On Adaptation, 2017 Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø
The graduating MA-students of the Art Academy of Tromsø, 2017, exhibited under the group title ‘On Adaptation’. Even though the participating artists work with very different projects, they all relate in various ways to adaptation strategies, whether connected to identity, history and future visions, or to perception based processes.
Participating artists are Robert Julian B. Hvistendahl, Wendimagegn Belete Masresha, Cornelius Stiefenhofer and Wyn-Lyn Tan. A catalogue is being released for the exhibition.
Spenningstilstand 11 (Pidestall), 2017, Bamboo Sticks, Wood, O-rings, Sand, Syrup, 20x20x190cm, Photo: Wyn-Lyn Tan
Spenningstilstand 11 (Pidestall), 2017, Bamboo Sticks, Wood, O-rings, Sand, Syrup, 20x20x190cm, Photo: Wyn-Lyn Tan
Spenningstilstand 12 (Trakt), 2017, Rubber Bands, Glass, Sand, Syrup, Dimensions Variable, Photo: Wyn-Lyn Tan
Spenningstilstand 13 (Friksjon), 2017, Rubber Bands, Sand, Syrup, Dimensions Variable, Photo: Matti Aikio
Spenningstilstand 13 (Friksjon), 2017, Rubber Bands, Sand, Syrup, Dimensions Variable, Photo: Matti Aikio
Spenningstilstand 12 (Trakt), 2017, Rubber Bands, Glass, Sand, Syrup, Dimensions Variable, Photo: Siri Mari Vitalis Larsen
The Posthuman Condition, 2017 ILIOS-festivalen, Galleri Nord-Norge, Harstad
Includes the 3rd installment of the project Spenningstilstander.
The art exhibition at ILIOS 2017, The Posthuman Condition, is thematically based around how the concept of ‘the human’ is continuously challenged by technological advancements, environmental destruction, the everlasting war against terror, migration and global capitalism. The concept of ‘post-human’ indicates a new understanding of humanity and the borders between what we consider to be natural and artificial. The exhibition contextualises the states of tension present in today’s society with local and global history as a backdrop.
Contributing artists were Eirik Abri, Robert Julian B. Hvistendahl and Liza Morozova. Curated by Ingeborg Annie Lindahl.
Collective Strain on a Tube, 2016, Rubber Bands, Drain Pipe, Wood, 62x62x744cm, Photo: Artist
Collective Strain on a Tube, 2016, Rubber Bands, Drain Pipe, Wood, 62x62x744cm, Photo: Jon Sivertsen
Spenningstilstand 6 (Tetraeder), 2016, Rubber Bands, Wood, 42x42x42cm, Photo: Jon Sivertsen
Spenningstilstand 8 (Motkraft), 2016, Rubber Bands, Sugar, Wood, 154x18x97cm, Photo: Jon Sivertsen
Spenningstilstand 10 (Kryss), 2016 (Detail), Rubber Bands, Sugar, Wood, 75x75x230cm/Dimensions Variable, Photo: Jon Sivertsen
Suspensjonsmekanisme, 2017, Wood, Water, Rubber Band, Buoy, Mixed Media, 90x90x240cm, Photo: Jon Sivertsen
Suspensjonsmekanisme, 2017 (Detail), Wood, Water, Rubber Band, Buoy, Mixed Media, 90x90x240cm, Photo: Jon Sivertsen
Spenningstilstand 4 (Kube), 2016, Rubber Bands, Wood, 46x46x46cm, Photo: Jon Sivertsen
Spenningstilstand 2 (Binær, selvdestruktiv), 2016, Rubber Bands, Stone, Sugar, Wood, 110x30x80cm, Photo: Jon Sivertsen
Home – Young Arctic Artists, 2016 Gallery Napa, Rovaniemi, Finland
Young Arctic Artists 2016-exhibition promotes emerging contemporary artists from northern areas of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. For the first edition of YAA exhibition the selected artists are producing artworks under the theme of Home.
– Home as a theme is intentionally ambiguous, yet familiar and intimate. The chosen artworks connect with the theme on many levels and deal with contemporary and immemorial issues such as identity, privacy, digitalization and exploration of the cultural and natural landscape, says Pilvi Keto-LeBlanc, one of the two curators.
– We believe that the selected artworks are in intrinsic dialogue with each other and that the exhibition express the point of view of a new generation of young artists living and working in the arctic, continues Lys-Ange LeBlanc, the second curator.
About the work:
The last year my physical place of home has become fragmented between Tromsø, Oslo and Farsund. So much so, that it’s hard for me to say what home is in any physical sense. Because of this, I’ve become increasingly dependent on my laptop to feel at home. It has become a refuge, a safe place from whichever environment I might be in at any given time, a portal into a private sphere.
During a 24 hour period I have taken screenshots at one minute intervals with the help of an automated script. These will be shown on my laptop in the gallery. Given that I know the work will be shown in a public space, some questions arise. How will the process of making the work affect my behaviour? How honest am I able to be? What happens in the transition between the private and public?
Contributing artists were Hanna Kanto, Matti Aikio, Iiris Tuisku & Juho Rantakari, Freyja Eilìf, Robert Julian B. Hvistendahl, Tessa Astre, and Trond Ansten & Kåre Grundvåg. Curated by Pilvi Keto-LeBlanc and Lys-Ange LeBlanc
1440 Screenshots, 2016, Video (24 min loop), Personal Laptop, Photo: Artist
1440 Screenshots, 2016, Video (24 min loop), Personal Laptop, Photo: Artist
Mystical Kulturnatt, 2016 Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, Tromsø
The students at the Academy of Contemporary Art invites you to a MYSTICAL night with art show, performance, dumplings, and drinks during Kulturnatta 2016! – From the event text.
About Collective Strain on a Tube:
‘Collective Strain on a Tube’ was presented as a site-specific, large-scale sculpture situated in the middle of a staircase – the main thoroughfare between the first and the second floor of the Academy. A flexible drainpipe was held up within a wooden structure through the use of multiple levels of rubber bands. All of the students, professors, technicians and other employees connected to the academy were asked to give me a number: 0, 1, 2, or 3, which was to be used in a sculpture I was working on. Each answer dictated how many rubber bands were used at each level, shaping the drainpipe.
I wanted to add collective coincidence and choice into a sculpture where no single person (including myself) had complete control over the total effect. The intention was to address the dynamic complexity that shapes an entity, and how we as individuals are part of that, either consciously or not. – Summary of excerpts from an essay called Exploring the Social, written by the artist.
Collective Strain on a Tube, 2016,Rubber Bands, Drain Pipe, Wood, 62x62x744cm, Photo: Artist
Column Transcending (Sketch), 2016, Sand, Syrup, Wood, 102x23x28cm, Photo: Artist
Collective Strain on a Tube, 2016,Rubber Bands, Drain Pipe, Wood, 62x62x744cm, Photo: Artist
Collective Strain on a Tube, 2016,Rubber Bands, Drain Pipe, Wood, 62x62x744cm, Photo: Artist
Column Transcending (Sketch), 2016, Sand, Syrup, Wood, 102x23x28cm, Photo: Artist
Spenningstilstander (II), 2016 Galleri Fisk, Bergen
The students at the Academy of Contemporary Art invites you to a MYSTICAL night with art show, performance, dumplings, and drinks during Kulturnatta 2016! – From the event text.
About Collective Strain on a Tube:
‘Collective Strain on a Tube’ was presented as a site-specific, large-scale sculpture situated in the middle of a staircase – the main thoroughfare between the first and the second floor of the Academy. A flexible drainpipe was held up within a wooden structure through the use of multiple levels of rubber bands. All of the students, professors, technicians and other employees connected to the academy were asked to give me a number: 0, 1, 2, or 3, which was to be used in a sculpture I was working on. Each answer dictated how many rubber bands were used at each level, shaping the drainpipe.
2nd installment of the project Spenningstilstander.
In the exhibition the artist presents a series of sculptures. Through the use of rubber bands different tensions are created which either cooperate or work against each other to maintain an apparent static state. The relations of tensions are set at the start of the exhibition. Given time tensions will be released, but depending on the individual stress and the interplay of tensions, questions as to when and which remains open, until they are released.
The background for this project is an interest in the interactions and relations between different components within a greater context, whether the context is psychology, interpersonal relations, or on a societal level.
Spenningstilstand 2 ( Binær, selvdestruktiv), 2016, Rubber Bands, Stone, Sugar, Wood, 110x30x80cm, Photo: Morten Pedersen
Spenningstilstand 1 (Binær, destruktiv), 2016, Rubber Bands, Sledge, Sugar, Wood, Mixed Media, 109x21x65cm, Photo: Morten Pedersen
Spenningstilstand 3 (Vekt og Energi), 2016, Rubber Bands, Stone, Table tennis balls, Wood, Mixed Media, Dimensions Variable, Photo: Morten Pedersen
Spenningstilstand 4 (Kube), 2016, Rubber Bands, Wood, 46x46x46cm, Photo: Morten Pedersen
Spenningstilstand 5 (Sfære), 2016, Rubber Bands, Wood, 35x35x35cm, Photo: Morten Pedersen
Spenningstilstand 10 (Kryss), 2016, Rubber Bands, Sugar, Wood, 75x75x230cm/Dimensions Variable, Photo: Morten Pedersen
Spenningstilstand 4 (Kube), 2016, Rubber Bands, Wood, 46x46x46cm, Photo: Morten Pedersen
Installation View, Photo: Morten Pedersen
Dissolving Experiments, 2016 Beates Black Box, Tromsø
The exhibition consists of several casting experiments done the last month where I have cast sand in various molds with different binding agents. The experiment will continue in Beates Black Box where the previous experiments will be exposed to a new process.
Dissolving Experiments, 2016, Sand forms made with water soluble binding agent, Water, Display case, Mixed Media, 88x46x10cm
Dissolving Experiments (Sketches), 2016
Spenningstilstander, 2016 Galleri Snerk, Tromsø
1st installment of the project Spenningstilstander.
The exhibition presents a series of sculptures where different tensions either co-operates or counteracts each other to preserve an apparent static condition. Given time the tensions will be released.
Spenningstilstand 7 (Vakuum), 2016, Water, Rubber Bands, Glass, Wood, Mixed Media, 130x80x112cm, Photo: Artist
Spenningstilstand 2 ( Binær, selvdestruktiv), 2016, Rubber Bands, Stone, Sugar, Wood, 110x30x80cm, Photo: Humle Rosenkvist
Spenningstilstand 4 (Kube), Spenningstilstand 5 (Sfære), Spenningstilstand 6 (Tetraeder), 2016, Rubber Bands, Wood, Photo: Humle Rosenkvist
Spenningstilstand 2 ( Binær, selvdestruktiv), 2016, Rubber Bands, Stone, Sugar, Wood, 110x30x80cm, Photo: Morten Pedersen
Spenningstilstand 1 (Binær, destruktiv), 2016, Rubber Bands, Sledge, Sugar, Wood, Mixed Media, 109x21x65cm, Photo: Humle Rosenkvist
Spenningstilstand 10 (Kryss), 2016 (Detail), Rubber Bands, Sugar, Wood, 75x75x130cm/Dimensions Variable, Photo: Humle Rosenkvist
Spenningstilstand 3 (Vekt og Energi), 2016, Rubber Bands, Stone, Table tennis balls, Wood, Mixed Media, 60x60x112cm/Dimensions Variable, Photo: Humle Rosenkvist
Installation view, Photo: Humle Rosenkvist
Spenningstilstand 10 (Kryss), 2016,Rubber Bands, Sugar, Wood, 75x75x130cm/Dimensions Variable, Photo: Humle Rosenkvist
Contraption for Dissolving the Ego, 2015, Wood, Steel, Acrylic Plastic, Water, Water Pump, Mixed Media, 160x80x240cm, Photo: Wyn-Lyn Tan
Contraption for Dissolving the Ego, 2015 (Detail), Wood, Steel, Acrylic Plastic, Water, Water Pump, Mixed Media, 160x80x240cm, Photo: Wyn-Lyn Tan
