mandag 20. april 2009
søndag 5. april 2009
Ken ichi Tashiro
Last night, I was invited by Ledelsen member Molly for pizza party. After we are done with pizza and some party tricks, we went into a little debate about whether we would play card game or board game. The debate naturally faded away without starting a game, and then I came to ask this question to three Swedish classmates and one German classmate sat beside me: What's your favorite Swedish word? What's your favorite German word? They paused for a moment, and also asked me: What's your favorite Japanese word? I also had to pause. I don't remember if any of them game me answer then, and I couldn't give them one either.
- nonlinear reconnaissance into grey zone -
lørdag 4. april 2009
Runa Gulliksen
It seems we are always trying to define who we are, thinking that there is one correct answer, but we are constantly changing in sync with the people and social environment that we are surrounded by. I'm interested in the influences we get, how we're unconsciously being molded into the person we are in this moment. I want to challenge my own and the viewers set of thinking, to become more aware of our own role in society, and how we can change the rules that seem to be set for us.Runa Gulliksen, 2009
fredag 3. april 2009
Hilde Skevik
I am interested in the human fantasy and the area between conscious and the subconscious. I work with images that I don’t understand, but still somehow recognise.
I like to work with movement as it is able to change our experience of time.
As a method of working I am interested in what happens if I act directly on an impulse, much like a physical reflex.
The media I choose to work in is secondary to the artistic idea.
torsdag 2. april 2009
Johannes Nadeno
STRUCTURES NORWAY 2008
Since I started to take photographs myself I spent even more time walking around to explore places, by travelling to other countries as well as by walking around my home village.
The more I did that the more I began to think about the context of my surroundings.
And the question arose again: How did it happen that we are here now, living like this?
I think photographs can make you think about questions like this one.
I hope that I can express something of my thoughts through photographs and make people think and feel about our situation today.
Bergen, March 2009
Johannes Nadeno
Molly Andersson
Bergen 2009
I am currently using art as a tool for exploring social behaviour and structures. I am interested in my own boundaries towards other people, there's towards me and the one's we share. By crossing these lines I wish to understand more about how they are constructed and what happens when we break them.
In a recent work I am creating a situation were I decide the rules. I have asked different people to sit on a chair (one at a time) and let me do whatever with them until they say stop. They are free to stop me when they wish and I will continue until they do. I will never say stop. What fascinates me is that I am free to do whatever I want from the moment we start until the moment they say stop. I have constructed a situation where I am allowed to step over the social structures and I have less responsibility for what is happening, what I am doing and how the other person respond. How do people react when I am starting to kiss them and how does it affect me to keep on when I clearly see them disliking it? How does someone respond when I am hurting them and how do I react when they are obviously in pain? I am interested to see what happens if I let someone else's boundaries decide when to stop. And what happens when I cross my own?
In a still ongoing drawing project I am presenting imaginary conversations between people that often are a bit strange, saying things that are not really accepted to say or misunderstanding each other. These is an investigation in what is allowed to say and do in our culture.
The viewer serves as a very important ingredient in my works. By revealing things to other I challenge me to see myself from a distance. This raise questions like "what is I?", "who am I?" and "what can I be?" Revealing thing to others by showing it is an other way for me to break boundaries between me and others.
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