarly, Kärrkosmos from 2018 was a full body experience where the audience was taken from the theater to a swamp, where they got audio instructions to lay down in nature.
http://malinecasta.com/
Maline Casta is a stage designer and visual artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Graduating with a master degree in stage design from NYU's Tisch School of the arts, Maline has been working internationally since 2004, creating project in Europe and the US. With a focus on dance, opera and performance, her costume design credits include institutions like Compañía Nacional de Danza de España in Madrid and New York Philharmonics, as well as acclaimed experimental stages in Stockholm. Maline also holds a master in visual storytelling from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm where she also has been a faculty member in recent years. Malines own work is often interdisciplinary and uses a playful approach towards social challenging issues. She has created several commissioned large scale interactive performance installations where the audience has been a central part of the work, as in the outdoor tea party My Old China (2013) or Hey! (2016) where she filled a city gallery in central Moscow with straw and invited the audience to play. In her awarded exam work I've never been fond of reality she used play theory to investigate the limits of the current economical system. Using the child's perspective has also been central to several recent collaborations such as Under, together with dance company Nomodaco, a performance/installation for babies from 6 months and their parents on the theme of Antropocen. Similarly, Kärrkosmos from 2018 was a full body experience where the audience was taken from the theater to a swamp, where they got audio instructions to lay down in nature.
http://malinecasta.com/
Photo: Jon Marius Nilsson
Pavlina Lucas
Pavlina Lucas (b.1970, Cyprus) is a practicing architect based in Oslo. Her work is based on a phenomenological approach and driven by a keen interest in the interaction of body and space and the exchange between natural and manmade structures. Hands-on exploration is central in her practice and she uses text, photography and performance art as research tools.
Lucas has worked on prominent architecture projects across Europe and the US through her collaboration with the atelier of Peter Zumthor and has realised a number of buildings through her own practice, including the award-winning Yiorkadjis Residence and the House for a Weaver in Cyprus. Her artistic work has been exhibited and published internationally.
She has taught and lectured at various schools, including Aarhus School of Architecture, Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies, Oslo School of Architecture, Einar Granum Kunstfagskole, and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio. She is currently Associate Professor at Bergen School of Architecture.
Lucas studied architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design (M.Arch) after studies in (photo)journalism and art history at Boston University. She holds a PhD from Oslo School of Architecture and Design, where she developed the practice-based research project "The Photographic Absolute: An Architectural Beginning".
http://pavlinalucas.com/index.html
Pavlina Lucas (b.1970, Cyprus) is a practicing architect based in Oslo. Her work is based on a phenomenological approach and driven by a keen interest in the interaction of body and space and the exchange between natural and manmade structures. Hands-on exploration is central in her practice and she uses text, photography and performance art as research tools.
Lucas has worked on prominent architecture projects across Europe and the US through her collaboration with the atelier of Peter Zumthor and has realised a number of buildings through her own practice, including the award-winning Yiorkadjis Residence and the House for a Weaver in Cyprus. Her artistic work has been exhibited and published internationally.
She has taught and lectured at various schools, including Aarhus School of Architecture, Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies, Oslo School of Architecture, Einar Granum Kunstfagskole, and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio. She is currently Associate Professor at Bergen School of Architecture.
Lucas studied architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design (M.Arch) after studies in (photo)journalism and art history at Boston University. She holds a PhD from Oslo School of Architecture and Design, where she developed the practice-based research project "The Photographic Absolute: An Architectural Beginning".
http://pavlinalucas.com/index.html
Photo: Thomas A Johnsen / Underlys
Terese Longva
Terese Longva lives and works at Skuløy in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. She works in various mediums, including performance, video and installations. The body and bodily experiences are often starting points for her work, as a site to make the political visible. Longva lives in a small rural community highly affected by globalization. Here the body functions as a transducer whilst exploring the development of new social subjectivities within modern society. These social subjectivities are actualised through increasing interactions between human bodies and networks of transductive power processes. Characteristically, these tend to evaporate, being difficult to follow and hold responsible for irreversible consequences for people, local democracy, climate, nature, and biodiversity.
Since 2010, Longva has collaborated with Laurel Jay Carpenter (USA / UK) in the duo Longva+Carpenter, and since 2012 with social scientist Harald Dyrkorn.
Longva has exhibited and participated in a series of galleries and festivals in Norway and abroad. Among these are Høstutstillingen, Nasjonalmuseet, Prague Quadrennial, Kunsthall 3,14, Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE, Kunstgarasjen, Interakcje 2015–XVII International Art Festival, Bergen International Festival / Festspillene i Bergen. Longva is educated at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (BFA) and Bergen Academy of Art and Design (MA).
https://tereselongva.com/
Terese Longva lives and works at Skuløy in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. She works in various mediums, including performance, video and installations. The body and bodily experiences are often starting points for her work, as a site to make the political visible. Longva lives in a small rural community highly affected by globalization. Here the body functions as a transducer whilst exploring the development of new social subjectivities within modern society. These social subjectivities are actualised through increasing interactions between human bodies and networks of transductive power processes. Characteristically, these tend to evaporate, being difficult to follow and hold responsible for irreversible consequences for people, local democracy, climate, nature, and biodiversity.
Since 2010, Longva has collaborated with Laurel Jay Carpenter (USA / UK) in the duo Longva+Carpenter, and since 2012 with social scientist Harald Dyrkorn.
Longva has exhibited and participated in a series of galleries and festivals in Norway and abroad. Among these are Høstutstillingen, Nasjonalmuseet, Prague Quadrennial, Kunsthall 3,14, Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE, Kunstgarasjen, Interakcje 2015–XVII International Art Festival, Bergen International Festival / Festspillene i Bergen. Longva is educated at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (BFA) and Bergen Academy of Art and Design (MA).
https://tereselongva.com/
Art tour guide
Photo: Petter Lønningen
Johanna Zwaig
Johanna Zwaig will take you on an art tour through the exhibitions and outdoors performances on Saturday and Sunday. With background both as a performance artist and as a guide at Astrup Fearnley Museet and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Zwaig has lately been experimenting with a format that combines these experiences, using text, actions, objects and song in dialogue with the surroundings.
Zwaig is educated at Ecole Internationale de Théâtre, Jacques Lecoq in Paris and at the University of Oslo. In addition she has studied flamenco in Paris, Madrid, Sevilla and Jerez de la Frontera. As a response to social and political fields, she has for many years combined symbolic actions and objects with dark flamenco song, in both long durational, repetitive performances and short, explosive ones. Her works have taken place in Sweden, Iceland, France, Poland and Ireland, and in Norway at for example Høstutstillingen at Kunstnernes Hus, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Kunsthall 3.14, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter and Spriten Kunsthall.
Artists festival exhibiton
Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen (NO), Benedicte Clementsen (NO), Tonje Lieberg (NO), Alan Armstrong (UK/NO), Terese Longva (NO), BBB Johannes Deimling (DE), Inger-Reidun Olsen (NO), Gustaf Londrè (SE), Elisabeth Mathisen (NO), Arti Grabowski (PL), Fernanda Branco (BR/NO), Amelia Hawk (UK/NO), Tereza Buskova (UK/CZ), Anja Carr (NO), Maline Casta (SE), Bartolomé Ferrando (ES), Kurt Johannessen (NO), Rita Marhaug (NO), Agnes Nedregård (NO), Álvaro Terrones & Santiago López (ES), Justyna Scheuring (PL), Łukasz Trusewicz (PL), Ane Lan (NO), Augusta Atla (DK) & Nikos Branidis (GR), Elisabeth Færøy Lund (NO), Essi Kausalainen (FI), Hiroko Tsuchimoto (SE), Magnús Logi Kristinsson (IS/FI), Marita Isobel Solberg (NO), Naja Lee Jensen (DK/NO), Päivi Laakso (FI/NO), Sigmund Skard (NO), WOL / Lovisa Johansson & Wenche Tankred (SE), Wunderkind Collective (IS), Agnes BTffn (FR/NO), Anne-Liis Kogan (EST/NO), Denis Romanovski (BY/SE), Karen Nikgol (IR/NO), Kiyoshi Yamamoto (BR/JP/NO), Liv Kristin Holmberg (NO/DE), Olga Prokhorova (RU/FI), Pavana Reid (TH/UK/NO), Tania Garcia (VE/ES), Vivian Chinasa Ezugha (NG/UK), Yingmei Duan (CN/DE), Zierle & Carter (DE/UK), Ellakajsa Nordström & Ylva Trapp (SE), Francesco Kiais (IT/GR), Henrik Koppen (NO), Ida Grimsgaard (NO), Jolanda Jansen (NL), Kevin Meehan (USA), Liina Kuittinen (FI), Martine Viale (CA/FR), Mia Øquist (NO), Nika Lopez (ES), Shannon Cochrane (CA), Weronika Lewandowska (PL), Emily Promise Allison (CA), Vilde Løwenborg Blom (NO), Vilde Von Krogh (NO), Kachun Lay (CN/NO), Manuel López (ES), Alastair MacLennan (UK), Ann Noël (UK/DE), Irma Optimist (FI), Lisa Tostmann (DE), Hilmar Fredriksen, Kurt Johannessen & Kjetil Skøien (NO), Laurel Jay Carpenter (USA/UK), Katarina Skår Lisa (NO), Olga Skliarska (UA), Marita Bullmann (DE), Johanna Zwaig (NO), Greg Pope (UK/NO), Siri Austeen (NO), Linda & Aura (FI), Konrad Juściński (PL), Ana Gesto (ES), Det Elektriske Korps (NO)
Documentation (photo, video, drawing) 2013-2019:
André Wulf (NO), Monika Sobczak (PL/DE), Pietro Pellini (DE), Kobie Nel (ZA/NO), Antti Ahonen (FI), Henry Chan (CA), Bjarte Bjørkum (NO), Margarida Paiva (PT/NO), Anne-Liis Kogan (EST/NO), Irene León (ES), Miguel Panadero (ES), Päivi Laakso (FI/NO)
Documentation (photo, video, drawing) 2013-2019:
André Wulf (NO), Monika Sobczak (PL/DE), Pietro Pellini (DE), Kobie Nel (ZA/NO), Antti Ahonen (FI), Henry Chan (CA), Bjarte Bjørkum (NO), Margarida Paiva (PT/NO), Anne-Liis Kogan (EST/NO), Irene León (ES), Miguel Panadero (ES), Päivi Laakso (FI/NO)