"Action-ReAction" Exhibition
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"Action-RaAction" is structured around "Re-Action", a performance by Kompani iRo that explores the phenomenon of power by probing the ways in which power dynamics affect us. Its interactive structure allows the performers to leverage the viewers' participation to call attention to the relations that emerge among them, in the dancers' relationship with the audience and between performers and onlookers. In dialog with this time-based piece, a selection of works of visual art that also explores similar themes.
Inger-Reidun Olsen, whose innovative work blurs the boundaries between dance and performance art, founded Kompani iRo in 2005 and currently holds a 3-year artist grant awarded by the Norwegian Government. Sverre Malling creates complex and layered drawings containing references to classic art, botany, fairy tales, occultism, folk art, psychedelia and children's books. He has won several prestigious Norwegian art awards, including the Weideman Prize and Høstutstillingsprisen, and his work is aquired by the Norwegian National Gallery. Trained as an architect, Vibeke Jensen makes sophisticated conceptual artwork, sometimes in the form of public art -- such as her commissioned piece at the University of Oslo unveiled earlier this year -- sometimes as urban interventions. Andrea Lange, who is known for her thought-provoking political work, had a solo show at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo last year, and is represented at the Australian Centre for Moving Image, the Henie-Onstad Art Center, and others. Christer Karlstad's beatifully rendered figurative paintings are in the permanent collections of the Kistefos Museum, the Central Bank of Norway, Statoil and Arts Council Norway. Tilda Lovell, whose quirky and evocative creations are conveyed through the media of drawing, sculpture and animation, has received several awards and artist grants, as well as comissions for public art pieces for the DOCH Dance and Circus University, Stockholm, and the Linkoping University. Working in the field of human connections in her art as well as in real life, Sol Kjøk is the fonder of .NO. Her images of intelaced bodies in motion are represented in public and private collections in a dozen countries, and will be featured this winter at the Yuchengo Museum in Manila, Philippines, as part of an international traveling exhibit.
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from October 13, 2011 to November 13, 2011
October 22: Book Reading and Panel Discussion Norwegian author Edy Poppy will read from her latest short story collection, Sammen.Brudd. Launching their anthology KUNSTNER [Artist], the Norwegian curatorial team LOCUS will invite several artists to a pub
Opening Reception on 2011-10-13 from 18:00 to 20:00