Utsikten Kunstsenter presenterer; [PAM] - Nordic i samarbeid med [PAM] v / Raphaele Shirley & Iris Piers og PNEK v/Per Platou.

"Turning Trick " av Kaja H Leijon.         "Unfinished Herbour (Narcissus)" av Etta Säfve.

30.11.08 - 18.02.09

[PAM] Nordic artist 2008

Anne Senstad Arne Borgan Beate Pettersen Birger Åseson Storaas Bjørn E. Pettersen Bjørn Erik Haugen Endre Tveitan Etta Säfve Frithjof Hoel Gjert Rognli Helle Lorenzen Henriette Hellestern - Kjøller Hilde Honerud Jan Hakon Erichsen Janne Talstad Johanna Lecklin Jorunn Myklebust Syversen Julie Lillelien Porter Kaja H.Leijon Lene Baadsvig Ørmen Linda Persson Maren Juell Kristensen Margarida Pavida Oda Broch Paulo Chavarria Ulf Kristiansen Åslaug Krokann Berg

For mer informasjon om [PAM] se; www.perpetualartmachine.no

Eller http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/sorlandet/sanketeina/1.6246182

For mer informasjon om PNEK se; www.pnek.no

Åpningstider; søndag 12 00 - 17 00. Ellers ved fårhåndsavtale; torill.haugen@kvinesdal.kommune.no

Utstillingen er støttet av ; 

"Light Writes Always in Plural- Light Dicplacement, Section One."

“Light writes Always in Plural, Light Displacement – Section One” is about light’s effect on the construction of meaning in the architectonic space. The piece is concerned with the polemics of light in spatial relations, here, artificial light in the form of office lights. Light becomes an abstracted moving sculpture in itself as it’s position and composition within the environment changes. The title is taken from Octavio Paz’s essay about Marcel Duchamp, “Water Writes Always in Plural”, where he talks about multiple meanings/ inter-pretations and in other essays, about Duchamp’s use of the everyday object. On one level, office lights have been used as the readymade.

(5:20 min) 2007.

  Arne Borgan

"Puppet Shows and shadow plays."

Made with 1300 miniature zombie figures, a HD camera and the light from a mobile phone. Puppet shows and shadow plays was one chapter of a 20 min video piece I made for the exhibition” The impossibility of getting used to constant resurrections” in Lillestrøm, Norway (3:45 min), 2008.

  Beate Petersen

"Dodo''s dance.

"Dodo’s Dance is a video dealing with human fragility. The name Dodo refers to a flightless bird native to the island of Mauritius, which was extinct in the beginning of the 17^th century, as it was greeting the Portuguese predators with child like innocence. The confidence, the birds had in common with the so-called pinheads-a kind of elf-children, who together with Siamese twins and miniature people, performed in the sideshows in the many circuses travelling around in Europe and the USA in the beginning of the previous century. (3 min)

Beate Petersen graduated from the Academy of Art in Oslo in 2001. She works with drawing and video, and as an art writer. She has exhibited drawings at the State Museum of Latvia, and at various galleries abroad and in Norway. In cooperation with Bodil Furu she has made the documentary from Afghanistan, “Kabul Ping Pong”. It has been shown at the Istanbul Biennal 2007, at MOMA in New York (2007), and in a side-program to Kiss the Frog in the National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture in Oslo (2005).  Recently she has co-operated with Dimitry Lurie on the documentary “Theatre of Tears” (2008), focusing on shia-islamic traditions in Iran. The film has been shown at the Norwegian Short film Festival, at worldfilm 2008 in Tartu, Estonia at Icebreaker festival in Kabelvåg, at the Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre in lkata, India and at Dom Kino,St tersburg. Marit Schade Ødegaard graduated from Statens Ballethøyskole in 1990. She has been working with dance and dance videos, among other things made the dance- and video installation “Shrine” (2000), the children theatre performance “ Mirabella og Månen” in cooperation with Alecja Ziolko (1998), and the film “Exit” in cooperation with Henriette Slorer and Anette Haraldsen (1998) . She has also for several years cooperated with the choreographer Lise Eger.

 Birger Åseson Storaas  

”Soldiers x 8”

The video is inspired by a destructive way children plays at certain age. Both have diversity in its visual appearance, going from comical to tragedy. This way of playing is a form of orientation on how to organise information in the society, through the feedback they get from parents, friends etc. Also it’s a way of testing the material limitation in this “playing riot”.

Birger Åseson Storås is currently doing his final year of a master of fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen. He has worked mostly sculptural and object oriented in a installation setting, often incorporating his background of music and his history of growing up in a small town in the western part of Norway. During his master he focused on video as a choice of material, often as part of sculptural installations, but also alone as projections.

The theme for his master project is gender specific art from a male perspective, as the other side of a lever to feminism. Through the theme he has tried to play with masculinity in an ambiguous manner, leaving the perception open to the viewer: “My works have a clear theoretical reference to a social- political discussion that has frequently appeared in the media the later years. The discussion is based upon claiming the man as the new looser in society.

 Bjørn E. Pettersen  

“Genocidal Hard Roller”

“Genocidal Hard Roller” is an anagram for “Large Hadron Collider”, at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Laboratory astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva. The “LHC” is the biggest physics experiment in the history of human kind. Some people fear that this experiment can be extremely dangerous and that the result could mean the end of the world. (2:9 min), 2008.

The words / Phrases / anagrams used:

A Charged Driller Loon

A Hardcore Led Rolling

A Charred Grilled Loon

Rancid Garroted Hellhole

Genocidal Hard roller

(subatomic particles are called “hadrons”)

“Genocidal Hard Roller” is a minimalistic, hard rocking ride with disturbing picture of something getting out of control and disappearing into what could be a black hole. This is NOT the tunnel of love.

Bjørn E. Pettersen is a self-taught musician, composer and arranger. Played and recorded with several Norwegian rock bands since the early eighties. Have been working with video and photography since 2006. “Genocidal Hard Roller“ is his first screened video as it appeared at Örebro International Videoart Festival, 24-26 October 2008. Both the video and the music is performed/ filmed/recorded/ produced by Bjørn E. Pettersen.

http://home.broadpark.no/~bepetter

 Bjørn Erik Haugen

“Electron Gun.”

The video is a video loop consisting of two frames that show the mechanics and the technology of a TV or monitor. The title, Electron Gun, is the name of one of the parts inside the TV, a gun that shoots pixels at the watcher of the TV.

(2 frames).

“Regress.”

Regress is a video where I have converted a video to a sound piece, and then I have made a program that interprets audio to video. The sound piece is a result of a long study of conversion of images to sound. The intention is to make the conversion and to find images and patterns that have a characteristic sound or sounds interesting. When interpreting the soundtrack to video, I intend to go to the core or basis of what video is, light from a screen projected onto the viewer. This aggressive synchronized flickering uses both the basis and the limit of a TV/ video format. (3:47min).

Bjørn Erik Haugen has an MA from the National Academy in Oslo, 2007. He mainly works with video, photo and sound installation.

His work is from a conceptual platform where the idea to the work, comes before the material, media or way of expression.  “In My work I am concerned about how the TV and other screen based Media’s makes an impact on our lives. The influence this has on our perception of reality is something I think is problematic and fascinating. My intention is that my work shall make the viewer reflect and discuss the speculative and spectacular of what we see on the screens that surrounds us in our daily life, with that I mean everything from internet and computer games to TV and video.”

www.bjornerikhaugen.com