Web finissage and documentation from Luzerne
The monthly long exhibition AAA CC DD EE G H IIII J KK LLL M NN OOOO RRRR U at Produzentengalerie Luzerne, Switzerland has now come to an end.
Curated by Ray Hegelbach and Stéphanie Lagarde with the artists Nicolas Colon (USA), Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim (NO), Mikko Kuorinki (FIN), Stéphanie Lagarde (FR) and Oliver Laric (AUT).
They clean, they order, they simplify.
These five artists are methodical.
Where there are too many rules they wipe some off, where there is no need for rules they embed some in.
Elaborated curatorial statement here.
Here follows a set of installation and performance photos of my project Horizon. No Horizon.
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Horizon, Produzentengalerie Luzern: 2.- Ship in storm - bad weather - heavy seas - big waves
video © Ray Hegelbach/Produzentengalerie Luzern
Living Film
October 2013 I was happily invited to London to do a screening of my 16mm film Barcodes.
My former super 8-teacher from 10 years back, Karel Doing, and Vicky Smith had curated a night of international film projects with the focus on tactile and a hands-on way of working the celluloid.
Check out this link for more.
All images (c) Luke Pickering
My former super 8-teacher from 10 years back, Karel Doing, and Vicky Smith had curated a night of international film projects with the focus on tactile and a hands-on way of working the celluloid.
Check out this link for more.
All images (c) Luke Pickering
Performance #2 in Luzern on Friday
Veranstaltungshinweis HORIZON. NO HORIZON Performance von Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim (Oslo) Freitag 29.11.2013 – 19.30 Uhr Eine improvisierte Stimm-Performance der Postkartenserie HORIZON, NO HORIZON. Performerinnen: Zita Bucher, Zoe Darling, Vanessa Metzger Anschliessend Wein und Gebäck Die Ausstellung AAA CC DD EE G H IIII J KK LLLL M NN OOOO RRRR ist noch bis zum 7.12.2013 geöffnet. Mit Nico Colón, Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, Mikko Kuorinki, Stéphanie Lagarde, Oliver Laric |
9.11. – 7.12.2013
Produzentengalerie Luzern
Hirschmattstrasse 30a
CH 6003 Luzern
www.alpineum.com
Do + Fr 16 –19 / Sa 11–16
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch:
Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung
Dialogue for Aerophones performed at Kunstnernes Hus, Nov. 16th
All photos © Kristine Halmrast
Oslo Poesifilm November 15th-17th
friday, november 15th
tronsmo bokhandel
16.00 Kenneth Goldsmith/usa talks to Birgit Hatlehol
about his latest book Seven American Deaths and
Disasters. Free.
kunsthall oslo
18.30 If we had to ask for permission we wouldn’t exist:
A brief history of UbuWeb – talk by Kenneth
Goldsmith/usa, the founder of UbuWeb. Hosted
by nyMusikk. Free.
saturday, november 16th
kunstnernes hus, auditorium
13.00 From collector to archivist: A personal narrative by
Kenneth Goldsmith/usa. Remarks by Patricia
Tomaszek /Germany Rasmus Dahl Vest /Denmark.
Free.
litteraturhuset, wergeland
15.00 Highlights of european poetryfilms: Dart – based
on a poem by Alice Oswald, video by Marc Tiley/
England, 2012 (19:00). Video by Sigrun Höllrigl/
Austria, 2013
13.00 What is the word – a poem by Beckett, video by
Hannaleena Hauru/Finland, 2013 (1:36 ) jumbo
shampoo or Joerg Bungee vanished on the rope –
text by Hubsi Kramar refers to a classic Dada text
from 1920. Viviente, video by Ivalo Frank/
Greenland, 2013 (5:47) Your memory is my freedom,
video by Marie Silkeberg/Sweden and Ghayath
Almadhoun/Syria/ Sweden, 2012 (5:41) Free.
16.15 Highlights of baltic films: Multimedia-artist Gabriele
Labanauskaite/Lithuania presents multiretrospective of
Baltic Poetry Movie scene, united by geographical positions,
but varying by expressive styles and tools. From animation
to vidoe’s poetry is expressed with love, lyricism and sense
of humour. Chess Queen – text by Gabriele Labanauskaite
(Avaspo), video by Solveiga Serova,(7:08), Rain – text by
Tomas Adrikonis, video by Jurate Gacionyte,(1:15), The
Only Bigger Mammal – text by Vaiva Grainyte, video by
Saule Norkute. The poet and graphic designer Asto Künnap/
Estonia presents Black Ceiling (Must Lagi) Estonia’s first
animated selection of poetry. Seven short films full of feeling
illustrating works by Estonian poets, © 2007 Eesti
Joonisfilm, The Very Last Cigarette – text by Asko Künnap,
video by Kaspar Jancis, (1:46), Lights In the Night – text
by Arvi Siig, video by Heiki Ernits, (2:06), Tablemat of
Baltic Sea – text by AleksanderSuumann, video by Ülo
Pikkov, (2:14), Vegetated Director – text by Andres Ehin,
video by Priit Tender, (2:30), I Feel A Life Long BulletIn
The Back of My Head – text by Jüri Üdi, video by Priit
Pärn. (2:20). Free.
kunstnernes hus, second floor
19.30 Dialogue for aerophones – a noncreative composition by
Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim/Norway. Musicians: Yumi
Murakami, Christine Lorentzen, Daniel Weiseth Kjellesvik,
Hanne Rekdal, Kristine Tjøgersen. Free.
kunstnernes hus, auditorium
20.15 Writing After Conceptual Writing, Kenneth Goldsmith/
usa shows his favourite works of moving images. (45:00)
Free.
21.30 Voices for soloists, soundwork by Cia Rinne/Finland, 2010
(15:00) Redshift, video and performance by Johannes
Heldén/ Sweden, 2009 (7:00) Confessions, videos by Ignas
Krunglevicius/ Lithuania, 2010 (12:00). Free
22.30 Highlights of nordic poetryfilms natyr, videopoem by
Ottar Ormstad/Norway, 2013 (4:45), Every Body, poem
by Monica Aasprong/ Norway, video by Ebba Bohlin/
Sweden, 2013 (12:00), Bølgeslag – poems by Tor
Ulven, animation by Kristian Pedersen/Norway,
2013 (2:00) The very last cigarette – poem by Asko
Künnap/ Estonia, animation by Kaspar Jancis/
Estland, 2007 (1.46) Kennara me köldu blói,
animation by Eirikur Ôrn Norddahl/Iceland, 2007
(2:37), The Höpöhöps of Bök, animation by
Eirikur Ôrn Norddahl/ Iceland, 2010 based on a
poem by Christian Bök (4:18) Free.
kunstnernes hus, second floor
23.30 Museum is a work in progress, and a collaboration
between Hans Petter Blad, Sven Erga and Morten
Cranner/Norway. Possibly a play, maybe a concert,
definitively a series of poems that might become a
book. Point of departure is the looting of the Iraq
National Museum during the invasion of Iraq in
2003. (30:00) Free.
sunday, november 17th
kunstnernes hus, auditorium
12.00 I Look to Theory Only When I Realize That
Somebody has Dedicated Their Entire Life to a
Question I have Only Fleetingly Considered –
lecture by Kenneth Goldsmith/usa.
13.00 Artistic practises in the digital field: Cia Rinne/
Finland, Monica Aasprong/Norway, Johannes
Heldén/Sweden, Ignas Krunglevicius/ Lithuania,
Merete Pryds Helle/Denmark and Eirikur Ôrn
Norddahl/Iceland talk about their digital and visual
works.
14.30 Rasmus Vest/Denmark: The Blogged I – blogpoetry
as self-production.
15.15 Patricia Tomaszek/germany: Ottar Ormstad –
between stillness and motion – a close up at Ottar
Ormstads oeuvre of work.
New project - new rehearsal
When one project's down and over, another one is in progress.
The notations for my new piece Dialogue for Aerophones are done.
Rehearsals started with the quintet today.
The place is Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.
Saturday, November 16th at 7:30 pm.
Looking forward seeing you there!
Full program for Oslo Poesifilm is here.
Yesterday's rehearsal for Horizon. No Horizon
© Ray Hegelbach
Vernissage and performance in Luzern Friday!
AAA CC DD EE G H IIII J KK LLL M NN OOOO RRRR U 9.11. – 7.12.2013
AAA CC DD EE G H IIII J KK LLL M NN OOOO RRRR U
9.11. – 7.12.2013
Produzentengalerie Luzern, Switzerland
They clean, they order, they simplify.
These five artists are methodical.
Where there are too many rules they wipe some off, where there is no need for rules they embed some in.
AAA CC DD EE G H IIII J KK LLL M NN OOOO RRRR U proposes a gathering of various types of repeated gestures: Hands replacing objects with words and words with objects, emptying signs of their significance, attributing new functions to language, manipulating semiotics to inject poetry into rational systems. In an energetic rhythm that seems unstoppable, the five artists are weaving in and out of paralanguages, transforming sounds into images into words into objects into places into concepts, making meaningful arrangements out of a succession of signs – or the opposite. Language is turned upside down, squeezed, dissolved, signs are highlighted or made obsolete, drawing out some of the infinite potential from poetical roads. It will spread its presence onto human gestures, geographical spaces, functional objects, flowers, landscapes, sounds.
We find poetry in unsuspected places, brought by unsuspected methods, driven by a human need to re-invent language. In a paradoxical process, the artists extract language from its habits and context to elect another rational and basic protocol with which to work: Alphabetical order, logical sequence, repetition, cut-and-paste, displace and replace, all types of systematic processes surprisingly drive words into poetry. An irresistible impulse to hijack language gathers these artists, seizing content, grammar and vocabulary for personal poetical/political matters to make into their own new partitions.
AAA CC DD EE G H IIII J KK LLL M NN OOOO RRRR U shows our tendancy to create disorder where there are invariably rules, and to use those rules where we find apparent chaos, choosing language as our first tool.
The exhibition reflects the lively exchange that Stéphanie Lagarde and Ray Hegelbach set up, over distance and between languages, which lead to the transformation of language into this colorful gathering of works. Spoken therapeutic massages, gesticulating arms, screamed landscapes, literary flower compositions are here to remind us that rearranging reality is, above all, a poetical emergency.
With Nico Colón, Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, Mikko Kuorinki, Stéphanie Lagarde, Oliver Laric
Friday 8.11.2013 – 19.00
Opening with Performance Horizon, No Horizon from Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim
Thursday 21.11.2013 – 20.00 Unrestricted Poets: Film- and Audioscreening
Friday 29.11.2013 – 19.30 Performance Horizon, No Horizon from Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim
Produzentengalerie Luzern Hirschmattstrasse 30a 6003 Luzern Switzerland www.alpineum.com
Th + Fr 16 –19 / Sa 11–16
Supported by: Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung
No.w.here
International Travelling Artist
Dialogue for Aerophones -New project
En tenkt tanke må alltid oversettes og bearbeides før den finner sin vei ut, og en tankes originale og opprinnelige mening er alltid i fortolkningens svøpe og sårbar overfor meningsforvrengninger. Tilsløring av den originale mening starter allerede der.Marianne Bruusgaard
(www.forlagsliv.no/Cappelen Damm, 10.10.11)
(image: early notation, Nynorsk)
(Seems like the perfect meta-challenge to translate this quote:)
A thought must always be translated and processed before it finds its way out, and the thought's original and genuine meaning is always in the swaddle of interpretation and vulnerable to the distortion of meaning. Veiling of the original meaning starts there.
(image: early notation, kvääni)
The project takes it place from the philosophy of dialogue by Martin Buber and a quote taken from a the blog post Hvordan vet vi at en oversettelse er god? (How do we know that a translation is good?)(www.forlagsliv.no/Cappelen Damm, 10.10.11) where editor Åsfrid Hegdal is quoting her friend Marianne Bruusgaard.
This quote in Bokmål is translated to 4 other languages in Norway; Nynorsk, Sami, Kvääni and Norwegian-Romani. The texts are used in the composition by isolating the notational letters (C, D,
E, F, G, A, and H) and bringing them in to the notational system to indicate pitch. The absence of the characters in between the chosen letters indicate the durations/note values.
I also did this in the Ghosts Project.
I also did this in the Ghosts Project.
This time the piece is made for a quintet of aerophones; flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and horn.
In all of Norway Bokmål and Nynorsk are equal languages. North Sami language is equal to the Norwegian languages in some regions in Finmark and Troms. Kvääni (Kvensk) was in 2005 acknowledged as a separate language in Norway. In addition to these languages, Norwegian-Romani is in a special position as the romani people came into the country in the 16th century. Their original language, romanés -with roots from India, has been developed over the years into an oral language called Norwegian-Romani still in use in Norway today.
Working title: Dialogue for Aerophones
Quintet:
Yumi Murakami - flute
Kristine Tjøgersen -clarinet
Christine Lorentzen - oboe
Hanne Rekdal - bassoon
To be shown at the Oslo Poesifilm Festival, November 16th, 7:30 pm at Kunstnernes Hus
Quintet:
Yumi Murakami - flute
Kristine Tjøgersen -clarinet
Christine Lorentzen - oboe
Hanne Rekdal - bassoon
Daniel
Weiseth Kjellesvik - horn
To be shown at the Oslo Poesifilm Festival, November 16th, 7:30 pm at Kunstnernes Hus
Thursday's performance at the Annual State Exhibition/Høstutstillingen
Together with singer Stine Janvin Motland and double bass player Jo Fougner Skaansar, my composition, that is part of the project LOCAL COLOR: Ghosts Variations, was performed at the Annual State Exhibition/Høstutstillingen Thursday September 19th.
More about the project here.
(Both photos by Mari Skeie Ljones)
Local Colour -now with a debut star
Correction: Jo Fougner Skaansar (double bass)
To be performed Thursday Sept. 19th, 9pm.
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Annual State Exhibition -sneak peak
Today, the journalists had a sneak peak at the 126th Annual State Exhibiton (Høstutstillingen) that has it's official opening Saturday September 14th.
The immediate response from art critic Mona Pahle Bjerke from The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) was that it was "An unusual boring Annual State Exhibiton".
Well, judge for yourself, but at the same time I'd like to invite you all for my part of the show, a performance Thursday September 19th, 9pm at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.
This is my debut at the Annual State Exhibition and together with Stine Janvin Motland (vocals) and Jo Fougner Skaansar (double bass) my composition First Of All There Is Blue (2011) is to be performed.
The immediate response from art critic Mona Pahle Bjerke from The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) was that it was "An unusual boring Annual State Exhibiton".
Well, judge for yourself, but at the same time I'd like to invite you all for my part of the show, a performance Thursday September 19th, 9pm at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.
This is my debut at the Annual State Exhibition and together with Stine Janvin Motland (vocals) and Jo Fougner Skaansar (double bass) my composition First Of All There Is Blue (2011) is to be performed.
Screening at no.w.here lab
I'm honoured to announce that my 16 mm film Barcodes (2008) is to be screened at no.w.here lab in London October 16th. This is a place where I, as an analogue filmmaker, was dreaming of having a residency, working my way through new projects on 16 mm and getting to know London a bit better.
Finally I get to visit this place that I've heard so much about.
The event is programmed by Vicky Smith and Karel Doing.
Directly pasted from no.w.here's site:
"We refer to Living Film with respect to the reversibility of the terms: film as object that is activated through physical contact and film as an ongoing mode of material practice that shapes the consciousness of, animates and enlivens its makers.
This program of films, installations and performances focuses on the use of film as a living material. In mainstream cinema every trace of physical contact is removed from the film material, but with the disappearance of film from the industry, the medium is liberated from this armour.
Living Film presents a selection of works made through the practice of touching film, applying bodily fluids, and chemically and/or physically altering it's surface. These works take the form of single screen films, performative action, installation and expanded cinema.
At stake here is not just an artistic concept or method but the formation of a strategy towards an alternative filmmaking ecology: working with cheap or out of date film stocks; bartering knowledge for materials; finding cooperative forms for using resources and equipment.
Thorsten Fleisch - Blutrausch
Patti Gaal Holmes - Blutrausch fur Thorsten: Die Ende der Geschichte
Vicky Smith - Licking Film Loudly
Cathy Rogers - Rosemary Again and Again
Cecilie Bjørgas Jordheim - Barcodes
Alia Syed - Priya
George Saxon - Blissfully Gunned Down
Tanya Syed - Tides
Viktoria Smidt - Food Film
Kayla Parker - Her Dark Materials: Conjuring the Feminine Imaginary in Expanded Animation
James Holcombe & Adam Asnan - Hair in Gate
Birgitta Hosea - Out there in the Dark"
Info on how much and where:
£3 no.w.here members & consessions / £5 waged
Wednesday 16th October 2013
7pm
no.w.here
3rd Floor,
316-318 Bethnal Green Rd,
London,
E20AG
If you're in London, please come by!
Fishing for souls
The Polish Composer Witold Lutoslawski worked with controlled chance strategies for how a piece should be performed. He could compose a musical line for each instrument, transcribe them as loop and let them play until a signal was given. He tried to get away from music being written by the orchestra vertically, so he made the loops in different lengths. He made each instrument a separate sheet. When reading music you often read vertically. His wife actually solved this problem by cutting the note sheets in to pieces that they called mobiles.This makes me think about the mobiles/kinetic sculptures of Marcel Duchamp and of course László Moholy-Nagy. I love those constructivist movies.
Everything was strictly written down and the performance gave no surprises, so he didn't share Cage's philosophy and use of I-ching.
Haven't figured out how he worked with text (was he actively using the text to compose (like I do) i.e.?) but I do get inspired by the mobile-technique.
While listening to the radio as I always do, there was a Norwegian soprano, Solveig Kringlebotn, who performed a piece by Lutoslawski. He actually wrote it for her during his last years. It's quite funny and based on a French children's poem.
It's called La Sauterelle (The Grasshopper). Here's a link (La Sauterelle starts at approx. 2:45).
In Lutoslawski's notebook, Varga (1976): "[...] I have a strong desire to communicate something, through my music, to the people. I am not working to get many 'fans' for myself; I do not want to convince, I want to find. I would like to find people who in the depths of their souls feel the same way as I do. That can only be achieved through the greatest artistic sincerity in every detail of music, from the minutest technical aspects to the most secret depths. I know that this standpoint deprives me of many potential listeners, but those who remain mean an immeasurable treasure for me. [...] I regard creative activity as a kind of soul-fishing, and the 'catch' is the best medicine for loneliness, that most human of sufferings."
So Lutosławski described musical composition as a search for listeners who think and feel the same way he did —fishing for souls.
I like that.
The studio
Since this is where I spend most of my time I want to share some pics of my studio.
I love the big window and most of all the backyard view trough the old windows and the huge horse-chestnut tree. This is a pic from this winter.
But saying so, if there's some handy people out there that'd like to help me build a loft for storage above my "kitchen nook", I'll be forever greatful.