Artists PAO Festival 2014
Gased Secrets. Photo: Monika Sobczak
Fernanda Branco (BR - NO)
Fernanda Branco is a Brazilian performer based in Norway since 2006. Her work crosses the boundaries between contemporary forms of theater, dance and visual art within performance art. Branco investigates presence, re-discovering in herself other corporealities, while establishing a perceptual communication between herself and the viewer. In Brazil, Branco is represented by the multi-media label TAL-TechArtLab (www.tal.art.br). In Europe, she is co-founder of the performance company: Branco-Hase Collaboration (www.branco- hase.com). In Norway, she is artistic director of MoA (www.moaprojects.com) and ATCS - laboratory for performance practices (www.actspractices.com) producing and promoting art related events and performances. www.fernandabranco.com
Heretic, in 3 acts. Photo: Daniel Slåttnes
Amelia Beavis-Harrison (UK – NO)
Amelia Beavis-Harrison is an artist based between Norway and the UK; her practice is explored as an expanded performance where inter-related mediums create works that originate from the performance practice. Amelia has exhibited and performed both nationally in the UK and internationally, largely within Europe. In 2013 she undertook the large-scale project “Costumes for Curators" which saw her make costumes for curators to wear at 4 exhibition events. Beavis-Harrison has exhibited internationally, among others at Pump House Open in London, Inaugural Proposal at Gallery Steenstrupsgate in Oslo, Dimanche Rouge Festival at Helsinki Art Museum in Helsinki, Lot No at Lionel Dobie Project in Manchester and Pot Luck 7, curated by Accidental Collective at Limbo in Margate. www.ameliabeavisharrison.com
Corn Women. Photo: Mick Hurlow
Tereza Buskova (UK/CZ)
Tereza Buskova is a Czech artist living in Birmingham, England. She has a Masters of Fine Art in Printmaking from The Royal College of Art in 2007. Buskova works intuitively with her artistic praxis where she uses and renews folk traditions through a combination of film, silkscreen printing and performance. Buskova has established a strong working relationship with a group of artists, among others Zoe Simon who has been a main performer and alter ego in Buskova's work for 6 years. She has exhibited internationally in a number of galleries and institutions. www.terezabuskova.com
Horseplay. Photo: Anja Carr
Anja Carr (NO)
Carr explores a dream language through her non-verbal performances that involve musicians, bodybuilders or furries – people in fur-suits worshiping their animal-personality. In her work, there is a mix of food, excrement, children's TV, farcical eroticism, gender issues, narcissism and death. She creates ambiguous scenarios through physical and sensual communication where there is a possibility to transform of subject identities and power relations- from attractive to disgusting, from innocent to violent, from dreams to nightmares. www.anjacarr.com
Om Potatis var en känsla. Photo: Daniel Israelsson
Maline Casta (SE)
With a background in stage design Maline Casta repeatedly investigates the borders between reality and fiction. She uses simple materials and objects to create what might look like every day situations, but which after a second look start to transform into something else, something new. Time is an essential part of Maline's work as the image evolves slowly, sometimes resembling visual poems. She has shown her work in different art festivals around Europe, such as the Swedish Institute in Paris, Seanahak 3 (Estonia), Infr’Action Venice (Italy), Supermarket Art Fair (Stockholm) and Live Action in Götenborg. Maline got her MFA at Tisch School of the Arts in New York and is finishing her Master studies at Konstfack in Stockholm. www.malinecasta.com
With a background in stage design Maline Casta repeatedly investigates the borders between reality and fiction. She uses simple materials and objects to create what might look like every day situations, but which after a second look start to transform into something else, something new. Time is an essential part of Maline's work as the image evolves slowly, sometimes resembling visual poems. She has shown her work in different art festivals around Europe, such as the Swedish Institute in Paris, Seanahak 3 (Estonia), Infr’Action Venice (Italy), Supermarket Art Fair (Stockholm) and Live Action in Götenborg. Maline got her MFA at Tisch School of the Arts in New York and is finishing her Master studies at Konstfack in Stockholm. www.malinecasta.com
Línea sonora. Photo: Valërie Lavoie
Bartolomé Ferrando (ES)
Bartolomé Ferrando is a performer and visual poet, born in Valencia Spain, 1951.
He is the coordinator of the experimental poetry magazine Poetic text, Founder of the magazine Texto Poético and editor in magazines like Doc(k)s, Inter and Textures. He has been a Professor in Performance and Intermedia Art at Valencia Polytechnical University for the last 25 years. Ferrando is also a member of the groups Flatus Vocis Trio, Taller de Música Mundana, Rojo, SIC and 3 i no res, who undertake creative practices half way between music, poetry and performance art. As a performer he takes part in festivals and encounters held in Europe, Canada, Mexico, USA, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Israel, Dominican Republic, Argentine, Venezuela and Chile. In addition, Ferrando has exhibited his visual and concrete poetry in various cities in Spain, Italy and France. www.bferrando.com
TRE FLUGER OG EIN KOPP KAFFI. Photo: Pavana Reid
Kurt Johannessen (NO)
Kurt Johannessen 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 70 books with many translated into English and some purchased by The Norwegian Culture council. www.zeth.no
Second Skin for Point B. Photo: Nisa Ojalvo
Rita Marhaug (NO)
After many years as professor at the National Art and Design College in Bergen, Marhaug has been working since 2013 as freelance artist with a studio in CS55 in Bergen.
Aside from more traditional object-based production such as drawing, printmaking and photography, performance has been a central in Marhaug's artistic praxis. She has participated in a number of exhibitions and festivals nationally and internationally, and has recently been on a two-month residency in New York (Jan-Feb 2014).
Marhaug has been boardmember of the Norwegian Fine Art Union (Norske Billedkunstnere) and chair of Hordaland Kunstsenter, and initiated and started the member organization Performance Art Bergen (PAB) www.ritamarhaug.com
La désinvolture de nos gangsters, Les Salaisons, Romainville, Paris, 2013. Curator: Arianne Foks. Photo: Lindsay Tunkl.
Agnes Nedregård (NO)
Since 2005, Agnes Nedregård has been working as a full-time artist, showcasing her visual performance art work at festivals, galleries and museums internationally. She has presented over 200 performances in 25 countries including the UK, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Argentina, Mexico, the USA, Canada, and China.
In Bergen, Nedregård initiated the largest international performance art festival to-date in Norway, Never or Now, which won an award for Best Art Event in Bergen in 2011.
Nedregård explores how the performance situation can be a platform for uncovering cultural and personal preconceptions. Observations of unpredictability and irrationality are shared through a visceral language of actions, images, objects and materials – constructed into performances in dialogue with the place and the people present. www.agnesnedregard.com
Since 2005, Agnes Nedregård has been working as a full-time artist, showcasing her visual performance art work at festivals, galleries and museums internationally. She has presented over 200 performances in 25 countries including the UK, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Argentina, Mexico, the USA, Canada, and China.
In Bergen, Nedregård initiated the largest international performance art festival to-date in Norway, Never or Now, which won an award for Best Art Event in Bergen in 2011.
Nedregård explores how the performance situation can be a platform for uncovering cultural and personal preconceptions. Observations of unpredictability and irrationality are shared through a visceral language of actions, images, objects and materials – constructed into performances in dialogue with the place and the people present. www.agnesnedregard.com
Stranger Cole / Now I know. Photo: Salvador Oltra
Álvaro Terrones & Santiago López (ES)
Terrones and López have worked as a performance duo, developing their artistic activity since 2004. They have participated in numerous international events and organized workshops about the theory and practice of performance art. Their work is characterized by the use of absurd ideas and humor through the aesthetics of synthetic theater, the graphic production and diffusion beyond the actions and sound pieces of their work and developing a particular scenic practice based on theoretical inquiry. www.alvaroterrones.com
BREAD AND RADIATOR. Photo: Ludovic Des Cognets
Justyna Scheuring (PL)
Justyna Scheuring creates site-specific installations, live art situations, photography, performance, poetry, video and drawing. Within the performance field, she explores socially loaded communication and deconstructs the familiar and stable elements within social interaction. She lives and works in London, Toruń and Kraków. Scheuring has a MA in Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 2010 and a MFA from The Academy of Fine Arts, The University of Arts i Poznań, Poland 2001. Scheuring has shown her performances and exhibited internationally in Poland, England, Scotland, Ukraine, Germany, USA and New Zealand. www.justynascheuring.com
Photo: P. Orłowski
Łukasz Trusewicz (PL)
Trusewicz graduated from University or Arts in Poznan, Poland; Faculty of Sculpture and Performing Art in 2010. His experience of sculpture, installation and performance art as well as his interest in the impact of art on the urban zone, inspired him to create projects in the public space. In his artistic practice, he is interested in issues such as the perception of art and the historical memory that is potentially inherent in different spaces. By using simple means and gestures, he wishes to raise awareness of problems such as oblivion and exclusion, aggression and domination. He's intrigued by the peripheral spaces in which meaning has been forgotten or changed by the devastating effects of time, man and nature. He has participated in a number of exhibitions and festivals internationally. He is also the originator and curator of Raczej Gallery in Poznan dedicated to promotion of performance art. http://trusewiczlukasz.wordpress.com